Eerie Elegance: Recent Episodes
Britta Peterson
Stay tuned for Halloween 2026 when we bring back our Haunted Hollywood display, showcasing the old movie monsters from almost a century ago, including Frankenstein, Dracula, Wolfman, and King Kong!
It's been another busy year at the Eerie Elegance Estate, with both of us & our growing crew of free house-elves working on Halloween projects all summer, and the final push is coming soon! I've been posting weekly progress on Instagram and Facebook, so please follow those links for updates while I catch up here with our full Halloween haunt dates, times & other details like when our free tickets will be available...so stay tuned!
Our Own Haunted Mansion is now CLOSED after 5732 guests in 9 nights and just over $7000 raised for Give Kids the World Village! You can find at least one livestream per night on our Facebook page, and stay tuned as we organize so many frigthfully fun photos & videos after some much-needed rest.
Our tours are closed for the season, but our fundraiser is still open at least through this week, so you still have time to add your Halloween cheer to spread joy ever farther away to critically-ill children and their families who really need it! No donation is too small, every little bit helps, and huge thanks for all your generous donations so far!
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If you appreciate what you see, please join us in supporting Give Kids the World where we will match the first $10,000 donated at our fundraising page here. Give Kids the World Village® is an 84-acre, nonprofit “storybook” resort located near Central Florida’s most beloved attractions, where critically-ill children and their families are treated to week-long, cost-free dream vacations. Thank you SO MUCH for sharing your Halloween cheer with them and with us!
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Welcome Foolish Mortals to Our Own Haunted Mansion! Enter through the foreboding foyer and watch as the walls begin to stretch before your very eyes. Follow the disembodied voice of the Ghost Host through a restless portrait gallery, witness a spooky séance by Madame Leota, and behold a host of happy haunts living it up in the cemetery. But before you leave, look over your shoulder and make sure a hitchhiking ghost doesn’t follow you home!
Eerie Elegance Entry Etiquette
Enter at Your Own Risk
Management assumes no responsibility for any injuries to mind, body or spirits.
DO NOT TOUCH anything that might be CHARMED for it might be CURSED!
Touch nothing, and nothing will touch YOU!
WATCH YOUR STEP! No running, pushing, shoving, or yelling.
Strobe lights & fog machines may be in use.
If you have MOBILITY ISSUES, we will be glad to help with your visit - just ask a cast member wearing an EE badge.
PHOTOS ENCOURAGED! Please share with us at #EerieEleganceHalloween
Be aware, be safe, and enjoy!
Frequently-Asked Questions
Does the event cost money?
No, this is a free event, although time-of-entry tickets are required. If you are willing and able, we would appreciate an online donation to our fundraiser for Give Kids the World Village. Details can be found on signs and collateral at the event. We do not accept cash donations.
Why do you require tickets this time? What if I lose or can’t find my ticket?
In past years, we have had extremely long lines with wait times as long as three hours. With a time-of-entry ticketing system, we can reduce wait times, prevent having to turn people away, and avoid disturbing the neighborhood by running too late. If you misplace your ticket, just give us your name.
Where can I park my car?
Street parking is limited on Magnolia so try neighboring streets then walk to Magnolia. You may drop off your party then join them after you park. Please do not double park or block driveways. Some neighbors may sell their driveway space as event parking so you might get lucky!
What can I expect?
This is a walk-through haunted house type attraction. This is a family-friendly event and appropriate for young children. The scares are fairly tame and there is no blood and gore. There will be some flashing lights.
How long does the event last?
Once you enter, you can race through in as little as 10 minutes, but you are welcome to explore a lot longer if you want. Nobody will tell you to leave until we close at 10pm. There are a couple of photo areas where small line queues may require an additional wait.
Can I bring my dog?
Well-behaved dogs on leashes are welcome, but you may stand in line at the sidewalk for up to an hour or more.
Do you have restrooms?
No, unfortunately we do not have public restrooms available at our event.
Can I bring my own food & beverages?
Guests may take their own beverages & food with them in line as long as they are careful. Please be courteous to other guests and our property. Our trash & recycling cans are out front at the driveway exit.
I have a health condition. Is it safe to attend this event?
Please do not enter if you have a serious health concern or sensitivity to flashing lights. Do not enter if you have pre-existing medical conditions and especially any type of heart or respiratory condition. You assume all risk when you enter.
Can you accommodate disabilities? Are you wheelchair accessible? Do you have steps or uneven ground?
Our pathways are all flat on pavers, on artificial grass, or 32" wide plywood ramps over a couple steps. The narrowest point is a 29” gate. We can escort a wheelchair or walker through difficult areas. We have audio in all areas to enhance visually-impaired experiences.
What is your charity "Give Kids the World Village"?
Give Kids the World Village(TM) is an 84-acre, nonprofit “storybook” resort located near Central Florida’s most beloved attractions, where critically-ill children and their families are treated to week-long, cost-free dream vacations in association with the Make-A-Wish program. Please donate!
Do we go inside the house? How old is the house?
You cannot go inside the house, but you can walk around the property. Our Queen Anne Victorian home was built in 1890, still standing strong, and we are taking care of her to last another 100 years after us. You can follow tag #EerieEleganceEstate on Instagram & Facebook to see our remodel progress.
