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HOW TO MAKE FAUX-STONE COLUMNS FOR HALLOWEEN OR ANY OCCASION  Learn how to create lightweight columns using cardboard concrete forms, Styrofoam and pool toys. Step-by-Step Materials & Tools Comments Time Under Half Day Price Range $1 - $50 Difficulty Easy Step-by-Step Instructions: Form the Top and Base of the Column current page Attach Toothpicks current page Apply Monster Mud page 2 Apply Gray Base Coat page 2 Create a Faux Marble Effect page 2 These columns can be used inside or outside of your haunted house. They are perfect for displaying pumpkins, Halloween decor or ev en a simple potted plan ! For the top of the column, we used an old torilla container and just cut off the handles. The column is a cardboard sonotube that is normally used as a form for pouring concrete supports. You can find them at home improvement stores. Place the column top onto the cardboard sonotube form and attach with Gorill...

   Since 1986, every third weekend of September, the city of Le Puy-en-Velay (Haute-Loire) found its Renaissance colors.   Through a festival of a high culture, the city takes the guise of an old and true archery contest to get it  back into the glorious past.     For four days in September, priority is given to street performances and the reconstruction of what  daily life in the sixteenth century in the Velay would have been like.  Tented camps, struggles with the sound of cannon fire, folk artisans, daily cooking and meal time, and  pilgrims on their way to Saint Jacques de Compostela  to set up their tents and compounds for so they can rough it just like their ancestors.    Each year, several days after the school year has been out, the entire city and its people gather to live and work in the Bird King Renaissance Festival  offering  all who  who attend th...