Yes Halloween season is in full swing. Department stores have gone and put out halloween decorations and candy. This only reminds me that from now until halloween it's crunch time. 

Tonight I finished preparing some of the solar lights I purchased in July from Big Lots. They were carrying several spot lights and path way lights. I purchased three spot lights and a set of eight pathway lights (all they had). They were white and I spent most of the summer trying to find a way to change their glowing color. It hit me last night that glass paint handles heat and is a good cheap way to alter the color.Now they give off light green glow. These are not super bright but I think they will work just awesome for the grave yard.

I also completed my zombie baby the night before and it's creeping everyone out. I started a first coat of paint on the grave fencing and headstones.

Now my to do list is slightly smaller. Although the list seems never ending and always growing. I am hoping that most of the items will be completed my october 1st so I can focus on the outside.

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Below is how I make headstones...... These are the begining steps.

  First step is paint the MDF with two coats of flat black acrylic paint



Mix in white with the black and sponge or rage on in a random pattern



Continue lightening the gray with white paint putting several layers on the wood










Then mix several browns, grays, greens, whites and put spots on the wood. Using a pray bottle full of water mist the spots. (only do a couple spots at a time because the paint does dry quickly) This will create the driping running aged look. The more colors and layers the more depth you get.












And this is the main part of the tombstone. You can distress the wood with hammers, chains etc. to give it further character.

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I have been working away at painting my tombstones for halloween. I am trying several new techniques and still using MDF. They weather and warp really well. 

I still feel like I need to do more for my yard haunt. I know I have only a few pieces and 20 or more head stones but it will have to do this year. I did up grade my lighting this year and can't wait to see if it works well. I just really was wanted more zombie, dead, monsters than I have. I only have one zombie, bones, a light up ghost, bats and a hanging bluckey wrapped in spider webs.

I guess I am experiencing haunting envy from all those galleries filled cool monsters.

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As I've said before...... The haunting Halloween decorations have begun to go up for this season. I have rearranged the witches kitchen at least 5 times in the last two days. I have already sorted my halloween decorations according to inside, office, and outside and continued painting and creating my decor. I have also figured I needed more indoor and outdoor decorations because of the 5 boxes there should be more..... Well here's the preliminary set up and an odd find or two.

This is my kitchen dinning area.





This is part of my guest bathroom I painting and made the skull wall decor.



This I happened to see at TJ Maxx.... now the million dollar question is do I need two?

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I have begun the decorating of the inside of the house and building and finishing projects as well as starting several others.

I'm most excited to see how my horns turned out. This weekend I will do a test run of make up but I am not sure how I am going to do that yet. I am going as a demon this year and my costume is a sexy little dress, knee high boots and horns. It's a cross between sexy and scary. I'll post the make up pics soon and hope to get input on those who I know have amazing talent in that area.

Painted a flat black


Finished horns


These are my spray painted roses. I am not sure what I am going to do with them but I am sure there will be a grave in need of them.

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Here is the booty found and made over last week and this.

I found this at TJ maxx for 10 bucks it's safe and fun for my office this year


This is my candy dish for the office and again found at TJ for 5 bucks



These are my roses that I spray painted tonight black.... it's a cool affect



This is my new friend for the garden found a big lots



This is the coolest stobe lights with sound again found at big lots




This is my baby a work in progress



These are my new allegator feet.



These are my garden gnome skulls



This is all I've gotten too so far. I have been slacking the past few weeks. well slacking to me is if I can't work on at little a little halloween a night.

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I swore to myself and my husband that I would not purchase anything more for halloween. That was a lie and seeing it now I may need Halloween Anonymous by the end of this year. LOL!! Notice I didn't not agree to stop prior to the Halloween Season.....I stopped by TJ max and Big Lots. I'll post what I got once Photobucket is done being a pain.

I also continued with my witches kitchen and begun decorating the inside of the house for halloween. I thought I could wait until October 1st but I have found that I have so much stuff I couldn't wait to decorate the inside and still have time to plan the outside too.  I still need ideas to fill about 3-5 more jars. They all have small openings so I am enlisting the help of all of the very creative haunters to give me ideas.

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After a few days of reflection and talking I am back to making halloween and continuing the halloween love. My father has even joined in and began making me a coffin for this year. I am getting back on my feet emotionally. My husband has opted to enjoy life to the fullest and we are going to stay right at home enjoying what ever time we have left.

So here are pics of my progress

This is my witches kitchen jars and labels



















These are the happy accident of hot gel wax plastic fingers and a microwave



This is the whole set up almost finished still looking for ideas for the finishing touches



My horns pre-painted I am going as a demon this year.



Coffin my dad is building I told you halloween is contagious



These are my MDF headstones pre paint




Just for fun pics:


These are my sexy everyday boots



Miss Tashia after her spay and sedated



This my amazing husband and our children... yes I know their dogs... that's the fun when their bad I can throw them outside.

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Well my witches kitchen is almost done and my father is building me a 6ft coffin to enjoy. As the halloween decorations and projects continue I found out some not so great news. I am not sure if I will even be decorating for halloween this year.

My husband who has had cancer three times already went to a second opinion doctor's appointment. At this time we found out that they feel he won't be in remission long and that there are not many treatment choices left for him. They feel he may have just a couple years left to enjoy. He is only 25 and now we are faced with no life insurance, no health insurance and relying on the VA healthcare system which has been a joke from day one. One of his options is a stem cell transplant but if we opt to do that we would have to leave everything behind and go to Seattle at which time there is no Halloween, No Dogs, and no family to be our help and support. Not to mention this chance is a very small one and would be handled by doctors who are less than ideal and don't have the track record of others.

 We don't know what the right choice is and as the days pass we are at a loss as to what to tell friends and family. This is news we have tried very hard to deny for the last two years hoping that the new chemo would cure him. Maybe we will just try and save up for a honey moon since we never did get one. We were married and the next morning we admitted him into the hospital for treatment.

I am to numb right now and with work hounding me about taking a couple days off to adjust to this blow I am fast approaching rage. I am tired of people telling me I need to pray and hold on to hope. Hope is for those trying to win the lottery and praying is for a God who is fair and just. I don't have the strength or will to be forgiving enough to pray that God will help us through this.

I will proably sell off my props and decor for halloween but for now I have lost motivation to even continue building.

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