I have been wanting to have one site where I can point people when they ask about my Halloween props. I decided I might as well make it fun and do a retro style, turn of the century page like when making sites was fun for me.
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I have been wanting to have one site where I can point people when they ask about my Halloween props. I decided I might as well make it fun and do a retro style, turn of the century page like when making sites was fun for me. |
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March 18, 2025Well... dammitProject work has gotten completely derailed because my spouse was just laid off and I need to focus on other things right now. Hopefully I will be able to get back to the banshee soon one I get a few things sorted. |
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March 10, 2025Working on Prop UpdatesI have been working on rebuilding the Banshee (not yet on her own page as I was waiting till she was redone) and completely forgot to post here, oops. So far I just have her taken apart, a few cracks repaired with epoxy, and started on her wig. The wig is very much a work in progress but I like where it is going so far.
The wig is teased in sections, many of which have white floral wire running through them for added support. I am using Wildfire transparent white paint to hold the locks in place since using acrylic paint for hair gel worked so well with the octomermaid for her wet hair look. Wigs on props that go outside tend to becume a tangled mess so you need to do something to keep everything in place and since aquanet won't hold up to repeated rain storms other methods must be tried. I am wanting to go for the illusion of motion with this new version of her like the graveyard spirits.
Tonight I decided to remove the spirits tulle to wash it since it had become dingy. Unfortunately the skulls are extremly damaged from being outside for so many seasons and crumbled when I grabbed one.
The second one also fell apart. The third is ok but since I don't have enough of these glow in the dark skulls to redo even 2 of them I am getting new skulls which I am going to paint. I plan to do a base coat of white plastic friendly spray paint then use Wildfire Optical White and Black 3.0 for the details. The upside is with the paint the plastic won't be as damaged from being outside. More pictures as I make progress on both. |
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January 17, 2025progress!Added the pictures from 2024 and several more monsters. I have a few more Monsters to go and trying to figure out how I am going to handle the Banshee because I am just about to redo her starting ptobably next month. Still need to do the about me page and I am trying to decide if I also want to put my spooky art here too. I am leaning towards yes. I have |
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January 15, 2025this is going to take a whileI am going to be adding pages for a while even once the design stabelizes. Started on Monsters tonight. Still not sure how I want to format the WIP section on the monster pages that will have one. There are a lot of monsters and a lot of years to put on the display pages. This is still fun but now I have the tedious part, actually filling it all out and I have close to a decade of stuff to put up. |
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January 14, 2025... and so it beginsAs of right now this doesn't work on mobile, that wasn't a 'thing' at the turn of the century. Maybe I'll try to fix that. MAYBE.I am going to use The Blorg to blorg about current Halloween projects I am working on. I will be starting in February on upgrades to the Banshee. I will be posting WIPs of past projects in Monsters and you can see how the yard and house looked in years past in Displays. I am still sorting out how I want to organize this mess. I haven't made a site in a very long time and a lot has changed. This is going to be very basic... probably. We will see where this leads. Now where are the Spooky webrings? |
