Doll House Siding

I am finally finished with the paper mache and it is time to put siding on the house.  I took a ton of Card Stock paper and ran it through a paper shredder to make my siding.  It is actually a little smaller than I would prefer, but it is cheap and will still look really neat.

Building a Haunted Doll House

I was never that into doll houses when I was a kid, but after seeing some of the haunted doll houses people are doing I changed my mind.  I have seen many neat doll houses that were repainted and turned into haunted doll houses.  That is a quick way to go, however, if I really want to get into decorating this thing I need to get the right scale and do it correctly the first time.  I knew I wanted 1:12 scale.  This means one inch in doll land is equal to one foot in the real world.  This is the scale most collectable doll furniture will be in.  Once I started looking for that scale of doll house I realized they were really big bucks.  No problem, I will just make my own.

This is the journey of building my dream haunted doll house:

Columns out of soda boxes

I drink a lot of soda and so I throw away a ton of soda boxes.  I was thinking that I should come up with some way to use them as a prop.  So one day I started playing with them and came up with an idea for entrance columns to our Haunted Hotel. 

Here is how I made them:

Making a Vampire Hunter Kit case

Here is my finished product, however, yours can be any design you like.

Materials:
* Hard suitcase
* paper towels (the expensive cloth-like ones work best)
* craft glue (Elmer's)
* thin  cardboard (I used the cardboard from a 12 pack of soda)
* A print out of your words
* a cup of tea
* 2 shades of paint

Our 2013 Haunt

 The Horror Hotel

The Horror Hotel was built in
1901 by Fredrick Higgins.  He was originally
from California and relocated here to build his
dream hotel is the most remote location possible.

He was a very odd sort of fellow and insisted on
building the Inn upside down.  It consists of 13 floors
with level 13 being at ground level with the remaining
12 floors built underground.  It was said that he
opened his doors to all sorts of unsavory travelers. 
Many of his patrons were thought to be fictional
characters made up by Hollywood movie writers.  He
claimed that those movies were based on real events
and that those “monsters” frequented his hotel.  He also
claimed that his Hollywood friends would often visit the Inn and were inspired to write  even more movies based on the people they met and experiences they had while
visiting here. 

Eventually, some of his more famous patrons moved into the Inn permanently.  They preferred the underground privacy.  It is said that some of those patrons are still dwelling in the Inn today and we still catch Hollywood writers snooping about from time to time.

The Inn has fallen into disrepair since the sudden disappearance of Fredrick Higgins in 1946.  His
descendants were afraid of the ghosts that haunt the Inn and the rumors of what and who may be lurking in those underground hallways.

We do not believe the stories and have decided to open the Inn once again. We are excited to have you for our Grand Re-Opening!

Reaper

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Moss Statue

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