Thread: Your cemetery.

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halloween71, really nice haunt. Do you make the ToTs climb the steps with that thing under them? I love the moving angel. I always look at them after Xmas but could never figure out how to use them.

killedbydeath, also a pretty sweet set up. Your pvc figures are pretty creepy.

osenator, you still have a nice cemetery even if you don't do gross. My Better Half is agitating for a pumpkin patch for toddlers and the easily terrified [which includes a large number of adults...].Her Grand Cosmic Plan[tm] is to have a short direct path to the candy table for kids in the 6 or 7 and under range and the longer path thru/past the cemetery for kids 8+. the toddler path would be more cute than frightening, but I'd get total artistic directorial freedom for the long path. It doesn't look like you have the room for this option, but some creative use of space might give you a place for one super gross prop where the real little kids can't see it. maybe a 'pay no attention to the prop behind the curtain' arrangement where you can cover and uncover it remotely. My friend Tim has 2 time periods for his haunt: 5-7 for toddlers and those with weak bladders then 7:15-9:30 for everybody else. The 15 minute pause is to uncover the top shelf scares and remove the gates blocking the really gross vignettes. Seems to work well for him.

ondeko, sounds like you have some good plans there, can't wait to see them. hey, thanks for the feedback on the solar lights. i bought a string of them a couple of years ago and haven't put them to use yet. i was wondering how they work. i might nab a few more strings after christmas this year. i plan on a cemetary next year and can put them to good use
spider rider, that turned out very pretty but creepy. i love it. if i was there, i'd be looking over my shoulder
curlgoddess, that is very nice, you have some nice stones and their placement looks good. that low lying fog really enhances it
killed, those are some seriously cool props
osenator, that looks real good. i like the creature coming out of the coffin. so maybe they will find the lost children and then you can be free to display gross, no longer a suspect. lol. just kidding. little tot grow up and you can do it then. i don't personally get into gross myself so i love what you did

Hallorenescene, thanks. The plans always get scaled back in about july when i realize i'm running short on time/money, but some stuff still gets done. I haven't tried solar xmas lights yet, but I suppose they work as well as the solar landscape lights. I have a set of three spots that run off a single solar panel and then I have 2 individual spots with their own little panels. This year I used the set of three to light the triad of authors' graves in that flower bed in front of the fence [the Shelley, Stoker and Poe graves] and the individual spots were on the hill in the front yard hitting the scarecrows. I don't think I got a night shot of the scarecrows, but i have a pics of the graves. In the close up of the graves, you can see the spot that lights Shelley's marker and the solar panel that powers the 3 lights is the black shiny rectangle thing two fence arches to the left of that spot light. Each spot has maybe 20 or 25 feet of wire so you can really spread them out. I kept them clustered within just a few feet of the panel. In the wider shot of me infront of the cemetery, you can see all three spots in the flower bed to my left. If you look along the line of short bofder fence you'll see them pretty clearly. Because they are for landscaping, they have a pretty decent hood around the LEDs and reflectors so there is no blow back of light to mess up night vision. the light is only where you point it; nothing shining back at the viewer. The pic of the shelley marker was taken w/o flash so what you see is pretty much what i got. Compare the light hitting the face of the tombstone: the warm orance/yellow of the LED tealight at the base and the cooler light from the solar LED spot everywhere else. the almost blue area to the right of the F at the top of the marker is the main focus of the spot itseld. The only thing big is that the panel needs to get light and the more direct the better. At night, the lights provide a very soft cold white light that gets progressively dimmer over the evening. I like the fact that they don't have to charge where you use them so i put them in the big open section of backyard that gets direct sun for most of the day and then move them into place at dusk on the big night. I hope that helps you with those hard to light places.

This is a thread that needs to keep going for 2010.

Totally agreed operatingnurse.

Great cemetery Ondeko!

mee threeeee!!!!!

Here's my humble little cememtery, just need to get a name for it, the TOT's go by it before they enter the Haunt.

I love it, Spookilicious! Hey, you don't happen to be in SoCal, do you? That house style looks awfully familiar and so does the super-tall palm tree peeking up from behind the house. I don't mean literally familiar, not your house, just the style!

i just finish a new stone for the front yards cemetary,this took 3 days.the skulls are all molded from sprayfoam.

Originally Posted by CaliforniaMelanie

I love it, Spookilicious! Hey, you don't happen to be in SoCal, do you? That house style looks awfully familiar and so does the super-tall palm tree peeking up from behind the house. I don't mean literally familiar, not your house, just the style!

Be careful Spookilicious I think you may have a stalker!!!!!! LOL j/k
But I know she is in Florida! I maybe the stalker... I just spent the last week in Florida!!!!