Frog on the Pumpkin

Who could not make it to HAuNTcon. I brought avatars :D. Quite unwillingly I might add :D Published with Blogger-droid v1.6.8

I'm ready to go...... ...okay that was really mean of me.  Good luck getting that song out of your head for the rest of the day :D Off to HAuNTcon!  Will blog, FB and tweet as much as I can about the event. Just a reminder to anyone that purchases a Home Haunter DVD collection will not ship until after we get back.  I tried to get the cats to it....but no good.  Something about not enough tuna in the world :)

so much that there were more than a few moments sitting at my desk thinking how in the world can I get out of going to Hauntcon? Several things I was part of did not go as planned.  And even with working weekends and 10 hour days I am so behind at work that I really hate leaving......I just finished typing up the last email to my coworkers a few moments ago.....it is 1:30 in the am!! Don't you hate how vacations are so much work before and after to go - or is it just my job :D Let's hope Leonard is still talking to me at the end of the convention.  And the rest of you have not deserted me :D ....cause right now....for the first time in a while I am actually excited about going to HAuNTcon....so much so that I cannot sleep. Looking forward to seeing my friends, and meeting new ones.  Hiding from Leonard...I will spend most of the time hiding behind husband. :D Taking and teaching classes and seminars.......buying all kinds of cool haunt stuff...walking through ...

Facebook....but I had to post it here - because I am living proof that this saying is true.  I like it so much I taped it up in my office.  I makes me laugh in between crying :) You cannot make everyone happy. But you sure can piss them all off at the same time. Oh, yes, yes you can. :D I will be back to blogging soon.....that is if anyone is still taking to me :D Back to prop building everyone!!

http://market.android.com/details?id=com.appmakr.app173403 Very cool! No need for this printed program I have spent my life working on! :D Published with Blogger-droid v1.6.8

you can blame Leonard personally for why I have been so absent on the blog scene for a lot longer than I planned.  If it is any consultation.......the program for the convention (which is 60 pages worth!) is frickin' amazing, by the way....and so are the signs and the daily newsletter.....and the Make-N-Takes will be awesome. And what ever else we are doing....I am trying not to think of it, makes my head hurt  :D No, really, we love LP - great guy and could not find a nice haunt community person to helped.  Truly the Frog Queen is very glad to be part of the whole event.  No thanks necessary......well, except..... I just expect a well stocked bar at the hospitality suite!! FQ and crew loves their Capitan Morgan (wink, wink!) Back to all of you!!! Anyway - big apology to all of you for being such a bad blogger and friend.  I promise to pick up some cool things to give away on my blog when I get back. And a very, very special "s...

for the Home Haunter DVD Awards tonight on the Bloodshed Brothers Vblog .  I hear they have something special planned, so be sure to check it out. Congrats in advance to the winners. And a very special well done to EVERYONE that submitted - you all did a great job - very inspiring and I have to say I am thankful that I did not have to pick the winners :D Back to prop building....or again in my case...working on HAuNTcon stuff. :)

First, we where out of them for a while, but the DVD's are back in stock .  Order now before we sell out...again. We are still taking requests from home haunters that cannot afford to purchase a DVD set.  Just go to the website and send us your information and we will get back to you if we can help. The Bloodshed Brothers are doing us the honor of announcing the winners of the video awards.  (Thanks again guys!) I believe it is going to happen later this week. So if you are not a subscriber (what is wrong with you!) to their YouTube channel - sign up now!  We will post the information on the website and the forums shortly after they announce it on the Vblog. The awards are ordered and should arrive while we are at HAuNTcon -so we will not be sending the awards out until the second week in May - they are shiny and pretty and worth the wait!! Like I have said, wish I could send you all one.  There were some very tough choices that the judges ...

