Eerie Elegance

After realizing our Wizarding World Halloween 2025 included a new Eerie Elegance record of TWENTY-SEVEN different Props Playing on Panels & Projectors, it was time to peek into the past displaying our development over a decade of Digital Decorations! I developed an in-depth dissertation on doing Digital Decorations over a decade as a HaunTED Talk for our local NorCal Haunters group, so I collected video examples from our very first projected Gate Ghost for Halloween 2011 through our Wizarding World Halloween 2025 featuring a personal record of 27 different props playing on panels & projectors! Each of these Halloweens has its own video playlist below if you'd like to explore more details. Read my HaunTED Talk reference slideshow PDF describing in detail our due diligence in Designing, Displaying & Disguising Digital Decorations over the past 15 Halloweens. Eerie Elegance Halloween History including Digital Decorations: Halloween 2011 Halloween 2012 Hallo...

Our Wizarding World Halloween CLOSED after 6174 guests in 12 nights and a grand total of $43,093 raised for Give Kids the World Village ! You can find some fun photos on our Instagram and Facebook feeds, and several videos on our YouTube playlist for Halloween 2025 , including fun drone footage & news reports from both our local ABC and NBC news teams! Huge thanks to all who added your Halloween cheer to spread joy ever farther away to critically-ill children and their families who really need it! We were able to visit Give Kids the World in person this year to volunteer at their weekly Halloween event and present our check for this year's matched donations! 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!

Join us at the Eerie Elegance Estate this Halloween for a magical experience for the whole family! Put on your best wizard robes and transport yourself to the world of Harry Potter. Whether you're a seasoned witch or a Muggle curious about the wizarding world, this event is perfect for all ages. Order Free Tickets Now! Eerie Elegance presents Wizarding World Halloween 2025 12 nights October 21st to November 2nd 6:30-10pm Greater Rose Garden near The Alameda & 880 San Jose California Free Tickets Required -  Order Here ! Visit the Leaky Cauldron Cast spells in Diagon Alley Sit beneath the Sorting Hat Discover fantastic beasts and brave Knockturn Alley if you dare... Thank You for Supporting  Our Fundraiser If you appreciate what you see, please help us support Give Kids the World Village® at our fundraising page here . Eerie Elegance will match all donations ...

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!

Buy Tickets on Eventbrite Order Free Tickets Now   "Make final arrangements now if you decide to join us..." Welcome Foolish Mortals! For Halloween 2024, Eerie Elegance presents Our Own Haunted Mansion based on the iconic Disneyland attraction. October 23rd to November 2nd 7-10pm Greater Rose Garden near The Alameda & 880 San Jose California Free Tickets Required -  Order Here ! Watch walls stretch before your very eyes Follow the Ghost Host through haunted hallways See a spooky séance with Madame Leota Glimpse a glowing graveyard of happy haunts ...but beware of hitchhikers following you home! Thank You for Supporting  Our Fundraiser 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 c...

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 ...

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! #EerieElegance #EerieEleganceEstate #VictorianChristmas #HappyHolidays #snowflakes #snow #sleigh #antiquesleigh #reindeer #animatronics #carolers #VictorianCarolers #ChristmasDecor #ChristmasDecorations #ChristmasCheer #Christmas2023 #Christmas

"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!...

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 Cross over the holiday lines and experience this FREE, family-friendly event for all ages!

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! There are still more details to add before these costumes meet my full vision for Halloween, plus improvements...

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...

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!

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...

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...