well Im so excited My haunted house arrived just in time for Labor Day. we had grand baby all day till 10:30pm and my sis and BIL was here with the kids he had to work and went home and after the baby went home sis and I started the project.

Every year our family puts on a free spookhouse for all the kiddies and their parents. this year is to be our last yr in our front yard as we are moving to the backyard next year. so I wann do it up right and I am making a miniature haunted scene. starting with the main attraction a Haunted house complete with dungeon.

we used builders foam and made a roombox 17x14 and 9"h

we took bamboo skewers and poked them in to the foam

...this did not work as well as we though. the slewers were to long. so we chopped them a bit used glue and a dungeon was born. I wanted to use paperclay for the inside making a stone effect......hhhhmmmmmm well couldnt do it. first its too big... take to much paperclay to cover it all. so I said lets use spackle...someone else has...so we did.

first me and than sis and than me again TRIED to make a stone floor or wall....well we decided a cave look would be so much nicer <_<

I actually like it...not that some nice stonework wouldnt look better.

while the dungeon was getting a nice dose of spackle I was building the Haunted house. it is cute....but I am going to make it work for me.

please note that both house and dungeon on its side getting worked on.

so the house got punched out ,walls primered and floors stained. much talk of the chimney to build to hide the lights on the house. we are using some purple Halloween lights to illuminate the dungeon and will also use them to light parts of the dollhouse.

so of course after all this hard work we had to play with all the things I have.

and a close up of the dungeon

but before we called it a night we used styrofoamand builders foam to make something for the paper machie to hold onto. and stairs down the front!

I want to thank Tracy for all her help so far.

I hope yall enjoy this little trip into Nutti's world

if it can happen its gonna happen to me!

TTFN

:o nutti :o