Bride of Making Hallowe'en.

Hitchhiking Ghosts... done.

I said I would finish them today, and gol durn it, I did.

Well, Phineas needs his valise and Gus his ball n' chain, but those are here at the house, not at the shop. Done, I say!

On to Leota, Uncle Forry (I have not forgotten nor given up) and the Lean Bros and Ghoul... maybe I'll finish by Spring '10.


So much fun.

Even MORE Making Hallowe'en.

Kinda forgot to post this in the last one... I guess I could've simply edited the previous post to add this... but that would be too easy.

No, I'll do that. I've edited the previous post to add what I would have added here.

So go back to the last post to see what would have been in this one.

Go on. Do it.

I could make this an endless loop thing...

More Making Hallowe'en.

Good morning you old Skull & Pumpkin pub.

I have been so busy with Hallowe'en preparations that I have neglected to share my recent progress... oh the irony!

As usual, there will be things I will not finish, and there will be props whose realization will be decidedly altered from their conceptualization. I don't worry, really... this is Hallowe'en for the luvathegreatpumpkin! No matter if the fruits of my labors taste different than I had first expected... they're always the sweetest bite of the year.

The Hitchhiking Ghosts are coming along, and I may actually finish them by November 17th.
Okay, seriously, they'll be running Hallowe'en night, but I have run out of time to give them serious thumb movement. But you know what?:

After seeing Ezra here lean so jauntily, I don't think it matters that his thumb isn't hitching on its own. I think that once they're all clothed, mounted, painted and black-lit, they're going to look very cool indeed, and I'm not going to notice those thumbs being static. And since my opinion is the one that matters... !

(By the way, I don't know what the heck is up with the ungodly low resolution of these clips... my camera says 'I'm set to the highest res available to me' and they look much nicer on my desktop than after uploading them here. Must be a Blogger thing? I'll get it taken care of soon. In the meantime, here's a still of the above for clarity's sake!).
I also had time to really dress up the casket the way it ought to look:

Those candles were fun and pretty easy to make. There were some old, unused decorative rounds in the woodpile at the shop, and I had the PVC laying about. I grabbed a few of those flickering LED tea lights and soldered extension wires between the LED and the tiny circuit board and hot glued the LED just below the lip of the PVC 'candle'. A little hot glue drippings for wax, some black and gold paint for the candle holders, some webs and dead flowers and voila! This thing's ready to go!

The flickering is very hard to see in the shop light so I grabbed this close up shot. Can't wait to see this thing in real lighting! Now I still need to add the green interior light but I already have that ready to go; that will happen as soon as the casket is situated at the house.

And yes, that's 'I'm Not That Girl', from the hit musical Wicked, playing in the background of these last two clips. Elphaba's my girlfriend. Deal with it.

Oh, those pedestals behind the casket...
... those are for the Lean Bros & Ghoul, who will be dressed this year as the Singing Busts from the Haunted Mansion graveyard. They look dark but it's UV paint so it glows nicely.
I should say 'fluoresces'.
Anyway, I'll have pics.

Today I will do my level best to finish the Hitchhiking Ghosts.

Then I have programming to do. Oy!the programming...


Carpe Diemdumshrekpop!

13 Days.

Not the movie about the Cuban Missile Crisis.

But the panic is not substantially less.

13 days and counting.

This is just about how I feel now...

Like a Romero zombie.

Cool!


Wheeeeeeeeeew!

Fifth year in a row.

HGTV will be airing the aforementioned special Extreme Hallowe'en on Friday, October 30th, at 4pm e/p, 3c.

Fifth year in a row.

Sure, I have it on a few DVDs, a VHS, and in multiple video files on a few computers... but there's just something about knowing it's on TV when everyone could be watching at the same time... just cool.

Plus, right when this airs, I'll be busy putting everything up for the Big Night, and awaiting the arrival (if they're not here the day before) of family who've not been able to attend one of my Hallowe'en shindigs in 15 years (two of whom were not even born when I moved out here).

Yep.

Cool.


Wait... I thought I was supposed to be sleepizzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz -*

Making Hallowe'en II.

Legs... feet... back... very tired and sore... must... write like... robots... speak...

Got a lot done today, so kicking back here at the pub at the end of the night is especially sweet.

Oh I'll still run out of time before getting it all done, but as I wrote previously, I'm not really worried.

Trying to steal my drink... way to betray your maker, fake hand.

Added two hasps and some odd silvery detail.

Found some great fabric for lining the casket, so... I did. Not very well, but it'll hold.

Fold, glue, fold, glue, fold, glue...

... but it looks cool! :

And (almost) finally:

Click it. You know you wanna.

Video quality's not hot (not sure why, maybe Blogger's acting up), so the detail of the coffin nails is a little lost... but the noise is awesome. At any rate, a few candles, dead flowers, cobwebs, and she's done.
Oh right, green lighting.

Eh, you'll see.

And what are these?

An idea that hit me tonight, and about which I shall elaborate in the next few days.

Long day, relaxing night, I'm heading upstairs to bed.

But don't leave on my account. You are always welcome to stay and look around.

All I ask is that you don't drink from the upper shelf and if you leave... douse all the sconces, would you?


*yawn!* Dumdumshzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz -!