Pictures from Gaston Haunted Manor. Click on the image to view it close up.
Just a few of the guests who attended.
Click the image to see a close up of all the victims.
He looks possessed! I fear he will break out of the stocks shortly. He was dressed as Lurch, but acted more like the Werewolf in London.
This spider back chair is one in a set of four. As an experiment I decided to silver leaf it. My goal was to achieve a champagne guild. I could not quite achieve the look I was hoping for, so I left it silver. A tube of the wax silver leaf is less than ten dollars. I could probably do one more chair with the small tube of silver leaf. My husband came home with this wonderfully over sized witch hat. I wore it for the party.
At the edge of the sidewalk in front of our house, we placed a homemade sign and fence. The pickets were left over from a large wind storm that blew down our real fence. I saved the pieced and my son hammered them together in a pattern I laid out on the ground for him. I think he did a good job. The gray color is watered down paint that my five year old brushed on each picket. The beware sign in the foreground is the original color of the pickets.
This is a bottle of wine that I covered with a label that I modified. The original label I found was on the Love manor website. You can download many different labels from the Love Manor website. I changed mine in Photoshop to read Werewolf Urine. It received many second looks. A few people asked to take their photo with the bottle. I went online to find information about the werewolf legend and learned that werewolf urine is really purple. Who Knew?
Our buffet is now the Potions Cabinet. The small birds nest is real. Birds made the nest and left. I waited a full season before taking it. The bird nest to the left is artificial. In the foreground is a mortar and pestle. I have collected the dried flowers and seed pods over time. It gives an overall creepy look to the dining room.
This is a video of our front door by night. It has a much different look when it is dark. Please turn on the sound so you can hear the door bell. My wonderful neighbor, Dr. G (aka The Mad Scientist) fixed up my very ordinary door bell into an extraordinarly spooky bell.
Our front Door. By day, it looks friendly. At night, it is a bit more spooky. I have added a video taken at night so you can see the difference for yourself. As you can see on the unwelcome sign, there is a warning to all who dare to ring the bell. Please have your sound turned on as you watch the video of the Gaston door and porch.
