My First Year - 2011.

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**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