Frog on the Pumpkin

but right after that is orange.  Note that black is the background color for everything in my life....so it is just a given that black is the default color. So for my costume for Hauntcon I am looking for a 50s style outfit.  I have the perfect black dress, and of course a petticoat to match (I will be wearing it without the cat.) So I need some accesories. I found this cool vintage purse on Etsy - orange 50s clutch - talk about a score!! The bow is for my waist - also an Etsy purchase. The glasses are a real find, got them at Micheals when I was purchase supplies for the Hauntcon class and although they said $3.99 on the label - they rang up as 1 cent!  The store said that was fine and sold them to me for a penny! The plastic skulls husband cast for me (he even made a special trip to TAP plastic to get the resin color for my plastic...he is a sweetie!)  I need to take a dremel and clean them up and make earrings and a hair piece - I need another of the...

Well, let me explain...since Dor would not draw a winner and the rest of the cats would have nothing to do with the little balls of paper with names on them....which is odd, cause they love those. .....curious....I think Dor threatened them not to touch her sh#t, with her evil stare. Anyway - this morning I found a wad of paper outside of her bed in the window and on the counter....I will take that. So congrats to Jays' Shadow!! Just send me your mailing info and I will get your zombie stuff out to you!

but between HAuNTcon and WCHC convention....I am literally only getting 3- hours of sleep a day.  That is factoring in the days were I get 7 one day and 0 for a few other days. I just love Halloween.....so who is going to visit me at HAuNTcon....please....I need some moral support!!! Be back soon.....

I did not see that on the tag.....but it is pretty obvious that it could uncomfortable and certainly bloody to try to put my new petticoat on with the cat inside. With his black and white coat....he can really rock a orange petticoat....nice going kitty! This is Mason, the big cat - sleeping in my ruffly, fluffy, very girly petticoat....I think he is getting in touch with his feminine side.   He can sleep there for another week and then I have to pack that in my suit case as part of my costume for HAuNTcon. And, no, Mason....you are not going with me.  If that is the plan you should find something a little less see through to hide in.   Plus I think I would notice the extra 20lbs in the suit case....sorry buddy.

is a good day. That cat tail in the image.....by the food dishes, that is Dorie....who has still not drawn a winner. I am giving up. I am working on Hal and Mason....at this point anyone that is will to help.

image by * MirrorCradle   I LOL'd - literally when I read it. Being a big fan of Lovecraft, in fact I was reading Dagon last night. Here is a sample of the piece written by  James Warner Dear Howie, Last week I received a “you probably don’t remember me” note from a man I went to a school dance with nineteen years ago. He is married and has three kids, but states he is not happy. What should I do? Concerned Lady Dear Concerned Lady: – Although humankind has a yearning toward whatever is redolent of mystery and allurement, it is well that certain lacunae in our knowledge should remain forever unfilled. Your shadowy correspondent’s mention of the ill-regarded numbers nineteen and three recalls an unutterable experiment performed on sticklebacks by the Swedish icthyologist Dalgaard. I dare not describe his observations, but he concluded that, the longer we can remain innocent of our place in the cosmos, the better it must ...

hi there, cute gray kitty,....ready to draw a winner for me? "I am no longer speaking to you." - she says. Really? "You took me to the vet today." Yeah, it was only to trim your claws.....they were scratching the hell out of my hands..... "...silly human, you obviously do not understand the purpose of my claws." Catching birds in the wild for food? "....ha, ha, ha.....why am I talking to you?......GO AWAY or bring me canned food.  Preferably the latter.  Actually, both is better!" Why did my blog friends pick you!?!?!?! "Once again....you are under this delusion that you have friends. ...if you did, it would be because, unlike you, they are smart, and probably good looking....hey, can you ask any of them if they need a cute sweet gray cat?" No! "Why not?" First of all you are far from "sweet" and would you not miss your brother? "I am sooooo sweet!!....yeah, I that might be a hard sel...

Okay, I know that some people think I am being too weird or unpatriotic - but tell me, whould you not be more inclinded to visit the presidents if they looked like this? Tell the truth :D

...OMG that has to be the scariest shower curtian in the history of the world. That cat deserves a metal, and a can of caviar!

are you finally ready to draw a winner?  My blogger friends are waiting....... Silly humanm, who are you kidding,  you have no friends! .....and first of all......do I look like I care?   *&^% off, before I kill you with my mind....you and all  two your blogger "friends." Okay, we will ask her again tomorrow.....  Sorry everyone.  Now you see what I have to live with every day of my life. :)

on a poster for promoting art and the like for the local "First Friday"? ..."Hell yes!", she said. I guess it is going to take me a while to get out of the mode of having to censor my hobby from what I think is the rest of the world :D (My last job was ultra conservative - don't miss it for a moment.) What are you talking about FQ? My local downtown has been doing an art/social thing called "First Friday" for a few years.  We walk around the town and visit local businesses that have art up and usually the artists are there.  Very cool and a lot of fun.  I just love that stuff.  We have decorated and featured Marci's photos of the yard at the local wine bar for the past two years. There has been a little change in advertising (no not me....thank goodness, I have enough going on) and they revamped the logo, posters, and website and needed sponsors to help make it happen.  I know we are both unemployed and I should not be spending my saving...

