Countdown to Halloween Trick Or Treat Truck with Drawers

I have finally finished my Halloween truck, started on March 16th just as the country was preparing to go into lockdown and not a single toilet roll was to be had!

I think you’ll agree, it doesn’t look much like the original truck, a present from Marc, from Aldi’s Christmas advent calendar range from, I think, 2018

It’s thanks to Marc it finally got finished, as I had just left it sat sitting, languishing by my work table, while again I was waiting for inspiration as to what to do with it next.

Marc said he’d seen my last Fiddle Fart post of it and loved what I’d done so far and then we spent goodness knows how long bouncing ideas off each another, my only idea at the time was to put some sort of tray/box on the top to put some extra sweets in …… but this is the result of our conflab.

Inspired by Marc I started on the roof, with the skeleton and the box. The box, originally brown in colour, was transformed using a thick, black felt pen with twiddly bits added with a white gel pen. 

The skeleton was ever so gently bent until he was in a sitting position and then superglued with a 1lb weight resting on him to make sure he was stuck good and proper. His one hand dips into the box holding a mystical crystal ball (a marble), while the other holds his cup …… for his wine!

Once these two objects were securely in place, I could then add all the extra fiddle fart, raiding my various boxes for any little bits I thought would go mwith the theme.

The wooden columns were originally fancy, tall cotton reels that I coloured black with again a white gel pen to add more detail. 

The tombstones were the tops of small papier mache boxes, coloured silver and doodled on with an extra fine tip Sharpie pen.  This bit was so much fun.
It was Marc’s idea to give the skeletons sunglasses, and I thought, brilliant idea Marc, but where do I get the sunglasses from, would you believe they came from a pack of Paperchase stickers I just happened to find in a box while I was mooching, they are just perfect. 

To embellish the wheels, I simple cut a circle out of some Halloween paper to put in the middle and then glued a spider over the top.

I’ll be honest, once I started fiddling it was hard to stop ……….. ……….. but apart from perhaps a top hat for the skeletons, currently on order from Amazon,  I think I have stopped  …… time to move on, I already have decorating one of the Hobbycraft Advent Houses I have had squirrelled away for a couple of years in mind.

I just can’t wait to see Iris and Bertie’s faces when they see it!  It’s soooooooooooo over the top.