Frog on the Pumpkin

The Davis Graveyard Crew does love their coffee!!

I have been in love with Lush.  I used to fill a suitcase with there stuff and send it home.  When the first stores in the US opened I did a happy dance, Cannot love their stuff enough.  So here is their 2015 Halloween offerings, Nightwing Shower Jelly Add caption Pumpkin Heebie Jeebie Sparkly Pumpkin Nightwing Bat Heebie Jeebie Pink Moon Knot-Wrap CHECK OUT LUSH.COM FOR ALL THE COOL GOODIES!

the bat.  Being a huge Haunted Mansion (this is why we are all her on the Davis Graveyard crew) fan, I have always loved everything Disney.  So when the crew suggested the Freddie the Bat tombstone...I was 'hell yeah!" Just to be fair after looking at this picture we all have found that our tombstone is way too narrow....we might have to do this again.  LOL!  Like we have ever done anything right the first time! ROFL! We have our designer crew member layout the epitaph to match the original and we print it out an carve it out of white foam.   Then we add trim (more white foam) to build up the sides and matched the aging to the original tombstone. We notice that the bats look like they are metal, not stone, so we decided that they should be carved out of pink foam, not white - so we can get the correct texture. So after the trim in on and aged and shaped to match the original, we all the pink foam bats.  The feet on the...

I have a whole new bunch of items in my Etsy store DG Gothic.  I take normal items and make them more Halloween....which is how everything should be. Check it out: https://www.etsy.com/listing/251294028/halloweenified-fancy-tissue-holder?ref=shop_home_active_7 https://www.etsy.com/listing/251293958/halloweenified-fancy-wall-candle-holder?ref=shop_home_active_8 https://www.etsy.com/listing/251294456/halloweenified-jewelry-box?ref=shop_home_active_6 There are a lot more at the shop.  Be sure to stop by and check it out.  Thanks and Happy Haunting!

Since I have not been blogging much I completely missed telling you about our all day build at HAuNTcon in Baton Rouge this last February.  Here is the finished piece.  More photos of the all day build to follow. We put this scene together in 9 or so hours with our crew and a class of 15 students, who were all amazing. See you all at HAuNTcon 2016 in Birmingham.

I am here to present one of the many new and very brilliant Davis Graveyard props.  The Girl with the Urn....or Urn Girl.  We are quite original around here with names....it is sad.  This statue is based on a woman carrying an urn statue that is in several cemeteries. So here she is in progress.  She is the result of a LOT of trial and error on other statues.  The crew worked hard to make sure that we did the best we could on this one.  From the construction to the materials to the paint job. And she is really quite stunning. The arms did not come bent this way, they were straight and we had to cut them, then make gaffer tape damns, fill them with foam and then sand them out. Of course she had to have a Halloween themed maincure. Once both arms were shaped they had to be attached to the frame and test fit the hold on the urn.  We used plastic from a swimsuit purchase from Costco to shape the boobs. Add caption We then tes...

This is a set of comment cards from the display on Saturday night.......you can tell that pot is now legal in Oregon :D

on the blow mold Paul (or now Paul 2) skeletons.  The rest of the body is better, it is lighter and can handle the heat.  Our Bucky skeletons warped over time in storage, are heavy and difficult to move around and just became more work than they were worth. So we changed to the blow mold skeletons......but the heads on those things look like aliens.  Every time I would use one for a prop, I would replace it with one of our heads modeled after the original Bucky skeleton. Now that I have several skeletons in the yard, I did not want them looking all the same.  What to do.  I suggested just heating it up and trying to mold it, kinda squish in the head a bit. (Yeah, yeah, I know how this is sounding.) Then one of the brilliant crew had a better idea.  Cut out a chunk of the head and shape it so it looks more human.  Then we filled it with cheap A-B (2 part) expanding foam an sand down the seams and cover them with Fix-It. This is how we did the h...

"Look everyone!  I caught a human!"....as I walked into a web, crafted by a demon spider to catch me. In an instant I think.... 'Really, we just put this abbey up a few days ago....where did the spider find the time to make something this evil.  M*ther F**king spiders!!!!!! Here is the slow mo version. You know that moment when you walk through a spider web, you catch a spider out of the corner of you eye and, well; it is just downhill from there. You know there is a spider crawling on you right now. Yep, saw it out of the corner of my eye, it was hanging off my hair and moving up my head fast.  The speed, that is why I hate them sooooo much. I learned something....no matter how fast I move my hands. Spiders are faster. Every single time So now, I do what any normal person would do,......I scream,...in my head I think I am channeling Jamie Lee Curtis and pulling off an epic horror film scream.....but my ears say, "no bitch, that was some stupid, ...

Some things have happened with me over the last four years....a small issue was my masthead for htis blog.  Every time I saw it it reminded me of something I did not want to think about. So - thanks to my good blog friend John Rozum and my friend Aimee - I have a new Frog on the Pumpkin masthead.....I feel like a new frog. Here is the the future. Happy Halloween everyone!