“It’s Time to Raise the Curtains…”
For the Muppet theme, we wanted to replicate the Muppet Theater where lots of Muppet craziness takes place. In the Muppet Show, the proscenium of…
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A Log for a Frog
One of the iconic images when one thinks of the Muppets is of Kermit sitting on a log, playing a banjo and singing Rainbow Connection….
Making Miss Piggy’s Motorcycle Jacket
Michelle and I had Kermit and Piggy as the topper on our wedding cake, so when we went to choose which characters we wanted to…
Make Your Own Kermit Costume
While you can buy Kermit costumes commercially, I thought I could make one that would suit our ‘nod-to-the-character’ costume theme for this year’s house. I…
One Frog’s Banjo
Once we decided to have an area of the set be Kermit’s swamp, we needed Kermit to have a banjo to play in that swamp….
It’s the Muppet Show (Sign)!
We wanted to capture the magic of the Muppet Show theater as part of the Halloween House, and what’s more iconic than the Muppet Show…
Can You Tell Me How to Make…The Sesame Street Sign?
Part of this year’s Halloween house will show scenes from Sesame Street (Ernie and Bert’s apartment, Oscar the Grouch’s garbage can, etc.). Amidst this will…
The Rainbow Construction
The opening of the first Muppet Movie starts with Kermit sitting in his swamp playing his banjo and singing, “The Rainbow Connection.” We wanted to…
Lego Minifigure Costume Build, Part 1
The vision for this year’s Halloween house is that visitors can feel like they are the size of toys, encountering large Lego spaceships, towers and…
Building a T-Rex
What would a Jurassic Park-themed Halloween house be with out a T-Rex? I wanted to make sure that visitors to the house on Halloween had…
The Final Community Painting Day of 2018
On Saturday, October 20th, we had our last community painting day of 2018. A dedicated crew tackled a variety of projects, from prepping the Donkey…
Building Donkey Kong—Part 1
Donkey Kong was one of my favorite video games growing up and so when we decided that this year’s theme would be Video Games, I…
Photoshoppin’ the House
One main tool I use to help design the house is Photoshop. I use it to ideate, try out ideas, and see what the house…
Painting Pixels
For our second painting day, we focused on painting some classic video game elements. First, to achieve the latticed look of the girders for Donkey…