Tuesday, September 05, 2006
Weekend Projects
I managed to fit in a little Halloween shopping and a few projects in between all of our plans this weekend. I went back to Big Lots and I finally found the spider skeleton thing I had read about on the Halloween Forum. I also decided to get the bat that is hanging upside down. I thought it would look good on the lamp post outside. As you can see Gary and Zoey were very intrigued by the spider skeleton thing!
Virlena got a fantastic idea to make a stained glass window for the basement/crypt. She wanted something that would cover the computer area. She found a picture she liked and drew it out all out then cut out all of the pieces. The next day we cut out pieces of vellum for the colors. For some reason we couldn't find green vellum so we ended up using green tissue paper for the snake. We were both really happy with how it turned out. It is very beautiful in a dark basement. Virlena wants to fix the black piece above the upper teeth. I think it looks fine though.
On Monday Jen came over to help us make some vault doors for themausoleumm. I was upstairs attaching the stained glass window to it's frame when I heard Jen and Virlena in the basement talking about possible ideas for a torture chamber. It was music to my ears! So far we have six six vault doors for the mausoleum. They look sort of funny right now since they aren't painted. Virlena made the top middle and the bottom right. Jen made the top left and the top right. I made the bottom left and middle vaults.# posted by melinda @ 6:35 PM 
