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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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September 1, 2025Septober Starts![]() |
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August 31, 2025And So It Begins![]() Yes it's a bit early but now I can take me time and really enjoy putting everything out rather than having to push myself so it seems like a chore. |
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August 28, 2025That's 2 Projects Done![]() The Graveyard Spirits are done and ready to go out to the graveuard, once there is a graveyard. Banshee is also done.
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August 27, 2025Almost Time to Wail![]() |
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August 19, 2025They are Done![]() |
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August 14, 2025Spirits Rise![]() |
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August 9, 2025Naked Banshee![]() |
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August 8, 2025I Hate SummerGot more done tonight but no pictures yet. The Graveyard Spirits got their final sealing coat. I just have to redo the black in their eyes and they will be ready to put the tulle on. Trying to decide how best to convey how I do this since a tutorial on making them is very requested. I also did some more work on the banshee but she is further off. After the Spirits are done I can do the spray painting on her which should take a few nights. I decided not to do an overdress because of weight mostly. Also I am redying my hair tomorrow night so I will do the rain tests on her wig. It's a lot and I still don't know if I am putting out Halloween this year.
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August 2, 2025Slow ProgressNo pictures of today's preogress as it was mostly testing a few things and making minor tweaks to a few things. At least it wasn't too hot to do a little work in the garage. I guess the point is I am moving forward and making progress even if it is slow. I should be able to work outside tomorrow night, actually most of the week looks ok for short garage excursions so that's great. I haven't even thought about what I want to do to make the Centaur better this year since I really rushed putting him togbether last minute. |
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August 1, 2025Augtober is Here![]() |
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July 30, 2025Make it Sparkle![]() Stuck on both the Banshee and Graveyard Spirits till I can work out in the garage some. Record heat this week so maybe next week I can get more done. At least I have my beading project till then and thatis going to take more than a week. |
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July 28, 2025Back to the Banshee![]() |
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July 27, 2025I Hate Summer![]() As far as the skulls go they are regular plastic skulls painted with white spray paint, then a mixture of Wildfire Optic White Invisible. Details are done with Black 3.0 from culturehustle. The original spirits were done with Black 2.0. Next step is to seal them with a clear, matte sealant that is NOT UV protective, for obvious reasons. Then once sealed I will reuse the old spirits' shrouds and try to get some good pictures of them. Other than the painting these are really simple to make. |
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July 28, 2025Graveyard Spirits![]() I am trying to get work done on other projects as well. Need to sew the Banshee dress next, and am doing tests on some possible upgrades for Anaheid's prom dress. I have about a month till I have to decide if I am putting Halloween out this year but regardless I want to get these things done. |
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July 8, 2025Trying can be trying![]() I have removed the heinous fabric from the very nice sturdy metal frame of the shade. Massive squick from the polyester that was on the inside. Only have to touch it again when using it as a pattern. I will use some of the last of my white silk rayon stretch velvet (I have a LOT of scraps) for the outside and some Rayon for the inside because I need the inside and outside to match perfectly because I am doing a gradient and don't want just a white or pastel inside. Will be putting the white on the frame and painting the dye on in situ, wrapping tightly in plastic and letting it sit in a hot car for a few days to set. Then I will be re trimming it and doing beadwork on the trim and making beaded fringe all around. Where I am still a bit stuck is picking the colorscheme for the shade gradiet and beads. I will either do Halloween colors, my teal/blue/purple heliotrope, just black on black, or black and purple. The last would be the most versitle but would require a very subtle violet to purple shade. I don't know which room it will end up in so that is little help in determining my course. In any case working on getting the inside workspace useable again this week so hopefully I can post some banshee and spirit progress soon. |
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July 4, 2025What the Actual Factual FuckSo the derailment has been ongoing since my last entry. Things have not gotten better. In fact they have gotten worse! I did something to my shoulder a few months ago whaich is keeping me from being able to do much. I have gotten no work done on projects and am unsure if I will even be able to put out Halloween this year. We have had a few minor disasters at the house and the spouse remains unemployed and looking so money is tight this year. I am feeling the need to make stuff and spefically work on Halloween projects that have laid fallow lo these many months. I have everything I need to finish the Banshee and remake the spirits, I just have to do it, which is hard when I can't even do dishes some days due to pain.Enough of the pity party, the tldr is I am going to try and get some work done on things even if I can't get them out this year. I also need to finish uploading pictures from past years to this site. I am feeling Halloween approach and I need to do something or I will rot inside this meat bag of mine. |
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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? |