New Aedicula Props 2025

We completed building two new aedicula props for this year's haunt. Since we're moving the cemetery props out to around our now established maple tree in the front yard this Halloween, we needed a couple more aedicula props to accompany the aedicula prop we built back in 2023 to fill up the long stretch of garage wall along our front walkway. Painting and final touches for the aedicules and 4 new cemetery border columns will happen in August.

Home Goods Halloween 2025

Cemetery Column Prop Test

With two of the four cemetery columns built, we wanted to do a proof of concept test regarding the slope of our front yard. While plastic shims work under the columns to make them level, the columns are a bit wobbly on the shims (the bottoms of the columns are open). We will use four 16" x 16" cement patio pavers and will shim the patio pavers. The patio pavers should be stable due to their heavy weight and low center of gravity and we'll simply place the columns on top of the pavers. The maple tree is large enough now to make a nice visual focal point for the cemetery graveyard just off the side of our driveway.

2025 Halloween Summer Prop Builds

The summer prop builds for our Halloween 2025 yard haunt have begun. We finished building the first of four new cemetery columns today. When all are completed they will get painted with gray Behr Textured DeckOver paint and then finished with a transparent black antique coat. This year we're moving the cemetery headstones out to the front yard around our October Glory maple tree. When the columns are finished, each outward facing column side will have a faux wrought iron battery powered LED flame sconce mounted on it (eight sconces in total). The hope is to create some visual interest without going crazy with detailed trim pieces on the columns. The columns will be linked together with silver plastic security chains to set the cemetery space. A set of three aediculas will go along the front walkway garage wall to replace the headstones that we usually place there. One aedicula was built a couple years ago, two additional ones still need to be built later this summer.

Happy Halfoween

Artist Eric Pigors of Toxictoons is going to be taking some time off for medical reasons later in May and will be shutting down his website next week for a while, so grab something spooky this week and support an independent Halloween artist!

Please Support Small Independent Artists

In these uncertain economic times, it's really important to support small independent artists that embrace and cherish Halloween. Toxictoons has these shirts available for pre-order until the end of March 2025. We have been patrons of Toxictoons for over a decade now.

A Pit Fiend Needs A Pit

For our 2025 haunt, we were simply going to use our "Pit Fiend" mask from Trick Or Treat Studios as a groundbreaker prop, but decided that a "Pit Fiend" really needs to be in a pit! Instead of having a bunch of our 2' tall skeletons trying to escape the fiery abyss, we're going to use the "Pit Fiend" in our 2021 built hell hole prop instead.