| 2008 Castle Updates |
| Do not read any further if you don't want to know what is going on until you get here. You have been warned ! Whole new graveyard this year! The old tombstones will be moved to the garden in front of the living room window. Our children made the originals so we will keep those going. They weren't too big, but that is all changing now. |
| We make tombstones out of extruded polystyrene sheets which is pink and used by contractors to insulate the outside shell of a house. With oil so high it has gotten pretty expensive. So to save money we found that we could adhere 2" thick Styrofoam to the back and it is much cheaper. So we start with 4 foot by 8 foot sheets that we glue together. Once dry, we cut them into 6 rectangles. These are the base for the 12 new tombstones we will be adding this year. There are all different epitaphs, some are for clowns, some are classic monsters, some are generic, but all are fun to read. For illumination we have mounted 2" tubes with a single LED cool white bulb in it. They are mounted to individual wood blocks painted black and they will tie into a wire block and run off low voltage wall warts. So each tombstone will be subtly illuminated, it is said to resemble moon light cast over them. I will post pictures of them in different stages this week will be just the raw materials. |
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