Someone is going to be making their own personal greeting cards!

Throwing everything into the random.org machine,  Mr. Macabre and UPrinting.com is happy to announce that Stephanie D. of Walks By Night is the recipient of 250 custom greeting cards!  She is going to get a head start on next year's Hallowe'en invitations!  Congratulations to Stephanie D. from UPrinting.com and Mr. Macabre!

Haunted Video Review Thursday--Make Your Own Scratch Built Corpse

Make Your Own Scratch Built Corpse

Author: Christian Hanson of Monstercloset.com

Seldom do you get a DVD that is both informative and entertaining in the cheesy sort of way.  Taking common materials that you can find in most any town, you can whip up a full fairly convincing corpse pretty easily from the top of the decaying head to the bottom of the decomposing toes. How fun!  Between segments is a troupe of horror characters that lack of acting ability is only surpassed by their cheesiness.  And it's a lot of fun.  The instructional segments are clear, concise and easy to follow.

This DVD would be very good for the beginning corpser (if that's even a word), or the corpser that would like to make a legion of the dead for very cheap.  It's well worth buying to add to the arsenal of scare.

Hallowe'en Countdown--Day -17 Days--Pullin' Out the Big Guns

This little gem is part of a show that scared the %#$@& out of everyone that saw it back in 1975.  All the stars and the planets lined up when they made this one.

First Part...


Second Part...


I have a copy of the Zuni warrior doll.  It literally gives me the creeps still.

I gots me an award!

Moriah of M L B Studios bestowed upon me the Kreativ Blogger award!  Thank you so much, I very appreciate it very much!

Someone To Lay Your Money Down To...Mexicansugarskull.com

I got an order from Mexican Sugar Skull  the other day...if you aren't familiar with the Mexican Dia De Los Muertos or Day of the Dead celebration, HERE is a fascinating and beautiful summary of the Day of the Dead tradition. 

Now, back to my goodies...

Going around I got a set of two sugar skull cookie cutters (I have a thing for cookie cutters, these may not look like much right now but after you decorate the cookies like skulls, they become works of art), a handmade skull pin with little black leather wings ( I'm guessing that this might mean a soul's flight), the recipe pamphlet that went with the cookie cutters (haven't tried them yet but the recipe looks like it would be wonderful) and a really cool skull tea light holder (one can never have too many).  I have purchased a lot of candy molds in the past and sugar skull molds but they now have added jewelry, clothing (the tee shirts are to die for!), and tons of other fun things pertaining to skulls and the Day of the Dead celebration (I knew I loved Mexico for a good reason!).

Bottom line...fast shipping, excellent quality unique merchandise that I haven't run across anywhere else.  Click over there and take a look, you'll be glad you did!

Coming back from the dead

Gasp, I missed several days of blogging, especially for the Countdown to Hallowe'en.  Thursday night I was eating and  something just didn't feel right in my stomach.  I was ok until food or drink was just about to go into my stomach and WHO THE HEDOUBLEHOCKEYSTICKS STABBED ME IN THE GUT?!!!  It had gotten excruciatingly worse and I finally went to the doctor...it's either an ulcer or a perforation in the esophagus.  He gave me some medicine to start with the healing so hopefully I'll be fine...but in the meantime I'm on a liquid diet.

Bla.

Otherwise, I'm doing great...blood pressure is perfect, cholesterol has lowered the past 3 times I've had it checked, arthritis is behaving itself, all due to better living through higher chemistry:

That ain't all of them, I take 4 more at different times!

I swear I'm not a hypochondriac, all my diseases are real I tell you!  They're real!  Why doesn't anyone believe me?!



Ahem, back to scaring...

Corpsing Class

Class was fun and we started to put the dead skin on our lovely corpse heads.

Then I showed them how to make a bloody band-aid from latex.

Then I got showed up by Vienna...he made a popped blister on his hand.  Wonderfully gross!

A creepy shot of the works in progress.

Hallowe'en Countdown--24 Days and Counting

Midnight Dance
The music is the Danse Macabe.  This is visually mesmerizing, humorous at times and darkly beautiful...



