How it all started

Two or three years ago I bought a miniature for my Halloween town called "Forgotten Cemetery" I loved it and thought I would make a great setting for a front yard haunt. So I started building it one piece at a time.

I have some real wrought iron fences, no plastic. My wife hates them because they weigh a ton, but they don’t blow over in the wind. I've yet to build the four stone columns to support them, but the wait has given me some usable plans.

My first tombstones were a learning experience, with each getting better than the last. I’m ready for the big boys, four to five inches thick, and three to four feet tall. I only slightly aged the first ones, the next will be well weathered, names and shapes nearly worn away. The nice short lawn covered with leaves also doesn’t make it. I want one and two foot weeds covering most of the lawn.

Cynthia, the flying crank ghost, looks great in her new crypt but the second smaller tomb needs work. Counting Eddie the ground breaker, I now have four skeletons skulking about. They need corpsing but work just fine as is.