Old Hag and Owl! Who, hoo?

Working on the Old Hag to stand behind the cauldron and a warning side seen from the ride! Made these because I just had enough plywood! Time and money permitting I am going to cut the old hags arms off and re do her, so she can dip the apple in and out of the cauldron! My VW is out of action for a bit, so I switched over to my other method of hauling my props around! Haha. If there is a will there is a way! I don't always ride other women on my motorcycle, but I do make sure they can make a mean apple pie! Haha!

Inspiration photo for the Hag! (Thanks DaveLandWeb!)

Inspiration for the Owl! (Thanks DaveLandWeb!)

Wooden Caludron

Finished up another prop!

I had a ton of odd shaped scraps left over from the wedding, so I wanted to put them to good use. It would have been easier to purchase a cauldron, but where is the fun in that?! My Grandfather makes segmented wood bowls as a hobby, so I figured we could put the left over plywood to good use!

Segmented bowls come together by gluing up rings made up of wood pieces glued together to form a ring and you keep adding rings to get the height and thickness you want. It is then turned on a lathe!

Concept of cauldron

Odd shaped scraps that I could probably use for various small pieces, but I wanted to free up some space in the garage. We cut them into about three inch strips and glued them up to form around 10' strips.

I think all said and done this may have been twelve to thirteen rings in total.

Turning it on the lathe!

Used some drylok on it to give it some texture!

Finished the prop with black acrylic paint and I may end up sealing it with polycrilic.

2013 Snow White Haunt Facade Sign

Staring at my Alice in Wonderland wall, I had a crazy idea after gazing upon the restroom sign I made from foam that I could also re create the Snow White Scary Adventures sign. Ha. Not as easy as I thought. I wanted to protect the foam a bit better because if it is dropped it would get damaged, so I had the bright idea of bending wood around the frame to protect the foam. 1,000 kerf cuts and countless broken pieces I at least had wood bent around the curves. I should have spent more time dialing in the initial cutout until it was at least somewhat uniform because I spend a long time trying to fix it as I went because I was WAY off! The corner on the left side is no where near the shape I wanted, but oh well. Next time I won't be in a hurry to get jump in! It still looks nice, but after all the work I put in it I wish I had taken 30 minutes longer to map it out a bit better! Live and learn! The foamcoat I used to put a protective layer on the pink foam I used to paint the entire project with. That covered a lot of my mistakes, so it could have been worse! Haha!

You can see that the left side is no where near the radius of the right! I should have fixed that first. Next time I will use a compass instead of eyeballing it figuring I could fix it later. Not the case!!

This is going to hand above the staircase to my front door! I hopefully will enclose the entire porch recreating the scene with the witch dipping the apple into a cauldron! I want the outside of the house to somewhat resemble the facade. We will see!! I still need to paint the letters black and age it a bit, but I'm happy with it now. I used Foam Coat to protect the foam and I ended up painting the entire thing with the foam coat. It hardens almost like plaster. It also hid a lot of flaws! 

Poison Apples!

Since I always want to go all out on Halloween and I don't have as much free coin laying around these days, I decided to make some poison apples to fund my haunt this year! Since I am doing a Snow White theme I figured maybe people would enjoy having their very own poison apple! My wife is going to post some of them on her Etsy account for anyone who wishes to buy one! I'm going to keep making them until they no longer sell! I want to get a head start this year because due to our awesome wedding last year Halloween was almost non existent! I'm going to get a plan of action going this year and try to stick to a deadline much like we did for our wedding! Seemed to keep me a lot more organized! The apples are cut out of plywood and painted and then painted again with glow in the dark paint! They react really well with a black light, but still faintly glow without it! Hoping to sell enough to see all my props come to fruition! Haha, couldn't help myself!