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MY SECOND GROUNDBREAKER WILL VACANCY GRAVESTONE ONE OF MY FIRST PROJECTS MADE OF STYROFOAM GROUND BREAKER COFFIN BASED ON HEADSTONE IN 1800'S CEMETERY IN MY TOWN  ANOTHER BASED ON 1800'S CEMETERY GRAVESTONES MY FIRST TRY ON AN OBELISK MAY LOOK LIKE IT'S LEANING BUT BY FRONT YARD IS ON A SLANT        MY TAKE ON A CROSS  Over the past 4 or 5 years on my haunt I have used alot of styrofoam.  carry the white insulating foam. I like it and sometimes it can get messy.  My tools that I usually use when I'm working with it is a rechargeable circular saw (usually when I'm cutting straight lines).  I also have a Ginsu knife that I'll use when I don't have to cut something of great length.  My other favorites when it comes to curves, cracks and carving texture ( take a look at my to coffins), are the set of foam cutting tools ( I would call them more like foam melting tools) that I got from the Hot Wire F...

These three pictures are my pumpkins from the last three Halloweens. I am not one to carve out the skin of the pumpkins and carve faces.  I like to add different things to it that I can find and kind of make it look 3d.  My favorite things to use are glue on nails ( wich I use mainly for teeth.  The eyeballs are ping pong balls (I can either find them in white or luckely they also come in orange.  The other thing I like to use are bamboo skewers, I usually use them for the hair or in the instance of one of them I used them through the nose.  I also have used staples, usually when I put a cut or scar in them I use them to look like stiching. Most of the stuff I use I get from the Dollar store or Walmart.  Ping pong balls are easy to work with they can be turned at any angle.  To hold them in I will dril a small hole in both sides and use either a tooth pick or a skewer to hold them in.  The fake finger nails, I use for teeth and to make them look ...

  This is a full picture of my 2009 graveyard haunt during the day. This year I added alot of new tombstones.  The witches were also added and so was the ground breaker coffin and the one with the hands coming out.   The second picture is of my porch area. It is covered so it leaves alot of room for my skelleton spiders of all different sizes and also the spider egg sacks. After it was all up I used a hot glue gun to make more realistic webs. The third picture is a close up of what they look like.  I tried one of those that used air but it leaked and just didn't work very well and the air leaked out. I will later tell you how I did this.

  This is my very first post to my blog.  I intend to get more organized and show some pictures of what I have done and what I am doing.  I am an avid fan of Halloween and Christmas. I plan to share photos and how to's of how I decorate for these two holidays. I like to make my own props, my theme for the last few years has been a grave yard and every year I add more and more to it.  Pictured will be posted in time.  Also during Christmas I usually deocrate the outside and inside and let my family decorate the tree.  Pictures of my different creations will be shown once I get a hange of this.