I got a styrofoam head to show off my costume creations. It was pretty bland and also fragile, so I decided to upgrade it so I could use it to…
Jane's Folly Posts
I wanted to create a plague mask, since I really don’t like having a mask touching my nose and lips. After playing around with one in felt, I realized it…
I love my son’s faith in my abilities. Less than a month before Halloween he asks me to create an octoling costume. “What, those squid people from the video game…
Continuing our series of quests for folly (towers), we visited Mount Greylock in Massachusetts. Unfortunately, because of Covid, we were not able to go inside the War Memorial tower, but…
I have never felt so much satisfaction winning a video game before. As the credits rolled across the screen, playing the theme music in a lively piano variation, I watched…
After looking at a bunch of patterns, I created my own variation for a knitted pumpkin. I think it’s great to have decor that you can drop on the floor…
I’m thinking about designing some felt costume masks for Etsy, which made me go looking for the sugar skull mask I made for my son years ago. That one doesn’t…
Next on my quest for folly towers is Bancroft Tower in Worcester, Massachusetts. This impressive structure was built in 1900 in memory of George Bancroft. This one did not require…
I went on a quest for folly and found it on a haystack in Connecticut. To clarify, to start off my travel-based quest for folly towers, I started with the…
I’ve decided to have a new travel based quest, so that I can get my family out of the house in a relatively safe way. I thought about finding waterfall…
