So, after some debate I thought about changing the design a little to make it easier on myself.  I am going to make it more like a book than scroll.  I have a picture below.  And I have been adding to my tombstone phrase.

Here is part of it.

Heavily sob the mourners of death.

Trivial rituals for those that are left.

A river of tears yet wasted on me,

it quenches thy thirst from ye own family tree.

So, cast out ye thoughts and I shalt whittle them to stone,

for the folk engulfed by darkness and left here alone.

Read ye not aloud thy last empty page

Darkened words erased by thy rage.

Six strikes thy clock but all ye is not well.

One hand points to heaven,

thy other chooses hell.

Well, I just started getting over my flu today.  Thank God, it was a bad one.  All I did was sleep all day.  So, I decided to get out in the yard today and work on the tombstone.  I was able to get the main structure done and some of the foam placed on its base.  I had to stop early due to the flue, but will start again tomorow.

Also, I sent in my check to Fright. Enter. for the Beef Netting.  I bought about 2 pounds from Jeff.  My wife is really excited about the beef netting.  Maybe it will give her something to do.

If this isn't a wake up call for some.  Only 194 days left.  Most people take 184 days just to get out of bed in the morning.  So what are you waiting for.  Getting going on the props.  You are going to wish you had.

Well, I got a lot done today.  And the tip top is 42 inches. Lucky day.  But knowing me I would still go over.  Here is a picture as of today.  It is only the base.  Got a lot of things to do.  My wife was suggesting that I change materials.  Meaning not use foam but chicken wire.  I don't know if it would look that good with chicken wire.

Today I started construction on my Unplesant Street Tombstone.  The base is being glued in with wood glue as I type.  I think the base might be a little bigger than I wanted.  But I might get it to work ok.

I also want to thank ScareFX for sending me his MP3 that he uses for his witch.  That is going to work great.  Thank you ScareFX!

Well, first off I was able to pick up some wood for the tombstone, and my wife brought me home the barrel for my ScareFX witch.  I had already bought the motor for it, I just have not gotten it yet.  I still have not figure out how I am going to do the face. I might have to buy another mask.  Ok, now for the picture that you see. My wife drew up a quick design of a tombstone.  I think I can duplicate.  During the week I have been making a Epitaph for the tombstone.  If you can't see it, it goes something like this.

Good news today!  My wife called me up and told me she got me a blue 55 gallon drum for the witch I am making.  That is that scareFX witch that most have seen.  I have been trying to get a hold of one for a while with no luck.  Now I have one.  Thanks honey.

I also bought the motor for my witch for All electronics.  I had bought it on April 10^th, so it should be here soon.  I also bought a 12vdc gear motor as well.  I will have to see how it goes.

I was checking out my yahoo email yesterday when I noticed an email stating that I had started a myspace account.  Which I though, “no I didn’t!’  It was followed by a lot of messages from the same place telling me that someone sent me a message or whatever.  So, I checked it out and I find out that some girl from Ohio had used my yahoo email to start her myspace.  Maybe a big funny thing to her, but not to me.  I immediately changed her password on her myspace.  She can’t get back in now.  I also changed my yahoo account password too.  The nerve of some people.  Of course if you know me then you know that I was going to go thru her PMs too.  I found a naked picture from some myspace user who was from Austria.  Yuk.  I was going to mess with her a little, but I decided I was going to be mature about the whole thing.  I can’t believe that some people think they can get away with something like that.  Well, my plan when I get home is to delete the account.  I can’t do it from work because their web server won’t let me.  So I will do it when I get home.

If you were like to take a peak at this person’s myspace you can see it with the link below.

http://www.myspace.com/69953830

While driving to work, I always pass this old brick house that is boarded up.  I have always wanted to take pictures of it and use it on my website.  Today I dropped by and took a few photos.  I will have to post them later when I get home.  It is really foggy outside today, so they should look pretty cool.  I am planning on staying late at work again for the overtime tonight so I should be able to get some night shots too.  The old house has a flood light on it at night, so I should be able to get some nice shots.  It is awesome.  My plan is to incorporate the photos of the old boarded op brick house on my website.  Check back during the weekend for some shots of the old house.

