I cut up some fabric and used some cheap curtain rods to hang the drapes.
I have them in most of the doorways and windows in the house. The fabric
lets some light through during the day. The chandelier light bulbs will be
replaced with flicker bulbs for the party.
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I stapled black tulle on the top half of the walls. The bottom is that
black plastic you can get in a roll at Party City, which I hot-glued to the
wall. My walls are painted with a semi-gloss paint, so the glue peels right
off easily. The "chair rail" is made of those cheapo blow mold skeleton
parts. I just cut them in half lengthwise and hot glued them to the wall
where the tulle and plastic meet.
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I affectionately call this guy Uncle Rob. (He kinda reminds me of Rob
Zombie.) The top half of his body is actually a duct tape dummy over PVC;
it gives him better shoulders. I used more of that plastic table cloth to
make his robe for now. He is pretty creepy and very tall. I am gluing
some fake fur to his eyebrows since there are holes there because it is a
mask. |
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This is Frank. I finally made him a free-standing body out of a
duct-tape dummy and PVC. It took some work to get him to stand alone, with
no visible PVC, but I have a method for it. He is about 6'5".
Mike Bruner's creation,
"Friendly Frank",
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Just a little shot of some tealight holders I got from Big Lots. I plan on having a nice collection up there, mostly of cats. |
This year, I made a PVC frame (last minute) for the Ape costume, stuffed him with plastic bags and newspaper and threw him in the shower. He gave many quite a shock when they had to use the bathroom. A few didn't trust that he was not a real person. |
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I covered the walls in the bathroom in black plastic and threw some garland around as a border. |
I had several of these cheesecloth and blow mold skull ghosts hanging around the house. This one is in the family room. There was a blacklight opposite it on the plant ledge between the family room and kitchen so it glowed nicely. |
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My fireplace was pretty cool. I had about 8 of those blow-mold skulls in there, and I cut holes in the bottoms of them and filled them with twinkling red string lights. I placed a bit of gray spray-painted batting under them and mixed some red lights with it to simulate embers. The effect is ruined by my bad camera skills in this pic, but you get the idea. |
I have 2 of these 3-foot posable skeletons from WalMart this year. They stay up on the ledge all year long, and are affectionately named "Castor and Pollux" (Yeah, I'm a Gemini!)
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I used a little cheesecloth and a blow-mold skull to make a cheap and easy swag-type thing to go over the doorways to most of the rooms. This is on the walkway thru the kitchen from the dining nook.
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