Tutorial: Beloved Tombstone

I tried my hand at making the Beloved tombstone by somewhat using the instructions at www.hauntedwebby.com. I got additional ideas from Kevin at Brewster's Yard haunt at www.fulcrumsites.com/haunt. From what I can gather, the Beloved tombstone was created by www.castleblood.com. If anyone knows more history about this great idea, please let me know.

Videos of them can be found here: http://www.halloweenforum.com/halloween-props/73388-fcg-without-led-eyes.html#post543828

I recently made a video of me showing how Beloved was built here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ie0YfB4KZqI

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