Oh, my birthday is Sunday so you know I will be buying some motors for my haunt.  I think my wife already bought them for me.  She had asked me yesterday for a list.  Right now I am celebrating my birthday a little early for the people at work.  So is so much junk food here today, it is unbelievable.

Update:  Here is the picture of the boarded up house that I see on my way to work.  I edit a photo and added to my website.  You will have to check it out.  After the intro is finished and it goes to the 2nd page, you can see it up top.  www.deathtouchhorrors.com

Unpleasant Street is planning on hosting a Tombstone contest after the prop contest is done.  I thought I better get ready.  I already have two tombstone designs in mind.  My wife and I have been coming up with different designs for the contest.  I can't wait  I am also going to put the new lighting system I though up.  That would be the spinning light system I had in  a few posts ago. Here are a few designs.

First news is I moved up a little in the standings on the contest.  My goal right now is to pass the guy in front, who has a score of 7.  I have 5, so 2 more and I tie.  Come on Rosie.

Ok now on with beef netting..  If you are intersted in buying beef netting, now is your chance.  Frighteners Entertainment is planning on selling it how you want it.  Meaning you don't have to buy a whole roll just to get beef netting.  You can just buy a pound if you want.  I think it goes for around 3 bucks or so per pound.  I was planning on buying 2 pounds.  I have no clue where I am going to put it, but I will find a place.  I think you have to go thru the Unplesant Street thread to get it instead of thru him directly, but you coul alway ask.

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Well it is only day 2 of the contest and I have already lost.  I don't even have a shot at 3rd place.  But I just happen to get three votes.  Which it could be worse.I know it sounds like I am working the pitty pot thing, but maybe I am.  Krough's stump is at this point, leading everyone.  Followed by Dr. Morbious and Blackwidow. All three of them I voted for.  So it does suggests that I have taste.  Well suggests..  They have a tombstone contest coming up but I don't know if I have it in me to try.  I think this contest knocked a little of the Halloween out of me. I am going to have to push myself to put things together for Halloween.  I guess this was a reality check for me.  I know I shouldn't think about this so heavy, but I also didn't think the contest would go this bad for me.  I guess initially I thought I had a shot at 3rd or 4th.  But at this point in the contest I am further back than I had planned.  Maybe I put too much thought and energy in my props, website, and Halloween in general.  It doesn’t leave too much for falling if things go bad.  Which I did during this contest. I guess there isn’t a big love for killer plants.  What was I thinking?  I know even John from Pumpkinrot lost to a Big Egg which he really hates.  I guess even the great prop builders have their problems.

Today was the start of the Unpleasant Street voting for best prop contest.  There were a total of 13 contestants for this year and voting is done by a picking three of the best props.  Which was a really good idea, because personally I liked three.  So it helps me out a lot.  I got up a little later than normal today, to see what the totals were.  Sadly, I had not even got a vote yet.  LOL.  Which doesn’t look good for me.  Oh, well, I tried.  The good thing is it looks like the people in my office picked good.  I had a little voting session at work, and most liked Dr. Morbius’ entry, followed by krough. So far that is following suite.  In the picture below is the stats as of 9am central time.  We still have 7 days to go, but you can see how things are going. 

If you would like to see a up-to-date tally of contest results, click the link below.

http://forums.unpleasantstreet.com/showthread.php?t=1937

It is getting closer to the Unpleasant Street Contest that I entered Ole Rosie.  I think the paranoia and nervous spells are starting.  That is when I start over analyzing everything about why I am not going to get a vote.  And I can’t vote for myself, so there goes my one vote. LOL.  I guess what my wife says is true. “All I can do, is all I can do.”  Which is totally true.  I can sit and worry about it all day, or just come to the conclusion that worrying about it won’t do me any good.  I guess I am starting to feel better about it already.  This is good.  Of course I can’t help to wonder if I should have added something else.  Like a clock radio or something.  I could have used the digital read out of the radio for the eyes.  LOL.  And they would be different every time.  Now, isn’t that scary.  More scarier than I thought about using it in the first place.  LOL.  I don’t know.  Maybe Rosie is just good the way she is.  If I don’t win this year, there is always next year.  Yea, that is the way to think.  I surely think that the contest will be really close.  I don’t think there will be one person who will run away with it.  Certainly Dr. Morbius and Krough will be in there and the ones to beat.  After reading all the comments left by everyone, I can’t image them not being in the running.  I had a few people comment about my entry, but I am low man on the pole as compared to Dr. Morbius and Krough.  Well, I wish everyone good luck.  I guess I will get a clue to who might win on April 1st.  Which is April fool's Day.  Ok, I better just stop thinking about it.

