Halloween
is always one of the highlights of my year. I have a big party each year,
and try to add to the decorations. This is the most recent result.
The front porch
got some new decorations this year--the scary greeter, and the ghost
in the window. The ghost was lit with blacklight and glowed beautifully..
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Here's another
ghost like the one above, in another front window. I hung black
plastic behind it so that the only light would be from the blacklight.
The cheesecloth was washed beforehand in Rit whitener, which really
made it glow blue. Next year, I'll try to get pictures of them lit
up.
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I had 2 cemetaries
this year, one in the front yard and one in back. This is part of
the front cemetary. The hand coming out of the grave was made with
coathangers and masking tape. The tombstones are made from sheets
of styrofoam, cut out, painted, and carved with a Dremel.
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This mummy
was probably more trouble than he was worth! I made him by putting
old clothes on my son and wrapping him in several layers of masking
tape. Then I carefully cut the tape and clothes off, taped it
back together, and filled it with Great Stuff expanding foam.
After that, the mummy was wrapped in strips of fabric and dyed
with coffee to give him an aged look.
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Here's another
view of the mummy, along with the strobe ghosts. These guys have
strobe lights in their heads, and if you time them right, it looks
like they are moving towards you.
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Here is the
back cemetary. At party time, there was fog here.
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Another new
addition to the backyard decor was this grim reaper. He was near
the cemetary, of course.
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