Welcome to the 31 Days of Halloween - DAY 26

 

Last year I created Skull sunflowers. This year I've made eyeball sunflower! After rummaging thru mt flower supplies, I grabbed the sunflower bunch I had purchase last year. They're smaller than the ones I glued skulls onto,  so I gathered a couple of plastic balls from my stash (I feel like Felix the Cat and his Magic Bag of Tricks-anyone old enough to remember that vintage Saturday morning cartoon?). I cut them in half and spray-painted them white.

I used Posca markers to draw on the irises of the eyes, decorating the "whites of the eyes" with dark red lines to look like veins. They didn't look much like real eyeballs until I used Gloss Varnish on each and then they really popped. I had to trim them to fit into the center of each flower, adhering them with a combination of E6000 and hot glue.

I stuck my flowering eyeballs in a black plastic cauldron and filled it with foliage, autumn leaves, fake pumpkins and spiders, as well as adding a couple of bricks to keep my cauldron from falling down or blowing away. I placed my decor in the middle of my small garden surrounding my front light post. I also added a few other bits of decor from this year and last year and am almost finished with my Halloween garden...