Last Minute Masks

Bear, Deer and Owl Masks: These masks are all cut from cereal box card and painted with acrylics. 

Templates and instructions for all three of these masks are in the fall issue of Nuno Magazine. Purchase from this blog's sidebar. 

Bird Masks:

The red bird is cut from cereal box card and painted with acrylics. The "feathers" are cut from a Tyvek mailer. Free pattern and instructions here.

The blue bird is cut from cereal box card, covered with burlap and painted with acrylics. Free pattern and instructions here.

More Mask Ideas from Other People:

Paper Plate Where the Wild Things Are Mask 
Cereal Box and Tissue Paper Bird Mask
Cardboard and Egg Carton Bunny and Pig Masks
Venetian Carnival Style Mask made from Recycled Jeans
Last Minute Owl Costume with Little Cardboard Mask That Attaches Directly to Sunglasses 
(This costume could also double as a Wild Thing when combined with paper plate mask I linked to above.)

I'm Done! I'm Really Finally Done! (With My Very First Issue of Nuno Magazine)

A few spreads from this issue. Click on image to see larger.

I suppose most big projects grow out of all proportion and take on a life of their own. This one did.

It's finally done though! It's not perfect, but I learned a lot and I'm generally pleased with how it turned out. I'm looking forward to starting on the next issue for Winter! 

My sister contributed several projects to this issue and corrected my "creative" spelling and grammar. My husband took many of the photographs (most involving me wearing winter clothes outdoors in the dead of summer). I thank them very much!


The very first issue of Nuno magazine has grown to 150 pages (it's 100% ad-free, so that really is 150 pages) and over 30 projects. Projects include the knitted fern pillow shown here, animal masks (perfect for Halloween costumes), a giant wool mushroom, handbags made from place mats, toilet paper tube puppets, the twig diorama shown here, jewelry made from pebbles and lots more projects, all made from salvaged and recycled materials.


You can buy a copy ($5US for a 33.9MB Digital Download in PDF format) directly from this blog. Use the shopping cart icon on the right side bar. The shopping cart service I am using will allow you to buy a copy from anywhere in the world. 

Don't have a spare fiver? You can still access a free 20 page excerpt of this issue here. The free excerpt includes three complete projects with patterns and instructions.

Twig Note Books

I made these notebooks for the upcoming fall issue of Nuno. Top: brown wrapping paper and a brown lunch paper bag. Middle: manilla mailing envelopes. Bottom: Brown paper grocery bags.