Do you do this every year?
Yes! You can see past Halloween photos and videos on EerieElegance.com and our Eerie Elegance YouTube channel.
What will be your theme for Halloween 2025?
We will bring back our very popular Harry Potter display, including Diagon Alley, the Sorting Hat, the Friendly Forest, as well as some brand new things to see!
Can I ask additional questions?
If you have additional questions, please message us on Instagram or Facebook or email at EerieElegance @ gmail.com, but please note we won’t be able to reply until after showtime is over.
About Eerie Elegance
Britta and her husband Glen are the creative couple behind Eerie Elegance, known for elaborate, creative Halloween displays that are fun for the whole family. Their displays and costumes have won several awards, most recently the People's Choice Award for the 2019 Santa Clara City Halloween Home Decorating Contest and the Midsummer Scream 2023 Halloween convention costume contest. Unlike many Halloween displays that emphasize shock and gore, their displays favor creative spectacles inspired by the Disney and Universal theme parks.
Oh, we didn't mean to frighten you prematurely; the real chills come later!
Happy Friday the 13th with spooky season well underway! Team Eerie Elegance has been working all summer with our Halloween Helpers to make it delightfully unlivable here in this ghostly retreat. Every room has wall-to-wall creeps, and hot and cold running chills. There’s no turning back now... New for Halloween 2024 will be FREE TICKETS REQUIRED for timed entry to help limit long lines and make room for everyone, so stay tuned here for how to order tickets, along with our full Halloween haunt dates, times & other details...Until then, keep watching our progress on Instagram and Facebook as we make final arrangements, and we’ll see you all a little later...
Yes, it is already past Halfway to Halloween, and it's been such a crazy spring that I'm still finishing videos from Halloween 2023, but we are well underway with plans & projects for Halloween 2024, including hosting our first Make & Take for NorCal Haunters Group! For our May meeting of NorCal Haunters, we hosted our “Infinity Illusions Bottomless Pit Kit” at the Eerie Elegance Estate, and it went well enough in person to provide our full instructions and multiple examples as a PDF download for other haunters! We had created our bottomless well for Halloween 2016 Castle Brittahytta, so we had personal experience, plus we scoured online for other similar effects, studying how & why which setups worked better than others. Screenshots and links are provided in the PDF download.
This basic kit is plain wood 2x4s repeated as plank walls, but I also dressed ours as a bottomless pit with crumpled packing paper around programmable red lights as a quickie lava tunnel effect. We also had a few kinds of wall designs and light sources available for experimenting, so we huddled around one example in our perfectly dark workshop to see how changes in wall repeats and lighting created different effects.
As another Infinity Illusion example to play with live, I created a 1:12 scale diorama of the Haunted Mansion Endless Hallway to test our setup before going full size for Our Own Haunted Mansion this year…even though we have just recently learned that the original Disneyland Haunted Mansion only has a rear mirror at the end of a very long physical hallway, not a true Infinity Illusion after all! See below for a Tools McGhoul Fruit Salad Mosaic, my 20-year-old Halloween baggies finally used for hardware for our kits set up under our new tent...and bonus points with true Haunted Mansion fan cred if you can explain why my HatBox Ghost shirt & skull corbel earrings were specifically appropriate for this event! #EerieElegance #EerieEleganceHalloween #OurOwnHauntedMansion #HauntedMansion #BottomlessPit #EndlessHallway #InfinityIllusions #mirrors #twowaymirror #illusions #classicillusions #homehaunt #homehaunters #HomeHauntersOfInstagram #HalloweenDIY #DIYHalloween #Halloweenwear2024 #Halloween2024 #Halloween #EveryDayIsHalloween
Come see our snowy Victorian Christmas decor from our sidewalk December 23rd through New Year’s Day! During daytime you can enjoy our festive garlands & wreaths with red & gold bows, you may see our antique sleigh with friendly reindeer, and you can Step Here to Start the Singing, but every night from dusk until 10pm the Victorian carolers appear on our balcony and snow falls on the Eerie Elegance Estate! Our gates are closed and our display quiet hours are from 10pm to 10am so please be courteous to our neighborhood. Hope everyone has a Happy Holiday season!
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"It's over! We did it! Wasn't it terrifying? What a night! Great Halloween, everybody!"
After 10 show nights including our local ABC news crew joining us on Halloween night for our Nightmare Before Christmas 30th Anniversary Celebration, our grand totals were 5588 visitors and $11,534 for Give Kids the World Village! Our YouTube Halloween 2023 video playlist has updates, scroll back on our Facebook page for all the live videos posted each night, and Instagram & Facebook have lots of fun photo highlights from each show night.
Huge thanks to all our guests who kindly donated to our fundraiser for Give Kids the Word Village for critically-ill children and their families to enjoy week-long, cost-free dream vacations! Our dollar total finally matched the total number of attendees by the end of Halloween night, not well above our guest count like last Halloween. You can still contribute through the end of November, and GKTW will send you tax deduction details! Click our fundraiser link or you can mail a paper check with note stating it is a donation for the "Eerie Elegance Halloween 2023" fundraiser to:
Give Kids the World
210 S. Bass Road
Kissimmee, FL 34746
Thank you for sharing joy all the way to Orlando for families who really need some fun!
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Countdown to Halloween!
