Making a 7 ft Tombstone (from Lisa Frankenstein)
Added 2024-10-30 14:07:18 +0000 UTCAh yes, the time of the season where I ask myself: WHY AM I LIKE THIS?
Regardless of being absolutely EXHAUSTED at this point, man... I am proud of this one. LOL.
Come with me on the journey of making this gigantic tombstone, doing the makeup transformation, and the photoshoot!
LOVE YOU ALL! HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!
Comments
You know, I love seeing your craft room all cluttery! It makes me feel less alone when I look at mine!
Valerie
2025-01-08 10:14:35 +0000 UTCThis is the correct amount of excitement over hearing an owl. We have a little ruru (owl) in my neighborhood who calls back when I call to him. Owls are excellent.
Aimeé
2024-11-26 02:12:27 +0000 UTCYou are so inspiring ❤️ coming from another perfectionist
Rianne Grootes
2024-11-24 19:06:54 +0000 UTCGosh I adore you! It’s ok to no longer have the capacity for the same things you previously did. It’s important to recognize what you need mentally/emotionally so you can continue to do the things you love. However many looks you decide works for you, we will be happy to have 💜💜
Autumn
2024-11-18 02:45:27 +0000 UTCFirst off, congratulations on another year of maksoween complete. Each look was amazing! (Including this one.) I'm sure that others have already echoed this in the past, but you bring such joy to my life, Rachel! Thank you for everything you do. Now! Secondly, as also I see others have commented: If 13 is too much, please know we are totally okay with less. We want you to take care of yourself and enjoy the process. Hope you are recovering well after your long haul and lots of snuggles have been had from Frodo. (May he too heal well from his surgery!)
SakuraHarley
2024-11-10 15:46:12 +0000 UTCLoved this final look! But we love you so much so def think about less than 10 for next year I’d say anywhere from 4-7 would be better. We don’t want you to burn yourself out just for content. It’s our fav season and I’d rather you do less looks so you can enjoy the fall/halloween season instead of dreading it or being super overwhelmed and stressed every fall/Halloween season. Please take care of yourself. As a follower from the beginning I’d much rather you make less content and be happy than burn out. We’ll always be here for you ❤️❤️❤️🥹❤️❤️❤️
Tatiana
2024-11-06 19:11:25 +0000 UTCyou did amazing!!!!
Roseliatv
2024-11-04 20:52:25 +0000 UTCI likewise struggle to discard Styrofoam -- particularly flat sheets, that telegraph future usefulness. It frustrates me, to be conflated with a hoarder -- I don't save string, or detached twist ties...
Eric Adamson (Michigan)
2024-11-02 18:59:50 +0000 UTCThe big tomb stone is so cool! Rest up and enjoy a (hopefully) relaxing November!
Renee
2024-11-02 18:34:55 +0000 UTCEnjoy your resting vacation! Gotta say, the entire time you were working on the head, I was mentally screaming to get a foam wig head as the base! 😅 But it turned out awesome. Rest up and enjoy the down time. We will see you in 2 weeks!
Carly Black
2024-11-02 13:28:50 +0000 UTCI think you should do next year as 6-6-6 Halloween: 6 Costumes, 6 props, and 6 of something else (treats? dog costumes? makeup?) That will be waaaay better timing wise.
Ani Munoz
2024-11-01 17:26:03 +0000 UTCIt was a spectacular Maksoween this year! So many great looks. Thank you for all of the Halloween fun. Enjoy your well desired time off!
Morgan Milton
2024-10-31 23:35:17 +0000 UTCHi Rachel! Like someone else already suggested, 4 looks, one per week, is plenty! You definitely deserve to enjoy the autumn/Halloween season stress free :)
Alessia Dalceggio
2024-10-31 16:28:44 +0000 UTCThis was fun, considering you were at the end of Maxoween and your energy was low—it came out great! Maybe a solution for your stress and exhaustion would be to avoid getting so many costumes done in one short period. Instead, set aside a wee bit of time each month to assemble a costume specifically for the 13 days of Maxoween. It could be a monthly challenge. You have many other projects throughout the year. However, this might be a solution. Then, you wouldn't miss out on the fun parts of Maxoween. At any rate, from one spooky New England gal to another- Happy Halloween!
