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Halloween Fun – follow up
Hi All,
Well, we’ve just about recovered from Halloween!
This year the house featured a Mausoleum, which was built from correx, covered in vinyl printed with a castle wall stone effect – built onto the front of the garage door with six screws and lots of velcro.
Inside the Mausoleum, the walls were dust sheets sprayed with grey and black paint to make stone walls, ultra-violet lights set the mood with lots of glow in the dark stuff e.g. daggers, spiders, skulls etc. The main feature was a coffin, complete with the body of Count Dracula :yikes: . Thunder and lightning happened when the coffin lid was touched lighting old Drac’s face! Hidden loudspeakers playing spooky music got a few kids screaming :lol1:
Outside there was a graveyard, hand carved pumkins, flaming torches, a massive inflatable pumkin with three ghosts leaping out of it, mist, more UV light, spooky eyes looking out of the windows, ‘Keep Out’ & ‘Danger’ signs plus very haunting oranage icicle lights over the three peaks on the house.
Planning started a month before the event, the mausoleum was built, covered and flatpacked ready for the night. The Mausoleum inner sanctum was built on Saturday, with UV testing and cobwebs put in place that night. Sunday was getting everything ready outside, with the help of our neighbours we finished at 4:30pm for a 5:30 start.
We had lots of kids turn up over the next 3 hours, some came from miles away, brought by their parents who had heard about it via the grapevine. Everything went smoothly, very smoothly once I’d been handed a beer (thanks Carol from next door) and a bottle of wine (Thanks Jo).
We decided to call it a night at half eight, and again with the help of neighbours, the mausloeum, graveyard etc. was dismantled and put in the garage within 20 minutes – record time :dance2:
The night ended with a pie and peas supper (Yorkshire style – hot pork pie & mushy peas) and lots of drink to celebrate a succesful event.
All of this comes from being on holiday in the USA over Halloween several years ago, we couldn’t believe how much fun it was and how many people took part and made an effort. Ever since, we’ve done the same.
Until next Halloween – OOooOoOoooOOOOOooOOoh
Mark
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and some more picture …
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last one – enjoy
Mark
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😮 I am soooo glad you don’t live next door to me :lol1: gis a laugh when you’ve got the christmas deco’s up, no wait don’t bother I’ll just wait till December and I’ll be able to see the glow from way over here, sodding yanks have a lot to answer for, first McD’s and now housing estates that can be seen from the dark side of the moon :lol1: :lol1: daren’t do it at home we,ve an airbase about 8 miles away and although fairly big I don’t think the AWACS would be able to get down the drive.
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Hi Steve,
We have Blackpool Airport, BAE Warton and BAE Salmesbury not so far away, I keep expecting a Eurofighter Typhoon to appear on the drive :plane:
Mark
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Great stuff bet you have loads of fun!!! 😀
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Hi Mark
I thought recognised your house as I used to live round the corner on the estate – well done it gets better and better every year!
Now live further down Lancaster Lane.
Cheers
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Hi Dave,
Give me a shout sometime, we might be able to help each other out once in a while.
Just got rid of a 24″ cutter – sorry, but if you need anything cutting upto 40″ wide let me know, also got a VersaCAMM for full colour print and cut.
Look forward to hearing from you.
Mark
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Wow!
I like how it looks like an old house you’d see down south,
with those palm fronds and all!
It must take a lot of preparation.
I’m lucky if I remember to carve a jack-o-lantern.
Must be something about crazy sign guys and Halloween….
This is my friend Pierre Tardif from Québec City, and his house.
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Insane! 😀 Blimey, the scariest thing in our street on halloween was someone let a firework off! Find it bizarre the amount of effort goes into events like halloween, I must be devoid of the fun factor or something, I just get a hot cup of coco and go to bed early 😕
Cheers, Dewi
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Here’s a pic of the make-up I did on a friend, he wanted a werewolf victim look.
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Strange Dewi: Not heard anyone being grotted, shot, strangled or cut up into tiny pieces down your street. Is this since you had the double glazing put in?
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Complete with red eyes
You didn’t use signwriter’s One Shot did you?
Nice work PhilB
Looks like the real thing
John
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Hi PhilB,
That is really great – so realistic (not as though I’ve ever seen a werewolf victim – but even so) – thanks for the pic.
Anybody else got any Halloween pictures?
Mark
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Thats what I was meaning! If you saw someone walking down the street at any other time of year looking like they’d been attacked by a deranged rotweiller, you’d be dialing a 3 digit number in a flash! And I don’t mean the talking clock either! 😮
Cheers, Dewi (One who is Devoid of the Fun Factor)
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We keep getting police signs by the road side asking for witnesses to stuff like:
Robbery
Shooting
Hit and run
Kidnapping – Kidnapping?Its getting as bad as Angus, Pennsylvania………….. and not to forget mentioning that notorious place on Earth…………Herefordshire!
What is this world coming to?
John
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quote johnalphasign:We keep getting police signs by the road side asking for witnesses to stuff like:
Robbery
Shooting
Hit and run
Kidnapping – Kidnapping?Its getting as bad as Angus, Pennsylvania………….. and not to forget mentioning that notorious place on Earth…………Herefordshire!
What is this world coming to?
John
:lol1: :lol1: Oooooooh Mr Singh you cheeky monkey!!!
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John’s just getting confused with all the freshly dug holes in Herefordshire, I mean, they have to be there for something 😉 😉 😉
Cheers, Dewi
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We have big moles here Dewi 😉 :lol1: 😛
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Can they be surgically removed?
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:point:
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You know the old saying
‘A mole a day keeps the dingleberries away’
or at least I think that’s the old saying :lol1:
Mark
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ewwww
…the visuals….
what about this old saying (regarding facial moles)
“Here’s a quarter! Go have a rat gnaw that off!”
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Thats from Uncle Buck! 😀 One of my favourite films 😀
Cheers, Dewi
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