Our Familiars

A Mama cat and her three babies have taken up residence in our yard, just in time for Samhain. There are two black kitties and one grey tabby kittie. Mama is also a grey tabby cat.

Glowing Lanterns

Standard "Farmhouse Lanterns" with frosted glass and lit by LEDs.

Witch Bottles and Jars

Here are a few pics of the jars and bottles for our witch area. We will have several other props there, as well, but I'll take pics of those on Halloween. I don't want to give everything away!

(I made these out of Crayola Model Magic!)

(Juniper Berries)

New Light Fixtures

We finally replaced our old, outdoor light fixtures on the house. The reasons are two-fold. One, the existing ones were well-worn, cheap-looking and did not truly fit the style of our house. Two, they used chandelier bulbs, which prevented us from using colored light-bulbs on Halloween.

Here are a few night-time pics of the fixtures equipped with the green bulbs we plan on using on the big day. There is also one daytime pic, to better show the fixture itself. (The orange light is inadvertent - that's just the way the incandescents from inside photographed!)

We couldn't be happier with the results!

The First Completed Headstone

Made of flat plywood; hand-painted.