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I wanted to add two new characters to our haunt this year. A male and female ghost dancing in the graveyard. Kind of a tribute to the dancing ghosts in the Disney Haunted Mansion, but that look more like the Hitch-hiking Ghosts. I sculpted the faces with paper mache clay over the course of several…
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I wanted to make some of the details of my tombstones “pop” more under the black lights that I use in my haunt. I opened a yellow highlighter and soaked the fluid-filled cotton stick with water to make a kind of paint to brush onto the tombstones. Once the highlighter fluid/ink was dry I hit…
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Here are Ben, Tyler and Annie’s Jack-o’-lanterns from this year. We carved these for Family Home Evening on Monday, October 25th. I also carved 10 more jack-o’-lanterns for the haunt.
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On Sunday, October 24th, there was a terrible storm that came through and damaged several of my tombstones and “power washed” a lot of the paint off of my fence columns. The wind and rain were fierce. I was really frustrated and upset, but was relieved to find that an anonymous neighbor of mine found…
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Last year I made a quick and simple graveyard fence out of free, used pallets and promised that I had big plans for this years fence. Well, here it is. This beautiful fence is made from plywood, 2x2s, 1″ and 2″ foam, 2x3s, 1/2″ PVC pipe and decorative finials. Instructions on building the columns can…
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I’ve been collecting various tombstones over the years and every year I get frustrated when the wind blows them away or the screws or stakes holding them in the ground rip out or break them. The little plastic “T” stakes they come with DO NOT work to keep them from blowing away. This year I…
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Scott Stoll at Stolloween.com finished my “undead” pumpkin a couple of weeks ago and I received him in the mail this week. It is an amazing work of art and I am honored to have won the contest. For complete instructions on how he finished it visit his post about it here.
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The chest piece for my Stolloween pumpkin that I won is awesome! Full details on how Scott Stoll made it are at his Stolloween site.
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Stolloween has made a lot of progress on my pumpkin. It is seriously so much more awesome than I ever imagined it being. He is so creative and the detail is amazing. See full details of the construction of the pumpkin at Scott Stoll’s site.
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Here’s a Photoshop sketch of what my pumpkin from Stolloween will look like. Awesome!