I just found out that I won the Custom Witch Potion Label Giveaway at All Together Dead. (It's a beautiful site with a lot of inspirational and useful Halloween posts. Be sure to take a look.)

The labels will arrive a little late for this year's party, but I'll put them to good use next year. Keep an eye out for them...

I came across the template that I used to carve my pumpkin head. Instead of deleting it, I thought that I would share...

The image should print nicely on a single sheet of 8.5 x 11 paper.

Here is a peak at one of the few additions this year....

Sorry, no haunted house this year...

On Alyssa's birthday last year, my wife and I found out that we were going to have another baby (Bonner - born 6/22/08). I knew going in to this year that we would have our hands full so I decided to focus on fewer projects. If that wasn't enough, we also decided to buy a house in August. All of that combined meant that a large Halloween party was out of the question.

We do plan on a big party next year and I'm already itching to begin work on some new props.

I was able to build one large prop - the witch and cauldron:

Daytime

Nighttime

Additional pictures can be found here.

Here is a low quality mp3 of the cauldron / witch sounds that I use. If you are interested in a high quality version, contact me.