Slowly But Surely

 We're closing in on all the major modifications, but there is still a lot left to complete before this Spooky Halloween house is finished.   Late afternoon and early evening hours are pretty much the only times we have available to work on this old house.  Babette's job takes up most of her daytime hours, while mine are spent on odd jobs around the house, or any unfinished "Honey-Do's",  😄

The leaded window panes for the tower are done, and all the lighting wires for each room have been installed.  

We ran 2 separate battery powered orange light strings; 1 power pack with the remote control will be placed underneath the removable tower roof, while the other is located in the cellar door entryway.  The lights still need to be fine tuned in each room to make sure they yield the best effect.  We also need to apply the frost on the 3 tower windows.  Once that is added, the lighting from those windows will appear more defused.

Babette did a great job sculpting some of the foam board on the cellar door so it looks more like planks of wood. More brick will be added to the bottom half of the cellar door entryway so it blends in with the bottom of the house.  The upper portion will be painted and distressed so it looks like old wood.

The lights look great; BUT WAIT, what else do I see?  Looks like Babette is going to add a big Moon to the back of the fireplace.  As you can see, some of the excess lights from inside the house will be used to give an orange glow around the soon to be painted "SPOOKY" moon.  We used some copper tubing to channel the light string up from inside the house to the moon.  

What is that in the background?  Looks like some of Babette's new, upcoming Christmas projects.  I tell ya, the woman is very talented and stays busy: and, is constantly thinking about or working on new holiday ideas.  One of her creations was recently selected by Better Homes & Gardens Holiday Edition, and will be featured in next month's September magazine issue.  We can't wait to check it out!

Yep, the house is coming along nicely, but as the title says, "Slowly But Surely".  I have every confidence we will meet the required deadline so this baby can be displayed in our home this Halloween season.  In fact, we've already decided it will be placed in a big bay window in our formal living room.  It's gonna look great!  Here it is as of today: