Picture a Day - Day 276

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I'm a Halloween nut. Just thought I'd get that out there in case a few people still weren't quite sure. But I am, huge one really. Love it to pieces.

So even though this was the first week in September I've started digging through our holiday closet (we have a holiday closet now, yay!) and deciding that while it's still a little early for the spider webs or giant inflatable witch on a Harley (note we do not in fact have anything inflatable, stop throwing eggs at me) it was a great time to get started on our little Halloween Town.

Today is a pictoral trip through our little village made up of a vineyard, cemetery and pumpkin patch.A little peek through the gates and then from the side of the gate.
This old gothic ruins church is new and I love it. Some light pours in from the sides but in general it's just got a very spooky who knows what's buried in the basement feel.The pumpkin patch side of things. I had to get the little axe grinder after seeing he's holding a chicken (Have I mentioned that I hate chickens? Cause I really hate chickens).
Notice the kids I corrupted from the snow village now throwing dirt clods in the cemetery. In the background a pair of mummy's cuddle on a bench and the fountain has a few leftover bones soaking in.
I like how no one notices the monster sleeping on the park bench.
Uh-oh, the kids were being so loud they woke up Swamp Thing. And he's always so cranky without his morning cup of boiled silt.The local Vineyard next to the cemetery has been invaded by vampires (why a vineyard would set up near a cemetery is anyones guess. They were kinda asking for it really).And that's just a little taste of our village. There are a few other pieces that are scattered throughout including Death & Binky, a fisherman bringing heads to feed swamp thing and Dr. Frankensteins laboratory.

But they'll have to wait. I just found this cool thing called morse code and I have to learn its tricks before tomorrows post.

So Happy Early September everyone. Or as we morsers like to say . . - - - . . . . - - - -

It's Alive! ALIVE!

I'm still not in a wedding mood so instead I thought I'd talk about something more fun, namely Halloween!

If you have never been to Michaels the craft store (I know we've all been to Michaels the tire store) every year around halloween they get in some really cool little towns from Lemax. I've always liked to look at the little village set ups in stores to try and find any hidden jokes but never really cared about buying any.

They were a bit too cutesy for me. But oh man last year me and my fiance discovered Spooky-Town and some of their twisted houses and figurines.

Both of us being lab rats we fell for the Frankenstein Laboratory but alas we waited too long to try and get one so by the time we got to Michaels again they were all sold out.

This year while they had some interesting buildings none jumped out at us, but I thought maybe I should search the web and see if anyone was selling any.

In comes the House of Tam, not only do they have the frankie lab but they have pieces all the way back from 2000. So for the fun of it I thought I'd create my ultimate spooky town village here (we are gonna go get some other pieces maybe this weekend, right now we just have Death on his horse and an undead camel. Don't ask).

Well the first thought is that since we have Frankies lab why not make a graveyard for him. So first off we need some really cool tombstones.

Every graveyard needs a super spooky gate.

And Death to be sitting on a tombstone just waiting.

Okay this one doesn't really fit in the cemetery I just thought they were cute in a spooky way.

But our cemetery needs lots of creepy trees, and none are creepier than dead willows.

And finally just because it's the most disturbing thing I've seen so far this butcher shop will make you lose your lunch.