all about HAuNTcon at this point....the only way I am going to be able to fit blogging in is to talk about HAuNTcon here too: Since I am working on the program, I am gonna share. Look who is coming to HAuNTcon.... LESLEY BANNATYNE Lesley Bannatyne is a freelance journalist and author, with five books on Halloween. Halloween, An American Holiday, an American History, A Halloween How-To, A Halloween Reader, Witches Night Before Halloween, and 2011’s Halloween Nation: Behind the Scenes of America’s Fright Night). She has shared her knowledge of Halloween on television specials for Nickelodeon and the History Channel (“The Haunted History of Halloween” and “The True Story of Halloween”), and with the likes of Time Magazine, Slate.com and the Wall Street Journal. She has also given talks at venues as diverse as the 2000 Halloween Convergence in New Orleans and the St. Louis Art Museum. She contributed the Halloween article to World Book Encyclopedia. With the help of many compatriot...

Stacked Books with Skull and Candle Make-N-Take SOLD OUT! Make-N-Take number seven, the ”Stacked Books with Skull and Candle” for Saturday April 30, 10:30-11:30am and 2:30-3:30pm is SOLD OUT! And several other of the fantastic Make-N-Takes are close to being full as well, so if you want to take advantage of these great hands on classes, sign up TODAY! CLICK HERE to see the exciting classes that are still available. We sold out one of our classes even before registration!!! Woohoo!!! Still room in many of the other classes. Check out the full schedule for details. See you at Hauntcon!!!

or two, or ten :) We got all the votes in from the judges over the weekend for the Home Haunter DVD collection awards!  Woohoo!  We cannot say thanks enough to all the haunters that agreeed to judge this year - you are the best and we could not do this without you!!   Thank you , thank you, thank you!! I created the envelopes yesterday and wax sealed them all in black envelopes.....we are ready to make the announcement! So if you have not heard, in our effort to really turn this whole DVD and award process into a haunt community event we have asked the Bloodshed Brother s to announce the winners on their Vblog - Academy Awards style. (thanks guys for helping us out!) We know they will do us proud, so looking forward to seeing what they come up with.  I am mailing them out to them today so check their blog in the next few days to find out the winners! A big thanks again to all you haunters that submitted, if I had my way I would give you all an award, ever...

Or at least that is the plan! At our charity wine auction tonight an this is in the silent auction. Ghost wine will be mine. Published with Blogger-droid v1.6.8

It is funny - my partner in crime for the big shindig I have going on today sent me this email last last night....cause we are both working late into the evening at this point. "Funny how a WINE auction can drive a person to DRINK!!!" So true.  Today is our 9th Annual Credit Unions for Kids Wine Auction at work - big fancy deal, evening gowns and tuxes and people spending lots of money on wine....for a good cause it is for our local children's hospital.  So as much work and stress as it is.....I keep remember we are doing it for the kids :) I am one of the co-conspirators on this event, and it is big and scary and a LOT of work and I can hardly wait until Saturday morning when this is all over and I can focus on important things.....like HAuNTcon and West Coast Haunters Convention! :D I should be back to regular blogging after the weekend.  Missed you guys!! Cheers!

2011 Vendor Spotlight- 4/14 One of the reasons I love going to the conventions is hooking up with some our vendor friends. Over the years we have gotten to spend a lot of time with both John and Jon from EFX-TEK - we love their controllers and taking their classes - and they are just great guys to hang with. Great controllers and supererior support - cannot say enough nice things about these guys! One of our favorite vendors! See you at HAuNTcon and WCHC!!!