This Halloween come celebrate the 30th Anniversary of The Nightmare Before Christmas with Eerie Elegance starting Oct 19th! Click here for full details!
Sing along with the Pumpkin Chorus
Meet Jack Skellington and friends
Stroll through your favorite scenes
Win treats at Oogie Boogie's Lair
Creep through the moonlit graveyard
We have had another busy year at the Eerie Elegance Estate, but now we are deep in design, development and decorating for our Nightmare Before Christmas 30th Anniversary celebration for Halloween 2023! I've been posting projects and recipes so far on our Instagram and Facebook, so you can keep watching our progress there, and stay tuned here for our full Halloween haunt dates, times & other details coming this fall...
After producing and editing 13 separate videos, I am finally finished documenting Diagon Alley! It took me this long to tell the full story of our Wizarding World Halloween and Christmas in Diagon Alley, and here we are already halfway to Halloween 2023! All the Diagon Alley videos are on our Halloween 2022 video playlist, which is linked from both event pages, and on our Eerie Elegance YouTube channel. Please like & subscribe!
Now it's full speed ahead for our big Nightmare Before Christmas 30th anniversary celebration for Halloween 2023! At least I am already almost done with our costumes: Jauntie Oogie Boogie in burlap suit sporting crawling bugs and snake tongue cravat beside yours truly as Spiral Hill in crushed velvet covered in carved jack o'lanterns, complete with Jack & Sally in front of a glowing moon and Halloween countdown clock pocketwatch!
Stay tuned to our updates on Instagram and Facebook for behind the scenes progress as we build more Nightmare Before Christmas icons this summer!
After 7 more nights of Christmas in Diagon Alley ending on New Year's Day 2023, our Diagon Alley is done! We had a fantastic final night in good weather with 275 guests enjoying our magic, never waiting more than an hour in line, even closing on time with our snow lasting almost the whole evening...and by 6:30pm we had crossed the $15K mark raised for Give Kids the World Village to spread the magic to critically-ill children and their families! That’s another THOUSAND just in the past 2 days!
Our grand totals for our Wizarding World Halloween and Christmas in Diagon Alley together are 5410 guests visiting over 19 nights, recycling & sanitizing the same 1000 wands with 418 left, and $15,444 raised for Give Kids the World Village...wow! Thank you SO MUCH for sharing your Halloween AND Christmas cheer with them and with us! We can all start the new year proud of the good we have done while having fun!
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Our YouTube Halloween 2022 video playlist has updates, including our NBC Bay Area live broadcast, and scroll back on our Facebook page for all the live videos I posted each night.
We have learned a lot doing our first walk-through experience and already have ideas how to improve Diagon Alley our next time around, but first will be the 30th anniversary of The Nightmare Before Christmas for Halloween 2023...
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Come join us December 26th through January 1st 5-8pm daily for this FREE family-friendly event and prepare to:
Visit the Leaky Cauldron and taste some butterbeer
Stroll down Diagon Alley and browse your favorite festive shops
Keep your eyes open for Christmas surprises, even while casting spells!
Dress warmly! Even in California we are at the mercy of our rainy winter weather. You can still enjoy this holiday experience in light rain, but any storms will force us to close, so please watch our Eerie Elegance social media (Instagram & Facebook) for daily updates. Full details are at EerieElegance.com
Happy Holidays however you celebrate, and hope to see you in Diagon Alley!
After 12 nights in a row including Halloween night, our Wizarding World Halloween grand totals were 3752 visitors over 12 nights and over $5800 for Give Kids the World Village, so with our match we reached our $10,000 goal!!! Thank you so much to everyone who donated so generously! Your Halloween cheer spread all the way to Orlando!
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Attention Witches and Wizards!
To celebrate Halloween this year, we have temporarily materialized some of our favorite magical locations from London and Hogwarts School to San Jose! (If anybody asks, tell them we fully intend to return these locations back to their proper places after the holidays.) Click here for full details!
Starting October 20th, come join us and prepare to:
Visit the Leaky Cauldron and taste some butterbeer
Receive your wand from Ollivanders and cast some spells
Stroll down Diagon Alley and browse your favorite shops
Sit beneath the Sorting Hat and accept your House insignia
Explore the Friendly Forest and discover some fantastic beasts
Come experience this FREE family-friendly event...although only the most fearless witches and wizards would dare venture down Knockturn Alley...
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It's been a busy year at the Eerie Elegance Estate, with both of us working on Halloween projects since January when we announced our Halloween 2022 theme as "A Wizarding World Halloween" with our grandest plans yet! We have several spells working now, many magical creatures ready for our Friendly Forest, and we are already building Diagon Alley in our long driveway, looking good so far, but plenty more details to finish before it comes close to our vision. I've been posting weekly progress on Instagram and Facebook, so please follow those links for updates while I catch up here with our full Halloween haunt dates, times & other details...
Come celebrate a Haunted Hollywood Halloween at the Eerie Elegance Estate Wednesday October 27th through Halloween night! This year is the 90th anniversary of the Universal movies Dracula & Frankenstein, the 80th anniversary of The Wolf Man, and we have other classic monsters of the silver screen in residence like the Mummy and even King Kong! Full details at this page: http://eerieelegance.com/Halloween/Halloween2021/index.html
Per Eerie Elegance tradition we must celebrate Friday the 13th! For this year we present two new Paranormal Projections, this time captured in 4K resolution! The Eerie Elegance Scream Team has managed to capture several hauntings over the years, and we are excited to share them all with you, for a small fee of course!
