The BIG NIGHT is almost here! Are we ready for it? No, but with everything we've done, it will be impressive anyway. Truth is, we could never get it all done in time unless we were planning two years in advance and we've already started planning for next year as we've been putting together this years haunt.
We've got the graveyard set up for the most part. We'll hold off on actually setting up tombstones until Wednesday morning in case of wind, we have some nasty wind storms out here. We've hung some Bucky skeletons from some trees, those are heavy enough that wind doesn't bother them too much. At least light wind.
We noticed a whole bunch of new prject articles at Halloween Online this year. Those guys must be working thier butts off getting things done! There's a bunch of new recipes and food effects in the Recipe section. There's a Craft section now, my wife loves doing crafts so she's all geared up! The Decorations section has some new ideas as well.
This year we have a haunted graveyard that's gotten bigger. Then you follow a path to the haunted house maze set up in the big garage out back, it's got rooms off the maze with a mad doctor lab, a meat market, vampires, monsters. Thank goodness we have a bunch of friends that love to help out! We do this for free, for our trick-or-treaters. If they make it to the end, they get treats.
After the night's haunting there's the party for everyone who helped out. Should be a wonderful night! Exhausting, too! Then we take a week off, put everything in storage and start planning for next year!
Labels: halloween 2007
Our house is the "Haunted House" on our road and the kids love coming around on Halloween. Starting on October 1st, we put up our inside decorations and hang lights up outside. As the days go by, we add more stuff outside for our yard haunt. For our family, it's more fun than Christmas!
We've collected a huge amount of decorations over the past 20 years, we had to buy a cargo container to keep it all in! We put up wreaths that we've made, displays that we've made and bought, spooky pictures get hung in place of the usual ones that hang up all year. We put a Halloween themed garland on the mantle of our fireplace with orange lights running through it. We just go crazy this time of year!
We hang lights on the house just like Christmas lights but we use orange or purple or the mixed lights with green, orange and purple. Sometimes we use them all, one color for the roof lights, another to go around doors and another to go around windows. It's a good thing our lots are big in this area, our neighbors think we are nuts as it is, if they lived close and could see everything we do outside they'd run away in fear!
We just love Halloween, what can I say?
