More goodies!

I got the Frankenstein's Monster Lamp at Target and the potion bottles came from Michael's.



All of my Halloween stuff should go nicely into my new house. The living room walls are a dark, drab gray and the ceiling is a muted, flat black.



I still have a bit of work to do. Right now I'm prepping the floor so I can paint it. Then I'm gonna make my shelving and stain it to look like old wood.

On Hiatus

Making Halloween stuff is coming to a slow down right now. I just got a new townhouse and I'm fixing it up....to look like a haunted house! I'll post pics in a few weeks after I'm done. I'll also be making/buying new Halloween goodies in the meantime, just not like I had been. I did make two more Ghost Lamps last Friday. Hopefully, I can find the lighting kits I want and I'll be making some cool lanterns that will be lighting my new staircase.

I got a couple of these lanterns at Super Target.

I may wire them to use those flicker bulbs.

And check out this cool Candy Cauldron!


Man! I can't wait to get my house painted and the floors done! I've wanted to live in a haunted house since I was a little kid. Hopefully, I can finally achieve this dream!

Yard Signs

Last year I bought several wooden and metal yard signs and I had to come up with an idea on how to keep them from being knocked down, pulled up, trying to find a place to put them, etc. I got one of those cheap plastic cauldrons and I scrounged up several ceramic flower pots(spray painted black) I had laying around. Then I went to Home Depot and got some pea gravel and a gallon of Elmer's Glue-All. I filled the bottom half of the pots with some dirt, placed the signs in them and leveled them up. Then I filled them up the rest of the way with the gravel. I poured a generous amount of the glue over the gravel and let it dry for a day or so. After they were dry, I sprayed some glow-in-the-dark paint over the gravel.







Now that the signs were in pots, I could place them wherever I wanted to. Very handy when you're decorating your house with them.

Ghost Lantern

I made a "Ghost Lantern" yesterday. I took a cheap kerosene lantern from Wally World and sprayed the glass with Krylon Frosted Glass Finish to make it opaque. Then I used Krylon Glow-in-the-Dark spray paint and coated the inside of the globe. Here is a photo of the lantern exposed to a UV light:



Here is a pic of it glowing on it's own:



And here is how it originally looked when I sprayed the whole lantern with glow paint:


You'll probably agree with me when I say it looks a lot better with only the glass glowing. I'm debating on whether or not I want to install a UV LED in it. I probably will just to see what it looks like. As it is, it has a rather ghostly feel to it. The pics really don't show how cool it does look. I'll probably be making more of these since I can get the same lantern at Big Lots for $2.99.

Halloween Jackpot

I went by Hobby Lobby today and I stumbled into a goldmine. They had Funkins on sale for 1/2 off! I may have to go back and get some more.



I originally went to get a shadow box. I got something better...a table top photo box. It was 1/2 off as well. I intend to make a lighted display out of it. I have a translucent Creature From the Black Lagoon/Gillman figure that I'm gonna light up with another LED circuit that I'm making. This should be a quick project. Should be. I have to drill two holes, make the LED circuit and black out the the whole glass area except where the Gillman will be standing. Should be a piece of cake.

*Edit*
The lighted pedestal for the Gillman didn't work out. The pedestal is fine, but the light transmitting properties of the Gillman leave a lot to be desired. I have some small resin jack'o'lanterns that might work perfectly in his place.