Frog on the Pumpkin

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This is my kind of My Pretty Little Pony.....it is a good thing these are all sold.....otherwise I would have to posses one!! Cthulhu Edward Scissorhands These lovelies are courtesy of Mari Kasurinen - check out the rest of her My Pretty Little Pony work!

that is my excuse for posting this. I am also posting my usual disclaimer.  What is seen cannot be unseen. I remember the blissful days when I did not associate Firefly with pink and yellow and rainbows.....ooooooh the horror!!! :D

Most people know David Tennant from Doctor Who or Harry Potter.  But before all that he stared as a really creepy character in a movie called Secret Smile. Not a particuarlly great movie...I thought the ending was too fluffy. But it got one thing very right - the movie is about a sociopath name Brendan - played by David, and he does a great job. You really think he is pure evil, this is the kind of person you hope you never meet in your entire life. In fact it took a few Doctor Who episodes from me to shake that "creepy dude" feeling.

can make me excited to see the new Fright Night movie. I love David Tennant.....really I do, but.....yeah, I really hope this does not suck! Man, frog queen has got to work on her attitude....sorry everyone! :D

We got some Foam-it 10 from Smooth On the other day - we were trying to use Foam-it 5 - but it is too soft on the small pieces and they were breaking during the demolding and/or sanding process. This means that we will be opening the Etsy shop with foam tombstone accents again sometime next week. This is good....but (there is always one of those is there not!) the cost of foam went up about 15% so we are going to have to raise the rates a bit.....sorry in advance everyone.

Here are a few more pictures of the panel design for the abbey ruins.   This shows you how we are going to construct the walls out of framed 4x8 foot pieces of foam. We plan on starting this weekend!  Pictures of the process to follow.....we are even thinking we might video blog some of it also....we will see.

I am a little slow to the party sometimes....so I am sure that one of you other fantastically aware bloggers already posted this.  But I just found it today and it cracked me up!! It is from a group called " Improv Everywhere " The staged an improv Ghostbuster scene in the NY library where the opening scences of the film took place.  It is hysterical!!  Makes you want to go the library doesn't it? :D Be sure to check out the page for this event to see the stills that were taken.  Just made my day! I originally found it from their latest link about a horse race on a carousel ....which is fantastic also. I love this stuff...I could spend all day on that site!

Ruin abbey edit spider pictures interview a skull put bones in box hold seance to see who/what is possessing my phone photo shoot for Mr. Pumpkinhead find the small skeletons and....finish laundry going to be a busy day at the graveyard!

a dog. Cause I am pretty sure my cats read my spell books when I am not home.  If I did not feed them, I am sure I would be frog myself right now. :D

Cause this will not play on my phone. My phone sucks...off to pout in the corner.

Ouch, I think I need some ice for my hand.

make it to HAuNTcon - and I think I only met one of you....so this will be helpful for the rest of you :) Just kidding...you are all saving up to attend next year right? If you want to get a taste of the HAuNTcon experience we keep talking about you have to check out the HAuNTcon YouTube channel - the fantastic Jason & Melissa McKnight from Haunt it Yourself Productions - did an amazing job filming, likely the hardest working group at the event. There are over 80 short videos to check out. Here is a video of the man himself...the infamous Leonard Pickel - talking about a new twist on a scare at the Necroplis Haunt on the PreShow tour Here is a bit of the Dent School House tour.  I really love seeing this, well sort of.....I do like seeing because we did not go to the preshow tour (we were shopping for the take n makes and our class) and I do not like seeing because I now see what I missed :( Sometimes there is no making the Frog Queen happy :) And of course ...

but it is pretty cool. The nurse from Silent Hill....in cake form!  Awesome.

you cannot say anything bad about him.....I will not hear it.  He is one of my favorite people in the haunt community!!!  If you have not been to the  Chateau Grrr website....go now.  That is not a suggestion...that is an order from the Frog Queen. :D He made a video of me at WCHC talking at my usual 100 miles an hour.  Yeah, I have 5,000 thing to do right now....keep up if you can. LOL!  All kidding aside.  Love Chad....and thanks for the mention....see you soon!  

was the fantastic team from Haunt it Yourself. Super generous group - every time you turned around they were there filming.  The documented the whole convention....and here is there video of our Monday class.  Trust me it was as crazy as it looked!! Of course we picked an Irish drinking song as the sound track....Leonard didn't care much for it.  But if you know our crew - that fits just perfectly!

