Projects We are Currently Working On


Hello crafty halloweeners, this is the year that a virus stopped the world.  Although not completely responsible for stopping us from continuing it has been a factor.

J & I are planning to get back into completing the pumpkins & eyes we started last year & hopefully begining some more.
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These are the projects we are working on for the current Halloween year.  The projects listed here are works in progress and not all information is published.  Check back frequently as we update as we go.  Once the current year has passed and the Yard Display for the current year is published these will be moved to past projects.

 Our list of things to attempt this 2019 year will include the following
The Crafty Halloween story for 2019 will begin late Jan early Feb check back then for updates


  • Finish of 1 giant Bats 
  • Wooden Block Garden Pieces
  • Ice Smoke Machine
  • More insulation foam gravestones
  • Skeleton horse herd (my nemesis)
  • More Wytch Bottles
  • Burning Embers (for 3 witch's cauldron)
  • More papermache pumpkins
  • Witch Signs
  • Papermache Pumpkin Topiary
  • Lanterns (for graveyard)
  • More Papermache Eyeballs
  • Cardboard Tube Trees
  • Papermache Pumpkin Monster Man (sentinel) 
  • Creepy Angel Dolls

Burning Embers

Cardboard Tube Tree/s

Creepy Angel Dolls

Giant Bat

Ice Smoke Machine

More Insulfoam Gravestones

The designs for these are the only differences, how to make them & what you need is all in the Gravestones tab.

We will be revisiting this project in 2019.

Lanterns for Graveyard

Papermache Eyebals

Papermache Pumpkins

Papermache Sentinel

Repairs to Previous Years Decorations

We have had to repair some of our previous years Decorations, some have broken over the years & some of them needed a rethink with the materials we made them from.

For example:

The monster plants -
  • Tendrils have been re-made with the same bases but instead of paper clay
  • We used pool noodles, masking tape & heat shrunk plastic over them before painting them to color match the plants
  • The paper clay kept breaking on us & we needed something with more flexibility
  • The method we used to prep them before painting is the same many use for corpsing skeletons & skulls.
  • Re-attach her hands to her arms & touch up gaps

Helga Holy Hedgewitch -
  • Has had her eyes recessed more & eyelids made over them
  • Bubble wrap & clear packing tape to make her a body so the dress fills out with form instead of hanging there looking like it's just cloth over sticks.
  • Her cauldron has been modified with creepy crawlies embedded

Monster Tree Arms -
  • Re-attaching hands
  • Gluing down lifting masking tape
  • Touching up paint
  • We are selling the older ones we made previously to make way for cardboard tubing ones however we did have to repair the arms first

Skeleton horse herd
2019 Project
We are still trying to figure out these

     Well it's 2019 & I still haven't figured out how I am going to make these.  We don't the suppliers here for enough insulation foam board to make it a cost effective project, it's become my nemesis.  However I will continue to explore other mediums & eventually I will find a way. 
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     Update 30th September 2019:  I have a way to do this, I have taken a template from a projector image of a horse skeleton in 2D.  Now I will be able to transfer that onto insul foam & carve it with a hot knife or dremel.

     Below is the one I have purchased it is only a 54 inch but enough for me to use to model a bigger one.  My kids have named him 'Barry'.  I have a plastic skeleton that will fit on him as the rider and they have name him 'Bob' hehehehehe

Wooden Block Garden Pieces

Wytch Bottles