Haloween Decorations

[jtm1631]

I just wanted to show off the great job my wife did decorating the house for haloween.

She does a great job every year and this year was no different.

Click on each picture for a larger version.

[Tommygurl]

Looks great... My decorations are nothing in comparison...

[SarahB]

Wow, she does a great job! That looks so fun!

[TAPPY]

Wow she goes all out....I bet your kids love it !

I did not even buy a pumpkin this year !!!!

[SunKneeMarie]

Very cool!! I've never decorated the inside of the house... we do the outside thing... tombstones, skeletons, masks, thunder/lightning, screaming things, scary Bach music, fog... I took some pics....

[playabum17]

Originally Posted by SunKneeMarie

Very cool!! I've never decorated the inside of the house... we do the outside thing... tombstones, skeletons, masks, thunder/lightning, screaming things, scary Bach music, fog... I took some pics....

So post them! I wanna see, I wanna see!

[bufante]

How do you guys post those pics that are smaller and then get bigger when you click on them? Thats what I wanna know?

[Ginger]

I agree, great job of decorating INSIDE the house!! Very spooky!

[Loree]

We live so far out in the sticks, we don't get any trick or treaters, so I don't decorate for any holidays except Christmas because that is when everyone is here.
Your decorations look great!!!!

[SunKneeMarie]

Originally Posted by bufante

How do you guys post those pics that are smaller and then get bigger when you click on them? Thats what I wanna know?

I think Zoom has directions on that. Or Mikey.

I don't know... I'm still in the dark ages with Photobucket. Okay, here are the night shots. I was trying to see if my lights around the tombstones would show up. And I had a dream someone stole the wagon last night!!

Here's the stuffed monster man Ryan made to sit on the front porch and cover up the fog machine... love the pumpkin feet ... this area also has a screaming tombstone and a thunder/lightning effect which the camera obviously could not catch:



Here's my sunbathing-in-Hawaii skeleton... he has a drink, suntan lotion and spray bottle:




This is a monster that Ryan made to hang from a window... but he was too heavy so I threw him in the wagon, on his way to the "cemetery"... we'll work on a lighter weight man later this week:



Here is the wagon on its way to the cemetery, which you can now see by the tombstones:



A close up of the tombstones--I ran a string of C9's on the ground and unscrewed half of them and put pumpkins and skeletons over the other half... it didn't photograph so well, but it looks pretty good:




And a close up of the "warning" in the graveyard:

[Loree]

Originally Posted by SunKneeMarie

I think Zoom has directions on that. Or Mikey.

I don't know... I'm still in the dark ages with Photobucket. Okay, here are the night shots. I was trying to see if my lights around the tombstones would show up. And I had a dream someone stole the wagon last night!!

Here's the stuffed monster man Ryan made to sit on the front porch and cover up the fog machine... love the pumpkin feet ... this area also has a screaming tombstone and a thunder/lightning effect which the camera obviously could not catch:



Here's my sunbathing-in-Hawaii skeleton... he has a drink, suntan lotion and spray bottle:




This is a monster that Ryan made to hang from a window... but he was too heavy so I threw him in the wagon, on his way to the "cemetery"... we'll work on a lighter weight man later this week:



Here is the wagon on its way to the cemetery, which you can now see by the tombstones:



A close up of the tombstones--I ran a string of C9's on the ground and unscrewed half of them and put pumpkins and skeletons over the other half... it didn't photograph so well, but it looks pretty good:




And a close up of the "warning" in the graveyard:

That is awesome!!!!! I love the cemetery. How did you make those tombstones?

[itsmysecondtime]

That is simply spookitacular.

Great idea for the coming years, thanks.

[SunKneeMarie]

Originally Posted by Loree

That is awesome!!!!! I love the cemetery. How did you make those tombstones?

I used that stiff foamboard and cut them to shape with a knife--very easy to cut... then I just smeared a bunch of random colors--shades of greens, greys, whites and blacks to make different colors of "marble"... then painted the words and cracks... the black flowers were my "bouquet" from my 40th birthday party. They came in handy!

(you can use styrofoam which is thicker and looks a tiny bit better BUT it is harder to make stand up, as it tends to flake away and it's more expensive)

[itsmysecondtime]

Originally Posted by SunKneeMarie

... Okay, here are the night shots. I was trying to see if my lights around the tombstones would show up...

That is just so cool.
Talk about some nasty energy bars...and this while taking care of a bunch of little ones...OK supermom what's in them drinks?

[SunKneeMarie]

Originally Posted by itsmysecondtime

That is just so cool.
Talk about some nasty energy bars...and this while taking care of a bunch of little ones...OK supermom what's in them drinks?

I made the stones while the baby was sleeping... it was either that or watch TV--not too tough of a choice...

and when we decorated, one kid helped, one kid slept and one kid sat in her little chair and watched us, thinking that was the most exciting thing she'd ever seen in her 7 months of living out loud...

it's just all about timing... we say things like "Okay, she just finished nursing... we have about 84 minutes til she's really needy again... GO"