Getting Ready Part 2

Well here is the final installation for my Warning for the folks in my village.  It is Dave Lowe inspired who is prop master on the Hallmark show Home and Family.  You should check out Dave Lowe Blog

Simple build and low cost... I had the hangar existing and the hay bale as well (it will be reused in our Fall and Thanksgiving decorations)

I managed through the craft of non-green thumbery to have the flowers partly die on me, so they lend itself well to halloween installation.

The raven is a $1 store raven, the sign is a dollar store $1 foam board.  I painted it with old bad coffee (because that is appropriate for halloween right?) and just painted the edges with watered down black paint and dry brush.  Then the wording was done by Sharpie ink pen

The pumpkin is a $1 plastic pumpkin, I cut out the eyes and mouth and put a $1 solar light inside it.

The candle hanging off the hanger is an old candle that was finished so I just wrapped twine around it and inserted a solar cell for the cap... I placed orange plastic wrap that the local penny saver is sent in  and just stuffed it in the glass and inserted the solar light... at night it glows and illuminates the sign with a subdued orange glow.

All and all a nice and inexpensive halloween decoration

Getting Ready....

Dash the Cat modeling this years Warning sign....

The sign will be posted out front on maple tree.... with a flickering lantern to warn passersby at night that yes indeed on Halloween there will be ghosts and goblins in the Village!

I got a foam board from dollar tree store (it was of course $1), painted several coats of old black coffee over it a few weeks ago and really soaked it several times.  Let it dry and then I cut out the edges and with a rag and some diluted black paint dusted the edges to make it look burnt.  Then I simply used a sharpie black pen and wrote the lettering