The Ghostly Gentleman and Stylish Spirits were featured in Our Own Haunted Mansion for Halloween 2020, completely original costumes & characters filmed in front of greenscreen as our first Halloween project at our new old Queen Anne Victorian house the Eerie Elegance Estate. I made the entire dress ensemble including steel-boned hand-beaded lace corset, bolero jacket, mini top hat fascinator with feathers and bling, and 40lbs of stuffed ruffles, plus the matching vest, all from scratch for our wedding at Winchester Mystery House in 2018, then I sewed the custom cloak, decorated his hat, and transformed the full outfits into ghosts with wig & makeup. We have since haunted our local Dickens Fair, the Midsummer Scream convention, and we even wore them for the 50th anniversary Swinging Wake after-hours celebration for Disneyland's Haunted Mansion, all before we even found our own haunted mansion where they've always belonged!
Happy Halloween! Hope everyone enjoyed their evening! We had a great night at Our Own Haunted Mansion with consistent flow without crowding so everyone stayed safe like our spooky spirits! Thanks to Lori, Rod, Eileen & Tyson & friends, Katie & daughter, Susan, Debi, Christian, Cyd, and Victor & friend for coming, several who had rotating VIP fire pit seats in the driveway! We saw some very fun costumes, like Thorgi the Corgi with the Queen of Hearts, Freddy Kruger, a sassy witch, an adorable lion, an elegant web, and an entire Wizard of Oz crew! I had prepared 50 gloves filled with candy in advance and kept refilling 20 at a time hanging on our fence as self-serve trick or treat, and I only had 5 left by 10pm, but it felt like it was at least twice as many adults as kids, so not a bad first Halloween here!
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We successfully resurrected our Dia de los Muertos show as 8 well-attended performances at Señor Scary’s house this season, and not only did we hand out candy to 423 trick or treaters with possibly over a THOUSAND guests just on Halloween night, but we won the People’s Choice Award for our city 2019 Halloween Home Decorating Contest with 150 votes!
Silicon Valley Voice - Santa Clara Recognizes Halloween Home Decorating Contest Winners
Our haunt webpage is updated with photos & videos, and you can find even more on Instagram & Facebook!
Hope everyone had a Happy Halloween!
Stay tuned for our Scream Team to "resurrect" our Day of the Dead show at a new location, with animatronic skeleton mariachi band the Mariachis de Muerte and Graveyard Ghosts, all hosted by La Muerte clothed in candles!
2018 was a crazy year...I got married to Ghoulish Glen in custom Victorian finery at our local "haunted mansion" Winchester Mystery House in April, in August my longtime webserver crashed completely taking my entire BrittaBlvd WordPress with it, then I broke my ankle in September just after we got Castle Brittahytta set up again, so Halloween was a bit crazy while I healed in a sparkly purple cast hiding under my costume! We did have a great Halloween despite my injury, even some Facebook Live videos of our party and trick or treaters, but I still don't have a completely functional main website to document everything the way I used to. I've been posting more to Facebook and Instagram, so you can catch up there while I figure out the best way forward...
Our Haunted Hollywood Halloween was an award-winning success in the Santa Clara Citywide Halloween Decoration contest! You can watch our full Front Show, or excerpts from the show plus a walkthrough of the entire Haunted Hollywood Horror Monster Museum featuring 13 classic movie monsters!
For Halloween 2017, the 21st-century Webmistress of the Dark hosted the grand opening of the Hollywood Horror Monster Museum, a collection of 13 classic movie characters & props in a Golden Age movie theatre that was “rumored to be ‘haunted’ but I’ll believe that when I see it!” Our guests were welcome to walk & pose on the red carpet in front of the gilded proscenium vintage movie screen, complete with projected red curtains, roaming spotlights and the custom Hollywood Horror Monster Museum logo as the show began. Four platforms including The Mummy with his sarcophagus, Frankenstein's Monster & his Bride, Werewolf, and Nosferatu were on display bordered with red velvet ropes. Seven Walk of Fame stars on the sidewalk named the front yard monsters, including our first pneumatic prop the Creature from the Black Lagoon popping up from inside the wishing well, and Dracula greeting everyone who walked up to the front porch.
Each of the 13 museum exhibits had a lighted podium sign explaining their importance to monster history, which required a lot of research, and the other 6 monsters were arranged through the other party areas. The Hunchback of Notre Dame was included as vintage movie posters in the foyer with large gargoyles plus the Gander the Gargoyles contest to find all of Quasimodo’s friends. The Wicked Witch of the West and the Invisible Man, with a vintage radio playing clips searching for him, flanked the outer patio food table, across from The Phantom of the Opera’s music on the pipe organ for the Silent Silver Screen. Scarrry Jerry’s giant spider Winnifred was in use in the backyard, this time for the Atomic Age giant insect craze of Mutated Monsters, and Man-Eating Plants were represented by our motion-sensor animated plant puppet on the inside dining table. Guests could also play the Frightful Film Fanatic game to place 39 movies from the chronological list into 3 screens of 13 movies each: the Main Theatre Screen projected in the living room window, the Mad Scientist Experiment Reel on a TV in gilded frame on the lab table, and the Silent Silver Screen projected in the back patio window, next to the pipe organ. I also edited loops of vintage movie posters on the living room TV and in the backyard on the new Movie Marquee TV, and a loop of fun vintage movie trailers running in the dining room. I have been using more and more videos and projections for several years now, but 2017 was by far the most video content I have ever produced yet, with the full movies, video edits, and live video occupying almost a full TERABYTE of external hard drive space!
