The next logical place for a Halloween makeover was our front yard flower beds.
We already had some ghosts at the front door, and I wanted to stay consistent with the ghost theme in front, but I also wanted something more interesting than what was available in the local stores.
After searching the web for ideas I decided it would be more interesting to construct some ghosts using my out-of-season tomato-cages as the under-frame for our ghosts. I purchased some sugar-skull face masks for their faces. (You guessed it .. I got them from the Dollar Tree). Using large plastic milk h bottles for the head shape under the mask, and plastic table cloths draped over an upside down tomato-cage as the body, the ghosts assembled fairly quickly. To make sure they didn't blow over in the wind, I set them over large flowerpots filled with mulch (which will be spread in the flowerbeds once Halloween is over.)
This time around I gave them all names and made signs so everyone can know who they are.
I called them 'The three Rosa sisters":
Una (above),
Dos,
and Tres.
and I warned visitors repeatedly not to 'pass' Tres.
Then just to make it more visible at night, I hand embellished some skull solar lights I found at Dollar Tree
to make them look like sugar skulls.
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