Eerie Elegance
39 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsMaking the World Smile with a Touch of Spooky Style from Britta, Webmistress of the Dark
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Happy Holidays from the Eerie Elegance Estate!
December 23, 2023 22:11Come 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 co...
Happy Halloween 2023!
November 01, 2023 06:33"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 phot...
Halloween 2023 - The Nightmare Before Christmas 30th Anniversary Celebration!
October 14, 2023 00:25Countdown 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 Cross over the holiday lines and experience this FREE, family-friendly event for all ages!
What's This?!? Stay tuned for The Nightmare Before Christmas for Halloween 2023!
August 28, 2023 04:05We 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...
Halfway to Halloween 2023!
May 01, 2023 00:04After 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...
Diagon Alley is DONE!
January 05, 2023 02:05After 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 day...
Christmas is Coming...to Diagon Alley!
December 16, 2022 07:33Attention Witches and Wizards! So many people enjoyed our Wizarding World Halloween that we have magically transformed into Christmas in Diagon Alley! Come and enjoy steamy sips, spells, surprises, and maybe even some sprinkles of snow! 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 ...
Happy Halloween 2022!
November 01, 2022 06:43After 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! Our YouTube Halloween 2022 video playlist has updates, and scroll back on our Facebook page for all the live videos I posted each night. If you missed visiting ...
Eerie Elegance Halloween 2022
October 04, 2022 19:20Attention 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 so...
A Wizarding World Halloween is well underway!
August 19, 2022 06:15It'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 o...
Haunted Hollywood Halloween 2021
October 25, 2021 23:57Come 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
Happy Friday the 13th with new Paranormal Projections!
August 13, 2021 15:00Per 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...
Happy Halloween Pandemic-Style!
November 01, 2020 02:46Happy 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 ador...
Halloween 2019 - Dia de los Muertos wins the People's Choice Award!
November 06, 2019 00:21We 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 y...
Stay tuned for Halloween 2019 - Dia de los Muertos!
August 01, 2019 21:39Stay 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!
still catching up on Halloween 2018...
July 13, 2019 21:322018 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 Liv...
Haunted Hollywood 2017
November 19, 2017 21:01Our 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 theatr...
Eerie Elegance Eats available now!
August 14, 2017 15:59For 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 C...
Frightful Skull Fountains in stock for 2017!
July 17, 2017 20:23I 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...
Eerie Elegance presents Halloween 2016 - Waltz of the Spiders at Castle Brittahytta
October 31, 2016 16:30Happy 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 p...
Halloween 2016 public shows start Thursday at Castle Brittahytta!
October 24, 2016 20:54Castle 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, w...
Tasty Tombstones available on Etsy!
August 16, 2016 21:12I'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 she...
Frightful Skull Fountain Kits back in stock for 2016!
August 09, 2016 20:18I 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...
Halloween 2015 - Day of the Dead - Full Show
November 13, 2015 18:35Happy 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 a...
Halloween 2015 - Day of the Dead
October 27, 2015 23:07The 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!
Frightful Skull Fountain Kits back in stock for 2015!
August 13, 2015 05:11I 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 u...
Halloween 2014 - The Story of Seven Spirits
February 20, 2015 22:57The 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 p...
Frightful Skull Fountains SOLD OUT until 2015!
October 22, 2014 20:30That'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 th...
Painted Woodgrain
September 29, 2014 22:20It'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 t...
Frightful Skull Fountain Kit now for sale!
September 01, 2014 17:29Happy 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: Plasti...
Twenty Halloweens!
November 21, 2013 22:45My 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
Webmistress Britta on My Scary Blog
November 15, 2013 06:34Scary 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!
September 13, 2013 20:54Happy 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:...
Ghosts for Sale!
July 13, 2013 20:27Are 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 t...
Enhanced Eerie Elegance: 13 Studies in Spooky Style now available on DVD!
June 14, 2013 00:45Today 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! Or...
Episode 13: Vicious Veggies
October 30, 2012 16:00 - 46.1 MB VideoIn the final 2012 episode of Enhanced Eerie Elegance, there's still plenty of time to make your crudite tray into Vicious Veggies with quick and easy tips for last-minute Halloween parties! That makes THIRTEEN episodes of Enhanced Eerie Elegance to accompany the book available for sale at www.EerieElegance.com or on Amazon! Hope you enjoy your Halloween!
Episode 12: Spooky Spellbooks
October 23, 2012 15:30 - 78.1 MB VideoSave your cracker and cereal boxes to recycle them into lightweight new or ancient Spooky Spellbooks for customized Halloween decor! For more projects like this, please buy the book at www.EerieElegance.com or on Amazon! :)
Episode 11: Donut Be Scared Peekaboo Pumpkins
October 16, 2012 15:30 - 58.6 MB VideoDonut Be Scared! These Peekaboo Pumpkins are tasty, adorable and easy to make for your own Halloween party! Learn how in this new episode of Enhanced Eerie Elegance! For more recipes like this, please buy the book at www.EerieElegance.com or on Amazon! :)
Episode 10: Ghostly Greenery
October 09, 2012 16:00In the third episode of this year's series of Enhanced Eerie Elegance, be inspired by all sorts of flora that can be Ghostly Greenery! For more projects like this, please buy the book at www.EerieElegance.com or on Amazon! :)