Hot weekend of prop making and teaching

We held our Molding and Casting class this past weekend. We had 6 students who made a mold of a small skull and then cast it in expanding foam. The class started at 9am on both days. it went until 4pm on Saturday and 2pm on Sunday. There were a lot of 40 min to 1hr breaks.

Work progressed on our new video head prop of a female statue half carved from stone. We had a

couple of false starts but the final version everyone is happy with. We got her painted black.

We have almost finished our crypt lid we are

working on.

New props this year

We worked on a couple of new props for the year.

We are building a ground crypt that will have a shrouded person on top

of the lid when we are done

The other prop is a small female statue that will have a projected face that will sing a creepy song and say some lines. It is going to look like it is partially carved from stone when it is done.

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Last weekends work

Finished the scroll work on the luminary for inside the Abbey for the party. Also finished the last of the resin votives.











Mudded the last 2 mud men and painted one of them.

The larger one is going to hold a silver tray and be outside of Wine:30 the wine bar downtown in October.

Started work on the female statue that we are going to project onto that will replace our talking head.

The luminary project from hell

We've almost finsished casting all 48 of the resin votive holders with holes in the bottom for the wires

We finished cutting out the fancy scroll work that will mount in the underside of the frame to make it look like decrotive iron work.

The base has been cleaned up and painted.

There has been a LOT of work on this single prop that is only used inside our shop for our party.

But Chris REALLY likes it and wants it to look perfect so we do what she wants.

Cement Skulls

We finished creating new Skull molds so we poured some cement ones. They are great for candles or for setting out in your yard year round.

Halloween prep has started

We are in full swing getting our to-do list done for this halloween. We are working on a few new projects and fixing and improving quite a few existing ones.

We patched together the broken eternal flame monument.

We made the bases removable on the mourner and Joan of Arc. No more spiders in the eyes.

We rebuilt the donation box from all the kids that climbed on it and crushed the heads.






Built 3 new mud men and mudded one of them.

The office is DONE!

We started painting and finishing the wiring and got the lights in.








Painted the walls light gray























Painted one wall blue..Jeff's favorite color
















Paints done

Installed carpet and trim which is painted dark gray.

Outlet plates are all done.

Time to move in!

Getting Closer

The drwall is up and taped and mudded.

The walls are primered and textured.

All we have left is another coat of primer over the texture and then paint, trim, final wiring including the lights and then carpet.

Jeff will be moving in pretty soon!

Office Update

A few weeks ago we had the office framed and the window and pocket door put in. We spent the last couple of weeks wiring for power, data, and phone. We insulated all the walls (for sound proofing mostly) and added a vapor barrier on the outside walls.

The drywall is getting put up in the next few days and then we paint and install carpeting and trim.

Second office finally started

After months of talking about it we finally began work on the 2nd office for Jeff. This will be his own office just for his stuff and the original office will be exclusively Chris'.


This is our current office with both of us in it.


The basement office was originally what we used as a craft and hobby area but was mostly ignored. We tore out the storage cabinet, ceiling tiles, light fixture and drywall on the walls including the door. Our plan is to install a new vinyl double pane window and a 32" pocket door. We will frame the concrete walls and finish it

with drywall and then put down new

vinyl tile and paint it all. We'll add

outlets and lighting and move the desk pieces from the office along with all of Jeff's stuff into the basement office where

Jeff will become a cellar dweller.

After tearing it out all day we took several trips to the dump. After doing a couple other things we were done for the weekend. Next up....get the vinyl tile removed.

Our long term goal is to add a 1/2 bathroom with a toilet and sink. And finish the area outside the office as a living space for wine drinking and music. We need to frame a dividing wall between the area and laundry and storage area.