Nemo House Source Map
One of the main tenets of the Albertson Halloween House is to use recycled materials. We get lots of items from generous and resourceful folks and have…
Category Archives: 2010
Video: How to Make a Halloween House in 2 Minutes and 49 Sec...
Inspired by SoCalHalloween, I chronicled the building of this year’s Nemo House by taking a time lapse video of the process. In the video you…
Fish, Folks and Fun
Some 850–900 trick-or-treaters (plus their friends and relatives) descended on the Nemo-themed Albertson Halloween House on Halloween for a night that will not soon be…
Come Over for a Little Bite!
(alternate title: Live Halloween as if It Were Shark Week) Come on by! This year we are doing it up Nemo style! Come visit…
How to Make: A School of Moonfish
For our Nemo Halloween House we wanted to have a school of moonfish—you know, the group of silvery fish that form themselves into various shapes…
Model Citizen
Today I erected a mini shark head to help me with my planning. It is 1/12 scale (one inch = one foot). Some bamboo skewers,…
Free Stuff!
It’s amazing what you can make with free stuff! This year has been a huge year for free items (though each year we manage to…
Community Build Day—Fish, Friends and Fun
Our second build day of the season was amazing! LOTS of folks turned out to help bring the Nemo Halloween house to life. Together, we…
Community Build Day—Saturday, October 2nd
The August Community Build Day was awesome! Now that Halloween is even closer, our next Community Build Day will be even awesome-er! There are many…
Photoshoppin’
After deciding the theme and sketching out how it could work, I spend some quality time in Photoshop to plan out the build. As you…