Haunted Mansion Bench

Made a bench to accompany the craft table I made! I found a tutorial on Lowes on how to make a bench from plumbing material. Definitely not inexpensive! I also purchased some Haunted Mansion fabric to upholster the bench with! I deviated from the plans a bit and purchased 1" fittings because my store did not have enough smaller ones. I ended up having to go to Home Depot to pick up more pieces.. I don't remember, but they did package them differently.. I believe Lowes has them each with a sticker and Home Depot has each piece in a bag. Not a huge difference until you go to paint the pieces!! The stickers did not come off easily. I recommend purchasing them in the plastic bags if your store has them that way and save a ton of time! I also used two 1/2 thick pieces of pine for the seat!

 

Happy Anniversary... to me!

Just wanted to share with everyone a video I made for our wedding ceremony last year! I figured out how to combine some of our favorites, Walt Disney, Alice and Wonderland, and pictures of us into a video that was shown to our guests a year ago on a very special day! Hoping my wife can also see this since she is in a state away visiting family! :) Figured I'd make her and her family sob happy tears as everyone did a year ago! Hehe! Love you, Veronica!! :)

OK that's enough sappy stuff for now! Off to make some more memories and new projects in the upcoming year! ;) Still lagging on posting the video from Halloween.. I will get there eventually! Promise! 

Old Hag comes to life!

It's been a slow start to the October season! :<( Delusions of grandeur pretty much from November first last year and I didn't get as much done as I wanted thus far. Thirty days left. 30 days. Doh! Need to fine tune the stroke of the linkage to have a little more movement in the hand, but it is at least moving at this point!

Figured I will put in work on this and the Magic Mirror and just detail the rest to look good instead of quanity over quality! Really wish I could have enclosed the porch in with a facade, but that just means I can try it again next year!  

Magic mirror next to the wall.. who is the fairest of them all?!

Made some progress on the mirror! So much left to do! :<( Already started scaling back due to time and money. I still want to enclose the porch, but that may be a pipe dream at this point. I am going to animate the witch using the motor from my cheshire cat, so at least between the two I will have two functioning props! 

 

I still need to rig up lighting for this prop before I take any more videos! I really need to get on playing with synching the light up with the mouth to make the mirror fade in sync! 

Another thing I started is my Store! Hopefully want to figure out something I can produce and make a nice product that people will enjoy and I make some money back considering cost of goods and my time! We shall see how motivated I am keeping it stocked with stuff year round. I think after Halloween I am going to devote time to the shop and maybe next year I will be financially better to build some more items and expand my base of what I can do! :)