Our Haunted Hollywood Halloween front show won Honorable Mention/Second Place for Most Original in the first-ever Santa Clara Citywide Halloween Home Decorating contest, with certificates and prizes awarded at a public city council meeting, but watching all ages enjoying our Haunted Hollywood show was even better!
You can watch our full Front Show... ...or excerpts from the show plus a walkthrough of the entire Haunted Hollywood Horror Monster Museum featuring 13 classic movie monsters!
For 2017 Britta Blvd presents Eerie Elegance Eats: A Halloween Cookbook of Creepy Cuisine! This new book celebrates over twenty years of delightfully disturbing both children and grownups alike with Halloween recipes in a niche between gory horror displays and cute but tame kid-friendly foods, making the world smile with a touch of spooky style. Over thirty exclusive new recipes plus all your favorites from both previous Eerie Elegance books are now available as one convenient Cookbook of Creepy Cuisine organized in eight chapters: Mad Scientist Body Parts; Beverages, Brews & Potions, with safe dry ice and edible glow effects; Creepy Cuisine Contest Champions; Scary Savories; Dastardly Desserts; Spooky Spiders & Skeletons; Dia de los Muertos Delights; and Gingerbread Goodies, including the giant Ghoulish Gingerbread Haunted House!
Autographed copies of Eerie Elegance Eats are now for sale directly from the author for $24.95 +S&H, and Amazon is selling it worldwide, with even a digital version for Kindle! See the Eerie Elegance order page for details!
I am pleased to announce that my Frightful Skull Fountain do-it-yourself kit is back in stock for 2017! This is an improved version since the instructions included inside my book Enhanced Eerie Elegance, with a customized skull funnel that works with a custom-cut cauldron handle support. Just add your own cauldron, and you're all set for a fantastic Halloween punch bowl!
Your Frightful Skull Fountain Kit includes:
Plastic Vertebrae Tube Skull Funnel, with custom black handle grip attached under the skull's chin
Plastic Skeleton Hand
U-shaped Wire Support for Skeleton Hand
3 feet Clear Vinyl Tubing, with black fountain pump nozzle already attached
Fountain Pump with extra nozzle (120 GPH, pumps up to 3ft high)
Custom-Cut Cauldron Handle Support
Step-By-Step Photo Instructions with Recipes and Dry Ice Tips
You need to supply your own plastic cauldron, and 12" to 16" diameter is recommended to look best with the size of the skull. The included instructions show the pot-belly cauldron style with curved lip usually found cheaply everywhere during Halloween season. If you have a different vessel, you will need to figure out how to attach the cauldron handle support to the edge of your vessel.
Please allow 1-2 weeks before shipping. Your kit ships USPS Priority Mail large flat-rate box for domestic US. International shipping by special request.
Watch this video to learn how to assemble your Frightful Skull Fountain Kit and see it in action!
The order page on EerieElegance.com also has the link to the Etsy listing. Hope you like it! Happy Haunting!
Happy Halloween everyone! Tonight is the last chance to see our 2016 show live while The Webmistress Hosts a Victorian Halloween at Castle Brittahytta. Over 10,000 spiders emerge from the castle doors and crawl over the towers, ramparts and gravestones of Castle Brittahytta to an original musical soundtrack while the Ghostly Guardian watches over the castle as she has done for a thousand years. Here is the video in 4K for your viewing pleasure! I hope everyone has a fantastic Halloween! My party photos from the weekend will be coming soon to Britta Blvd, so stay tuned!
Castle Brittahytta public Halloween shows start Thursday night October 27th and run every 15 minutes on the hour from dusk until 10pm through Halloween night! Full details and address here!
This year The Webmistress of the Dark hosts a Victorian Halloween at Castle Brittahytta of Verdigris. Please do not be alarmed by her pet spiders of all sizes who freely roam inside and outside the castle.
Watch as over ten-thousand spiders emerge from the castle, swarming toward you over the towers, walls and family gravestones, to an original symphonic soundtrack. Don't worry, the Ghostly Guardian has watched over the castle for a thousand years, but she will only harm those threatening the castle or its residents.
Even the giant tree spider is friendly enough that you can sit in the chair to take a photo with its arm around you!
Her name is Winnifred, and she might even give you a hug if you don't mind her drool. ;)
If you like the show, please drop some coins in the wishing well bucket or donate online for the Eerie Elegance Trick or Treat for UNICEF Fund.
Now that the outside is finished, I still need to finish decorating inside and catch up on party food prep! Hope your Halloween season is going well!
I'm already frantically working on my own Halloween projects for this season, but don't forget my Tasty Tombstones printed frosting sheets are for sale again in my Etsy shop! Each set includes 13 designs digitized from my own carved foam Haunted Headstones.
