Wagga artist Nicole Wade is welcoming residents to come and rejoice in her Halloween glory after spending the past two months turning her home into a spectacular spooky mansion.
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00:00 (laughing)
00:02 During the year I go to a lot of garage sales
00:08 and things like that and just pick up little bits
00:10 and pieces too that people have got.
00:11 I sort of like, do a, I go around a lot of skip-ins
00:16 and things like that to get my material to build stuff.
00:18 But then once I get like a character or something
00:20 in my head, then I sort of like try to think of a backdrop
00:23 and yeah, go from there.
00:25 The kids love it.
00:26 - They love it. - Absolutely love it.
00:29 Even though it's scary, they love the jump scares,
00:31 they love being scared.
00:33 We had a bunch of kids last year come back multiple times
00:37 just to be scared.
00:38 Just to come and chase us and go,
00:40 come and scare me, come and scare me, come on.
00:42 So yeah, and I think the adults like it too
00:45 because the kids are enjoying it.
00:46 - And Halloween's getting more and more accepted now too,
00:49 sort of thing, so and everybody,
00:50 oh, there's a lot of people,
00:52 they just love dressing up like us.
00:53 We love dressing up and love entertaining.
00:55 - And it's also wheelchair accessible,
00:57 so you can drive through if they need to
01:00 and bring their wheelchair through.
01:02 - I've had the courage on people and sometimes
01:05 if they come in a small car and they can't get out,
01:07 they can drive around and have a look through.
01:10 Well, this is Annabelle's home
01:12 and I constructed her by,
01:15 I had some bricks that I collected from a lady.
01:19 It's got all the old beautiful heart stamps
01:21 and things like that in it.
01:22 And then the walls and all that,
01:25 I've collected the doors from the tip shop
01:27 and yeah, just sort of like had them on the ground,
01:31 stuck them together, stood them up.
01:34 Just more things for the garden
01:35 and I just thought, well, we could utilise it
01:38 for different things like that.
01:39 And I just love sitting out here of an afternoon,
01:41 like once the sun goes down,
01:43 it's nice sitting here in the shade with a little sherbet.
01:46 (laughing)
01:48 (laughing)
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