This Was Halloween!
Halloween for 2020 was a spooky success! Though things were a little different from previous years, we welcomed scores of visitors who walked or drove…
Category Archives: 2020
Come on By!
What’s better than one Halloween night? Four Halloween nights! This year our neighborhood decided to have our Halloween decorations out for an extended amount of…
VIDEO: ABC7’s Report on the Albertson Halloween House!
A week before Halloween, we were contacted by Dustin Dorsey, a reporter from ABC7’s Localish show. He had heard about our house from his parents…
When to Come By
In order to maximize the opportunities to see the Nightmare Before Christmas Halloween House, we will have the display up the following times: Thursday, Oct….
Building Oogie Boogie (Part 2)
With most of Oogie Boogie finished, it now came time to figure out how to add him to the scene. We had thought of several…
Jack Skellington’s Sleigh
In order to replicate Santa Claus, Jack Skellington has a sleigh crafted so that he can deliver the ‘toys’ to families. The sleigh is made…
Vampire Duck!
In the Nightmare Before Christmas, the Vampire Brothers create their version of a Christmas toy, which ends up being a little scarier than your average…
Christmas Morning Gone Awry
To capture the essence of Jack Skellington’s version of Christmas, I wanted to make sure we had a scene depicting the various Halloween-themed decorations. For…
A Spooky Graveyard Fence
To re-create the fences shown in the Nightmare Before Christmas, I started with some aluminum tube pieces from an old broken canopy. The amazing crew…
Making a Snake
When families awake on Christmas morning to Jack Skellington’s version of Christmas, they find a number of alarming things! One of those that is shown…
A Hungry Wreath
After Jack Skellington takes over Christmas, he decides to reimagine the traditional Christmas trimmings with his own Halloween Town flair. One of the scary-ified items…
…and Then the Wind Came
We had begun the process of putting up the background pieces in the front yard. We had most of the large scenery pieces (moon, swirl,…
Detailing!
Some of the set pieces and props needed some detailing to bring them to life, namely the Halloween Town terrain pieces and the pumpkins. To…
Building Oogie Boogie (Part 1)
I had wanted to have a human-sized Oogie Boogie as part of the scene, and found a great tutorial online for how to build an…
Making Stone Columns
In the movie, there are several gates which have stone columns on either side. I wanted to capture this in the design for this year’s…
A Spooky Archway
As Jack Skellington is taking his walk through the graveyard, he passes through a gate with a spooky archway. For me, I loved that element…
Painting the Moon
…and mountains and pumpkins! We have a tradition of inviting neighbors, friends, family and co-workers over to help paint set pieces for the house. This…
Help from an Amazing Crew
The Albertson Halloween House is built by many people each year – friends, family, neighbors, co-workers. This year, we had the privilege of working with…
Carving the Stone Wall
With the overall shape of the low stone wall cut out, it was time to texture it so that it looked more like a stone…
Sculpting Progress!
After blocking out the shapes for the background mountains, I cut them out and glued them together. They ended up being pretty big, one of…