Hell-o all!  As most of you have seen, I've added a few more pictures to my site.  I often talk about the garage and I added some of these to give everyone an idea of the size.  It had been my late husbands dream, it's now my fun house.  Some of the items that are pictured are a knight and a Mortisa chair.  The knight cost me $60 at a nursury around Halloween.  The chair I bought at a thrift store for $5.  The church pew was a freebie.  They were tearing down the building and was going to leave it in the rubble.  Now, for my doll Lavina.  She's the small bucky.  Her feet have to be cut off accross the toes to fit doll shoes.  Her hair is a dolls wig and her skin is latex and cotton.  I make the clothes myself.  I also make Mortuary Rig and Mortis, Mother Bates, a Cryptkeeper type doll, and I'm working on Boo Boy and his female counterpart from the portraits.  All the corpses, mummys, and dolls on my site I make.  I've also made some corpse heads for Phirna Films latest horror flick.  I love working on this stuff and any thing concerned with Halloween.  So if I can answer anymore questions for ya, please feel free to ask.  To one and all,
Do have an unpleasant day

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I, like the rest of you, live, breath, sleep and scream Halloween.  There is no other holiday, to me.  A few years back, my daughter worked at a store that needed a front window display.  I really had nothing.  My husband wasn't much for holidays and Halloween was the top no decorating (yes, it bummed me out).  Well, not to let my daughter down, I tore the shed apart and found some things tucked away.  I asked her if she could use a corpse, so replied ANYTHING, please.  So I got to work.  It was still warm out and I did everything outside.  At this time the garage was off limits to my craft projects.  To make along story short, I did everything outside and hung it on the clothes line to dry.  My neighbors never once came out back.  We called him george, and I dressed him and sent him out into this cold, cruel world.  My daughter and the staff loved him.  Halloween ended and I get a call could I take back George?  Sure, but why?  It seems her boss who opened every morning always forgot he was there and scared herself to death.  So George came back and resided in the basement sitting in front of the tv, remote in hand, in boxer shorts and Twilight Zone t-shirt.  People started asking about buying them and I said why not.  Before the hearse, I'd always have one in the back seat.  And I did obey the highway laws, he had a seatbelt on at all times.  But strange things started happening around this house.  The postman, who always came around back to talk with my husband avoid the place now.  He told him he didn't want to walk around to the back and see one laid out, bothered him some.  If I'd go out back my neighbors on each side went in and slamed their doors.  They finally confessed to my husband, their wifes were convinced I was moonlighting as a emblamer.  And was emblaming in our garage, add the hearse to the mix and they were sure of it.  In fact the one family put up a privacy fense in case I brought a body out to deliver.  Now remember, I didn't decorate due to my husband not approving.  When he passed away, I started doing alot more.  And my grave yard grew, people would hurry by but no one would stop.  Now I find all this so funny.  I never thought I'd be the old woman everyone avoided, living in a creepy old house, my only companions being my cats (which I do have quite a few).  But I do love it  At Halloween I already have atmosphere without doing a thing, not bad for just putting a corpse together in my back yard.  Now other things have probably helped.  I have two Hell Hounds (a mini pin and a yorkie).  When I work on my bodys, out of boredom, they both wait for the right moment to grab a limb off my table.  And the neighbors hear me I'm sure yelling, "Bring back that leg/arm!"  Or I tell them go get your bone and they come back with a body part and it's keep away from mom.  But between you and I, I love every minute of it  Now here's hoping you all have a great week.
HAPPY HAUNTING

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I have to say, after looking at some of your pics I've gotten some great ideas.  Now I've viewed your cemetarys and I have a suggestion for some, if I may be so bold.  I've noticed that some have no flowers and others have such sweet arraingements.  When I do my cemetary, I also use flowers.  But I like the old look.  I've found some of the cemetarys around here don't mind at all if you raid their dumpsters, with there permission of course.  There's even a few, I go to that I help remove the older arrainments.  These are the older ones and the caretakers are really great.  I also, use these cemetarys for promo pictures of our corpses.  They add such charm to your displays.  And I do add a new arraingment here and there.  I want to make a crypt this year but according to my nephew I'll have to start putting my plots in the neighbors yards.  He's kidding of course, I still have the sides I can use:>  Well, I'm off graves to visit and bodies to make.
Have an unpleasant day
Sharon

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First let me say, I love everything I've seen so far on this site.  I haven't replied to a lot of you but I've read everything that's been sent.  Now, I haven't got the hang of operating alot of stuff yet but I will.
Like most of you, my blood runs black and orange.  Halloween doesn't pass without me thinking about the next year.  I have one of these country calenders.  You know the type, where you change the month and dates.  In my house it's always October, only the days change to protect my daughters sanaty. 
I've always wanted to have a haunted house, besides the one I live in, and I come up with great ideas.  But the thought of animatronics scare the death out of me.  I'm great with design, decorating coffins, makeing dead bodys that look like they just came out of the Italian catacombs, still things.  Don't get me wrong, I know the type I'd like to create and where I'd like them, I'm just not machanically inclined.  Still, I give garage haunting a run for it's money.  Our garage, like most, aren't used for automobiles.  I just heard all the men groan, sorry.  It's huge, covering 32' by 30' and just over 2 storys high.  When my husband was alive it was used for his buisness.  Now it's decorated for Halloween.  We have some great theme parties there.  But other then an occasional party it's pretty empty, unused.  A fiend and I were talking about renting it out for themed partys, with us doing all the work, including catoring.  It's still on the drawing board, but I think it could work out very nicely.  And I found out, since they'd be private parties I don't need a permit only insaurance, seperate from my home owners.  I'll keep you boils and gouls posted on it's progress and I'll be posting pictures.
Again, I enjoy this hauntspace so much, it's like coming back to the family crypt.
Do have an unpleasant day:>
Dristin

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