Crystal Bean
2024-10-31 13:41:01 +0000 UTCWe rather have 7 looks and a happy healthy Rachel and 7 is a magical number (you could just make 7looks and a litttle longer videos with more of Your thougths about the look) Hugs
Dornonville de La Cour
2024-10-31 13:35:53 +0000 UTCYes, totally agree!
Brianna Kobylka
2024-10-31 10:21:32 +0000 UTCPlease rest! We'd love to keep getting content with longevity, which means you need breaks! That way when you come back it's for you to enjoy :) Plus if you got an assistant or something maybe you could rest up more! (No sass intended just shocked you've gone this long without help, lol!)
Brianna Kobylka
2024-10-31 10:20:23 +0000 UTCLove this so much!!! And as always- less looks + less exhausted rachel sounds awesome to me💛 i’m always going to come back for your content, love everything you make! Now go SLEEP ✨💛
Aster_oid
2024-10-31 09:41:29 +0000 UTCAwesome video! Maybe next year Maksoween can evolve into fewer looks, and a spooky field trip, or a seance livestream, or ghost stories. Maksoween is YOUR creation, and you can change it into anything YOU want. ❤️❤️❤️
Amanda Thorson
2024-10-31 03:45:02 +0000 UTCI’m always amazed at how many looks you crank out for Maksoween (I do 2 per Halloween and it’s exhausting!). With that said, if you do less, we would totally be ok with that! This final look was just SO GOOD! Happy Halloween! 🎃
Chrissy Floyd
2024-10-31 03:24:51 +0000 UTCGENUINELY ENDLESSLY IMPRESSED BY YOUR TALENT... you look so much like him at the end it threw me!!!
Ren CS Platts
2024-10-31 03:08:36 +0000 UTCLove all the looks. It's all bonus for me. So as many as you want to do is great. I especially love the make it vintage material and the period pieces.
Dixie Crowe
2024-10-30 23:30:09 +0000 UTCOMG you look like emma chamberlain at the end!! haha <3
waywocket_sparklegem
2024-10-30 22:04:54 +0000 UTCProbably for Maks-o-ween 2025 do one large project and split it into its 13 stages (planning, gathering supplys, sewing, props, backdrop, make up, ...). We love you, please don't burn yourself out!
Madeleine Schoenherr
2024-10-30 21:23:27 +0000 UTCMade it to the end. Proud of you for re-evaluating what you need to do for you! If less looks makes you happy and less stressed then good 🖤
Dottie Elizabeth Vanderbilt
2024-10-30 20:59:52 +0000 UTCNext time, use madling tape over the foil. That will not only smooth the foil, but give it more strength and give the mache something to grab onto !
Margaret MacLellan
2024-10-30 20:59:50 +0000 UTCThere is a FACE in that Styrofoam!? Extra SPOOPY POINTS ! Back to the video !
Margaret MacLellan
2024-10-30 20:55:00 +0000 UTCYour joy for hoots is like when I see rainbows from my prisms! I struggle a lot with keeping myself inspired when it comes to creating, sewing and just messing around with crafts and makes. Watching your channel has really helped me work through some hard times, depression and hitting a very big wall with my crafts. Thank you for being an inspiration to this community/fellowship 💕
Mary Ella
2024-10-30 20:51:24 +0000 UTCSomething about your joy for the owls was super contagious.
Sabrné
2024-10-30 20:29:55 +0000 UTCPerfect 👌
Willinrow Arts
2024-10-30 20:18:14 +0000 UTCLove using the garbage. I work in the arts department at my city and the number of times I end up crawling into the recycling bins to get things to use for art classes is a lot.
Anna O.
2024-10-30 20:14:10 +0000 UTCNot my slow self watching your intro wondering why you have a photo of windows hanging in your livingroom... It's the reflection on your TV. Need nap.
Dottie Elizabeth Vanderbilt
2024-10-30 20:11:50 +0000 UTCYou are so beautiful and talented! Thank you for being you! I’m sending you lots of cheesy gordita crunches (in spirit 🥰).
