The list

Here are the projects that I want to do for the Haunt, with the steps that are needed. Some things aren't as fully defined as others, some are more detailed. It all depends on what has hooked my interest at an available moment.

 

1. Driveway gate
   

• Two posts for either side, with notches that caution tape can be caught on
  

1. Sign
   

• "DO NOT ENTER" sign for driveway gate
  

1. DRAGON Lights
   

• Redo the smoke around the dragon head, insert lights- see the glowing coals prop
  

1. Gargoyle
   

• Purchase paper clay
  
• Build wooden boxes that will allow the gargoyle base to slip onto it (the new pedestal) –add moldings and finish with paint/sealant
  
• Work clay over surface of gargoyle, adding details as desired and smoothing out paper lines.
  
• Let dry
  
• Add paint/sealant
  

1. Gravestones
   

• Existing gravestones – add dowels or stakes
  
• Create new stones& garden angel – purchase material
  
• Design
  
• Cut out
  
• Construct
  
• Age/finish
  

1. 'store' items ~amulets and other mystic jewelry
   

• Cast in pewter, make from fimo
  

1. 'store' items ~voo-doo dolls
   

• Dress the dolls I have
  
• Make more dolls
  
• Make a string that they can hang from
  
• Special pin cushions
  

1. 'store' items ~Wands
   

• Make more wands
  

1. 'store' items ~Potions
   

• Purchase various colored bottles, fill and seal - wax, cloth tied with string and cork
  
• label
  

1. 'store' items ~Ingredients - jars filled with the following from macbeth:
   

• Eye of newt
  
• Poisoned entails
  
• toad venom
  
• fillet of a fenny snake
  
• toe of frog
  
• wool of bat
  
• tongue of dog
  
• adder's fork
  
• blind worm's sting
  
• lizards leg
  
• owlet's wing
  
• scale of dragon
  
• tooth of wolf
  
• witches' mummy
  
• maw & gulf of shark
  
• root of hemlock
  
• liver of blaspheming Jew
  
• gall of goat
  
• slips of yew (cut under the light of the moon)
  
• nose of Turk
  
• Tartar's lips
  
• finger of infant (illegitimate, strangled at birth)
  
• Tiger's chaudron
  
• baboon's blood.
  

1. 'store' items ~Tags
   

• Price tags, "first born"," soul" etc.
  

1. 'store' items ~spellbooks
   

• Glue string to spine of old text books to mimic the binding of all books
  
• Spray paint the edge of the pages gold
  
• Cut vinyl to size for each book
  
• Mark /trace title placement on the vinyl
  
• Fill in with gesso
  
• Go over with gold paint
  
• Use spray adhesive to glue vinyl to text book
  
• Use small pieces of craft metal to bend around the corners to hold the vinyl in place
  
• Creature manual ~ this one will be hand done with papers hand illuminated and calligraphy. Will also need special binding to match the others.
  

1. Halloween costume
   

• Finish pants
  
• Make shoes, decorate
  
• Work on face make-up
  
• Consider gloves that have a design painted on (including the nails?)
  
• Make the large jewel for the turban wrapped balzo
  

1. Halloween decorations on the walls inside and out
   

• Wall hangings – celtic knotwork/maze
  
• Weyward sisters painting- paint.
  

1. Lanterns at the walkway
   

• Need set of larger lanterns to hang from Sheppard's hooks
  

1. ZOMBIE
   

• Collect tubes for limbs
  
• Purchase dowels for hip and shoulder joints
  
• Drill through tubes for shoulders & insert dowel.
  
• Drill through tubes for hips and insert dowel
  
• Trim leg tubes to get raised leg/bent knee position
  
• Trim leg tubes of other leg to match the first leg (work for overall height of no more than 6 feet.)Purchase Styrofoam headCarve Styrofoam neck to fit into tube/glue as required to secure
  
• Carve eyes out of head and open up mouth
  
• Add layers of latex for skin
  
• Make eyeballs and teeth (put an eye ball on a string so it can pop out?
  
• )Carve hands stryrofoam, with "arm bones" to insert into tubes.
  
• Add layer of latex to hands to create skin look
  
• Add a short dowel to pair of old boots/shoes, insert lower legs to this (dowels go inside the tube) and fill with plaster {Cut a board 18 inch square for base{Drill holes at approx leg placement for dowel rods.{Glue dowel rods into holes
  
• Attach hands, glue as required.
  
• Create internal organs (old panty hose/ sausage casings? For intestines) Create skin lesions/cuts/wounds on face, hands and body
  
• Color skin as required
  
• Dress the zombie in old clothing
  
• Install voice box, movement, etc and sensor (see Eric for assist)Dirty the clothes, with red/dried stains
  
• Slash the clothing and into the body so organs spill out as desired.{Paint/seal base{Finish with leaves, etc to hide wood base
  

1. Potion shelf
   

• Purchase tall bookshelf
  
• Exchange bottom two shelves for 18 – 20 inch wide shelves.
  
• Add dowels as front legs
  
• Add ball feet/Add material that can be carved to the front ball feet (like claws) ** add material to the front dowels to make them look like gargoyle legs/arms,
  
• paint the rest of the book shelf like it's a gargoyle (or other creature) with its mouth wide open to hold the potions and ingredients.
  
• Shelves could be tongue, rows of teeth, etc.
  
• Eyes and ears can be added to the top and sides
  

1. SIGN
   

• Weyward Sisters' Emporium, bringing conflict, chaos and darkness to the world for centuries, as featured in W. Shakespeare's "Macbeth"
  
• Include the wavy star as the symbol in the center of the sign.
  
• Same stryrofoam as the new gravestones?
  

1. Spider
   

• Cover partial inflated beach ball & balloons with papier-mâché for body.
  
• Build legs from pvc pipes.
  

1. Spider egg sack
   

• Cover balloon with cheese cloth/paste
  
• remove balloon
  
• insert lights
  
• cover with small black spiders
  
• Include cords to hang or otherwise attach
  

1. Spider victim
   

• Cut foam core board into torso shape
  
• Cut a pvc pipe from neck to foot height for 5ft person.
  
• Attach pvc to center of torso shape with tape and glue
  
• Add stryrofoam head to top of pvc pipe and glue Stuff a couple pairs of panty hose for the legs and arms with polyfil (can make stryrofoam hands and feet)Pad body with polyfil and old pillow fillings
  
• Wrap a layer or two of batting over al
  

1. Walkway lanterns With Sheppard hooks
   

• Decide on designs
  
• Decide on air dry clay or pottery clay
  
• Roll clay into slabs and form structures
  
• Add a top
  
• Cut out designs for light to get out
  
• Dry
  
• (fire)
  
• Glaze-fire/ paint / seal
  

1. Weeping willow tree one for graveyard, second for end of walkway
   

• Purchase wire, insulation tubes, duct tape, fabric, etc.
  
• Make a square (or odd shape base) out of wood. Include center post for tree to be built on and holes in the "corners" so that the base can be staked down.
  
• Build up trunk from the branches that peel off to get the drapey, weepy willow effect.
  
• Tape the truck to hold it together, and branches as required.
  
• Cover the truck with a cloth tube (either cami fabric or something that is painted to look like bark)
  
• Cover the base with paint to look like ground materials/add leaves, etc