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Goddammit!!! That's freaking cool!!

sweet lil vampire wrote:THANKS!!!
I got more floating around here somewhere, as soon as they fly by I'll grab em and put them on here.
Speaking of Michael's I spend over $100 today on Halloween stuff. They have a pretty good selection out right now here in TN.

Hey Sweet lil Vampire, Love the pictures of your babies, thats awesome that you make your own props also. Doesn't take much to spend any kind of money in Michael's does it. Do your prices of the items there show the Canadian Prices as well? Ours shows both the US & Cad prices right on the items, and I tell you, I am so green with envy of your guys. Say for example an item there is $1.49, it's $3.99 or $4.99 here Last time I went, I added up what it would have cost me in US dollars, then what I was actually going to have to pay, I'll tell you, I'll never do that again, too darn depressing

Yes it does show both prices. We do have it cheaper here.
I put some stuff back and still spent to much, but I love my passion. I have to feed it. Some of the stuff I put back were things I was looking at and thought I can make this for much cheaper.
I get stuff that will last a long time that I can pack up or I won't get it.

SLV-to answer your question-your status changes depending on how many posts you make-the more you make, the higher the status is. I am not sure what the highest is or where you can find how many posts bump you to the next level. Mine is Master Reaper as I have posted 195 times-the more you post, the faster you will creep up there!! It looks like right now you are currently a zombie (underneath your screen name) HTH

Thanks for that info. I have looked all over the forum looking for the answer.

ghostess wrote:I've got a whole pirate crew to make, and a replica of Davy Jones (the Cthulhu version from PotC), a mermaid, a ship.... the list goes on...
Plus all new tombstones with pirate epitaphs, a tree for my dining room to replace the one I took apart, a tree stump for my trash can trauma that I made with the Florida Haunters Group, plenty of groundbreaker corpses, etc. I have a LOT of props to make this year. THat's the only bad part about changing themes from year to year.

I really would like to see pics of this when you are don, as I would LOVE to do a pirate graveyard! It is really my dream scene, and I am just getting started. I have been reading several posts, and I am so happy to have found this forum...Thanks in advance for all the helpful tips and tricks ladies!

Welllll........ unfortunately I gave the pirate theme up, so I've only done the tree and some other stuff. Nothing Piratey though. :-/

Ok, just saw the props..OMG! those are freaking awesome! I love the rocks, and the ....well, everything! I want a house down the road from you! Just so I can admire your stuff! Great job !

As for Pirate stuff
You can use the same technique you did on the rock and skull and make duplicates right? Well, I found some very awesome 5ft pirates at Big Lots and one at Spencers for about $15-$20, you could probably make a whole ship's crew out of two, by adding different clothing and accessories...or, you could just use that skull that you already have, and get some(or make some) bones, or skeletons. I think Dollar Tree, or your local everything's a buck store would have those now.