I saw that picture a few years ago, I thought for sure I'd posted it on my blog, but I just searched through my entries. Nowhere to be found. I must have just linked to it. It sure is a sweet pic.
I actually kind of love this. It's a really well done costume, too. Like this person is serious about his/her Vader love, but also pretty serious about the Hello Kitty love too. It's a great combo you don't see often enough. :)
Harold the Gravedigger squinted through the pre-dawn mist. A low, guttural groan echoed through the Davis Graveyard, sending a shiver down his spine. Not the usual mournful sighs of the restless dead, no. This was a sound more…sugary. More…sprinkled. Harold gripped his shovel tighter. The rumors had begun a week ago – whispers of a giant, sentient donut rolling through the cemetery at night, leaving a trail of sticky frosting and disembodied sprinkles in its wake. Tonight, he'd finally catch the culprit red-handed (or, should he say, red-glazed?). As the groan grew louder, a monstrous shape lumbered out of the fog. It was a donut, alright, but colossal. Its glazed surface shimmered under the moonlight, studded with malevolent chocolate chips and a single, menacing gumball eye. A chorus of disembodied moans rose from the disturbed graves as the donut flattened several headstones with an indifferent squish. Harold, adrenaline coursing through him, charged. "Hey, sprinkle-brained...
...and we're gonna get..... no life during the summer. :) (We are almost done with the Chapel, in fact, if all goes well, most of it goes up tonight. But I have not been documenting it here. So I am going to retrospectively show you through the chapel build.) After a few years of planning, we finally decided to sell the abbey and build a chapel. The plan is that this will be easier to put together than the abbey has been. The abbey took an entire weekend, a scissor lift and an army of people to set up. This new chapel should go up in a few hours. This is the SketchUp plan. Front view from SketchUP Here is the real chapel that we modeled it after. Ardgowan Chapel in Scotland Yeah, we decided to phone it in this year :D
we meet again. We are starting over. Completely. No, not the whole yard.....just the church (Westerman Abbey) - I say "just" the church like it is just a small prop in the yard. This is big. Very, very big. I know I am as stunned as all of you.....actually typing it out for the blog is a very scary thing to do. It is more real now. I told you all, so I have to do it. At the moment, we are still in the planning stages. I think our next step is to build the scale model and see what supplies we are going to need. Oh, you have your hand up, do you have a question? "Why I am getting rid of probably one of the largest props in any home haunt?" The answer is in the question. It is bit cumbersome to put up. We had an accident taking it down one year and this year while taking it down the 14' pieces of lumber we damaged (just years of wear and being out in the rain) - the only safe way to put it back up is to rebuild the frame.....and if I have ...
Darth's little sister or did he get in touch with his softer side?
ReplyDeleteEither way, wroooooooooong!
First I read your stress story, and now this. .you're going to turn me into a heavy drinker yet! lol Eeeeuuuuwwww!!!
ReplyDeleteI don't think I do "wanna see something"...(giggle)...be strong, young jedi!
ReplyDeleteOh man, thats something even *I* consider totally wrong!! Hahaha
ReplyDeleteOk....come on you guys... YOU DONT KNOW????
ReplyDeleteThat is Darth's Twin Brother...
Havent any of you seen Zorro, the Gay Blade?
This is Darth Gaydar- the gay saber!!
OMG!!! Now you know!
It's so pink, so Hello Kitty-ish, so evil...I want that costume!!!
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Darth Kitty?!? I sense a disturbance in the Force!
ReplyDeleteI saw that picture a few years ago, I thought for sure I'd posted it on my blog, but I just searched through my entries. Nowhere to be found. I must have just linked to it.
ReplyDeleteIt sure is a sweet pic.
I have long suspected Hello Kitty's association with the dark side of the force.
ReplyDeleteThat's just wrong! Is this the Easter version?
ReplyDeleteI just had the urge to post a spide pic in response to that.:P
ReplyDeleteI actually kind of love this. It's a really well done costume, too. Like this person is serious about his/her Vader love, but also pretty serious about the Hello Kitty love too. It's a great combo you don't see often enough. :)
ReplyDeleteOh yeah! - I am so wearing that this year... Maybe I can get Toph to be a chartruese Stormtrooper
ReplyDeleteDaniel - you would definately win scariest costume!!! :D
ReplyDeleteThanks everyone....I am not a big Hello Kitty fan and you all know that I prefer black and gray over pink :)
I do have to admire the dedication that went into that piece, no matter my personal preferene :)
And...to me, it is still scary!
Cheers!
Oh my... looks like Hello Kitty have done it again. There is no doubt this little cat is evil and that it longs for world domination.
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