Halloween always gets my mind going with spooky thoughts...rather like the rest of the year, but more so.
Now I have been making Pumpkinhead/Jack O'Lantern Folk for quite a while...here's an album of them:
 
https://photos.app.goo.gl/KbDNTNRCMYcchlRn2
 
Then I stumbled on this illustration on Pinterest,  AND I had to try that sunny smile:

 
I was fairly pleased with the test results:

 
I did a second one  with what I had learned from the first:

 
...with a closer look:

 
The second is closer to the size of the Reaper Jack O'Lanterns that I usually use for the Pumpkinheads. The first is a bit larger. I may wind up using a GW Orc torso
like this one from  2017:

 
The legs are GW Zombie legs.
This another possibility:

 
OH THE POSSIBILITIES!

Another month another batch of Mushrooms & Associates. This month is a bit lighter than last. I started it toward the end of last month's Gang...which is still waiting on some Show Off photos. 
I am also hoping to squeeze in some Pumpkinheads & other Halloween strangeness elsewhere. More of that later. For now, The Mushrooms:

 
With the ever popular Leo Sizechek for comparison:

 
I got the idea to do a Mushroom/Goblin Wizard from this illustration:

 
Mine is a bit seedier:

 
A Goblin Faerie sidekick seemed appropriate. Appropriate or not I wanted to try out some paper punch butterfly wings with a foam coating inner layer:

 
AND base coated & ready for color:

 
More whenever.

A few days ago I started a new type of Mushroom based on some Pinterest polymer clay pieces like this one:

 
This one & his kin are quite a bit larger than the ones I make, but the detail is something to aspire to.
Here is a step by step of my Mushroom in progress up to yesterday. This is the plumber's epoxy dolly:

 
The Kneadotite (green stuff):

 
I use the left over green stuff to make smaller versions of the Big Mushroom...you probably already notice that:

 
There will be more of this type in varying sizes AND their bases coming along soon...or eventually.