Cemetery Gates

It's Halloween and what better way to celebrate then to transform your home into a creepy place where things go bump in the night. I've always wanted to turn my front yard into a cemetery so this year I collected up some supplies and made it happen. All of my headstones are handmade from solid wood that I grabbed from the wood pile. Most of the slabs are solid oak remains of an old coffee table. A few alterations with a jigsaw and 2 cans of marble paint got me started. I then broke out some stencil lettering, the model car paint, and a small brush. All of the detail is hand painted. These things will last for years, or until someone steals them. After securing them into the ground with 3/8 steel rods, I added some fake moss, spider webbing, dirt from the yard, and of course some scattered bones. Tomorrow I'll be adding some lighting and 10 carved pumpkins to make it all come alive at night and I'll even see about taking a long exposure in the dark.

Myra Mains. Year of death unknown.



Some unknown soul. Death became him in 1658.



Ima Goner. Year of death also 1658.



Barry M. Deep. Died 1588



Albie Bach. Died in 1484, but isn't that fresh blood?



Unknown soul and his scattered bones.



M.T. Tomb. Died in 1703.

Happy Halloween....

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