Shayna Adams
2024-10-30 19:49:54 +0000 UTCOh my gosh you look amazing! You really nailed the makeup! And the tombstone looks so cool! I'm using a lot of exclamation marks but it just all looks amazing! :D
Rebecca R
2024-10-30 19:36:39 +0000 UTCCan you please also do LISA! I think that would have been so fun to have both. This one was my absolute favorite but I’m kind of OBSESSED with the movie… so, yeah.
Samantha E.
2024-10-30 19:01:49 +0000 UTCdont feel bad needing to scale back on projects! i have chronic fatigue syndrome and this year inktober & a full time job took it out of me, so i tapped out of drawing every single day and decided to just do the prompts that came quickest to me. it's taken me my entire 4 years of having cfs to realize that there's no shame in taking things easy for the sake of your health. loved watching you work on this project, the tombstone is something im genuinely a little envious of lmaoo, i want that thang in my yard
deadlykota
2024-10-30 18:45:33 +0000 UTCscale back! you would probably be ever so gentle with a pal scaling back, so it's okay being gentle with yourself too.
Beebe Doe
2024-10-30 17:57:44 +0000 UTCI also think 4 looks, one per week would be just fine! Or split them into 4 looks with 4 sets ;) It's ok to do less, it's good to do less (I also struggle with the concept but slowly getting there) Have fun cleaning and resting!
Célia Conway
2024-10-30 17:32:16 +0000 UTCRachel you do so much for us! Take care of yourself. No shame in slowing down. Maybe spread the videos out? You did a huge prop and a costume/make-up look in this one! I love it, but you could've gotten at least two videos from this. Either way you run with it, I love Maks-o-ween and I'll take whatever crumbs you give us!
Rebecca Noy
2024-10-30 17:27:34 +0000 UTCAs someone who need that reminder sometimes too, it'll be okay to scale back! You can focus on the looks without using yourself in the process. You're doing wonderful work, but take care of you too! ❤️
Shay Miller
2024-10-30 17:26:19 +0000 UTCIt takes a brave person to admit they need to scale back. As a fellow perfectionist, I struggle a lot with if my work is something to be proud of etc. I'm lucky enough to have a mentor tell me that I should remind myself of all the steps it took to get where I am. This reminds me of all the work I did, and it helps me take more pride in even the smaller things! I now pass this to you. If you decide to scale back to 3 looks, that was a journey of discovery to get to that point! We'll all be here supporting whatever you decide! Rooting for ya!
WatchOut Jackie
2024-10-30 17:13:51 +0000 UTCHonestly even 4 looks sounds like a lot of work, and I would personally be more than happy with that 🙂↕️✋🏻
Edith
2024-10-30 16:50:11 +0000 UTC🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Rachel Maksy
2024-10-30 16:43:15 +0000 UTCHapppyyy HALLOWEEEN!
Rachel Maksy
2024-10-30 16:43:09 +0000 UTCYou are so sweet heheee, thank you 🥰🥰🥰
Rachel Maksy
2024-10-30 16:42:58 +0000 UTCHeeehehe thank you my love ♥♥
Rachel Maksy
2024-10-30 16:42:15 +0000 UTCTruth!!!
Rachel Maksy
2024-10-30 16:41:59 +0000 UTC🥰🥰🥰🥰
Rachel Maksy
2024-10-30 16:41:50 +0000 UTComg yess love that!
Rachel Maksy
2024-10-30 16:41:33 +0000 UTC🥰🥰🥰🥰
Rachel Maksy
2024-10-30 16:41:13 +0000 UTC♥♥♥♥
Rachel Maksy
2024-10-30 16:41:03 +0000 UTCAwww I love that 🥰🥰🥰
Rachel Maksy
2024-10-30 16:40:55 +0000 UTCyou are so sweet, thank you my love ♥♥♥
Rachel Maksy
2024-10-30 16:40:37 +0000 UTC♥♥♥♥♥
Rachel Maksy
2024-10-30 16:40:17 +0000 UTChehehee thank you!!!
Rachel Maksy
2024-10-30 16:40:03 +0000 UTCAww thank you my love, it means so much 🥰🥰
Rachel Maksy
2024-10-30 16:39:55 +0000 UTCAww love that!! Sometimes you gotta pivot!
Rachel Maksy
2024-10-30 16:39:19 +0000 UTCThank you my love!!!!
