I have been thoroughly distracted by my SCA commitments for the last several months. Even last month when I should have been prop building I was off playing with enameling for a dear friend's elevation. That elevation is tomorrow, so I'm looking at Sunday to be the real start of my prop building season. I have had to make some adjustments, because of time and money. The new gravestones will mostly not happen this year, though I have come up with an alternative, recycled so therefore a free, material, that might make a couple possible. And other things are always being reviewed and repurposed all the time. Such as the pvc pipe tube and scraps that I'd made a bow case out of years ago, that I no longer have the bow for. Those pieces will be cut up for candles, and there's plenty of pipe, so I won't need to purchase any of that. There's also a smaller diameter pvc pipe from a camp shower that I'd made years ago and I don't think I've ever used, that will go to the portable hole attachment for the tombstones as well as the frame for the spider victim and the ghoul on one of the new stones. I should be able to make a charger plate worth of taper candles with a set of flicker lights. I've been picking up the flicker tea lights all summer as I've had coupons and was at hobby lobby for other things so I have a fairly decent stash now.
I know that I need the lanterns for the walkway from the street. I have the clay and designs for that project. I was also considering what else is stashed in the garage and I seem to recall a box of landscaping lights that have never been installed. I believe they are electrical, and I don't recall much else about them, except that I'd bought them on clearance, when I'd lived in another house, something like 12 years ago. It's past time to get them out and use them. I am hoping that I will be able to make a lantern that just slips over the existing light and I'm done. That would mean I could use my lanterns in other places and ways at other times.
So many projects I have just waiting for me to get time to sit down and work on them. I have my calendar marked, it's 38 days to Halloween, and one week before I wanted to start putting things out. My thought is to start with things close to the house and work my way out through the yard, building up to Halloween. Then on the last day I don't have to do as much set up. That's the theory anyway.
I know that I need the lanterns for the walkway from the street. I have the clay and designs for that project. I was also considering what else is stashed in the garage and I seem to recall a box of landscaping lights that have never been installed. I believe they are electrical, and I don't recall much else about them, except that I'd bought them on clearance, when I'd lived in another house, something like 12 years ago. It's past time to get them out and use them. I am hoping that I will be able to make a lantern that just slips over the existing light and I'm done. That would mean I could use my lanterns in other places and ways at other times.
So many projects I have just waiting for me to get time to sit down and work on them. I have my calendar marked, it's 38 days to Halloween, and one week before I wanted to start putting things out. My thought is to start with things close to the house and work my way out through the yard, building up to Halloween. Then on the last day I don't have to do as much set up. That's the theory anyway.
