Frog on the Pumpkin

I think I will go back to front. I have always been a bit odd....so this works for me. Last weekend was a blast, as most of you know we attended the first annual West Coast Haunters Convention, we had a great time.....but I am going to skip to the end. (I promise to get back to the very interesting beginning later.) Our friends Leonard and Jeanne Pickel who stayed in town for an extra day and graced us with their awesome presence. For those of you not familiar with them, they put on HAuNTcon , Leonard (founder) is the editor of Haunted Attraction Magazine, Leonard has owned and designed many haunted attractions (owns D.O.A.), he is an icon in the industry. Beside all that.....they are both really cool people. I know I have gushed on them before, but they really deserve it. In the years that Husband and I have been more and more involved in the greater haunt community we have made a lot of great friends, but have found not one more supportive of home haunters in the haunt industry then ...

another sister-in-law. She would still be my favorite. This is a gift from Husband's sister - she works at a custom glass company. This was one of the left overs from a project. For the record, nothing this cool is ever in the free pile at my work :D We are still working on exactly what to do with it. I is currently decorating the coffee table.... I mean where else do you put something this awesome :D Off to build a shrine to its magnificence . ;D

the coolest guy. He gets to work on a project with Mike Richardson!!! (excuse the frog queen as she geeks out here for a moment :D ) So, when we are not spending all our time working the Halloween thing, he is chairman of the Milwaukie Art Committee here is our small town of Milwaukie. Which almost no one has ever heard of, unless you are a comic book collector....then you know exactly where we are. :) Milwaukie's claim to fame is that it is the home of Dark Horse Comics . (Recently paired up with Bruce Campbell for the " My Name is Bruce " movie) Mike Richardson is the founder and is originally from Milwaukie, so he created the world headquarters of Dark Horse comics in Milwaukie. Mike has been in the business forever and knows everyone, in this time he has managed to amass a very large collection of comic book art. How cool huh? And cooler still he has agreed to allow the art committee (ArtMOB) to host a show of his collection "Hometown Superhero" with the pr...

are doing and head over the ShellHawk's blog. She posted a video that she took at the West Coast Haunters Convention - I guarantee you, you have not seen anything like this before....priceless :) Looks like all the fun at the convention happened during our class :D Sorry we missed it but oh so glad she got it on video!!!

just a little distracted this last week. It was a good distraction, more info to follow! Hummm, now I have that song from Spamalot stuck in my head Now you will too :D

since I bashed (I mean reviewed) a movie on this site, so imagine my surprise when Andrew at Who Wants Taters??? let me know that I was listed on Total Film site as a blog that does horror reviews. 600 movie bloggers you may have missed (scroll down I am towards the bottom) For only doing a handful of reviews....that is pretty cool huh? It is not that I don't watch horror films and want to talk about them, I do, but there are so many very talented, clever and funny bloggers out there that do an excellent job a horror movie review. Each time I think I will put my two cents in, I read on of their unique and entertaining posts and think....yeah, I am soooo not qualified to play in that arena. I often find after reading most peoples reviews, more often than not find I have the opposite opinion....which just further proves I have business entering that world. Case in point that I seem to be the only person on the planet (or part of a very, very small group) that thought Paranormal Acti...

I love the kitties so when Becca at Magikal Seasons (and co blogger on the Haunted Gardens blog) had created her cat ornaments, I knew I had to have them. She made three with different faces, I put one on the wall in my cat hallway, and the other two I am going to put in my door prize box for our Halloween party. She makes all kinds of whimsical ornaments to choose from at her Etsy store , her candy corn and skull ones are other favorites of mine. So in honor of my latest Etsy purchase, I am changing out the Etsy store link at the right to her site. Check it out when you get a chance.