25 days away...

This past weekend I decorated my witch wart off! At a few points I was overwhelmed with all of it. Bottom line is the grounds of my cemetery are kept, with a few minor adjustments to make (fixing broken lights). I will take some pictures over the weekend. Here's a sneak peak. Trick is to turn off the flash!

Back in August, Ama Lea from sunny California came all the way down here to Atlanta for some photoshoots. Low and behold Miss Ama Lea is a halloween enthusiast herself! Here's a teaser shot from our shoot. Makeup & Hair by the sweet, Cherry Dame.

Lastly, the halloween invite that my gal pal rock'n Jean made is pretty fucking killer! My wolf and I have been on the fence about costumes my mind has changed twice already... 

Happy Haunts! xo

Scare who?

I've got 4 more days till set up begins. It's been a long while since I last wrote. I have been busy, and with little spare time I have had, I've been finishing up the odds and end of my projects this year.

So we begin with this a corny-as-hell scarecrow. He came with a big lot of stuff I found off a craigslist add. Was going to ditch it, but decided to keep him and put him to good use. And I hacked him!

In my last blog you can see how I started his face. I used my son's vampire costume from 4 years ago. Stuffed his legs and got some corn husks for his feet and hands. The idea of the vampire came from watching Underworld when the head vampire burns his daughter for being in love with the werewolf.

Idea of the skeleton face came from the book "How to Haunt your House". See below on the beginning process but basically it was like the corpsing effect just neater and using paper towels instead of toilet paper with carpet adhesive. I painted him with craft paint and sealed him with polyurethane.

This is it for now. As I need to cook dinner for my bloody thirsty children. I will update hopefully tomorrow with the mounting I finished and keep you going up and through Halloween.

Motel Hell ~ Room 101

101 days till Halloween, 63 days till set up!

Time is coming near and it's starting to freak me out a bit. I have a lot on my plate for the next coming weeks up and through October. I did get to finish my corpsing and started on a new project (shown below). I also made a fog chiller out of items already in my garage! Next going to work on the peppers ghost. As well as re-vamping some of the store bought ground breakers.

This is me here with the last corpsed blucky!




This is a project I'm currently working on. He will be painted and attached to some sort of body. I will share my step by step instructions within the next week or two.




Last but not least, pumpkins are growing well, no actual pumpkins yet, flowers are there and they are just lush as all hell! My loving werewolf, Tim is also getting into spirit and is making a two headed skeleton 4 legged spider thing. It's massive! Not for halloween though, but just another oddity to add to the house.

I can't smell halloween in the air just yet, but damn it there are scarecrows and pumpkins on the shelves at the store already!

Love,
the madame

Werewolves & Vampires

Got my books in the mail last week. So excited, I totally fell in love with this one.
http://www.howtohauntyourhouse.com Low and behold the 2nd Edition came out just days later. So next on the list is to order that ghoulish delight too!

My werewolf, Tim also loved it. We are going to attempt the pepper's ghost! I'm so excited!!! The Werewolf also gave me a few ideas for this halloween as far as setting up props and bringing some out closer to the day of just to freak out the kids a lil more. I love my werewolf!

This weekend was gorgeous! Was in the garage and fixed my zombie and I'm still working on this guy, but came to the conclusion that I really need to purchase a soldering iron to finish the job.


I also fixed this large animated spider I picked up from one of those craigslist jackpot adds.

This weekend I would like to finish up the corpsing and work on the fog chiller. For you...117 more days to go for me set up starts in 79 more days!!!

You were wishing I was your vampire,
madame jen

Bibbidi Bobbidi BOO!

124 more days, but only 87 more for set up time! *insert witch cackle here*

Planted pumpkin seeds on July 11th, as of today's date this is what I've got. Vines are starting to come out. I'm either going to have a lot of pumpkins on my hands or a nice carriage for my prince to escort me in on Halloween night.


These are some more skeletons I worked on this past weekend with the help from my apprentice witch, Jade. Don't ya love the sinister grin on his face?




Oh, I went to Barnes & Nobel over the weekend to pick up some books I had a list of about 11. They didn't have one I wanted. So I ordered How to Haunt Your House and Halloween Prop Makers Handbook. Not like I need help how to haunt but extra ideas always come in handy! Hurry up mailman!!! *stirs cauldron*

Other than that I think I'm going to dive into the depths of my garage this weekend and pull out my zombie and the dead dude who needs a fix'n. Picked up a new motor at Hobby Lobby a few weeks ago.

Last but not least I discovered some new (to me) websites via Twitter. By the way you can follow me on there if you wish... http://twitter.com/madame_jen - and please spare me your bullshit. I only follow those creative & like minded individuals.

Ta-ta for now mortals...
love the madame
xoxo