Hello world

Last Halloween I decided I didn't want to deal with all the trick or treaters ringing the doorbell, having to adjust the sensor light and the dogs going crazy every time the bell rings. My solution was to set up a pavilion in the front yard, decorate it and enjoy the evening outside. I starting looking for additional ideas on the decorations and found a whole new world of Haunts. I had so much fun planning and putting on my first haunt I decided I have to do it again, because there are so many other things I want to make.

This is Hate and...

Discontent, my first attempts at papermache, making these gargoyles.

I'm not particularly happy with the finish and there are loads of details they need. I have researched and determined there is a paperclay product that I can put over the surface that will enhance these guys.

This is my ghost, just a couple of projects that I put together in the about two weeks between when I decided to do it and Halloween.

For this year, I'm developing the theme I had started of a mystic's shop, selling wands, charms and potions, that you have to walk through a graveyard to get to. I have a few of these things and will be making more. I will be getting a full book shelf decorated and full of colorful bottles with potions and other ingredients, like "eye of newt" and other such items from Macbeth witches. That's also where the title here comes from, as the original play calls them "weyward sisters", not witches. I also have plans for a stack of books that will be labeled for various things. I have a bookshelf full of old texts from college that haven't been openned in nearly that long, so I've purchased vinyl to cover the texts, I have gold paint to put the labels on the books.

I also have the makings of a zombie, full size, and plans for a giant spider, with victim and web and also new tomb stones. Oh yes, I also need some better lights for the path from the street down to the shop. I have some clay that I can make latterns.

Yeah, I have lots of plans swirling around my head, so here is my attempt to sort it all out and keep track of the things I'm doing, what I need to get done and how I actually do it.