Serve these realistic carved stone-look Tasty Tombstones for your Halloween party, or even your next "over-the-hill" birthday party! All the departed names are puns, so laugh or groan as you will. :) This set of 2 pre-printed frosting sheets decorates 13 Tasty Tombstones, the perfect spooky number! (Actual cookies not included in your purchase.)
Tasty Tombstones are available as "punny" name epitaph designs as pictured, blank to write your own epitaphs with icing or a food coloring pen, or custom printed epitaphs:
Tasty Tombstones 13 "Punny" Epitaphs
Tasty Tombstones 13 Blank Epitaphs
Tasty Tombstones 13 Custom Epitaphs
Your set of 2 frosting sheets will arrive via USPS Priority Mail in a food-grade airtight zip bag. Recipes & detailed instructions are included with your shipment. Store out of direct light to prevent fading. Best used within one year. The sheet lasts
better intact for shipping & storage, so do not cut out the shapes until just before using on your baked goods. Up to 10 frosting sheets (65 tombstones) can be combined for the same shipping cost. Contact me if you'd like multiple quantities, then I will put up a custom listing specifically for your order. I use Kopykake frosting sheets & food inks, full ingredients included in the Etsy listings.
Hope everyone is enjoying their summer! Stay tuned for more Halloween fun, with project updates coming soon to the Britta Blvd blog!
I am pleased to announce that my Frightful Skull Fountain do-it-yourself kit is back in stock for 2016! This is an improved version since the instructions included inside my book Enhanced Eerie Elegance, with a customized skull funnel that works with a custom-cut cauldron handle support. Just add your own cauldron, and you're all set for a fantastic Halloween punch bowl!
Your Frightful Skull Fountain Kit includes:
Plastic Vertebrae Tube Skull Funnel, with custom black handle grip attached under the skull's chin
Plastic Skeleton Hand
U-shaped Wire Support for Skeleton Hand
3 feet Clear Vinyl Tubing, with black fountain pump nozzle already attached
Fountain Pump with extra nozzle (120 GPH, pumps up to 3ft high)
Custom-Cut Cauldron Handle Support
Step-By-Step Photo Instructions with Recipes and Dry Ice Tips
You need to supply your own plastic cauldron, and 12" to 16" diameter is recommended to look best with the size of the skull. The included instructions show the pot-belly cauldron style with curved lip usually found cheaply everywhere during Halloween season. If you have a different vessel, you will need to figure out how to attach the cauldron handle support to the edge of your vessel.
Please allow 1-2 weeks before shipping. Your kit ships USPS Priority Mail large flat-rate box for domestic US. International shipping by special request.
Watch this video to learn how to assemble your Frightful Skull Fountain Kit and see it in action!
The order page on EerieElegance.com also has the link to the Etsy listing. Hope you like it! Happy Haunting!
Happy Friday the 13th! Today we are pleased to announce the first video from Halloween 2015...the entire 15-minute front show!
For Halloween this year, we were inspired by the uniquely beautiful and creative Mexican traditions of Dia de los Muertos for our own Day of the Dead celebration! See a "live" skeleton mariachi band sing and play for their ghostly ancestors in a joyous graveyard celebration lit by hundreds of flickering candles below a glowing harvest moon! Designed for children of all ages, this show will bring a smile to your face and warmth to your heart.
Not only was the show running all night for my big party on October 24th, but we were able to advertise and run it 4 more nights including Halloween night, which was great fun for us to have so many others come watch our show!
I'm still working on coordinating a LOT of photos and even more video in the Halloween 2015 section, so keep watching Britta Blvd for more details coming soon!
Hope everyone had a fantastic Halloween like we did!
The Halloween 2015 Day of the Dead front show is running 4 nights closing on November 1st! Full details here!
Stay tuned to Britta Blvd for more details soon!
I am pleased to announce that my Frightful Skull Fountain do-it-yourself kit is back for 2015! This is a new and improved version since the instructions included inside my book Enhanced Eerie Elegance, with a customized skull funnel that works with a custom-cut cauldron handle support. Just add your own cauldron, and you're all set for a fantastic Halloween punch bowl!
Your Frightful Skull Fountain Kit includes:
Plastic Vertebrae Tube Skull Funnel, with custom black handle grip attached under the skull's chin
Custom-Painted Resin Skeleton Hand
U-shaped Wire Support for Skeleton Hand
3 feet Clear Vinyl Tubing, with black fountain pump nozzle already attached
Fountain Pump with extra nozzle (120 GPH, pumps up to 3ft high)
Custom-Cut Cauldron Handle Support
Step-By-Step Photo Instructions with Recipes and Dry Ice Tips
You need to supply your own plastic cauldron, and 12" to 16" diameter is recommended to look best with the size of the skull. The included instructions show the pot-belly cauldron style with curved lip usually found cheaply everywhere during Halloween season. If you have a different vessel, you will need to figure out how to attach the cauldron handle support to the edge of your vessel.
Please allow 1-2 weeks before shipping. Your kit ships USPS Priority Mail large flat-rate box for domestic US. International shipping by special request.
Watch this video to learn how to assemble your Frightful Skull Fountain Kit and see it in action!
The order page on EerieElegance.com also has the link to the Etsy listing. Hope you like it! Happy Haunting!
