The Halloween mags are starting to hit the stores and I have picked up a couple. The only one I have found worth mentioning is Better Homes and Gardens. Why? Because Scott Smith of Rucus Studios created some halloween silhouettes at the request of the editor. I think I have the explanation right…if not Scott can set me straight.
This is Scott’s picture from his own blog, hope it’s ok for me to use this Scott, I have it linked back to his own blog post about the BHG entry.
I have also gone over to BHG website to snag the silhouettes that Scott had given them for the mag. To save some time I put them in my Google Doc’s and shared them to everyone. There are other silhouettes there from other submitters to BHG. These are all free to use per BHG. I will add more to the Google Doc’s as I find them online or as I make them. I’m also going to try to figure out a way to share my Google Doc’s through this here blog, just need to wrap my brain around it and do it. I am so smart, SMRT.
So there are recalls on eggs, recalls on Deli meat from Walmart. Recalls for toys, cars, childrens medicines, pet food… Recalls on the recalls.
I have mentioned before that I would like to have a gated community for Artists, Haunters and Halloween enthusiasts. So now I’m thinking maybe we should all pitch in and buy 400+ acres of farm land somewhere. We can raise our own food, have our funky studios decorated the way we want without the neighbors freaking out about property values. We could have beef cows for all you meat eaters and lots of veggies and fruits for the Vegtabletarians.
Heck I’m looking on Land and Farm right now and there are wonderful deals to be had!!!!
Lets go make some Koolaid!!!
It’s an actual question to myself…where have I been? Why have I not gotten in the swing of things and blogged more? Why don’t I surf for Halloween and Spooky goodness online instead of wasting my time on Facebook, playing Farmville? Why don’t I spend more time in the Skullery?
I honestly can’t answer any of those questions. I have been lurking online, besides playing Farmville, which I actually only play once/twice a day and for a short time. I lurk on all of the other blogger’s sites trying to find some flame to stick under my butt to get me going. So many are creating wonderful things that instead of feeling inspired I started to feel over whelmed.
I push myself way to hard and expect the moon of myself. Instead of that being a good thing it makes me shut down instead. I start new projects, leaving others to collect dust, which then makes me feel like I’m not succeeding at anything.
I know that part of my problem is seeing so many artists that do art full time, it is their life, and then I try to make self be able to create as much as they do. Ummm… self, your forgetting one key thing here. You work for a living being a Computer tech, 8 hours of your day is spent away at work, then there is roughly 8 hours of sleep, another 2 of that is prep time for either work or driving to it. That leaves roughly 6 hours which we can take about 2 for eating dinner and dinner prep, now I’m down to 4. Four hours left in the day to do something all on my own…the dogs get some of that, and I get the rest. What do I do? I relax and typically do nothing, why? I feel tired from work and then feel like I let myself down because I didn’t use up 2 hours in the Skullery.
I have got to reconfigure how I think of things. Obviously work is not something I can change…actually, there is something I can do but it would take them finally hiring a third person in our department. Once I’m able I’m going to work four 10 hour days, that will give me three days off to do what I wish with. But…until that happens, and it is out of my control, I need to rethink/reconfigure how I do things.
I have to start with forgiving myself for those days I do nothing. If they happen often enough then I can start kicking myself in the self to get me motivated. Down time is always much needed but too much of it is just laziness, which I have had an over abundance of in my life.
I have got to ease up on the self. This isn’t a competition… and if it is, who exactly am I competing with?
*This post was brought to you by Brain. Brain, although good natured, can be a bit over stimulated at times. Self just tries to keep up and roll with the coaster.
Here we are on Friday the 13th, the only one we will have this year so enjoy every minute of it folks! Did you know that the fear of Friday the 13th is called Friggatriskaidekaphobia? There is a bunch of info over on Wiki concerning Friday the 13th, you can find it here.
Mostly the Friday the 13th became to be known as an unlucky day because of the belief that Friday was an unlucky day and that the number 13 was an unlucky number, combine the two and you have super unlucky.
Google has a really cool time-line for Friday the 13th.
Hope you guys have a wonderfully spooky day!!
It’s 90 days until Halloween and I’m starting to feel the season wrap its lovingly spooky arms around me. Looking around on Facebook I see lots and lots of Halloween updates from the Home Haunters creating props, the Pro Haunts building theirs and the artists creating tons of new spooky art.
I do love Halloween year round but there is no other feeling than the months right before Halloween. I tend to walk around with a stoopid grin on my face with it only getting worse if I happen across something Halloween related.
