There are so many awesome vintage hearses. I wonder if one was made large enough to hold a dozen people if folks would like to ride in one on Halloween. Say from one haunt to another through a park.

Maybe a mini bus could be converted rather than starting from scratch. Lots of red fabric inside to actually look like the inside of a hearse, but without the paraphernalia required to hold a coffin.

A long, skinny coffin shaped table in the middle maybe. Driver in tux with tails and white gloves.

Would you do this? Say for $10 per person per hour?

It could be used for other days besides Halloween and rented out for parties...weddings even.

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Orange is showing up in stores everywhere so my Halloween radar is getting more active. Our Long's drug store was just remodeled, so we hadda check it out. One whole aisle was orange. On the left was fall stuff with some interesting pumpkin pieces that may have to join the collection. On the right, they had started to put up candy. On the shelf were the paper liners that go on the bottoms of the shelves and say what they are. There will be some kind of "Spooky Village" going in soon, so y'all may want to check that out. May even be up in your area and ours is slow because of the remodel. Or they're waiting til Sep. 1.

Last time we were in Party City, they were just starting to set up and that was a couple of weeks ago.

Target has a fair amount of costumes and some decorations online. Some of it is only available online. I may have to get a Hogwarts flag from them to go with the Griffindor patch T got me from ComiCon.

Sadly, with the price of gas and T waiting for his new job to come through, we won't be cruising this year, so reports of Halloween sitings from us will be limited to our immediate area. I'd love to hear from y'all where you found treasures.

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Going through Freecycle today and a header caught my attention.

Freshly Cut Rosemary.

Already see where I'm going? Could also be Freshly Cut Herb.

Mental image of woman in kitchen over cutting board with her throat slit. The tv is on and she's watching a cooking show that tells you how to chop your Rosemary. Pouring Green Goddess (full of goddess' eyeballs?) salad dressing over a bowl of "finger" foods.

Which brought up a whole crop of phrases from commercials and products. She slices, she dices. Chop-O-Matic. Veg-O-Matic (how to chop a zombie?)

Then image of hawker at the fair, a rotting corpse selling to a group of rotting, fair-going corpses. Maybe he has a home sausage making gizmo and body parts are going into it. "Cut your finger while preparing dinner? No problem, with this handy-dandy machine, it can become dinner. See how easily thse bones go right into...."

I get like this when the leaf blowers wake me from my nap. Which brings up an image of what I'd like to do to him with his leaf blower. A zombie in curlers and nightie chasing a gardener with his own leaf blower. Sweet revenge. Or road crew with jackhammer. Plumber with pipe snake.

If this inspires you please share.

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Several Halloween patterns here. I thought they were unique and would appeal to someone here.

patterns

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Ran across this in one of my groups. Run your mouse across the small images.

Pumpkin Way

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Went back to Dollar Tree today and found some useful stuff.

The tombstones are 16" tall, so these are all smaller pieces. They are made of foam and some of the detail is lost from a distance, so I plan to dry brush with grey or white acrylic paint.

Little tabletop tombstones-resin maybe?

Da Birds. Small and pretty cheaply made, but for a dollar each I can add more feathers or beady eyes.

All of these came in a bag for a buck. I figure they can be added to candles, hold a flower in a vase or stick up out of a cake. They come snapped together but are easy to take apart.

Some detail of the top of the tombstones. You may see some thin wires at the bottom...that is all that holds them up. That will change, too.

There were a few things we haven't decided on, but will prolly get next pay period.

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Prolly inspired by a commercial where someone kicks a lawn flamingo across the yard.

Dozed off in front of the idiot box and dreamt a lawn scene. All of the flowers were black plastic roses with slimy green stuff on the ground around them. The birdbath was made of a pile of skulls (saw something like that here in a gallery) and you had the typical Evil Mart lawn ornaments, except they were all skellies. Flamingos, three gnomes, a couple of frogs and an evil angel.

The birdhouse was huge and had a crow sticking its head out. Chimes were odd colors, with skulls and spiders and hanging bats.and the notes were discordant.

A couple of human skellies were lounging in tattered lawn chairs drinking red bubbly drinks. Stones leading up to the front door are flourescent green and shaped like monster feet.

Yeah, I have vivid dreams.

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I've seen costumes with black gloves that have stuff painted on them. They look like skeleton or monster hands and may react to uv or black light. Who knows where I can get some?

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The current room idea is The Lady's Boudoir.  I think I blogged about it before, but I don't remember. I'll pretend I've never said anything about it and go from there. What I see in this room (one scene in a maze or something) is a corner area, old flocked wallpaper, prolly black on purple, an old-fashioned chaise lounge with a cat on it and a piece of creepy needle work.

The main focus will be on the vanity something
like the picture here

with a skellie dressed in a shredding Victorian gown. She will be seated at the vanity and will be brushing what's left of her hair. Cobwebs will spread from the upper corner of the mirror to the bottles of beauty potions on the vanity and up across her body.

Sconces on the wall will flicker on and off, spiders will crawl across the floor and up the wall.

Then I get stuck. Do I need more?

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