Grave Harvest Halloween Convention 2017

Grave Harvest 2017

Last year's Grave Harvest was so much fun (check out my recap!), I couldn't wait for this year's event, which took place this past Saturday at The Hotel Fullerton. Grave Harvest is Orange County's very own Halloween convention hosted by Abracadaver Productions, and features oodles of Halloween vendors, plus classes and presentations throughout the day. Check out my coverage of this year's event below!

One of the ballrooms set up with vendors and full of happy Halloween fans!

I was most excited to check out the vendors, who were selling everything from t-shirts to baked goods to dolls to artwork to jewelry and so much more! With two ballrooms in the hotel full of vendors, I knew I could find some Halloweenie treasures to take home with me. There did seem to be fewer vendors than last year, however.

Makeup artist Sarah Rodriguez

Besides all the fantastic vendors, there were presentations from Larry Carr of Abracadaver Productions on how to corpsify a skeleton, world-renowned psychic-medium Michael J. Khoury on investigating haunted houses, and class on refabrication by Dave King. There was also an appearance by actor Philip Friedman, who played the black bride in Insidious, as well as special make-up artist Sarah Rodriguez performing demos.

Make your own corpsified skeleton!

I was provided with free entry to cover the event, but general admission tickets were $10 in advance and parking was free. It was easy to get to the event, and even though construction was going on at the venue it was still easy to find parking and get entry into the event. The rooms inside the event were roomy, there was a cash bar serving refreshments, and all the vendors were friendly. I'm already looking forward to next year's event!

Check out more photos from the event below:

One of my faves, AndySocial Industries! Love his amazing and varied artwork,

and it's always a pleasure chatting with him.

Awesomely creepy dolls from Twigz Morgue

Fantastic creations from Blood and Teeth

Drklght Clothing tees in the background and 

Memento Mori items in the foreground

Adored this cool ties from Memento Mori

Cute ragdolls from Kat's Dollies

The clever characters and masks from The Best Little Horror House

Boo-tiful jewelry and pins from Madame Whiskers

Lovely hats, fascinators and Mickey ears by All Hallows Eve

Mugs by Whichcraft

Loved this cute purses from Angel City Arts

More handemade adorableness from Angel City Arts!

Loved all these necklaces from Rotten Glam! Not to mention their lunch 

boxes, including the bewitching one above of Hocus Pocus!

More of Rotten Glam's goodies - including these cool horror water bottles!

Creepy-cool decor from Little Corpse Magnets

Eerie ornaments from Little Corpse Magnets

Tee No Evil

Tees from Infernal Imagery

Inner Demons Creations

Cute little Halloween art and jewelry - I didn't catch the name of this vendor

(if you know who the vendor is, let me know in the comments below)

Halloween Psycho coffin shelves

Here is what I ended up getting at the event - the Current Mood mug

from Whichcraft, plus jack-o-lantern necklace, Trick 'r Treat lollipop

necklace, and pins all from Rotten Glam!

Be sure to follow Abracadaver Productions on Facebook and Grave Harvest on Instagram to stay up-to-date on all their events!

Stay spooky, creeps!