Greg, Amanda and I did some more work in the dining hall, we put in the star lights, the night sky, and the floating candles as well as cleaned out bikes and put up what will be the dining table.

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Pics are of our little Harry Potter, the owl is cut and repainted to be Hedwig, plates decorated and strung together for Dolores' Office, brooch for McGonagall costume, Hagrid costume, 3.5 inch platform boots for Hagrid, part of the cemetary walls, a corner of Trelawney's room. Update, all cemetary room walls are up and painted deep blue, 2 walls have murals, the tree is standing in the corner as can be seen on an earlier post, and I am preparing to paint an extension of the cemetary fence (we will have a physical fence there) and possibly the maze on the cemetary walls. We will probably have 2 walls in the cemetary that are just plain blue with no murals on them, total walls in that room are 7.

This is just going to be a post with older pics since I removed all the previous blogs. Pics are of Trelawney's room, one walls has chairs and tables for students..have since added tea pot and stacked tea cups to that wall, second wall in Trelawney's room with wanted poster of Sirius Black, Dobby made from clay, cotton, latex and a cheap store skeleton, Mandrake made from clay and latex with silk leaves, Wendy in costume as McGonagall, Riddle Tombstone with reaper statue for cemetary wall, fireplace with Sirius Black's face in Trelawney's classroom (I know it belonged in the common room but we wanted to replace the existing fireplace pic.

We're making progress. I started putting up wall decorations in the dining hall. When it is done there will be a long dining table, food and platters on top, a dark blue night sky with stars twinkling in it and floating candles above the table. Dumbledore will be seated at the table and possibly Professor Snape as well. McGonagall will be standing next to a stool with the sorting hat in front of the table.
Placed some fall leaves on the greenhouse roof for color and depth still have to skirt the workbench bottom and place the remaining greenery in pots to go with the mandrakes.
I put the last of the cemetary room walls in place including the archway and now we can paint those dark blue to match the rest of the room and possibly paint some murals on those walls. We have 2 of the 4 walls up in Dolores Umbridge's office. The last may have to be modular to allow access to that garage bay as the other bay is closed off for the season.

Had way too many other posts before...and not enough time to maintain them.
This may become sporadic, since I try to spend every spare moment working on our display, which makes it harder to update posts. We've got 4 out of 5 rooms in the garage built. Some minor decorating touches remain to be done on the first 4 rooms, and of course we will add characters closer to Halloween. Here are some views of interior walls, it is impossible to get a full picture of the inside of the greenhouse as there is no room to stand back far enough to take one...perhaps when we are done using workbenches for tools I will have the necessary room. The tree was the brain child of Christine and Amanda and I worked on completely it during the week. I have to repaint the hill line to the left of the tree to make it look right. The pink foam walls you see are the outside of the greenhouse. We had to wall in above the roof line to prevent the bright light inside the greenhouse from spilling out into the darker area of the cemetary. The space between the front of the garage and the pink walls will be enclosed to become Dolores Umbridge's office, the outside of which will be the caboose and exit from the display.
We have re-used drywall and some studs from last year, but had to purchase many more studs and lots of pink foam board to be able to put up walls this year. Went from 2 rooms to 5, plus all of the actual garage walls are being foamed or drywalled up too.