Barbarella
The Great Pumpkin

Ah... Barbarella.. zounds!! 'quite a comely wench I must say.. oh, did I say tha' out loud?? I thanks ya fer me birthday wishes!! 'Tis jus' naught right, feelin' as young as I does, and th' numbers sez othrwise, bu' wots a poor blighted pirate ta do?? =) I 'opes ya 'as a terrific Thanksgivin' an' upcomin' Christmas season too!!

Capt. Jack

Hi girl!
I wish some times I could JUST do a graveyard scene, get it up tear it down. Yesterday I was outside for a few hours tearing down. I barely made A dent in the mess out there. and all the food is still in my front room! ross can get some good boxes from his work tomorrow and then it will be delivered to salvation army on tuesday hopefully. my house is too small to have alll this stuff around.
I still have to wash about 30 costumes............... ahhhhhh such is the life of a haunter. lol
well i gotta get out there, Ill talk to ya lata. Barb

Barbarella! Thank You so so so much for coming out to help me in my hours of need! I hope you had a good time! Thank you !!!

Oh Ya! lots-o-damage! the witch room collasped totally along with the photo op canopy and a few other issues. But my husband ,my brother and my friend got everything back together tonight.Now I have to go decorate like a mad woman tomorrow afternoon. On the brighter side we have put thru about 700 people so far. I expect it will be pretty busy thursday night! It should go without saying halloween is going to be a mad house. Did you say you don t have a haunt of your own? do ya wanna come over and be a scareactor for a few hours? the more the merrier . I have a few little kids helping and all of my family and a few friends also acting for me. But if your not up to it, no probs. But at any rate I hope youll come by and check it out. Its a bit different tan last year. Plus there is going to be snow piles around! I have to go out in the afternoon and see if I can get rid of some of the snow tomorrow.. well gotta go. I Hope to see you. if you come out... I hope we git cha good! remember my motto, 'no mercy after 7' barb

Hi

I can't wait to see your masks when they are done! Post piccies! I have nearly finished my hats....luckily the weather here has been unseasonally warm the last week or so and I have managed to get them dry quite quickly by leaving them in the sun! Only the pumpkins left to finish now.

I don't normally have a problem getting hold of real pumpkins. They do sell them in our supermarkets although they are normally quite expensive considering the size of them (normally quite tiny!) but my Mums best friends Husband works at a local farm and every year he manages to get us some really huge ones (Cinderella Pumkin size) for a very reasonable cost. It is also easier getting them from the farm as you can drive the car straight there and load them straight into the boot/trunk! Last year we had 25 of them and what made them really unusual was, we had particualry bad weather in the months leading up to Halloween, and they did not ripen as they should have, so they were a mixture of green and orange. The farmer said that he was having trouble selling the odd coloured ones so we could have as many as we wanted. We had such fun carving them! I have a couple of pictures somewhere...I will post them on here so you can see. After our party, a local childrens home where my Brother in Law works had them for their party too....so they really were worth all the effort. Loads of people got to enjoy them!

He He He! It's funny you should say that.....no one would eat it as they said it looked too realistic...I enjoyed it though

The witches hats are the ones in my pictures sitting on top of the wall units, picked the idea up from a wonderful website called The dead End. They don't take too much to make...just the time for the paper mache to dry, but they look quite effective and of course they are cheap! What type of masks do you make?

BW

Wey hey! I think I have worked it out. I have managed to upload a couple more pictures. Will try and add a few everyday as they seem to take a while to do!

BW

Hi Barbarella, Yes I am trying to add more pictures to my album but this techie stuff confuses me sometimes. I think I only got the first picture there by chance. Hope you have had a good day! I have spent the day making more Witches Hats (Papier Mache) for my decorations. I am making the most of my time whilst I am out of work...I was made redundant in June so have been doing all the things I don't normally get the chance to do. I have hats and Pumpkins on the go at the moment so it is keeping me very busy!

BW