Nice find! I'd love something like that for a backdrop in my garage! 
I've found things like foamcore and wood, but nothing spectacular.
I've found things like foamcore and wood, but nothing spectacular.
One Mans Trash Is Another Mans Treasure
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Dumpster Diving Diva!
Hallow scotty 10_31!
Black fabric!! Lucky find!! And such a large amount too!!
All year long - I keep my eyes out for various discarded "treasure trash" that could possibly be adapted for our yard or Frankenstein Lab -- (Frankie's Girl would fit right into our set up!!).
We have salvaged a variety of items. Even the trash behind our local party supply store was a goldmine one spring when they retired a bunch of backdrops and past season display items. Neighbors have thrown away interior doors, old rickety chairs, lamps, styrofoam sheets and a variety of packaging materials that scream "carve me up and glue me together!" Add a couple coats of spray paint, moss, spider web and voila -- you have everything from headstones to bare figures ready to cover with costume clothing and masks. Last year - a music shop was throwing away an old church organ!! It was an old wood console and keyboard!! We had been planning for a Phantom of the Opera scene on the back patio - and this lucky find was just what we needed!! (I am still hoping to find an assortment of PVC pipe scraps to use for the pipes.) Just last week, after drooling over a $3K Halloween Hearse for sale on EBay - we decided to try and build a more modest but equally creepy version to set beside our graveyard. We were driving past a construction lot where they are discarding dumpsters full of wood pallets, plastic conduit and wood scraps. One large piece seemed the perfect flat bed to fashion the wagon carriage! The dumpster was so full - this set on top and was over to the edge so that we could lift it into our Jeep and head for home! Score!!
I just think of this effort as sort of "bringing back the dead" by giving new life to items that were "one man's trash." Happy scrounging and. . . . BOO!
Hallow scotty 10_31!
Black fabric!! Lucky find!! And such a large amount too!!
All year long - I keep my eyes out for various discarded "treasure trash" that could possibly be adapted for our yard or Frankenstein Lab -- (Frankie's Girl would fit right into our set up!!).
We have salvaged a variety of items. Even the trash behind our local party supply store was a goldmine one spring when they retired a bunch of backdrops and past season display items. Neighbors have thrown away interior doors, old rickety chairs, lamps, styrofoam sheets and a variety of packaging materials that scream "carve me up and glue me together!" Add a couple coats of spray paint, moss, spider web and voila -- you have everything from headstones to bare figures ready to cover with costume clothing and masks. Last year - a music shop was throwing away an old church organ!! It was an old wood console and keyboard!! We had been planning for a Phantom of the Opera scene on the back patio - and this lucky find was just what we needed!! (I am still hoping to find an assortment of PVC pipe scraps to use for the pipes.) Just last week, after drooling over a $3K Halloween Hearse for sale on EBay - we decided to try and build a more modest but equally creepy version to set beside our graveyard. We were driving past a construction lot where they are discarding dumpsters full of wood pallets, plastic conduit and wood scraps. One large piece seemed the perfect flat bed to fashion the wagon carriage! The dumpster was so full - this set on top and was over to the edge so that we could lift it into our Jeep and head for home! Score!!
I just think of this effort as sort of "bringing back the dead" by giving new life to items that were "one man's trash." Happy scrounging and. . . . BOO!
I am one of those elderly drivers when I pass by a curb filled with trash . I have found a college beauty student's test head complete with scary hair . One of those 6 ft really horrible plastic trees with added Easter grass in the pot . Charred planks of wood (that was a great find ).
One of those 6 ft really horrible plastic trees with added Easter grass in the pot . Charred planks of wood (that was a great find ).
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