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Diagon Alley is DONE!

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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 $15,464 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! Our YouTube Halloween 2022 video playlist has updates, including o...

Christmas is Coming...to Diagon Alley!

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Attention 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 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!

Happy Halloween 2022!

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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!  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 our Halloween spectacle, watch EerieElegance.com for details about our holiday version of Diagon Alley returning between Christmas & New Years…   #EerieElegance #EerieEleganceHalloween #WizardingWorldHalloween #WizardingWorld #HalloweenCheer #HarryPotter #DiagonAlley #LeakyCauldron #SortingHat #Ollivanders #EeylopsOwlEmporium #BorginAndBurkes #KnockturnAlley #Scribbulus #FlourishAndBlotts #MadamMalkins #QualityQuidditchSupplies #Honeydukes #homehaunt #homehaunters #Hom...

Eerie Elegance Halloween 2022

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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... #EerieElegance #EerieEleganceHalloween #WizardingWorldHalloween #WizardingWorld #HarryPotter #SortingHat #Fa...

A Wizarding World Halloween is well underway!

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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...

Haunted Hollywood Halloween 2021

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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

Happy Friday the 13th with new Paranormal Projections!

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   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...