Title: Halloween 2008 (Year In Review)
Tags: STOLLOWEEN, Halloween, Midland MI, papier mache
Blog Entry: All things considered 2008 was a good year for me regarding prop building. Over the year I learned a tremendous amount and completed 64 new papier mache pieces. This was the first year that I really started working on my Halloween display in January and the work continued until the display was finally set up. This year I also had the good fortune to teach several papier mache workshops. The workshops were a positive experience, I met many great people and I think I learned as much (or more) than the students. In July I taught a dragon making workshop and in October I taught two pumpkin making workshops. Our local paper ran a feature on the Papier Pumpkin Palooza as it was called. http://ourmidland.com/articles/2008/10/21/local_news/doc48fca88510f9c966813065.txt Every year I promise myself I will have everything done by September and of course I end up working on props until the last minute…this year was no exception. Our yard was set up the Wednesday prior to Halloween and featured over 100 papier mache pieces. The weather was great with no wind or rain. [IMG]http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z118/STOLLOWEEN/HALLOWEEN%202008/OCT294.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z118/STOLLOWEEN/HALLOWEEN%202008/100_6016.jpg[/IMG] New for 2008 were three new Demon Reaper Skeletons. [IMG]http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z118/STOLLOWEEN/NEW%20DEMON%20REAPERS/NEWDEMONREAPER3.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z118/STOLLOWEEN/NEW%20DEMON%20REAPERS/NEWDEMONREAPER.jpg[/IMG] Three new Cyclops Creatures. [IMG]http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z118/STOLLOWEEN/HALLOWEEN%202008/OCTOBER3029.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z118/STOLLOWEEN/HALLOWEEN%202008/OCTOBER3030.jpg[/IMG] Digger and Marsha. Digger was a restoration/reimagining of an old prop built in 1992 and Marsha was a “Pimp My Blucky” project using a blucky supplied by Marsha (hence the name..used with permission) as a Mad Lab prize. [IMG]http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z118/STOLLOWEEN/HALLOWEEN%202008/OCT2914.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z118/STOLLOWEEN/HALLOWEEN%202008/OCTOBER3049.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z118/STOLLOWEEN/HALLOWEEN%202008/OCTOBER3048.jpg[/IMG] Three new spiders were created…each with a 3 foot leg span. [IMG]http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z118/STOLLOWEEN/HALLOWEEN%202008/OCTOBER3054.jpg[/IMG] Three cracked and ancient looking skulls. [IMG]http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z118/STOLLOWEEN/SCARECROW%20SKULLS/SCARECROWSKULLS26.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z118/STOLLOWEEN/SCARECROW%20SKULLS/SCARECROWSKULLS25.jpg[/IMG] Some scary faces that can be attached to trees. (During the rush to get everything set up for Halloween I actually forgot about these and didn’t end up displaying them.) [IMG]http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z118/STOLLOWEEN/Tree%20Faces/TREEART12.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z118/STOLLOWEEN/Tree%20Faces/TREEART18.jpg[/IMG] Ended up creating 18 papier mache pumpkins. [IMG]http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z118/STOLLOWEEN/HALLOWEEN%202008/OCTOBER3024.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z118/STOLLOWEEN/MORE%20PUMPKINS/OCTOBERPUMPKINS8.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z118/STOLLOWEEN/MORE%20PUMPKINS/OCTOBERPUMPKINS5.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z118/STOLLOWEEN/HALLOWEEN%202008/OCTOBER304.jpg[/IMG] A ghoulish green pumpkin beast. [IMG]http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z118/STOLLOWEEN/MORE%20PUMPKINS/OCTOBERPUMPKINS4.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z118/STOLLOWEEN/MORE%20PUMPKINS/OCTOBERPUMPKINS.jpg[/IMG] All the photos from our Halloween 2008 can be found on my Flickr account at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/16879455@N04/ The Midland Daily News also ran a feature about our yard in the Halloween edition of the newspaper: http://ourverge.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=237&Itemid=1 Documentation and tutorials for all the props can be found on my website: www.stolloween.com Currently I’m working on the plans for 2009 and designing/building some new projects for Spring Workshops. It’s great to back on HauntSpace and I hope you all have a wonderful Holiday season! -Scott
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