Haunting Your Yard!

We finally finished an order we received for 14 smaller, free standing headstones that are to be center pieces on the tables for a rehearsal dinner that will be taking place Halloween night.

We loved the idea and enjoyed doing these.  Pictured is an example of one on our table.  Each is a little different due to the painting and moss.

These were done with the blue foam from Lowe’s which has a bit of a different texture then what we’ve used in the past.

Between getting these done and Shane being out of town we haven’t had a whole lot of time to work on any of our Halloween stuff.  So starting today we will be getting to it.  Set up for the graveyard will begin.  We’ve got friends coming over to help get things from the storage unit and set things up.  It should be fun and maybe will be a new tradition – setup party!

I’ll post pictures in the next couple of days of the setup taking place and the final result.

So it’s done! 

We finished our Halloween headstone in honor of Edgar Allen Poe.  Shane did a great job with the carving of the raven.  I am still trying to decide if I want to add more aging though.  There is fine line and if you go over board, then the headstones become unreadable.  While we do put lighting on our headstones at night, it’s subtle lighting – so painting the headstones/tombstones too dark turns them into a blob at night.

This weekend we also started a set of custom headstones for someone who wants to use them as centerpieces on tables for a wedding rehearsal dinner that is taking place Halloween night.

For the first time we stopped at Lowes and got the foam there.  We were a bit surprised – Shane noticed that there IS a difference between the pink foam at Home Depot and the blue at Lowes – the blue foam is denser.  He said it cuts different and is more like wood.  He seemed to like working with it better.  I did notice it isn’t as porous – which means for me the priming of the foam first is even more important.  There really isn’t any difference in price, so we may be going with the blue foam from now on out.