I have a bit of predicament though. I do love Halloween and I love building full size Halloween props…but, yes there is a but, I have no where to store them! Cucur and Mauly have spent this whole time in my living room, which I don’t mind, but… I’m going to run out of room for my furniture if I keep at it.
I had decided months ago to attempt to switch over to smaller Spooky art that I could sell. That is going very slowly but I am moving forward…now another predicament. My brother wants me to haunt his yard this year and I want to build a few ghosts for the yard. UGH!!! I need a dammed garage!! Heck, I need a whole nother house!
Even though I have those little predicaments… I’m still geeking all over the place over Halloween season creeping into the air!!
This is so friggin awesome!! So get this, Chris Davis of Davis Graveyard came up with the webby idea for Halloween this year. First off… she is an Arachnophobic, so for her to come up with this idea is not only off the friggin hook, but I believe may be therapeutic to some degree. Ok, Ok… might not be therapeutic in a good way, but may just send her to therapy!!
Here is her original blog post with her idea that states:
I, the Frog Queen, being of (decidedly) unsound mind, asks my talented, good looking, brilliant and great taste in blogs haunters to make and send me creepy spiders (creepy was redundant wasn’t it?) for this “group Halloween prop” project.
Awesome!!! She goes on to mention she will have Marci take pics of the display and will send to people that participated in sending spiders. She would also like to make this idea a tradition and have it rotate through the Home Haunters every year. Flash mob type Halloween displays, with the Home Haunter picking the theme.
Chris I hope you get paid the big bucks at work… this is Marketing genius!!!
More coolness… she has created a blog for Spiderfest. Actually Guy of House of Bloodthorn setup the blog for Chris so she can post about her precious spider infestation. You never know… maybe Chris will take up spider collecting along with her froggy’ness. I’m thinking…not.
The fam and I went up to Independence Mine yesterday. Independence is a mine that has been closed since 1951 and had been left almost the same way as when everyone left. There are a few buildings that they keep restored slightly, but otherwise most are falling apart. It was much different the last time I was up there some 30 years ago.
I love finding the old rusty bits of equipment and chipping paint, old windows and doors. There isn’t a creepy feel to the place really, the surrounding view doesn’t allow for it, but it can be claustrophobic when the fog rolls in.
Here are a few photos, the rest can be found over on my Flickr page.
Kimily’s missing mind has been found! In fact it wasn’t actually lost, the mind had wandered so far into the Imagination that it only appeared to be lost.
The mind reports finding some fun, yet disturbing, things within the Imagination. The mind can’t seem to keep itself away from this fun disturbing place and Kimily’s brain keeps complaining that she needs to do other mundane thinking type tasks.
The mind has also contemplated mutiny against the brain. Upon hearing of this the brain caused a reflex reaction in the leg, which caused the leg to kick out, striking the toes against a hard surface. Needless to say, the pain response gave the brain the upper hand…for now.
Kimily can’t come to the Blog right now, she has currently lost her mind and is off in search of it. If you have seen said mind please leave a comment below with a time, date and location of the sighting. We miss the psychic apparatus terribly and want for its immediate return.
Thank you,
Brain
So I have become addicted. I will tell you to what here in just a sec, but first I wanted to say that no intervention is necessary. I totally own this addiction and in fact have no intention of ‘breaking the cycle’. I will stand up and proudly announce that I have become addicted to….
I know there are others of like addiction out there and I’m going to out Chris Davis in this ‘coming out’ blog. I will tell you now that I intend, as time permits, to be pushers of these here Bloodshed Brothers and you shall not resist me. I have been living vicariously through these two on the Garage Sale/Thrift Store escapades. Embarrassing to say that I am drawn to watching them shop for ‘finds’ ::: hangs head ::: Gawd forbid they ever start to do real time shopping video’s!! I will be doomed!!
So who are these Bloodshed Brothers that I speak of? They are none other than Zach and Jeromy Ball of Temecula, Ca. They are born haunters and only being 22 years old, have a long haunting life ahead of them, not to mention many years to entertain us.
They run a home, walk through style, haunt during Halloween that attracts some 900 attendants! Now that is just friggin awesome in itself!
If you haven’t checked these guys out, get yer butts on over to You Tube and watch for yourself. I will save you a seat at the next BBA (Bloodshed Brothers Anonymous) meeting.
Matter of fact… how ’bout I just throw you a little taste…
