- Hello and welcome back to I have no idea what I'm doing. - [Voiceover] I have
no idea what I'm doing. - Spooky edition. Good evening, foolish mortals. The thing is sometimes my
lack of planning comes back and bites me in the tuchus. And this week is one of those examples. So initially for this week I had planned, I wanted to do a video
about the old 3D film camera that I got. And I thought, you know, that would be something
a little different. I thought part of that fund would be keeping the photos a surprise for myself. So I briefly looked at the photos and about half of them
did not come out, so. I had to quickly scramble
and think of something else to do in a day. Dear diary, why am I like this? Something I've been seeing on
the interwebs a lot lately is chicken wire ghosts. So spooky. That's what we're doing. Am I gonna be able to pull
this off? I have no idea. I didn't watch any tutorials or anything about how to do this. We're just gonna give it a shot. Is this the smartest
thing to do as someone who is probably gonna be selling their house, probably we'll have to do open houses, some people would say no. But I am not some people. Without further ado, let's
go get some chicken wire and probably an iced beverage
of the pumpkin variety. Tally ho. Shh. It's the most wonderful time. (dark laughter) Good morning, Jack.
You are looking dapper. Okay. Focus. I'm assuming it's in
the garden center. Mm. I need wire for my chickens. (whimsical music) Garden Zone. I like using my phone because
I can pretend that I'm talking to someone instead of just myself. (whimsical music) Oh god. Oh, this is difficult. I honestly feel like a TikTok
kid setting up my phone. So, hunting for chicken
wire. So I might click cluck. Okay. Let's go home. Mission accomplished. For now, anyway. I have no idea if this is enough. All I know is that I must've
looked very frazzled. My chickens! I've got quite a lot, I mean, I don't think I need this much, but it's good to have, so I
don't have to run out again, and I already cut myself. This is gonna be a fun project. What's a craft project without
just a smidgen of tetanus. All right, I need some coffee, y'all. Let's go. That's a new thing my car has
been doing. So that's fun. Let's go. ♪ As autumn colors fall ♪ If you don't take all
your pent up aggression from the previous year and release it in the form
of a slightly unnerving and intense love for autumn,
then I don't want to know you. Hello and welcome to my laboratory. Hm? Not menacing enough for you? Okay. Welcome to my laboratory. A little dusty. All right, friends. The plan. I've got my chicken wire. I'm gonna put some gloves
on. Gonna go for it. What I would like to do is create a sort of Victorian lady ghost. Basically I'm thinking those dancers in "The Haunted Mansion." To do that, I might use the assistance, bodily assistance, of my
lovely coworker, Betty. Let me go get Betty. She better not ask for overtime
for this, I swear to god. Come now. (grunts) Hello? I thought your arms came off. And I'm hoping I can just
start forming the chicken wire around her, but I'm not
100% confident in that. So I think I'm gonna start
with the skirt portion. Ah, okay. Where are my gloves? All right, my love. Snip. Woo! I feel like I should
probably be wearing goggles or something. I like to live life on the edge and possibly a little blind. Oh, wow. Woo, she's bendy. Huh? Okay. Halloween Gods, grant me strength! God, the acoustics in here are great. I don't know what I'm doing. Don't need arms right now. (upbeat old-timey music) We got some work to do. - [Voiceover] The next day. Ah, good morning. You know the drill. I got a little bit in the zone trying to figure out what
the heck I was doing. And so I didn't really talk
to the camera all that much. So here I am, the next day. Same dress. Rachel Maksy is an outfit repeater. (crowd gasps) And I'm just gonna talk
through what I did. The beauty of hindsight. Truly was not sure how I
was gonna do this skirt. But much like my sewing projects, I just kind of started
slapping things on there. After I snipped it free, I would roll over the edges
on the top and bottom, just so they weren't so prickly. A little easier to form it when, you know, the fear of being stabbed
is less prevalent. (upbeat old-timey music) At the waist, I kind of pleated it. Essentially I just kind of folded it in to make it smaller in the
top, bigger at the bottom. Like you would actual fabric. So I did this all the way
around for a base skirt, a couple layers on top and
made those kind of more flowy. This needs to stand up on its own, so I did go in and add a
little bit of reinforcement on the absolute bottom, just so the weight of the whole thing wouldn't come crashing down like Alice when she goes
