My First Year - 2011.

QDance · #1 10-04-2011

**Updates from the big night are on page 4**

Hey guys! This is, what I like to consider, my first year of haunting.
It's not technically, since I always decorate, but this year is my first year of
A) Making my own props :D!
B) Experimenting with lighting (Last year you couldn't see anything)
C) Giving out candy (Bye trick or treating :( )

OK, first thing we did was get a remote control fog timer thingy.
Next, we started on the Grim Reaper, named Tom. (Real name is Thanatos but I like to call him Tom for short :D)

Here's a picture of Tom:

Note: I'm probably going to get a different mask. The one he has on now doesn't really stay as well as it should. (Or as well as I want it, so I can feel safe that it won't fly away XD)
Also, he has a scythe, however we haven't set it up yet.

The second thing we started was the tombstones. These were A LOT of fun to make! And so cheap! I got like 12 tombstones out of a $7 package of styrofoam insulation!
Here are some pictures:

These are the first tombstones I ever made! :) (The RIP one with the cross is the first one that was finished.)

More tombstones:

And the warning tombstone (which didn't work so far... the little idiots next door were throwing things at the display on the same day I built it...)
* Inspiration from someone on the forum... I got the name from them and used it without protection but :P I couldn't think of anything*

Now these, I came up with quite a while ago. I just used some costumes I had when I was little (I loved being a ghost...), dirtied them up to make them realistic (do you really think someone who's dead is gonna be perfectly spotless? xD)

At night, you can't see the hangers, and I don't plan on putting a spotlight on them.

This one hangs on a branch that goes over the path the ToTers will walk up, so it flies above them! :D

QDance · #2 10-04-2011

*Continued*
And this one:

Oh and of course I went overboard with the spiderwebs:

Well... That's all for now.
I'd like to thank the forum for giving me such amazing ideas and so much help!!!!!
This has been a great experience, and I hope next year is too!!

Dixie · #3 10-04-2011

Yep, you have been bitten. Look back fondly on this year as THE year that the sickness really began, LOL!!

Everything looks great - I wish you the best on Halloween night, you are going to have a ball!!! (And you won't miss trick or treating at all, I promise!)

MrGrimm · #4 10-04-2011

Yeah trick or treating is (was) fun, but the real candy his haunting!

Your set up looks great! You can be proud, and as Dixie said this is just the beginning!

MUAHAHAHA!

RoxyBlue · #5 10-04-2011

Yep, you're in trouble now, because there's no going back once you start the haunting habit

halloween71 · #6 10-07-2011

Great job!

CreeepyCathy · #7 10-08-2011

everything looks great!

kprimm · #8 10-08-2011

Welcome to the hauntingly wonderful world of...Haunting. Everything looks great, and as was already said, you will love looking back at the first year and seeing how it all started. There is no place to go up but up. Have a great Halloween.

ouizul1 · #9 10-08-2011

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Originally Posted by QDance

...Oh and of course I went overboard with the spiderwebs:...

Is there such a thing?!? I'm kinda thinking webs are like tombstones and skulls...you can never have enough of 'em.

Your yard looks excellent for haunting!! Stone wall in the background...stairs leading up a hill...a turn at the top...I'm kinda jealous.

scareme · #10 10-08-2011

Your parents must be so proud. You've turned into a really fine haunter. Your'e place looks great. I love the ghost chained down in the tree. I think the tots will be afraid to walk below it. Tell the little idiots next door if they keep up the rock throwing next year they will be planted in the cemetery. Good luck on the big night.