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Happy Halloween! We’re Rained Out! ☔😢
Well, the bad news is, our Halloween haunt has (probably) been canceled due to the weather. The good news is, it’s all set up and ready to go just in case we get some trick-or-treaters! Because we’re starting our new dog sledding business this year, we didn’t have a lot of extra time to make…
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And So It Begins!
We’ve begun setting up our home haunt so I’ll be updating over the coming days and weeks. I’m also updating the website a bit so bear with me. Here’s a video of what we’re working on: I’ll add more soon! I hope everyone is enjoying the Spooky Season and you are planning to have a…
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Tales From Mourning View Manor: The Long Walk Home
Along the dirt road I live on, there’s an old farm house with a small family cemetery right out front. I can’t help but see it as I have to walk past it twice a day. There are ten or twelve headstones, maybe more if I count the flat ones that I’m pretty sure are…
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A Halloween Bouquet & Some Dead Heads
It’s almost time to start decorating inside and out now that it’s September. Oh, who am I kidding? I’ve already begun my Halloween decorating beginning with this pretty floral collection I found to spruce up an old flower basket I had… We also ordered some fireproof skulls for our firepit this year. The first ones…
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A Few Little Things
Most of our main props are already here and are either ready to go or close to it. So now, with just 72 days left until Halloween, we’re adding some final touches to our haunt before it’s time to start setting it up. Things like the poison bottle for the dead Plague Doctor we’re building……
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The Doctor Will See You Now…
Or not, since he’s long dead!! Each year our son has a different costume he wears to jump scare the guests. Two years ago he was a plague doctor, so this year I’m turning his old costume into a static prop. Our new plague doctor will have his very own featured area where he’ll basically…
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More Work on the Spider Witch 🕷🕸
A few more touches and she’ll be ready to summon up the spiders for us. Today I hot glued the spider witch hat down on top of her original hat rather than trying to remove the old one… I also blackened her teeth a bit more and dirtied up her fingers since they were just…
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The Spider Witch
The witch I’m upgrading started out pretty good to begin with, but our theme this year is a haunted farm where the coven of witches summons a spider plague. So she’s our main witch doing the conjuring. I wanted to give her a few more spider-themed details so I bought some fake fingernails for her……
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The Ghost Bride
We are making a new version of the chicken wire ghost I made a few years ago. This year instead of chicken wire, which is bulky and hard to store, we’re just using cheesecloth, bird netting, starch and some black trash bags. Oh, and a styrofoam head. Definitely leaving that in for her face this…
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A Couple of Scarecrows
We have a haunted farm theme aspect of our home haunt so of course we need a lot of scary scarecrows. We bought Spirit Halloween’s scary sitting one with the candy dish to scare the kids but we’re also working on a couple of custom fellows for extras (not to mention our giant Jack-o-Lantern scarecrow…
Mourning View Manor 🦇🕸💀
Home haunters in Southeast Idaho. Boo! 👻🎃🦇
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