Just getting back into the “build mode” for the 2010 season and have quite a few projects in the works, but before I start posting new projects I need to clean the closet and post some Halloween related stuff from the past several months…just humor me as I get this out of my system. 

Tradition dictates that we send out Halloween themed Christmas cards every year, or at least it has been this way for the last six or seven years. This pa... Read More

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A few photos of “Riff” and “Raff” our Dungeon Rats being built for our 2009 yard display. The rats are large being about five feet long, originally started for the September Mad Lab contest, the torsos are constructed around an empty metal gallon paint bucket. The rats are made from a combination of strip and pulp papier mache, a tutorial will be available in November.

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Time has come for kids to head back to school so here’s one for all the P.T.O or P.T.A. parents out there looking for creative ways to raise funds for their children’s school.  The idea is to sell “designer, pre-carved, scented pumpkins.”

Stay with me here, we’ve done this and it was pretty... Read More

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We bid farewell to the coffin, a prop that has served us well since 2007.

Out with the old and in with the new. My youngest son Kyle mastered the power driver and had the piece disassembled in about 15 minutes.

The boards comprising the framework will be used in the construction of somethi... Read More

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Today is August 7th, 2009 and I have finally compiled my list of projects I hope to get completed before October 31st. 

The list is ambitious and contains a few new props that will hopefully take me outside my comfort zone.

I realize it’s not possible to read the actual list of props but I think some things ar... Read More

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