You so gotta see this - the teaser video from Love Manor.  Woohoo! And, no, unfortunately,  not on the DVD collection....but a frog queen can wish.  Maybe someday.  Definitely subscribe to his channel so you can see the complete video when he is done.  From this trailer it is going to be worth the wait!!!

your Haunter DVD Collection , you are going to have to wait a bit longer. We are currently out and have another order at the duplicator right now. We are expecting them next week sometime. Want to say thanks to the few buyers that had problems playing them and for being so understanding about our sending another set....and then having to send another disk - again. Wow, when we mess up, we do it right! :D A special apology to the very kind  iZombie - who has offered to help me with the a banner and logo for the site (we all know it really needs it!)and Pumpkinbrain who has offered to help with the programming - I have just been too busy with work and HAuNTcon to get back to that project. I promise to make time as soon as I can. Looking forward to seeing that site live up to the quality of the DVD collection :) Also quick note that we will be at HAuNTcon (please join us!) from April 26th - through May 3rd - so we if you order during that time we will not be able to ship to...

Only time for LOLcats! Good thing they had a zombie one this weekend or I would have nothing to post here :) see more Lolcats and funny pictures , and check out our Socially Awkward Penguin lolz!

see more Lolcats and funny pictures , and check out our Socially Awkward Penguin lolz!

on a marketing conference call this am and we started to talk about YouTube - they asked if anyone in the group had a YouTube page -we (my work) was the only one, but there is not much to it.  So it was not a good example.  As a last resort they asked us if anyone had a personal page...no one did but me. Now I usually do not mention my hobby at work - everyone is very normal, so I sorta keep to myself.  But for some reason I said..."well, yeah, my hobby has a site"  She pauses and says "Thanks, but I am looking for something a bit bigger." I think "Wait a minute, you did not even ask me what it was?  It is not like I collect spoons or anything...really, that kinda hurt my feelings." But I don't say that.  Then someone ask, "So what is your hobby that you actually have a YouTube page?" "It is Halloween related. We make Halloween decorations." Someone else says "Halloween is a big retail marketing, let's take a look at ...

on the program for HAuNTcon and I get to the celebrities section.  Always fun to see who will be there, looking forward to this.  And guess who the first person on the list is? Lesley Bannatyne!! I met her a few HAuNTcons ago and she was delightful.  I doubt she will remember who I am, so I look forward to meeting her again. This year's HAuNTcon just keeps getting better and better!!!

in the window this weekend. Seems to bring out the cute in my normally crazy Dorie cat. In this picture you would almost think she is normal - but look carefully, you can still see the "crazy" in her eyes!  :) Published with Blogger-droid v1.6.7

Over the years I have created (and had people create for me) many Chris "frog queen" follies.  These are things that rarely end up in the yard that I just want to make for myself - just a folly.  No real purpose other than to make me smile. To date, this is not only the most expensive folly, but in turn, the most complicated. May I present my luminary. This was inspired by my many years for catholic school, not a big fan of churches, except I like the decor and the architecture.  So when I saw that EFX-TEK had this very realistic flickering light controlling system, I knew exactly what I wanted to do with it. After three years of building and unbuilding this prop, I think it is finally done.  I currently sits in my soon to be remodeled office.   When that is all done I will share a video so you can see how great it looks when it is plugged in and working in a dark room. Yes, this is definitely my favorite folly. Here i...

on my steering wheel as I was driving home on Friday night.  I thought (okay, let's say "hoped") that is was a small flying thing......anything...anything that had wings.....and not eight legs. I do not need my glasses to drive, but I do to read....so sometimes the small details in front of me are hard to see. Small details like what the *&%$! that is now on my steering wheel?!? No, it could not be....really, maybe the wings just look like legs? No, no denying it....those are legs....eight of them. (my vision goes back to 20/20 when there is a spider in the area) It is a *&%^#$@# SPIDER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Must not faint....must not faint......must....get it the hell off my steering wheel. ....without crashing the car.....that would be a good idea. Can we pull over.....no, I am in the fast lane. It is friday night, I had to work late all week.....I just wanted to get home so me and my car/rocket ship are in the fast lane speeding home a bit...

to Leonard talk about HAuNTcon - you can just tell by the way he talks about it that this is his passion.  Gotta respect and love that! Listen to internet radio with fearlessghosthunter on Blog Talk Radio