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With everyone starting to step up a gear for their halloween haunt, I thought it was time to start this thread to highlight the pitfall or triumphs that the rest of us can take note of
So to get the ball rolling here are two of my "lessons learned"
1. Whilst it looks great to let the grass grow in your front yard to give your cemetery a real unkempt look it has a downside. The first year I did this, then spent many an hour working on a skeleton ground breaker and carefully crafting the hands. When I put the it in place the grass covered the hands. So now I am careful not to let the grass grow too long so that my props can be seen clearly!
2. Last year was my first year to have columns as part of my display. Part of the feature was four dollar Tree gargoyles on top of each column, one on each corner. The overall effect was pretty good. So after Halloween, I moved the columns to the back yard where they were stored outside because of lack of storage, but I thought this would be OK.... Wrong!!
About 2 months later went out in the back yard and wanted to relocated the columns to another part of the yard. To my dismay, a couple of the gargoyles had disintegrated, and crumbled away, and two more were showing sign of deterioration. So I had to remove them from the columns which was not so easy as I had used gorilla glue to glue them on. I salvaged the rest of the gargoyles but now have four holes on the tops of the columns where the styrofoam came away.
Hopefully the lessons learned will be a lesson for you all
So ... who wants to share their lessons learned ?
So to get the ball rolling here are two of my "lessons learned"
1. Whilst it looks great to let the grass grow in your front yard to give your cemetery a real unkempt look it has a downside. The first year I did this, then spent many an hour working on a skeleton ground breaker and carefully crafting the hands. When I put the it in place the grass covered the hands. So now I am careful not to let the grass grow too long so that my props can be seen clearly!
2. Last year was my first year to have columns as part of my display. Part of the feature was four dollar Tree gargoyles on top of each column, one on each corner. The overall effect was pretty good. So after Halloween, I moved the columns to the back yard where they were stored outside because of lack of storage, but I thought this would be OK.... Wrong!!
About 2 months later went out in the back yard and wanted to relocated the columns to another part of the yard. To my dismay, a couple of the gargoyles had disintegrated, and crumbled away, and two more were showing sign of deterioration. So I had to remove them from the columns which was not so easy as I had used gorilla glue to glue them on. I salvaged the rest of the gargoyles but now have four holes on the tops of the columns where the styrofoam came away.
Hopefully the lessons learned will be a lesson for you all
So ... who wants to share their lessons learned ?