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Thanks to Midnight in the Garden of Evil the image above from her site kinda started this whole thing. I have managed to climb out of the wedding cake vortex.  Wonder what will happen when I google "evil twinkies!" :D

and lots of it I hear.  Yes, the Frog Queen will be seeing "Evil Dead" the musical on July 23rd! Woohoo! As much as I think it would be fun....I did buy tickets in the "splatter free" zone.   Driving home covered in blood just sounds......actually, it sounds kinda awesome. What was I thinking!

claiming that I have found the best wedding cake ever.  Cause every time I say that....I get another link sent to me with an even more spectacular cake. A Cthulhu cake - I am in love - pass me the champagne! Can you have more than one cake at your wedding....cause if it was me there was no way I could choose!

I have heard it called both, depending on the restaurant.  Here is a great recipe - if you love champagne and port separately, you are going to love this drink.  I have heard that it makes a good pallet cleanser between dinner and desert.  Then you just serve the port (sans champagne) with desert. You need: 5oz Dry Champagne or Sparkling Wine 1oz Tawny Port Mint Leaves (optional) Sugar Mix: Frost the rim of a champagne flute, if desired. Pour champagne or sparkling wine into champagne flute Add tawny port Gently stir mixture to preserve carbonation. Garnish with mint leaves, if desired. I imagine it would taste fantastic this wedding cake

I must possess them all!!!

and run around the house and terrorize the cats! Cthulhu slipper s!! I might have to trade in my Kermit slippers for these :)

Since I cannot eat a whole wedding cake by myself (well, I probably could.....depending on the day.)  I thought I would see if I could find a smaller creepy single serving cake to have for lunch...since it seems I have suddenly fell into the cake vortex! I think this would be perfect - and I love the thought of me eating a cake shaped like a bird and I am vegetarian.....okay, maybe that only amuses me. Since we have a Halloweenish themed blog here, I would probably use this champange glass, just to keep the mood.... But really, I have been wanting a set of these glasses for a while....so if no one was looking....I would actually use these.  Are those not deeevine!  Maybe I could epoxy a skull on the side.....yeah, I could do that! Since I cannot find a "red" champange or a chamapange maker that has a cool name I would make a drink I read about ages ago that mixes good champange and port.  Two things I love.....I imgine it will be heaven. So, who want...

cause this is the second awesome wedding cake idea in two days.  I do believe this i my new favorite....that is until someone makes a zombie frog wedding cake....then THAT will be the best wedding cake ever . :) A glass of champagne and some wedding cake sounds good about now!

Here are the latest renderings of the abbey design from my still favorite minion Andy :D I have a set of printed out plans that I am going to "ruin" - draw on the abbey where I want bits to have fallen away (or if this was reality - taken away to build another building in the area - usually a manor house) so that we can design the panels.  Since our existing church is all flat panels, the sheets were easy to frame. Panels that look like ruins are going to require us to make some very interesting frames for the foam.  This is going to slow the process down - so we better get started!!