The grandest Halloween yet was The Story of Seven Spirits, hosted by Miss Hermione G. Wells at Castle Brittahytta in 1914!
The Halloween 2014 teaser trailer was included with the party invitation:
Discover all six spirits haunting Castle Brittahytta as you explore the grounds, then listen carefully in the steampunk Library Laboratory as Miss Hermione G. Wells explains how and why she needs your help so you will be prepared for what comes next in the Main Event…
Enjoy the perspective of a party guest at Halloween 1914 hosted by Miss Hermione G. Wells as you are immersed in the interactive mystery told in 7 short acts over 2 hours, with a giant glowing-green-ectoplasm-powered steampunk device showing the “mad scientist” transmitting from Europe, the dead psychic medium leading the séance from inside an astral gateway vortex, and five ghosts summoned inside the large crystal ball using the positive mental energy of all the party guests participating in the séance…and there was even live interaction with Sir William Crookes and the Glowing Ghostly Guardian!
Please watch the Main Event first so you understand everything, then you may continue with the next video that reveals all the clues to solve the Studying Spirits quiz!
To summon the spirits in the séance led by the Webmistress via the Spirit Materializer built by Miss Hermione G. Wells, the party guests needed to identify the ghosts haunting the castle by using anything they could find, including family portraits, two “ancient” illuminated manuscript books, and some other clues…even the Tasty Tombstone cookies! Here are all the ways you could find the true names of each of the seven spirits…
Check out these detailed posts on Britta Blvd for more, including behind-the-scenes details!
http://brittablvd.com/blog/2015/02/halloween-2014-the-story-of-seven-spirits/
http://brittablvd.com/blog/2015/03/halloween-2014-creating-the-content-for-castle-brittahytta/
You can even read all the party preparations for Halloween 2014 if you dare!
That's it! Frightful Skull Fountain Kit lucky number 7 just shipped to New York, with kits 5 & 6 going to Australia and England, so I am now sold out for this season! I should be able to find more supplies by July, so I'll announce when I have kits back in stock for 2015. Thanks to everyone who purchased this year! I hope you like your kits!
Here are the kit details so you can plan ahead for 2015:
Frightful Skull Fountain Kits by Eerie Elegance
This is a new and improved version since the instructions included inside my book Enhanced Eerie Elegance, now with a customized skull funnel that works with a custom-cut cauldron handle support. Just add your own cauldron, and you're all set for a fantastic Halloween punch bowl!
Watch this video to learn how to assemble your Frightful Skull Fountain Kit and see it in action!
It's only one month left until Halloween, so I'm sure you will be building your projects soon if you haven't already started them! Do you have a project that needs to look like wood? Maybe some walls, doors, or perhaps even a giant steampunk device? You can try this simple and customizable Painted Woodgrain technique using standard brushes that is very convincing, especially for large scale projects!
Watch this new episode of Eerie Elegance to learn Webmistress Britta's Painted Woodgrain technique!
You also can find other projects & recipes from both books Eerie Elegance and Enhanced Eerie Elegance as episodes on YouTube. Happy Haunting!
Happy Labor Day! I have been "laboring" lately for you all by fine-tuning my Frightful Skull Fountain so this brand-new do-it-yourself kit is now ready for sale! This is a new and improved version since the instructions included inside my book Enhanced Eerie Elegance, now with a customized skull funnel that works with a custom-cut cauldron handle support. Just add your own cauldron, and you're all set for a fantastic Halloween punch bowl!
Your Frightful Skull Fountain Kit includes:
Plastic Vertebrae Tube Skull Funnel, with custom black handle grip attached under the skull's chin
Custom-Painted Resin Skeleton Hand
U-shaped Wire Support for Skeleton Hand
3 feet Clear Vinyl Tubing, with black fountain pump nozzle already attached
Fountain Pump with extra nozzle (120 GPH, pumps up to 3ft high)
Custom-Cut Cauldron Handle Support
Step-By-Step Photo Instructions with Recipes and Dry Ice Tips
You need to supply your own plastic cauldron, and 12" to 16" diameter is recommended to look best with the size of the skull. The included instructions show the pot-belly cauldron style with curved lip usually found cheaply everywhere during Halloween season. If you have a different vessel, you will need to figure out how to attach the cauldron handle support to the edge of your vessel.
Please allow 1-2 weeks before shipping. Your kit ships USPS Priority Mail large flat-rate box for domestic US. International shipping by special request.
Watch this new video to learn how to assemble your Frightful Skull Fountain Kit and see it in action!
The order page on EerieElegance.com also has the link to the Etsy listing. Hope you like it! Happy Haunting!
My twentieth Halloween party in a row was a grand success also celebrating the 20th anniversary of The Nightmare Before Christmas! Read all about it on Britta Blvd and you can watch some videos too!
Read All the party preparations for Halloween 2013
Read Twenty Halloweens - The Party!
Read Halloween 2013 Front Show: Secrets of Singing Scarecrows, Pumpkin Chorus and Moon Screen
Read The Secrets of Jack Skellington and Zero the Ghost Dog
Scary Jerry of the website My Scary Halloween interviewed little ol' me for MyScaryBlog.com. Check out the full interview here!
