This was it, the year I was finally going to recreate the specimen jar look for Halloween that I had always admired, alongside these "potion bottles" that Andy dug up from the farm when he was young.
Oh Martha, you've done it again!
It was fun to watch the food coloring swirl. The instructions suggested adding milk into the mix for murkiness, however, it didn't take long for these specimens to cloud up all on their own.
After only a week or so they looked like this - totally murky with colors that had transformed into something that looked more like we had concocted our own absinthe rather than an innocent decoration. See how the "monkey bones" (celery) and "lion heart" (rutabaga) turned fluorescent in color? And the "elephant brain" (cauliflower) had a nice ombre effect happening. Along with the color show came the most horrific smell that couldn't be missed even 10' away from the computer desk, jar lids in place. I had only wanted to recreate the look of specimen jars, not the smell of a cadaver lab. Needless to say, the science experiment had to go.
So instead, the plastic skeletons made a comeback in an updated arrangement separated into parts.
More like this...
All was well in the end.
Spider detail.
This last photo reminded me of the girl on Pirates of the Caribbean at Disneyland, "don't look into the pirates eyes or he'll steal your soul!"
