The Story of a Hippo
“For the Jungle Cruise, we should have a hippo! You know, the one with the wiggly ears? We could just make the head, as if…
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It Takes a Village to Build a Kingdom
On Saturday, October 12th, we held our third (for the season) Community Painting Day and boy, what a day it was! It is fun to…
Video: How to Make a Mos Eisley Halloween House in 2 Minutes...
This video documents the creation of the Star Wars: Planet of Tatooine 2012 Albertson Halloween House. As you can see, it was a whole lot of…
Sneak Peek
While we are still saving some things as a surprises for Halloween night, we wanted to give you a sneak peek at some of the details…
“Look, sir. Droid.”
One of the original visions for this year’s Star Wars Halloween House was to have a giant Jawa Sandcrawler with lots of droids in front…
Mini Mos Eisley
In order to help plan out this year’s Halloween house, I employed the analog process of model making (that’s a fancy term for me printing…
Painting a Galaxy
Recently, we had a painting day, where lots of cardboard got painted, but how do we choose the colors? I would love to say I…
Video: How to Make an Asian Fortress (in 2 Minutes and 20 Se...
Here’s a video that chronicles the build process for the 2011 Albertson Halloween House: Asian Fortress. In it you can see the following: Fitting and…
In the News?
This year marked some significant events in terms of getting the word out about the Albertson Halloween House. First of all, we got some great…
How to Make Bamboo
Any respectable Asian Fortress needs to be shrouded in a wall of tall impenetrable bamboo. But how do you get some? Where do you find…
Nemo House Source Map
One of the main tenets of the Albertson Halloween House is to use recycled materials. We get lots of items from generous and resourceful folks and have…
Video: How to Make a Halloween House in 2 Minutes and 49 Sec...
Inspired by SoCalHalloween, I chronicled the building of this year’s Nemo House by taking a time lapse video of the process. In the video you…
How to Make: A School of Moonfish
For our Nemo Halloween House we wanted to have a school of moonfish—you know, the group of silvery fish that form themselves into various shapes…