Thread: What do you have to do between now and Halloween to get ready?

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Besides actually "setting up" your haunt what do you still have left to do?

Here is my list:

- Build PVC cemetery fence
- Build walls for "maze" part of the haunt
- Create foam facade (including haunted-house style "tower")*
- Builld a scarecrow with a brances, foam skill and paper mache
- Mix some sound effects with Audacity
- Print out some spooky images to put into picture frames
- Scour local stores and buy some random props
- Take some bluckies and make them look better. Perhaps with some paper mache
- Build a foam or wood toe-pincher coffin

Maybe:

- Build a faux fireplace

* This kind of look:

That is an awesome house. Fits nicely into suburbia during the summer and the perfect Halloween scare shack for Halloween

To answer your question: EVERYTHING arghhh

-PB

Originally Posted by Qweniden

Besides actually "setting up" your haunt what do you still have left to do?

Here is my list:

- Build PVC cemetery fence
- Build walls for "maze" part of the haunt
- Create foam facade (including haunted-house style "tower")*
- Builld a scarecrow with a brances, foam skill and paper mache
- Mix some sound effects with Audacity
- Print out some spooky images to put into picture frames
- Scour local stores and buy some random props
- Take some bluckies and make them look better. Perhaps with some paper mache
- Build a foam or wood toe-pincher coffin

Maybe:

- Build a faux fireplace

* This kind of look:

OMG!!! I woulld die happy if I had this house! Excellent place for one of use Halloween Addicts to call home! Nice House pic Qweniden!

That house by itself is a prop! You wouldn't even need to decorate if you lived in that!
My list is pretty conservative, and I'm mainly mixing up some props and moth-balling a few for this year to keep it fresh.
Making an obelisk and two other grave monuments.
pvc framework for a live actor scarecrow
2 cage walls for a maniac scene
standing monster figure that will go in a window loking out over the que line
I'm also changing some of my lighting a bit to upgrade the atmosphere.

After this year we're scaling back a bit and eliminating one of the parts of the walkthrough, in order to make it more manageable; easier set-up/tear down. I'm kind of looking forward to that!

I have a ton of stuff to do. I'm building a couple of large props, a ton of small ones, tombstones and coffins. I'm really looking forward to the end result!

Heal...."missed" the bottom rung getting off a short ladder and since I didn't want to tweak my knee again , I reached for a rung on a different ladder that was at 90 degrees to the first as I was falling, and missed...so my arm went between the rungs and I slammed my ear into a rung, and my ribs into another. I didn't fall that far as my my left foot was on the ground when I went over and I hit on my left side but it feels like I got hit with a bat. There's no bruising on the outside but it hurts like hell when I move or try and lift things. Hopefully it's one of those things that requires a couple of downdays and that's it,

Additionally, I have a business trip to Colorado for a week, another week in Washington for my parents 50th anniversary and the Huskers/Huskies game; and a 1/2 marathon to run. And I need to paint a bedroom and bath. I won't go into the actually Halloween related stuff, but those other things are cutting into the calendar

I'd have to agree with propboy - I have to do EVERYTHING! Ha ha.

I need to pick up a few new cheap fog machines. We had two go down on Halloween night last year. And, of course, make the rounds to all the local Halloween stores.

Originally Posted by The Crow 1994

I need to pick up a few new cheap fog machines. We had two go down on Halloween night last year. And, of course, make the rounds to all the local Halloween stores.

Yeah, I had a fogger crap out on me last year as well. The Party City 400 watt machines are inexpensive and hold up fairly well.

I have to pack and move my family 500 miles away first of all. Then find some work in the new place. Fix a few things like radon & asbestos, maybe a lil mold. Patch some major holes and fix a toilet. Paint every room in the house and put insulation in the attic. Then, most importantly, carve some pumpkins and throw some Halloween decorations up! I will be a first time homeowner and I'm so f*@#ing excited I could crap myself! So happy to be moving in before the big day!!!!!