Pet Sematary Inspired Halloween Potion Bottles

     I was planning on waiting until the end of the month to start posting Halloween crafts, but everything I've wanted to make recently has been Halloween related, so here we are.  Now that Brian has his dark sorcerer costume, it's probable that he and I will be dressing up as a dark sorcerer and witch for my Halloween party for the foreseeable future.  I thought it was about time to start making my house look more like a witch's abode, which would require some potions.
     Graveyard dirt/dust is a pretty standard Halloween potion, one that I've made a potion bottle for in the past.  I originally planned on filling a vial with dirt to make a standard "graveyard dust" bottle.  The dirt from my front yard doesn't look much like the richer soil one would find digging several feet underground, so it seemed inadequate for a bottle of graveyard dirt, but it works fine for dirt from a pet cemetery.  Or from Pet Sematary.  One of the taglines for the book and movie is, "sometimes dead is better," so the slogan at the bottom of the vial is a play on that.

     In the book/movie, Jud Crandall says to Louis Creed, "The soil of a man's heart is stonier, Louis."  "Soil of a man's heart" sounded like something you might find in a witch's cabinet, so I decided to make it into one of my potions.

Pet Sematary Graveyard Dirt

Materials:

*Glass jar

*Cat figurine

*Hot glue

*Black paint

*Red paint

*Paintbrush

*Toothpick

*Dirt

*Coffee stained paper

*Colored pencils (optional)

Directions:

*Fill the jar with dirt.

*Glue the cat figurine to the lid of the jar.

*Paint the cat figurine and lid black, except for the cat's eyes.  Paint the cat's eyes red (I used a toothpick for this).

*Using some coffee stained paper (for staining directions, see this post) that is relatively flat, size and print the label below:

*Color in the label if you wish.

Soil of a Man's Heart

Materials:

*Glass jar

*Rocks

*Dirt

*Coffee stained paper

*All purpose adhesive

*Colored pencils (optional)

Directions:

*Fill the jar with some ratio of rocks to dirt that seems appropriate.

*If you find a neat looking rock, you can glue it to the lid for some added decoration.

*Using some coffee stained paper (for staining directions, see this post) that is relatively flat, size and print the label below:

*Color in the label if you wish.