through the looking glass. The looking glass, I'm so proper. The mirror. And then it was time for the torso. So I started, with Betty's assistance, tried to forum a waist
and sort of bust area. And then it was time to kick
Betty to the curve. Curb. So I moved here to the side
and then the skirt was kind of holding itself up, which is good. I started, what did I do? I don't remember. Take chunks of wire, fold
them in on themselves, and then attach them. What I found helpful to secure
everything was snipping off one of the loops so that
you kind of have this shape, which lack of better
terms, a bit IUD-esque. Looks like a uterus, okay. Using that as kind of a grappling hook, twisting it around the existing
area as much as I could. So then it was time for the head. Are you ready for things to get weird? All right. So it turns out
chicken wire is not the best. It's definitely a bit more finicky than I thought it was going to be, which I probably should have guessed. I'm gonna see if I can
form it around this head. I'm telling you right now, my wrists are going to be swole. I'm also starting to look
like I got in a fight with those tiny,
terrifying little dinosaurs from "Jurassic Park 2." Now it's time for things little Rachel thought
would be a much bigger deal when she was an adult. Starting off strong, of course, with tiny little dinosaurs, razor sharp teeth on a
moon boat, Faraway Island, closely followed by quicksand. Leeches for sure. I
thought were gonna be more of an annoyance. And last but not least for
this Massachusetts native, of course, tornadoes. (upbeat old-timey music) It looks like an art installation. - [Crowd] Ah. Yeah, that didn't work. This was a lot harder than
I thought it was gonna be. It's really hard to get actual detail with such wide holes in the wire. I'm almost wondering if
the ones you see online with kind of more detailed faces are a mesh that's smaller because I struggled quite a bit. I then tried to add some
hair to make this kind of recognizable as a Victorian lady. (upbeat old-timey music) Then it was time for the sleeves, which were probably the easiest part. I basically just cut
out a giant rectangle. Am I okay? Rectangle. Rolled that up so
it was kind of a tube shape. Shaped it a little so
it was kind of balloony, kind of like that. (upbeat old-timey music) She's starting to look like a real girl. And then the hands. There's probably a more
delicate way to do this, but honestly, I just
took a sheet of the wire and just like crumpled it up
into a general shape hand. Hand shape. Am I having a stroke? (upbeat old-timey music) And with that, she's done. Let us go see. (dramatic music) Ta da. She's done, my daughter. Overall, I am super happy
with how she came out. I feel like on those
images of the wire ghosts, they're a little bit easier to see. And I don't know if that's
kind of the conditions and environment that they're in. Right now the sun is really, really harsh. So it was hard to get her in
kind a darker environment. This is definitely one of the things where it looks way better in real life. It is not the best thing to
make YouTube content about, but here we are. But yeah, I love her. I'd love to stick her in the front yard and then like, uplight her. She also doubles as a booby
trap, "Home Alone" style. Who needs intruder alarms? You just stick that in the way and it's basically like a pile of needles. I also have no idea where
I'm gonna store her. That's a problem for after
October Rachel to worry about. I am so happy that I got
this done in one day. A little painful. So definitely, definitely wear gloves as well as maybe some
more protective clothing if you're gonna try this, it's very pokey. Lots of teeny tiny pokey sharp objects. I'm torn between wanting to
make her a little companion. A gentlemen sitting on
a bench with a top hat, but also never wanting
to look at chicken wire for the rest of my time on Earth. But yeah, I hope you guys had fun. Happy September. I am so excited to start
making autumn content. I love you whether you're a
new or old to this channel. If you're new here and you
feel like sticking around, feel free to subscribe. I upload almost every
Friday and we have fun here. And I will see you in my next video. Bye! Where's all my glasses? Me glasses. Where did all my freaking glasses go? ♪ Oh potatoes and molasses ♪ - Oh, I'm already sweating. And I don't have my gloves. Precious. Don't rub against the
tripod, please. Come here. Daughter. Distance. ♪ If you can't see 'em
put on your glasses ♪ - Through the, I thought this. But am I focused? That's the question. I think I am. ♪ Potatoes and molasses ♪ - A short tune made with
what sounds like a kazoo. It's really just me imitating a kazoo. Four stars. (person mimicking kazoo) (upbeat old-timey music)
