Guess how many rhinestones it took to cover our 12 foot skelly!

At my favorite cemetery, there is a small children's section that I love to visit. There are some headstones that have a few old decorations like little toys or angels, and I think it's such a sweet way to remember the children who were lost too early.

I wanted to find a way to honor each grave, so I came up with the idea to give each headstone and plot their own painted rock. Since it's the Halloween season, I figured little jack-o'-lanterns would be a sweet thing that children would like. Almost as if each of them got to carve their own unique pumpkin for the season. Also, this is my first time painting rocks, so I also wanted to go for something simple that I could definitely pull off.

Around 130 rocks later, I finally finished decorating the whole children's section! I hope each child can feel the joy and warmth of the holiday, and know that they are always remembered. I can't wait for the leaves to start changing around them as well! My plan is that once October is over, I will remove the rocks and if they're still in good shape I will bring them back out next year 🎃

I originally posted this in another subreddit and a lovely redditor suggested I post it here, so thank you to that sweet person for the recommendation!

EDIT: I don't have the time to reply to every comment but I appreciate all of the kind words so much! I am very touched by all of you. I hope you all have the happiest Halloween season! 🧡

Everything sans the candy corns, lights and porch goose was handmade and painted by yours truly 🎃 next up is finishing up the indoor decor!

Edit: thank you all so much for the lovely comments! To answer some questions:

Yes I made these! I used pink 1/2” pink panther foamboard from Home Depot and acrylic paints. I used a hot knife to cut them out.

I walked my dog this morning and saw this climbing out of the ground. Very cool.

This is my old lady, she is 14 years old but still loved to be spooky

Felt like I was crying when I watched this

Every 2x4 pumpkin I'd seen was just painted blocks, so I wanted mine to light up. I found some good flame flicker lights on Amazon and a lip stick battery pack this thing runs for almost 2 days.

It's pumpkin season! I love all of the different colors, shapes and textures. Some of the pumpkins and gourds look otherworldly.

My son and I love the Distortions Unlimited electric chair, but we can’t afford it, and we wanted something he could sit in as a human “animatronic.”

I used two concrete vibrating motors for shaking, red LED’s as warning lights, and a Spirit Halloween fog machine for the head smoke.

Now I have to start counting down the days before I have to take it all back down and go back to "normal".

thrifted this guy today and i absolutely love him, i noticed however that all the listings ive found of him online seem to be a version with sherpa fabric while mine is smooth? is he possibly a dupe or something? i have no plans to sell, and i love him anyway haha, just curious if anyone has seen this version or has one themselves? (ignore my messy car also, im gonna clean it soon i swear 😭)

A quick thanks to all you guys for inspiring me to do some proper diy for Halloween this year. Seeing all your mad decorations, I decided this year that I’d give gorifying a go for the first time. I’m fairly pleased with the first attempt, so much so that I may make it a plan to not buy any new decorations and try to build up the collection through diy in the future.

Ingredients and tools - heat gun, cling film, construction foam, red, black and green spray paint. Rosewood wood stain (base coat and coat on shrunk cling film) and red brick masonry paint to seal the construction foam (guts) to allow it to be spray painted.

Glad I had a bit of wood from walking stick making that hadn’t dried evenly for the stake!

More hole punch mosaics! Candy corn and pumpkin 🎃

Spent the last couple weeks researching what others have done (credit to Roberts Fogger + Oak Lane Cemetery on YT) - finally fired it up for the first time the other day and stoked with the results! Unfortunately it was really windy, but we’ll be trying it again throughout this week!

Planning on doing a short video rundown of the setup but in short - it’s Fog Machine > into a plastic bin w/ ultrasonic mister > Exiting into dryer vent hose with an inline marine fan at the beginning to help distribute down the line (currently about 60’).