Facebook games.....and I really want to keep it that way....so don't send me anymore links like this !! :D Damn.....that is really tempting....must.....not....click....on the "got to app" button.....must resist!!!

and this is totally not Halloween related, but I am going to ask you all anyway - if you are going to have friends, might as well use them.....that is my saying for today. Okay - I have some friends getting married, at our house in July - they do not want wedding gifts, but that has never stopped me. Since their wedding is exactly a year and a day from their hand fasting ceremony (which was lovely)....what would be something special I could make them?  Sorta of earthy and happy.....suggestions? Thanks in advance everyone. 

or psychic or just realistic about the odds- either way, I want to go to the wedding that has this cake!  I think the blood is just perfect, some people just get carried away with the gore.....this is a masterpiece. I bet there was a prenup! :D   Or this is the best divorce party cake ever!

he is a thoughtful that way :D My skellingos have been kidnapped!!! I am curious and a little worried......I know who kidnapped them.   I am sure when they come back there will be magnets involved :D

with their award? Last time I saw her she was in one of the boxes* :D If you find her she like seafood flavored cat food (Tuna for cats from Trader Joes) She likes to drink out of the sink....and, as you can tell from those eyes...she is crazy and likely pure evil, pick her up with caution.) The Home  Haunter DVD Collection awards are out and several people have even emailed me that they received them!  We had one casualty in the delivery process.  Although the box was okay - contents....not so much :( I think it was Gremlins......or that was the box the Dorie was in. (Sorry about the damage, we have Mike at Ghost Ride making you another one!) Hope everyone loves their awards....remember to film or take pictures of your haunt for this year.  I promise to revamp the site and provide more information later this summer so this years set will be the best ever! * Just in case you are new to this blog and you do not know already that the FQ is a big...

with this post.  Trying to validate another LOLcat post.....this could be rubbish.....we will have to see, bare with me while I tell you a story. When I was a teenager growing up in the desert of southern California (litterally in the middle of nowhere) in a small town called Idyllwild on small mountian between Hemet (aka: Hell on Earth) and Palm Springs I spent a lot of time with my Grandmother who, being a very independent lady - taught me (or let me) to be equally independent. So spending time with her, which I did often, gave me a lot of flexibility to do things I could not do at home.  Having a small house and two brothers and a sister did not give a girl much time to herself. Looking back now I would have to say I was always a little "different" - the nuns called it "difficult" :) That said, I did not do a lot of things my siblings did....I have hated television as far back as I can remember.  The only show I can remember ever wanting to watch was Oute...

because my inner child threw a temper tantrum this morning and I had to do something to distract her so I could get some work done. I have to say - I really need to do this more often, I found the coolest stuff out there that I totally missed.  That is good and bad....some are no longer avalialbe :(  and some are out of season so they are on sale! :) If it has been a while since your 12 year old self has been shopping....I suggest you lock up your credit card. The first thing in my cart is...... Zombie Shooting Gallery - Death to the Dead Take aim with the included laser assault rifle and blast the zombies as they pop up from the windows of the dark mansion. Too slow and they dine on the human hostages inside. Remember, practice hard... not much time before the real hell spawn arrive to feast on flesh of the living. Then we add this...... Skullhub USB The top has been hacked open and the brains scooped out, but at the jawline are 4 USB 2.0 ports just waiting ...

This is probably one of the coolest things in the whole world....well at least today.  This is version 2 - how did I miss version 1 !?!?! This my friends is  New Ghost Detector! Baketan Ver.2 Cell Phone Strap !!!   (be sure the click that link....great full description) The new Baketan Ver.2 is equipped with "KOTODAMA" tuner. Have you ever heard any "KOTODAMA"?   What's a "KOTODAMA"? It's uncertain, might be voice of OBAKE (Gohst). Can you hear that? Maybe not, but you are able to listen wierd sounds from the other side, with Baketan KOTODAMA Radar. Spiritual Message will be given. Good Luck..... A ghost detector/protector/decoder (something like the Rosetta stone for ghosts!) on my cell phone strap!  This is all kinds of fun!!  They make the coolest toys in Japan....I gotta move, or find a store in the US that sells these!! FQ wants!!

Braaaaiiiiiins!

Here I was wishfully thinking that the zombie apocalypse would wipe out the Hello Kitty fans.....but I was wrong, so very, very wrong. Nothing is scared my friends....it is a sad world. :D