1 Month Away!!!

Great news! This past weekend, my parents came over as Gustavo and I were starting to put up the plastic on the walls. With my dad's help, we were able to complete ALL of it, along with re-enforce some walls and put up the drop frame. Basically, the structure is completely and totally finished (minus the butcher shop, which will be outside the house. I think if we put that up too soon, the HOA will want to kill us.) Anyways, the only thing left to do it decorate! That's the easy part. Tomorrow, I will spray paint any exposed white PVC, and I can start my decorating! It can literally be 100% completely done by this weekend! I'm so impressed by how quick set-up went this year.

Sunday, I go to Halloween Horror Nights, so hopefully I can get some cool decorating ideas! I was originally going to decorate the outside of the house this weekend, but I figured I'd spare Tavo's sanity for one more week, and change the timeline. I'll finish the inside of the haunted house first, then the outside, then the inside of our actual house. Then the week before Halloween, the butcher shop and entrance hallway will go up. I will continue to post pictures of the progress.

Unfortunately, we decided that there will be no "sneak previews" of the inside of the haunted house since we want everyone to be surprised and as scared as possible on Halloween night, so I will not post any pictures of the actual haunt from this point on. Hopefully you'll come by to see it in person. But don't worry, New York and Colombian friends and family - AFTER Halloween, there will be plenty of pictures, and at least 1 video :)

The official countdown has begun! Stay tuned!

Updates Updates!

Wow, I can't believe it's been almost a month since my last update!

Well, my lazy procrastinating butt finally finished the 4 bodies that we decided to keep. It ended up taking only maybe an hour, but I was just so lazy that I put it off for about 2 months and had foam all over the garage instead. I guess I had to give in and finish them when the walls started going up and everything was in the way. Anyway, they're finally done!

Last week, I also managed to get one of those enormous 12' monsters from Walgreens they had last year. Our store is only carrying two, and I got one as soon as they put them up (I'm sure they hated me for that - it took 2 ladders, 2 employees and about 30 minuts to get it down). Last year, Tavo said we spend way too much on Halloween (true) so I couldn't get the monster - even on sale. But I've been begging for one ever since, and since we didn't spend even close to as much this year, I was able to get it. The only bummer is we had to pay full price. Boo! But $29.99 - totally worth it!

Last weekend, dad came over because he was worried that the walls would turn into a big project, but it turns out they had the whole thing up in about 2 1/2 hours. I guess I measured pretty good, and it looks AWESOME! With no walls, we've already done a "walk thru" at least 30 times. It's so much better than last year. We're all pretty excited. Anyways, they only needed to make 1 trip to Lowes this time for more PVC connectors and PVC cement. Yesterday, we went around and glued the whole damn thing together. *sigh* so it looks like we got nothing done, but we actually did. I swear! I was just hoping to also get the wiring and black plastic up too, but that's okay. Maybe today, but probably not. We're having the outside of the house painted tomorrow and we haven't even bought paint yet. Ooops :)

Finally, Christmas had already started - in effing SEPTEMBER this year. Last year it was beginning of October. Actually, I've been seeing stuff since July *sigh*. Lucky for me, Kohl's already has all Halloween stuff up to 50% off, even though it's a month and a half away, because they needed to make room for their Christmas display. Sooooooo I was able to get a few things for the inside of the house this year. Yay!

Well, I've finally got picture updates too so you can see what I'm talking about! Enjoy!

The production line for the bodies:














And a sneak peek of the set-up before the plastic goes up...