Dress rehearsal, press night, and the free friends-and-family run was last night.
The trail assembled itself with great fuss and bustle and was quite presentable for the first run. We could certainly use more volunteers to fill out the experience, though -- really. Come play with us.
I only made a few new things this year. Squishy blobs for the spider eggs, these were cool. We put 'em in a bag of stretchy cloth, where they sat nestled in a solution of stringy slyme (www.fxsupply.com) thinned with glycerin.
Stringy Slyme is awesome. Really really nasty. And awesome. Buy a small tub to play with, you won't be disappointed.
Mmm, the mummified arm was mostly invisible last night, but may come to more prominence later. The hand, though, was popular.
The dead dogs were a bit too small to make the guests get yucky rummaging around inside them... we'll work on making them a bit yuckier though. And we may even get larger dogs to make it more challenging, but I'm not at all sure about that.
Hmmm... I built a water fountain, of sorts. I cobbled it together from several doors and some 3" PVC pipe I had laying around. Bought a nice water pump (for garde ponds, a largish pump I'll use next year in a water feature in my yard) and did some interesting painting on it, and it looks pretty cool. I'm popping chunks of dry-ice in the tube so the water runs over it before exiting, and I get a very nice continuous stream of fog out of it that pools in the catch basin. I will, of course, take pictures.
Some of my old work is making a re-appearance there, too. Mostly a pile of skeletons and yucky things. A few of the foam tombstones.
Anyway, my contributions to this trail are smaller than usual. Next year, though, I hope to hook up with something interesting... or maybe start something at home. We'll see.