Halloween Yard Display 2008

So we had the party on the 25th in town, and had hauled all the halloween decor over there. Then quickly took it all down and brought it home. I set everything back up on the 31st and took it all down again by 11pm that night.

It rained, hard… I already posted a few rainy pictures. The props all held up fantastically, no paper mache fatalities thanks to sealing everything. Though I live on the Canadian west coast so we expect it to rain here. :)

October 31st…. RAIN

The October 31st forecast called for rain.
…and WOW did it RAIN!!
All my paper mache props are sealed, so I didn’t need to worry about them being out in the bad weather.

The only thing I had to alter because of the rain was the hag’s cauldron. The cauldron, like almost all my props is made of paper mache. It has a faux liquid toppper, and inside has a blacklight. The rain was seeping in under the faux topper and pooling inside. I had to drill a hole in the bottom of the cauldron for it to drain.

Luckily the weather cleared by about 6:30pm and a nice fog filled the neighborhood.
More pictures to come…..