Rachel Maksy
2024-10-30 16:38:58 +0000 UTCIt turned out awesome!! Less Maksoween looks sounds perfect, 10 is still a tonne of looks (10x the number of most people who do Halloween looks!!). I agree with others that it would be good to give yourself some more time to just vibe and enjoy Halloween season too!! ❤️
Kim Wheeler
2024-10-30 16:37:16 +0000 UTCLove all your Halloween looks and effort but if you need to cut back we won't love it any less! I have been going hard this October and I totally failed making my Halloween dress this year but it just made me get creative and find an alternative outfit! 🎃
StrawberryMad
2024-10-30 16:16:47 +0000 UTCJust so you know, we'll all still be here next year and we will hold you to that promise! As much as I've loved seeing all the looks on instagram, and the video's here and on youtube, it's genuinly scary to think you have to work yourself so hard for this. You can probably cut the looks down to 7 or 8 or so and it would still be a bangin' maksoween! I don't comment here (or anywhere) often at all, but felt very compelled to come say this. I hope you can take a very well deserved break soon! And I hope you get to still enjoy your halloween tomorrow as well. Take care!
claudia
2024-10-30 16:00:58 +0000 UTCHow Cole Sprouse instantly appeared when you donned the wig! *chefs’ kiss*
Ziggy
2024-10-30 15:51:28 +0000 UTCLove seeing the process but no one wants a burnt out Rachel so it’s OK to scale down next time. Happy Halloween! 🎃 👻
Rebecca Sanderson
2024-10-30 15:50:12 +0000 UTCI know nothing anyone can say will make you feel differently- BUT You could do three looks for Maksoween 2025 and we would be just as thrilled. We love when you are able to just throw something together last minute, and when you are able to spend weeks on something just mind blowing. Internally it may feel like you are slacking or failing, but externally we are in awe.
Kat Harness
2024-10-30 15:34:05 +0000 UTCYou are like this because your wonderful and talented and full of fantasy and fun and we love you just the way you are. 😊 You make me feel normal and I thank you so much for that. ❤️
Leny_Danger
2024-10-30 15:30:38 +0000 UTCThis video was just what I needed to go through today, tysm <3
Rox
2024-10-30 15:08:09 +0000 UTCYou nailed it! I hope you get a well deserved break soon!! 🧡🖤🧡🖤🧡🖤🧡🖤
Davita Kirkland
2024-10-30 15:08:03 +0000 UTCI'm watching while making cookies for my parents party on saturday, I'm gonna help out by being a vampiric bartender! I found the cutest cookie cutters and on friday I'm gonna decorate them! Bringin Halloween into November cause i can 🎃🦇
erikka platt
2024-10-30 15:03:28 +0000 UTCHappy Halloween to our Halloween Queen!!! We love you and you mean so much to us. Please, rest well.🎃🖤🧡🖤🧡
Jenny Rose
2024-10-30 14:47:53 +0000 UTCThank you Rachel 🙂 Happy Halloween 🎃
Tammy Clark
2024-10-30 14:40:55 +0000 UTCYour videos inspired me to go all out this Halloween and I have a whole new level of respect for the level of effort that goes into Maks-o-ween! I just did one costume and one decoration, but phew! Thank you for the wonderful fun content that gave me the confidence and crafter's audacity to start doing more myself, and Happy Halloween! 🕯️🎃🕯️
Richelle Topping
2024-10-30 14:40:30 +0000 UTCWas gonna suggest maybe cutting down to ten looks lol. It's not worth it if all the other life things fall to the side until November. Plus, that'll give you more time to actually enjoy October a bit more :)
Amanda
2024-10-30 14:40:28 +0000 UTCNo Rachel, thank YOU for your hard work. Watching you craft these accessories and looks adds to my relaxation and sparks my imagination. Your editing is funny as heck (in a good way of course). Take whatever time you need.
Lee
2024-10-30 14:37:41 +0000 UTCHappy Halloween!! Can’t believe it’s tomorrow 🥺❤️
JoojBug
2024-10-30 14:14:28 +0000 UTCWe love you too 😘
Emma-Rose Colk
2024-10-30 14:12:22 +0000 UTC
