In progress:

"Back to the trees, and lie among the roots.

BACK to the trees, and lie among the roots!"

-Wake Wood

Headlines that Grab You

This is probably the only way you'll ever get me to read the newspaper...

This Halloween is the year of the newspaper and mache mix. All last week was spent with paper mache and that was only in the build, bulk and strengthening phase. Up next? Skinning.


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WIP

I wasn't planning on tombstones this year, but a pile of particle board signs from my mom's work, half a vat of joint compound and utter insanity persuaded me otherwise. There are 10 of these waiting for painting (my least favorite thing in the yard haunting world to tackle) and 2 that I've yet to cast the bones for...

119 Days

Went to Michael's this morning for something simple as foamcore to make some machetes and other sharp implements of post-apocalyptic swine-flu doom and was pleasantly surprised to find a whole aisle of wailing, screaming Lemax and the usual smattering of uber cutesy fallish creations. I didn't exactly expect to be there so early, especially on my day off (hence the magically blurry cell phone crappiness of the pics), but the early zombie catches the maggots! And these maggots be super shiny this year:

Haunt Forum buzz says this little corner of sparkly junk is "Halloween Bling", which caused a bit of doubt and debate among the members. Frankly I like sparkly things, like any good consumer monkey, and it wasn't as "naughty nurse" as it sounded. It may not be exactly haunt friendly, much more year round decor for me so I grabbed a little black sparkly skelly and have named it Carmine. Carmine and a Lemax set came home with me today, along with the foamcore, which I'm very proud to have remembered after all the excitement and my eyes still swimming in their post awakening vision.

Came home to print out more coupons and will go out snatching up lemax sets from all 3 of our Michaels that I really want, because around here, the housewives gather and snatch in record time and those shelves are pretty bare come mid-August.

Some more pics...

120 Days... PANIC!!

Halloween 09 prep has been mostly in my head so far, but the other day I finally got my butt out of the house post-work to do some supply shopping.
Behold! My first real prop-bound purchase of the '09 season:

Not very impressive at the moment but I hope SOON to change that. Now all I have to do is get the energy to actually get everything in the same place and get with the corpsing.

I'm actually starting a bit early this year, but I feel like I'm already years behind.