Day 293 - Halloween Santa! - 10/22/2015

Today's Thing-a-Day Thing is Halloween Santa!

Even Santa is excited about Halloween!



Halloween is my favorite holiday, but Christmas is my 2nd favorite.

I love them both and am excited for both.  But Halloween should come first.

Santa agrees with me.

Thanksgiving is 3rd!

Valentines Day is 4th!

I'd have to think about the rest...

Day 277 - Drawlloween Days 1-6! - 10/6/2015

Today's Thing-a-Day is the first 6 days of this:

Here they are!

1. Ghost!

2. Devil!

3. Goblin!

4. Vampire!

5. Werewolf!

6. Pumpkin

That's it! More later!

6 every 6 days? We'll see...

Halloween is Coming!

Day 275 - Scared Monsters! video - 10/3/2015

Today's Thing-a-Day Thing is a song and video of the poem from several days ago!

Here are all the pictures from the video, and some others that would've been in the video if the song was longer!

I hope you love each and every moment!

They'd probably just eat you.

Day 273 - My 2015 Halloween Mood Table (shelf)! - 10/1/2015

Dinosaur Dracula's Madd Matt put the idea of a Halloween Mood Table last year.

The basic idea is that you put a bunch of Halloweeny stuff on a table to help keep your Halloween spirits alive during the season.

I made one last year. This year's is very similar, but I've added a few things and taken some away.

This year's Halloween Mood Shelf (I don't have an available table) is today's Thing-a-Day Thing!

This year I added a new popcorn tin, a Slimer toy I got from ebay, a Grim Reaper beany baby I got from Marsh... and that might be all that's new. Oh, there's also a cannon ball bottle that I bought on Talk Like a Pirate Day! It used to have rum shots in it. They are gone.

Wait... was my shrunken apple head in last years?

I can't remember.

You'll also see the Jack-o-lantern sculpture I bought from Joe from Harley Poe at a Horror Hound last year... or the year before.

Pez dispensers, a Chesire Cat head, another popcorn tin, the fake plants in a vase that are always there, a fake pumpkin I carved several years ago, a penguin (scary), a metal haunted house, an Asian mask I got from Disney World when I was 14, 2 masks Princess Melawesome and I made for the play Medea in college, a pumpkin candle, hanging ghost, pumpkin guy, and cat, a pumpkin carving kit, and Halloween crackers (the kind you pull, the pop, and have a paper crown, prize, and fortune inside).

I'm just now realizing I forgot Egon Spangler from Ghostbusters. He's up in my office. I'll add him later.

I also didn't put the Halloween movies and specials up there like I did last year. I don't know if I'll add them to the shelf or leave them by my DVD/Blu Ray player.

I plan to add other Halloweeny stuff as I get it this year.

Here are pictures of other Halloween stuff from around my house.

And here I a

Look at my tummy! It looks bigger than it is 'cuz I'm sticking it out so you can see my shirt good. It only looks a little bigger than it actually is.

And right on schedule I had a pumpkin in my backyard pumpkin patch ready to pick today!

There are several more that are well on their way! It promises to be a good crop this year!

Halloween Month is Here!!!!

Day 272 - September/October - 9/30/2015

Today's Thing-a-Day is a celebration of September going away and HALLOWEEN MONTH getting ready to be great!

It's almost time to stop waiting!

pumpkin

Day 266 - Tired Little Ghost - 9/24/2015

Today's Thing-a-Day Thing is a new Halloween song!

From youtube:


A new song for the 2015 Halloween season!

Lyrics:

A tired little ghost followed you home tonight
It's resting in the corner of your room.
Not that you would notice if you looked for it
It makes the walls a subtle shade of gloom.

A tired little ghost followed you home.
A tired little ghost followed you home.

It's leaning back, relaxed, silently watching you
as you go about your daily life routines.
It followed you because it finds you comforting
and the rhythms of your life calm and serene.

A tired little ghost followed you home.
A tired little ghost followed you home.

ooo...

The ghost has decided it will stay with you
until your living days come to an end.
And on that day it hopes that you will notice it
and spend the next eternity as friends.

A tired little ghost followed you home.
A tired little ghost followed you home.

ooo...



I'll put it up on bandcamp sooner or later.

Anybody wanna hire me?

Day 257 - Halloween Spider (a poem) - 9/15/2015

Scary spider, spun your web

over my pumpkin patch,

The summer season's on the ebb

you watch over this batch.

this batch.

you watch over this batch.

Your solemn guard you stand.

'til Halloween and pumpkins picked

May your web stay strong, each strand

and all of the insects tricked.

'sects tricked.

and all of the insects tricked.

But are your intents unscrupulous?

Your form a fright to see.

I don't mind you being poisonous

if you stay off of me.

of me.

Just stay the fuck off of me.

Spiders around? I don't care.

As long as they stay over there.

Day 254 - Turnip Jack-o-Lantern - 9/12/2015

I've read a couple of places that the original Jack-o-Lanterns were made of turnips and other more-common vegetables than pumpkins.

So I made one as today's Thing!

I read that it's better to cut the bottom off than the top, so I did that.

I scooped out the insides with a teaspoon. It smelled very earthy.

It ended up smaller than I thought it would.

I set it on a tea light candle.

But the more I put the turnip around the candle, the less oxygen it got and it started to go out.




I think it turned out pretty cool for my first turnip Jack-o-Lantern. The site I read said that it will only last 3 to 5 days.

I was hoping it would last until Halloween.

Hallween is coming!