Category: Halloween 2024
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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 Closer Look
At these cemetery columns we ordered from Evil Soul Studios! They are perfect just the way they are, but we have some ideas on how to upgrade them to fit our haunt better. For one thing, we’ll need to make them a little heavier on the bottom so they stand up to the winds we…
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A Few Projects
We’ve set aside one room in the house for Halloween props that we’re either working on or prepping for putting out. I recently ordered some cemetery columns and tombstones from Evil Souls Studios for our Mourning View Pet Cemetery section of the haunt. I love the quality of all of them! While they are perfect…
Mourning View Manor 🦇🕸💀 