Black & White

Another fine example of throwing things out at the last minute.  Had this broken coffin laying around the garage with the intention of fixing it all month.  At the last moment I threw it out in the yard. Drug it actually. It ways 60+ lbs. Pieced together one of the spray foam skeletons.  He's in about 5 pieces. If you look closely you'll see the bent coat hanger holding his head up. It's also holding it in place since the head's not attached. Dennis popped a red spot-light inside the bottom of the coffin and he looked great at night.

Look at this, Sadie decides to get in the action and try to figure out why he's all bones on top but still has intestines on the bottom.  Obviously that one slipped by the continuity police.  Folks at night thought the intestines looked great in the red light. Sadie sort of blends with the top of the coffin doesn't she.  Tortis make the best Halloween cats.

Now that she's decided the skeleton's not a threat, she settles in for a look-see at what were up to in the rest of the yard

The severed head photo just doesn't do the prop justice.  It's a severed head attached to an oscillating fans guts. As it spins side to side you see two bats ripping into his flesh. Ran string from the back of the motor housing that made three different body parts around the area twitch as the fan motor oscillated. Borrowed that idea from Ironman's site where he said to take advantage of things that were already moving. Great idea.  The twitching toes on the severed leg 8' away were a big hit to those that noticed. Got lots of comments about how sick it was. That's what I was gunning for.

This was the surprise hit both Saturday & Sunday.  We suspended her in a dark corner of the yard under the trees.  Used fishing line around her neck to hold her upper body up and attached line to her dress in places suspended from the overhead branches. She was free to bob and weave in the wind. If the branches overhead moved in the wind so did she. People trekked into this section of the yard all night long to see how we did this one. We kept hearing how beautiful she was.

Just in case the wind didn't do it's job we stuck a box fan behind this coffin to keep her gown billowing.

Just a quick glimpse of the a finished fence section. We glued the skull whistles in place on the tops of the pvc posts and painted them black.  Toyed with the idea of leaving them white, drilling a hole in the pvc pipe underneath each one and shoving mini Christmas lights in the holes. In theory it would light up each finial with a dull glow.  Might make a nice effect. I'll put that on my list of things to try next year. We also grabbed a handful of vines and strung them about the tops of the fence to give it that fresh old look that's so important in a haunted yard.

Great black & white shot of the witch doing her thing. Like her dress? Totally hot design by Hefty. She's shown wearing the 33 gal size in your basic black. I used my favorite sheet-rock screws to attach her hands to the stick that she was strirring with.  I'm not sure how I survived before Brenda bought me the cordless drill/driver.

Of course it wouldn't be Halloween without your basic Jack-O-Lantern.

Page 6 shows Governor Gary Locke (WA) hanging out waiting to get in with the rest of the early birds:halloween6.html

Head back to the beggining with the prep photos:halloween99.html

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