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Happy Halloween 2023!!

今年の春に引っ越ししたので、秋になるとハロウィーンの季節が来ました。ただし、阿蘇のほうではイベントはなさそうですのでAsoMillでパーティーをしようとしました！

1週間前ほどから飾り作成を始めました。。。

It's my first Halloween here since moving to Aso in the spring, so I decided to go a bit nuts with the halloween decorations and host a proper party in the house! Strangely, it's a house well suited to looking a bit weird......

▲ まずはPUMPKIN飾りですね。もちろん３Ｄプリンターで作りました。今回、早くプリントできるために「花瓶モード」を初めて使いました。このぐらいの大きさでプリントすると約24時間以上かかりますが、「花瓶モード」を使うと約2時間かかります。その代わりに、とても弱くなります。まぁ、いいか　ー　飾りだけですね。

その後ろの壁に紙でできている血の飾りや風船なども用意しました。

I started gathering cheap decorations well in advance, and even splashed out on a roll of orange PLA filament, to print all these pumpkins. This was my first time using "vase mode" on my 3D printers, which is a mode that only prints one single layer around the perimeter of a shape. The disadvantage is that this makes objects super flimsy and prone to breaking (and misprints), but it cuts the print time from over 24 hours for a normal print of this size, to just about 2 hours. So in the 3 days prior to the party, I was able to print all these pumpkins, which looked great dotted around the house.

The rest of the decorations were done on almost zero-budget, from the 100-yen store for balloons etc, and many sheets of coloured paper for creepy blood drops and paper chains.

▲ 庭に偽物墓を余っていたサイディングから作りました。名前が全部Englishジョークでしたね。このゾンビ―手もプリンターで作りました。

I cut and painted 5 of these fake gravestones from leftover boards, and had some fun with dumb puns for the names. I also printed this zombie hand to decorate one of the undead graves!




▲ 結構リアルでしょう？

Looks pretty real, right? Not bad for an hour of messy painting!

▲ 玄関ドアにこのパンプキンもありました。パンプキンは３Ｄプリントで、後は手作りでした。

I also printed this little pumpkin face, and hung it in the middle of this stick wreath. I made the wreath with sticks I picked up while out walking Katie in the morning. Worked well with some black spray paint and some LEDs!

▲ パーティーの夜、暗くなったらこんな雰囲気ができました！あっちこっちにちょっと気持ち悪い飾りがあって、飛んでいるお化けも作りました。

Party time! It got dark about 6pm, and I had a few minutes free before people turned up, to take some atmospheric pics! I removed half of the bulbs outside, to make it darker and creepier.

▲ 新しいガレージの中にも可愛いMonsterCarも飾っていた！

I couldn't help showing off the new garage and the lights, so I turned the car into a cute little monster too!

▲ ほら　ー　お墓が気持ち悪いでしょう？

Here are those 5 gravestones, looking suitably creepy at night.

▲ 飛んでいるお化けが写真の左側にあります。そして、玄関の外側もクモの巣がいっぱい付けました！

If you look at the left side of this photo, you can see the small ghost I rigged up on fishing wire between two trees - thanks to a repurposed printer motor tied to a tree, it slowly floated across and above the deck outside, before disappearing from view. Funny!

The other decoration I added in the afternoon was many, many spider webs! The front door area looks good draped in giant webs, right?

▲ 玄関に入るとハロウィーンっぽい飾りありました。写真撮影にはいいかも？

ケイティちゃん（犬）もちょっとだけ光る首輪にしました。

This was the view once you step through the front door, with a flight of bats flapping around this little Halloween scene. It made a nice spot for some spooky costume photos, although Katie wouldn't cooperate for a pic. I gave her a glowing collar anyway, so people could at least see her properly!

▲ じゃ、ここからクモの巣が始まりますよ。。。

Stepping up from the genkan area, the spider webs start again....

▲ カラー電球2個だけにしましたので、変わった感じのパーティーになりました。

I removed all the lights except two colour bulbs, which were just about enough to see and eat by, and gave the whole room an awesome weird vibe!

▲ なかなかいいでしょう？

Check out that funky ceiling - plenty of webs, paper chains, and other bits and pieces!

パーティ―の前にビデオも撮りましたが、あまり上手に取れなかった。Sorry!

I also took a quick video too, but my phone had problems getting good footage in the dark conditions - apologies for that!

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