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2017 recap

Another busy year in the books, taking a year ‘off’ from doing the full yard, and limiting it to only the front.

This let us play with a lot of things as a test for future years. New lighting, new ideas, new format.

The party this year was amazing despite the wind trying to kill it. Many neighbors, both new and experienced, come by to help carve pumpkins. We tried a few new things with this on the sly, things that give me ideas for the future.

Halloween night was near perfect weather, and the smaller venue allowed us to focus more on just having fun than trying to keep eyes on all corners.

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Some big things are in the works for 2018 as we work towards some PERMANENT additions to the back yard that will help make Halloween night easier on us, and memorable for you.

Light at the end…

2016 has been a long journey.

Our main focus for the year has been on the house. Most importantly the kitchen.

Here’s a from concept sketch to where we are today…

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Even with being in the middle of construction, we’ve had a lot of fun as well.

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And while it took a different form than normal, we focused on the community and managed to put on our Halloween party in the midst of construction.

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As 2016 slides to a close, and the house hurtles towards completion, there will soon be an actual workshop, and the plans can get back on track…

The Adventures of Flat Talia!

Got to love homework sometimes.

Talia come home with a project to mail a self portrait around and have people send it on to the next person, and so on. Well, if I asked family, there wasn’t a lot of chance to get it out of Utah, let alone very far. What to do?

I asked the Halloween Forum of course, and they are stepping up BIG TIME. Flat Talia is presently off with a member in Colorado, about to fly out to Baton Rouge to HauntCon.

You can follow along with her adventures on our Facebook page.