Hello,

Our Halloween party is just weeks away and there is much to do. Sometimes I feel like the cleaning alone will take all the time we have. But, I am not the worlds best house keeper so I am still playing around with the decorations.

Guests beware, those might be actual cobwebs on the ceiling. 

If you saw my last post then you have already seen my giant grocery bag spiders web and since every spiders web needs a spider, well that is where we find ourselves today.

This project starting as sort of a hunting expedition were I searched my house for suitable shaped plastic bottles. Here is what I started with.

After taking the labels off and cleaning out the insides I thought I had the beginnings of a spider shape but I wasn’t sure what to do next. My spiders web is outside hence the spider will be too and I wasn’t sure about how well it would hold up if I tried gluing it together. Sooooo………

(If you are afraid of plastics you should probably stop reading here.)

I decided to melt the plastic together with a stencil cutting tool.  Yes, it is a little bit smelly, you want to work in a well ventilated area and you might not want to expose yourself to these fumes on a regular basis but if you dare we will continue.

So far so good. But I needed some straws to make the legs.  I don’t use straws all that often so I co-opted my unsuspecting friends at the Restaurant / Bar where we watch the Steelers football games. When they were finished with their sodas I whisked away their straws and most of them didn’t even notice.

True confessions, I don’t brag about my trash hoarding disorder to my in face to face friends probably because of the blank stares I usually get indicating there lack of comprehension toward my love of trash. It is just you my on line buddies that I can share that with.

Thank you by the way. 

After some very awkward maneuvering I was able to attach my drinking straw spider legs.

Then I painted a coat of primer paint, covered that with black craft paint, glued on some bottle cap eyes and covered the whole project with a coat of minwax polycrylic.

You can see the whole process in the video below.

Thanks for stopping by and

Happy Upcycling,