Good Bye Halloween 2014

Another Halloween come and gone.  This year was a very good year.  Only real wind was during the set up.  The evening was great - warm and very little to no wind. Tons of compliments on the set up.  We have expanded as much as we can in the front - next year growing into the backyard. 

Not many new things this year.  We built a grave digger and picked up a jumping spider.  We also put together a "witches' lair" and finally got the sound going.  We picked up a sound system we found in the Christmas decorations.  It coordinates sound and light.  The speaker isn't the best but it worked great. 

Halloween 2014 In Progress

Purchases for this year have been made.  Might need a couple more things but we have already exceeded the budget so now it is put together, paint and get ready time.  Too late today to start painting but I can't wait until tomorrow.  Thinking of working on the PVC tonight to get the witches and grave digger started.  Fun. Fun. Fun.

Update - Halloween 2014

It is that time of year again.  Time to start the posting and count down to the greatest day/night of the year.  I have already hit both the Halloween Superstore and Spirit Halloween.  Here is my take on both stores.

The Halloween Superstore on Macleod Trail (just South of Chinook Centre) is great this year if you are looking for costumes.  You have to go way into the back to a small room for props.  They have a couple of good ones and their prices aren't too bad. The front of the store is everything for costumes and for in-house decorating.  The in-house decorations are pretty nice but kind of "cutesy". 

Spirit Halloween (on 32nd Ave NE beside Michaels) is okay this year.  I think they had a bigger store last year on Macleod Trail and  it had more props and accessories for the yard haunter.  Either way, it was a great time wandering through the store.  We picked up a couple of things that I hope we can put to use this year.  I am hoping to check out the other Spirit Halloween store to see if it is any different.  They also have a decent selection of costumes.

As for our progress, I pulled out the pillars out today for a look over and started the process of repainting - again.  Yes, I will need to find a better way to store them over the winter.  The main issue is that we usually have snow by Halloween and putting things away can be a real hassle.  I will need to do some repainting of the archway too. 

I am looking at building a grave digger this year and we are working on walls to enclose the witches and possibly building a Mummy room.  I will post pics once things are under way. 

Happy Haunting! 

So Ends another year

Halloween 2013

Well, it went okay.  People liked the display.   I would really like to do something bigger next year and switch it up a bit.  We had a real problem with the wind during the final set up on Halloween day.  It was very frustrating and I almost lost it several times. 





So this is how the Archway turned out.  I wanted to put a few more cobwebs onto it but ran out of time.  It looked pretty cool though.


The Haunted Tree turned out well.  My son thinks I need to "lose" the leaves.  He says they take away from the "scariness".  Not sure, maybe next year.










The next pictures are of the Tree and a far away shot of the entire front yard.