thanks for the support.......or that he wants me to pet him....it is hard to say, but he has been crawling all over my keyboard tonight.  And look....he just batted a ball of paper my way. Cats....they will play with anything as long as it is not a toy you bought for them. Oh, wait he has a concession speech all prepared an just needs a moment of your time. He is a super nice cat, I am sure this will be lovely. Let's see what the speech has to say...... Wow, looks like Mason is a sore loser......

for the winner of the Zombie giveaway ? We have three - may I present, in order of acquisition Hal - full name "Halloween Cat" - Tuxedo We actually "stole" him from a neighbor.  It seems he was a stray that both of us were feeding.  He just managed to work his way into our house one Halloween (hence his name) and adopted us. He is the only cat in our house allowed outside. He is kinda famous in his own right.  He has been in dozens and dozens of Davis Graveyard pictures....he loves cameras - I think every news crew that has visited the house has footage of him.  He is the official mascot and has even gotten fan mail .  He is our biggest critic, he scratches up the props he thinks we can do better.........which I believe is just about everything in the yard.  If I go by his scratch marks....I have to assume that the new abbey sucks.  Speaking of the display, we may build it and set it up....but we all know it belongs to him.  Th...

that this existed......a frog candle snuffer....and here I was blissfully happy with my "very like the one I used in church" version.....this is way better...... ..I need one....well, maybe not...did everyone hear the sad news that Dark Candles is not making candles anymore??!  They had a problem with their distributor.....very sad day for haunters....very sad...and dark...and less haunted house/graveyard/forbidden fruit smelling (wow, I guess you know my favorite scents!).... Makes the few dozen candles in my possession very precious..... ...and rare....I think I better take my address off the interwebs, so the candle hunters do not storm my house!! Keep away - I have attack cats!!!

...the Home Haunter Video Awards announcement....so we thought we would go the the East Coast Haunt Club this year and have our good friends Pam and Chris make the video.  We love that this is just one more way we are making this whole project work by help from the community that supports it. I just love you haunter people!!! They produced a clever video to announce the winners of the Home Haunter Video Awards for 2011.  Be sure to check it out.

Here are the winners for the 2011 Home Haunter Video Awards: Congrats to all the winners. Best Yard Haunt Steve Parmley Spider Rider of Dun Ringill Best Yard Haunt (Vanguard) Toby, Stephanie, Cory & Tyler Wrolson Haunt 31 Best Indoor/walkthrough Haunt Chris Ainsworth Thornhill Woods Haunted House Best Indoor/walkthrough Haunt (Vanguard) Roger Hayes Hayes Haunt Best Static Prop Heidi & Donnie Rauber 2nd Street Cemetery Best Static Prop (Vanguard) Steve Parmley Spider Rider Best Animated Prop Halloween Hellmouth Hellmouth IV Resurrection – Car Best Animated Prop (Vanguard) Spencer & Debra Carter Casa Fear Best Party Haunt Jerry & Sandie Schneider Haunted Mansion RIP George Best Video Production Tim and Tina Reuwsaat Darkwing Manor and Morguetorium Best How-to S...

I am lucky enough to share the same town as Dark Horse Comics....who also has one of the coolest comic book stores.  Since are big fans of the Walking Dead show, ....we have to read the graphic novel, which, means we have to go to downtown Milwaukie and go shopping at Things From Another World. I know, I have a rough life :) So while I was there I picked up a few extra zombie things....since i am really trying to get rid of stuff, I thought I would just share them with my blogger friends. I have four zombies in various colors - one of them even glows in the dark!! Then there is this cool packet of green zombie blood!!  I think it is edible....but I am going to leave that up to your judgement. I even have a tin of Zombie breath mints (not pictured) that I will throw in. Just leave a comment on this post by midnight on Sunday, April, 8th.  I will have one of the cats draw a winner on Monday morning. Good luck my friends!

Very clever promo video for School of Seven Bells new release called Ghoststory. Not a huge fan of their music....but for the title alone, I might have to give it a try. Even though the cover does kinda suck (not very "ghosty").....being a haunter, I have to say that :D

hold up in water? I ask my brother. "Fine, actually once it is cured....water is no problem. Why do you ask?" I think......."I need a fountian made of skulls, or mostly skulls!" (just like all of you, right?) Not some prop (no offense to the skull fountian prop makers - those are awesome - and that is where I got the idea) but I am talking a 365 days a year skull fountian. Something permanent. Seriously, scare the yard guys and mailman and put me on the FBI watch list type fountian. :D Would that not be SWEET!? So I think I see casting resin skulls in my future. Dang, and I hate working with resin....what am I thinking.......