I saw your posts about yards and that was all that I needed to join in with you. Oh, yes you want an introduction first. (I'm playing with these these posting features :confused:, so please bear with me. ) I live in Chester County, PA. My yard at this time of year is called "Uwchlan Haunt...

Super quick/cheap rotten pumpkins. I didnt take any photos of the process, but it was pretty easy. Some of the techniques I used were from people that paper mache after they stuff and tape them but I didnt have time for all that.... I used plastic bags of different sizes (grocery and large...

A walk through of my yard on Halloween 2017. I'd consider this small but it made the front page of the newspaper.

I have very little experience with prop building, but I have created a newspaper skeleton (SpookyBlue style, but using cans for the sternum instead of a pool noodle). Alan from StiltBeast Studios uses a widely known technique for corpsing, where you wrap the skelly in plastic, then...

Many years ago I used poetry in newspaper ads and I had another poem i would inflict upon guests as the entered the house and were a captive audience seated in the dark in my first room. My first poem was very long(To be reciting it to people as they sat in the dark!) My next poem was crafted...

As I mentioned in another post, today was our town's Pumpkin Festival. We live relatively close to where it was being held, and a photographer from the local newspaper was walking around to the close neighborhoods, snapping photos of the houses that were decorated for Halloween. As I've also...

Smoothing paper mâché? I was wondering you people make their dummies look smooth. My paper mâché recipe is newspaper flour and water and when you paint it you can see every strip of newspaper. So ho can I make the edges disapeer before i paint it?

I'm looking to place some zombie bodies around this year and wanted to know the cheapest way to make some decent heads for the bodies. It seems that masks stuffed with newspaper or something might be the most economical, but most zombie masks are $30. Any thoughts?

I have a few static props from zombies to a new clown I made last night. My issue is they always look like they are from 2D land, they look good from the front but if you look at them from the side they always look flat. What do you all use to add bulk to your props? I use pool noodles on the...