Dark Hollows Poppy Parker arrives at the Gothic Mansion...

I was able to get some wonderful photos of Dark Hollows Poppy Parker at my Gothic Mansion at my studio. A little tweaking and it looks similar to a Collinwood or my version. I transferred my portrait of Barnabas (actually a real painting I copied from the internet of a young man, just looks similar) to a gold frame I had from the white one) and it looks far more gothic now. Poppy arrives at the deserted mansion...covered in creepy cobwebs...

'Hello? Anyone home? it is so quiet here..."

'Nice Kitty,'...'ooh, mummy statues and cases!eek!'

'This must be my famous ancestor Barnabas Collins! But why is everything covered in cobwebs?' 

Poppy decides to take a candle, the only known lighting available right now, and go upstairs and explore. No one has come to greet her, and it is getting late. 

Should I go upstairs? It is so dark and lonely here and they did say they were expecting me....

Hesitantly she walks through the long hall and drawing room to the long flight of stairs...........

What awaits Poppy upstairs? Will she meet Barnabas, her long lost ancestor and vampire? Will other members of the family wake up and greet her? Will someone finally clean the house or have a Halloween party? Stay tuned to find out................
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            Behind the Scenes diorama photos-

Here are some behind the scenes photos of the setup of the Gothic mansion, aka Collinwood...

The entire structure is held together with pins and is about forty inches high on the main walls, which are insulation foam spray painted and covered with scrap book papers for two levels. Though it has worked for this I would like to make it over again since it is so hard to get to stand up and pin pictures into etc,  The staircase from ebay (puredreams) had to have more levels added to it to gain the height needed to reach the upper level since it wasn't tall enough and I had already built the structure according to scale. I needed alot of height for this diorama. I am already re-thinking how I can do this. 

Since this is so large and so difficult to set up, I hate taking it down and now rarely take it down. Ihave taken it down once before and it was literally and all day job putting it back up for Christmas last year. I will never do that again unless I have to , pinning it together is hard since I'm short and it's tall. It stays in my climate control storage unit on a six foot table. I decorate it according to the holidays and it has stayed up all year decorated for Christmas. The other part of the other six foot table is for where I work on other dioramas I build. 

I am currently working on the big bang theory's comic book store and made a little progress, not much. Those photos later. 
More to come, stay tuned. Lisa