The Haunted Mansion Candelabra

The Haunted Mansion Candelabra features faux candles with LED flames and an antique pewter finish; includes 2 AA batteries. Transform your home into a haunted mansion with this ornate skull embellished faux pewter candelabra. It features faux wax candles with LED flames and is truly amazing to behold. Carry it as you open the door to greet guests and scare up some Halloween fun. Item Dimensions: H" x L" x D"- 13.97"x7.08"x3.93". For indoor use.

Gargoyle Standees Decoration

Gargoyle Standees Decoration
Make your party a haunted setting! Gargoyle Standees are great for accenting your home. The freestanding cardboard gargoyles are decorated on one side.

Halloween Decorations: Creating Haunted Curtains for Halloween

Halloween Decorations: Creating Haunted Curtains for Halloween

Here's a spooky effect that works great for a Halloween Haunted House or your Halloween party. For this effect we like to use a material called Creepy Cloth. While available in several different colors, the off-white is the only color that will glow well under a blacklight. As an alternative, you could buy inexpensive white cotton curtains, but don't buy those made of a synthetic material as the phosphor's in the "RIT Whitener/Brightener" will not absorb into these types of material.

While white materials tend to glow a little bit under blacklight naturally, we like them to really glow brightly, so we begin by pre-treating them with "RIT Whitener/Brightener" because of this product's high level of phosphor's that is reactive to ultraviolet light. Fill a container large enough to hold the amount of Creepy Cloth that you will be using for curtains with water to completely cover them. A large plastic tub or bucket works great for this. Mix in a box of "RIT Whitener/Brightener" and stir until it is completely dissolved in the water.

Immerse the Creepy Cloth or material you are using into the solution and let it soak for about an hour, stirring occasionally. Remove the curtains from the solution and wring out as much of the liquid as you can. Don't rinse the solution out of the material or the phosphor's that will make it glow will be removed. Hang the Creepy Cloth pieces outside on a clothes line until they are completely dry.

The fluorescent curtains are now ready to be hung over windows and/or doorways using thumb tacks or adhesive tape. Just remember that tape may leave behind adhesive residue and thumb tacks will leave small holes in your wall when they are removed. For trick or treaters, place these on the outside of your windows. For a Halloween party or when you are inviting visitors into your home, hang them on the inside of your windows.

Next, you will want to position your black lights in such a way that the ultraviolet light is directed onto the treated curtains. Make sure that the black light units cannot be seen by your guests. Do not place the blacklight so near to the curtains or any other flammable material that it could become a fire hazard. As an added effect, we place a small oscillating fan behind the curtain to cause them to gently move as if by some unknown and possibly malevolent force.

After Halloween, just fold them up and store in zipper bags until next Halloween.

Halloween Decorations: Building a Graveyard

Halloween Decorations: Building a Graveyard in Your Yard

Creating an impressive graveyard scene in your yard entails more than just sticking some tombstones in the ground.When arranging your tombstones remember that graves in a real cemetery are usually spaced about 7 feet from row to row, but you can take a few liberties with distances. While you don't have to space them out just right, you do want to give the illusion of there actually being real graves, so you want to space out your tombstones. Leave at least a foot or two between the stones side to side, and 4 feet or more from row to row. We like to tilt some of the tombstones so that the graveyard looks old and dilapidated.

For that real old, abandoned or overgrown graveyard feel, add Spanish moss, leaves and vines. Spanish moss adds a great effect when glued in bunches at the base and up the tombstones. Next, drape and glue some Spanish moss and silk vines over the top of your tombstones. You can also use leaves and pieces of silk plants, and attach them with hot glue or wood glue randomly. Make sure each tombstone is done differently than the others, and be careful not to add too much, or you will bury your tombstones in the effect!

For even more atmosphere, use camo netting, silk trees, old branches, and silk vines, around your graveyard to give that dead or overgrown look. Drape some down from overhead, use the trees in the area, or wires. You can even use wire or rope with streamers of cloth or material hanging from it, it all depends on the lighting. Just remember that you don't want a fire hazard, so use fire treated materials, camo netting and silk plants are usually pre-treated.