Here is the place to see the enties.

http://forums.unpleasantstreet.com/forumdisplay.php?f=20

This year I also wanted to make some really good tombstones.  Last year my wife made a few but I wanted them to be more real.  So, for the first one I would like to make something like this.(In the picture below)  It is a cross with light beaming from the sides.  I saw this on www.hauntedmedia.com.  And I thought it was really cool.  So, I think this is going to be a small project on the side.

Well, as of 7pm Sat the 25th I entered by prop into the contest.  I sure hope Rosie get a few votes anyway.  That would really suck if I didn't get a vote.  LOL. But I feel I tried my best.  If I don't win then maybe next year.  I know you can't win them all.  But it is always a good feeling when you do. So here is a few photos of my entry.  You can see the How-to and everything I needed to enter the contest at this address.  http://home.comcast.net/~deathtouchhorrors/rosie.html

Nighttime photo

Daytime Photo

I have few updated pictures of Rosie.  I had already posted some picture on Unpleasant Street forum but didn't get a lot of feed back.  So, I guess I need to just hold my head up high and get this thing done.  Then post my finish prop on Unpleasant Street so I can live in peace.  LOL.  Of course, I am not done with Rosie's painting yet, and I was planning on adding something to the pod.  Plus the 2nd face isn't finish yet.  But I have a picture of it below.  I don't know, maybe rosie is just a little too green.  As Kermit the frog says, "It isn't easy being green."  Maybe it needs to be a little darker, but I don't have a lot of time to do that.  So, I am just going with the flow.

Oh, I forgot that I got my shipment from ACC.  I got 6 skulls which I might do what krough did and make those skull tree stumpy things.  I don't know what he calls them.

The picture isn't much, but it gives you a little image of ole Rosie last week.  She was painted all black at this point and not much to look at.  You can't even see the 2nd face unless you blow the pic up.  It is the only one I had at this stage. Sorry..  As of today, if you can image, rosie is painted a dark green color and highlighted.  I have been painting this thing green so long that my hands are green, and it is tuff to get it off.  One night we dropped off my step daughter at the mall and my wife suggested we goto a resturant to eat.  I stil had green all over my hands.  I thought it would be a bad idea but the wife told me she wanted to go.  By the end of the night my face was now green.  Now everyone was starting to look at me and giggle.  You can guess that I really wanted to leave.  Oh well.  The vines that I got from Grapegrl are not shown here but today ole rose has vines from the pod which rap around rosie untill it reachers her head.  It also goes around the arms and the bottom tenicals.  I don't think you can see the 2nd face but it is between the bottom tenticals.  I made the mouth the same as the top except it is open.  I have not painted that part yet, but I am getting closer.  The pod turned out better than I thought.  It kind of reminds me of an aliens' pod, which where the vines look like they come from.  I am still adding effects to the pod and the face, but it gives you a basic shape of what it is going to look like.  I kinda like the all black look at first, but now green is growing on me.  All I can say is I hope I don't get dead last on this contest.  That would suck.  But if I do, it just means I have to work twice as hard next year.

Last week some time I ordered a few scary cds for my haunt this year.  I ordered from Frighteners Entertainment.  The order was for a two Midnight Syndicate audio cds.  Vampyre and Born of the Night.  Surprisingly the order came with their haunt DVD and some spooky spiders.  I watched the DVD the first night and it is a scream.  Meaning it was really funny.  I have a picture from the DVD.  Jeff from Frighteners is the guy in the middle.  Funny thing is I have never seen him in plain cloths.  I wonder if he has any?  LOL.

Anyway, I was back to painting Ole Rosie.  It isn't what you may be thinking.  The Devil's Rose that I have working on for a while is nick named Ole Rosie from my good friend PeeWeePinson.  I think I am going to use it if you don't mind.  I will have to credit her for this. LOL.  But anyway the painting is starting to come into view.  Before today I didn't know what was going on.  The face is starting to look like a face.  The problem is there are two faces.  Yep, back to work for me.