Catching up with Britta, Webmistress of the Dark
Happy Friday the 13th! It's the perfect day to start Halloween season officially, and to remind you that Eerie Elegance has several products to add some spooky style to your Halloween parties!
Seven Spirits are for sale as ghostly digital downloads, perfect to display on TVs, photo frames, projectors, or even Peppers ghost illusions! (More details here...)
You can now purchase the second DVD compilation of 13 video tutorials featuring products from the second book, Enhanced Eerie Elegance: 13 Studies in Spooky Style. (More details here...)
Of course you can still buy the first compilation DVD as well as both my books from EerieElegance.com...but don't forget about the new products from last year!
Choose from 8 unique styles of frightful or fancy Fabric Frames to make your TV or photo frame blend into a haunted castle or mansion... (More details here...)
You can buy Tasty Tombstones frosting sheets in sets of 13 different shapes to bake your own realistic carved stone gravestone cookies, even with custom epitaphs if you wish... (More details here...)
...and the Britta Blvd Etsy shop has vintage-style potion & laboratory labels and other fun, especially for young wizards & witches!
You can also follow my personal Halloween party prep progress on Britta Blvd. I hope your Halloween planning is going well!
Are you looking for ghosts? You have come to the right place! 6 new ghosts are now available from Eerie Elegance, plus the original Ghost in Chains from last year! All these ghosts are perfect for projectors, video screens, or even reflected Pepper's Ghost illusions. You are welcome to edit the videos after purchase for your personal use as long as they are not distributed. All these ghosts are Standard Definition video, 640x480 pixels, encoded as H.264 QuickTime .mov files. You can convert to other video formats using online video converter shareware. Playable DVDs are available but only upon special request and will include shipping charges and higher cost for the media.
This ancient tattered medieval warrior queen Tower Ghost is silently watching and pointing toward the living, twirling her spear periodically from side to side. Show this 21-minute clip as a silent loop for your personal haunt in isolated viewing locations like a high window or a tower where audio cannot be heard. See the Tower Ghost in action here.
This ancient tattered Watery Wraith is wailing, gurgling, reaching, and rattling her chains while trying not to drown. Show this 3-minute clip in a wishing well, fountain, pond, cauldron or other watery grave. See the Watery Wraith in action here.
This Renaissance era Merry Madam Mead keeps giggling while pouring herself even more mead when it is obvious she has already imbibed plenty. Show this 2-minute clip reflected inside a bottle or jar in your bar to add some humor to your haunt!
This Renaissance era Pumpkin Queen approaches while menancingly sharpening a large knife, raising it as though to attack as she moves even closer, then she stabs and smiles while carving a pumpkin into a jack o'lantern. This 30-second clip was specifically designed to interact life-size with a large physical pumpkin on the ground in front of the image projected from the rear onto a scrim, but you could also use a video screen or reflected Pepper's Ghost illusion.
This 18th-century French style Phantom of the Pipes peers knowingly over her shoulder at the viewer while sadly playing her own spooky fugue-style composition on a physical pipe organ (not included in the footage). This was designed as a life-size Pepper's Ghost illusion to interact with a physical pipe organ prop, as seen here. You could display this reflected onto a piano or your own custom-built props, with the reflection generated from a video screen or a projector. The pipe organ fugue on the soundtrack is an original composition by Britta Peterson.
This 18th-century pirate Swashbuckler Sally is brandishing her sword fighting an unseen foe from side to side. This 3-minute clip is perfect for projectors, video screens, or even reflected Pepper's Ghost illusions, especially in high towers moving from window to window, as shown here.
And don't forget the original Ghost in Chains also for sale! This ancient tattered Ghost In Chains is silently screaming and reaching toward the living as her aura brightens and fades, until her last attempt causes her to disappear, shown as the Gate Ghost from Halloween 2011 here.
Now back to all my projects already underway for Halloween 2013! Hope your plans are going well so far!
Today our favorite spooky number 13 brings the first new product for 2013!
Enhanced Eerie Elegance: 13 Studies in Spooky Style is the perfect accompaniment to the new Halloween book Enhanced Eerie Elegance! Watch over two hours of full quality video to learn projects and recipes demonstrated by your Halloween Hostess, Britta, Webmistress of the Dark. Building on concepts from the first book, here are new techniques from simple to advanced that will have your guests dying to come back!Originally released online as a weekly seasonal series in 2011 and 2012, all THIRTEEN episodes are included here to watch anytime you'd like to get into the Halloween spirit! Episode 1 - Old Stone WallsEpisode 2 - Gravestone GarnishesEpisode 3 - Bubbling Witches' BrewEpisode 4 - Easier Eerie EyeballsEpisode 5 - Glowing Crystal BallEpisode 6 - Jack O Lantern Cheese BallEpisode 7 - Violent VertebraeEpisode 8 - Carved Stone Walls Part 1Episode 9 - Carved Stone Walls Part 2Episode 10 - Ghostly GreeneryEpisode 11 - Donut Be Scared Peekaboo PumpkinsEpisode 12 - Spooky SpellbooksEpisode 13 - Vicious Veggies
This new set is a great companion to the first DVD, Eerie Elegance: 13 Fabulous Frights! Both DVDs are only available directly from EerieElegance.com and will be autographed per your request. Up to 3 physical items can be combined for the same shipping!