Wow!! Amazing!
Egyptian 2018 home haunt
Here is the link to my album----> https://photos.app.goo.gl/JUnBwCGV57qMycib8
I was out of work due to surgery so I had alot of time to work on my costume ?.
Once I was feeling a bit more mobile ( and the weather let up a little - was like 94 degrees here-) I was able to complete the pyramids, archway and cat embalming table.
The idea was a rave at the Tomb Tomb room
So I played club style egyptian dance music and mixed in a couple faves like the Bangles and Steve Martin. Alexa found me an interesting song called Asia lol.
Had so many photo ops with tots it was just unreal the response! Overwelmingly positive and we get hordes of tots, like the walking dead but alive!
2 different kids genuflected to me, I was called Cardi B and Katie Perry but they were told I was Isis, the mother of the Egyptian gods. Seemed to appreciate the lesson.
Worked hard on my headpiece, I love it, but got the most compliments on my shoes, lol. Shoes took me about an hour to bling up. Headpiece? Days, lol.
Ive not had an easy road the past 5 years with health and my ltr ending, finding a place to live, etc..Im thankful to my family who allowed me to do it up right this year. I appreciated the comments I shpuld do this professionally or with Disney but we know theres not much money involved in it and it more a labor of love.
Happy that my only competition was a full scale minions theme somewhere in my neighborhood but I was told that I won lol.
How will I top next year?
I was out of work due to surgery so I had alot of time to work on my costume ?.
Once I was feeling a bit more mobile ( and the weather let up a little - was like 94 degrees here-) I was able to complete the pyramids, archway and cat embalming table.
The idea was a rave at the Tomb Tomb room
So I played club style egyptian dance music and mixed in a couple faves like the Bangles and Steve Martin. Alexa found me an interesting song called Asia lol. Had so many photo ops with tots it was just unreal the response! Overwelmingly positive and we get hordes of tots, like the walking dead but alive!
2 different kids genuflected to me, I was called Cardi B and Katie Perry but they were told I was Isis, the mother of the Egyptian gods. Seemed to appreciate the lesson.
Worked hard on my headpiece, I love it, but got the most compliments on my shoes, lol. Shoes took me about an hour to bling up. Headpiece? Days, lol.
Ive not had an easy road the past 5 years with health and my ltr ending, finding a place to live, etc..Im thankful to my family who allowed me to do it up right this year. I appreciated the comments I shpuld do this professionally or with Disney but we know theres not much money involved in it and it more a labor of love.
Happy that my only competition was a full scale minions theme somewhere in my neighborhood but I was told that I won lol.
How will I top next year?
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Thanks Gos, . The cat table was something I really wanted and have never been able to do on previous setups. Its depicted in alot of historical representations for embalming.
The soundtrack was actually sound fx played randomly from some of the props like the pharoah head mounted on the entryway, random striking snakes, moaning ftom the gemmy mummies, the 2 skulls mounted on the obelisk pillar did several bits. The small mummy in my pyramid didnt want to activate via sound/light only if touched sp that stunk he was mostly static.
Tje rest of the sounds not heard in the video was music I culled mostly from my video game. And mixed in a few dance songs. I can share my.playlist if amyone wants it from youtube. But I really liked the more mystical tones from my game files that seems obscure so no one else I imagine would use it for what I used it for lol.
So mounting the pharough was easy enough, it was the skull from Michaels and is weighted inside already. A hole for hanging is on the back but I added another to secure fishing line to him then wrapped it around the posts he sat on. Then covered the fishing line with creepy cloth..
Im going to post on my insta progress pics too of the costume pieces and other props and will update that once done.
If anyone has questions on anything lmk, I try to do everything on max budget and easy setup/teardown and weatherproofed for FL rain
. The cat table was something I really wanted and have never been able to do on previous setups. Its depicted in alot of historical representations for embalming. The soundtrack was actually sound fx played randomly from some of the props like the pharoah head mounted on the entryway, random striking snakes, moaning ftom the gemmy mummies, the 2 skulls mounted on the obelisk pillar did several bits. The small mummy in my pyramid didnt want to activate via sound/light
only if touched sp that stunk he was mostly static. Tje rest of the sounds not heard in the video was music I culled mostly from my video game. And mixed in a few dance songs. I can share my.playlist if amyone wants it from youtube. But I really liked the more mystical tones from my game files that seems obscure so no one else I imagine would use it for what I used it for lol.
So mounting the pharough was easy enough, it was the skull from Michaels and is weighted inside already. A hole for hanging is on the back but I added another to secure fishing line to him then wrapped it around the posts he sat on. Then covered the fishing line with creepy cloth..
Im going to post on my insta progress pics too of the costume pieces and other props and will update that once done.
If anyone has questions on anything lmk, I try to do everything on max budget and easy setup/teardown and weatherproofed for FL rain
Yeah, I guess it was the lady mummy I was asking about. She just looks huge compared to the skellies:
Thanks Gos,
The soundtrack was actually sound fx played randomly from some of the props like the pharoah head mounted on the entryway, random striking snakes, moaning ftom the gemmy mummies, the 2 skulls mounted on the obelisk pillar did several bits. The small mummy in my pyramid didnt want to activate via sound/light
Tje rest of the sounds not heard in the video was music I culled mostly from my video game. And mixed in a few dance songs. I can share my.playlist if amyone wants it from youtube. But I really liked the more mystical tones from my game files that seems obscure so no one else I imagine would use it for what I used it for lol.
So mounting the pharough was easy enough, it was the skull from Michaels and is weighted inside already. A hole for hanging is on the back but I added another to secure fishing line to him then wrapped it around the posts he sat on. Then covered the fishing line with creepy cloth..
Im going to post on my insta progress pics too of the costume pieces and other props and will update that once done.
If anyone has questions on anything lmk, I try to do everything on max budget and easy setup/teardown and weatherproofed for FL rain
I'd be interested in the playlist. I thought the audio on your video was unique and just added so much to the eerieness of what it must have been like for the kids to walk to your front door. Thanks.
Total aside here, looks like we have the same garage door and house/gargage door color scheme LOL. Plus we have palms as well so I really identified with your set up.
Wow! You look great, the set-up looked great, the theme was great. Somewhere Cleopatra is smiling. (What did the mummy say after Halloween was over? "That's a wrap!" )
~ Funniest / Unfunniest uncle ever
)~ Funniest / Unfunniest uncle ever
I cant wait!!! we are actually doing this theme next year so I'm trying to soak up as much inspiration as I can
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