1. Gather Supplies.
2. Measure a 6.5 by 7.5 Inch Substrate- I Used Bookboard.
3. Find a Magazine Landscape Picture of Your Choosing.
4. Glue Picture to Substrate Using a UHU Gluestick.
5. Once Fully Dry Distress the Edges With a Sanding Block and Gently Over all of the Image.
6. Use TH Pumice Stone Distress Stain to Add Patina to the Picture.
7. Seal With DecoArt Matte Gel Medium.
8. Use a Variety of Markers and Highlighters to Color GSLC Haunted House Oval, Creepy Sign Post and Rickety Fence with Cats.
9. Add Highlights with Neon Acrylic Paints
10. Once Fully Dry Glue all GSLC Pieces to Substrate with Weldbond.
11. Dry Pressed Completely Flat and Weighted Down
Some Final Thoughts.
Back
to my ghost tour days, excerpts from The Washington Examiner article, Ellicott City: Hotbed for the
paranormal: "JD Lowe looks like an extra from a Marilyn
Manson music video, with a close, blond crew cut and goatee.
The ghost tour snakes through the town and stops off at
destinations that are supposedly haunted.
Only five people
on the tour admit to actually believing in ghosts, which Lowe said is about on
par: "Most people are skeptical."
However, two stories capture the crowd's attention: the tale of the murdered woman
at the Tiber River Tavern and Al the car mechanic.
The woman at Tiber River Tavern has been seen by many restaurant
employees and patrons including Lowe. She dresses in white Victorian-style
clothing and is prone to crouching in a tavern corner, as if mourning, Lowe
said. According to legend, one evening an audacious tavern employee who was
closing down the restaurant alone decided to test the woman.
He called out to her: "If you are really there, why
don't you come out and have a drink?"
He reportedly heard a woman's voice yell back: "Line
them up!"
Since then, no Tiber River Tavern employees has been
allowed to close the restaurant on their own, Lowe said. He also tells the
crowd about Al, the owner of a local garage who died of a heart attack while working
on a car. Al has been known to haunt the current tenants of his old garage,
which until recently was the furniture shop What's In Store.
Al reportedly also likes to walk around with the Ellicott
City ghost tours after the stop at his garage.
Two 13-year-old Elkridge boys roll their eyes at that
anecdote.
But by the end of the night, Baltimore resident Jessica
Nelson says she thinks she's captured some ghosts on the tour. She proudly
shows off a photo from her digital camera of a cobblestone alley, where a
Confederate soldier was supposedly shot to death.
There is a tiny ball of white light floating on top a
nearby staircase.
"I love it," Nelson said. "I'm a
believer."
When the Ellicott City tour ends, several people noticeably quicken their pace back to their cars. Running late for dinner, perhaps? Or meeting friends? Or maybe they don't want to give Al the mechanic a chance to jump in their back seat.
Happy
Hauntings, may your Halloween be full of Magical Surprises.
Halloween
Wishes-A Poem
Since this is the time for goblins and bats,
Halloween spirits, ghosts and cats,
Weird-happenings and witches brew,
These are the things I wish for you.
May the only spirit you chance to meet,
Be the spirit of love and warm friends sweet.
May the tricks that you are asked to do,
Be a trick to help you gain a friend or two.
So, by tomorrow, pick three friends sweet,
And give them all a Halloween treat.
You only have one day, so hurry!
Leave a treat on the doorstep, then flee in a hurry!
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