10-27-2003, 01:59 PM
I'm once again commandeering my two neighbor's yards to make one graveyard. I spent the last weekend making a faux wrought iron fence out of ferrier strips and pvc pipe. The tops of the pipes have skull heads, jack o 'lanterns, witch's heads and ghosts. The End caps have bigger jack o' lanterns on them. Next year my brother will help me run electricity to the end caps so that they can light up. :) The entire graveyard will be crisscrossed with spider webs including one poor grave keeper who fell victim to the giant spider "Boris" and is trussed up in a tree. Circling the entire scene will be a bat and Boris' son make a visit (a rubber spider attached to the a remote control car with the body of the car removed).
I'm also putting out three coffins and approximately 45 tombstones. There will be a mannequin dressed up as a grave digger and since my parking spot is directly across from the graveyard there will be a "mechanic" whose had the misfortune of the hood coming down on the car as he worked on the engine. ;)
The entire scene will be covered by three fog machines and a fog cauldron, the houses are lined with "Witch-cicles" and other lights. The Grim Reaper looks on from the front porch with sadistic glee.
My wife is going as a spider goddess, I will be a vampire, my neighbor is carving a foam pumkin to use as a mask and my other neighbor's wife will be the decaying vampiress "Ava". My daughter, who is almost the same age as Nico's is going to be Wonder Woman. :blink: Oh well so much for the "theme" ;)
I'm also putting out three coffins and approximately 45 tombstones. There will be a mannequin dressed up as a grave digger and since my parking spot is directly across from the graveyard there will be a "mechanic" whose had the misfortune of the hood coming down on the car as he worked on the engine. ;)
The entire scene will be covered by three fog machines and a fog cauldron, the houses are lined with "Witch-cicles" and other lights. The Grim Reaper looks on from the front porch with sadistic glee.
My wife is going as a spider goddess, I will be a vampire, my neighbor is carving a foam pumkin to use as a mask and my other neighbor's wife will be the decaying vampiress "Ava". My daughter, who is almost the same age as Nico's is going to be Wonder Woman. :blink: Oh well so much for the "theme" ;)