Our new prop TOT

We created a new prop this year we call TOT (trick-or-treater).    He hung around behind one of the mud men all month and then up by the gate on Halloween night.   We moved him out front for some photos before we took it all down.

Halloween a big success again

This is one of the first performances of the dancers and the early crowd gathered for Halloween day.

Spider Tree

Chris asked her blog friends to send her spiders she could hang in the tree and create a little miss muffet scene she could photograph Halloween day.  Here are some photos of her setting up.  We also took some pictures of our graveyard dancers with the spiders.

Moonlight photos

Took some photos in the moonlight since it was a full moon tonight.  I'm not all that good with night photography but I try.

Morning Shadows

I've been watching this shadow for the past few mornings so this morning I went out and took this picture.
You can see it comes from the bucky we have that holds signs for our events.  He was left out after the open house.   Cool shadow though.

First full weekend with full effects

All three nights were very nice.  Friday  night worked out well with the rain starting as we shut down.  Saturday and Sunday were wet days but cleared up in the evening for people to come out and view the display.   We took some shots late Sunday night to show it all up and running.

It all starts this weekend

Tonight is our first official effects night.  That is, unless it rains :( Cross fingers everyone!!

We are hoping to have most of the effects ruuning, but as you know, things happen.  Please be patient.

Be sure to stop by and check it out and if you are looking for other cool seasonal things to do be sure to check out the area haunted houses and the Halloween Bazaar that is happening at Oaks Park this weekend.  Some of the crew plans to stop by to do some shopping. 

See you there!

The Graveyard is setup

It was a busy September and we didn't get a chance to do any posts.   The first 2 weeks we worked on the Extreme Makeover Home Edition of  Nightmare Factory in Salem so nothing went on around here.
We setup the scaffolding on September 19th and then the following weekend installed the display.   We worked the following weekend to get all the details in place.  

Our Last Tombstone class of the year

We had fewer students with the afternoon session on having 4 tombstones but both sessions had some creative people with some great tombstones.