Via Tiny Sepuku

Hallowe'en Countdown--25 Days and Counting!

Via signgenerator.org

Hallowe'en Countdown--26 Days and Counting--Vintage Film Strips on Hallowe'en!

Via Tiny Sepuku (one of my favorite comic strips too, love this person's work and advice!).





Love the way that they emphasize how "silly" it is to believe in witches and superstitions.

SPOOKHOUSE DAVE! A MUST SEE!

I have just been alerted to the wonderful adventures of Spookhouse Dave! It's the adventures of a young boy being raised by a family of monsters in an old castle and there's a new episode everyday for the month of October!

And I have a thing for Hagatha, so back off people, she's mine!

Hallowe'en Countdown Day -27/School Days

One lesser known fact about Mr. Macabre is that he used to be an art teacher at a Catholic school for a short time. Trouble is, God never showed up but Beelzebub always arrived 10 minutes early each time. Now Mr. Macabre is teaching art to a class of home schooled younguns and this months lesson is making a corpse head.

Yes, I am teaching America's youth how to corpse a skull.

We're actually making nightstand skulls with electric candles coming out of the cranium. I'm letting the kids have free reign with this project, they can do whatever they want.

Showing the kids how to play 'Lobotomy'

And we played 'Orthodontist' too!

This is some more of our little 'Lobotomy' game

And showing the children how to test and see if the glue gun is ready or not.

I-I-I'm not crying, I just have something in my eyes...

A Primer on Candy Corn

Just remember...

Yes!

Yes!

NO!!!

I got hold of some 'chocolate' candy corn in a variety bag. NASTY!

Poor Man's Payday

Ms. M taught me this Hallowe'en trick some years ago and I still remember it:

Take a few kernels of candy corn and pop them in your mouth with about the same amount of roasted or parched peanuts...

Voila! It tastes just like a Payday candy bar!

A Hallowe'en Giveaway...

I almost forgot, I did say that I was going to do a Hallowe'en giveaway. I'm giving away 1 Mr. Macabre Prize Pack which the main prizes are:

A Pot Full O' Trouble complete with battery operated tea light.

Glow in the dark Skeleton Keys (glow caps you put on your keys)

Incense, candles and some surprises to boot!

How may you compete for this box of Hallowe'en goodness?  Well, we'll play The Price is Right...

What you see is my Hallowe'en money stash.  I throw all my dollar bills and loose change from my pockets daily into a big pot (actually a ceramic pumpkin in my room) and twice a year (my birthday and Hallowe'en)  I can be a totally selfish jerk and spend it on myself. The bills in the bottom photo are just straightened out and put into stacks, I didn't count them and there's no rhyme or reason to them, I just put the fronts facing the same way to help the bank teller.  Tell me the total dollar and change amount without going over and you win the prize pack. Each person gets 1 guess but you can change your guess at any time with a new guess but your latest guess will be the one that counts.

Winner is chosen on Friday October 16.

Good luck!

Halloween Countdown Day 28--Broomstick Bunny

My favorite part has to be the black cat at 1:01.

Hallowe'en Countdown--Day -29/ Do You Believe in Ghosts?

Would you like to?

My business cards came in from UPrinting.com.  They are beautiful, the quality is gorgeous!  All my personal information is on the back...

I are real happy!

Hallowe'en Countdown--Day -30/ One of the Unofficial Fruits of Hallowe'en

I would like to nominate the muscadine grape as one of the official fruits of Hallowe'en.  Some would argue the apple is #1 and I would not disagree but the muscadine (pronounced "musky-dine" by most here) has to be up there somewhere.  The large Southern grape grows wild on large vines has been cultivated and grown commercially for a number of years.  The fruit is deep purple to almost black with tiny specks of white like stars on a Hallowe'en night.  The strong, dark, heady scent of the muscadine is deep and smells like a mysterious Hallowe'en perfume, almost intoxicating.

Unfortunately, they are usually only found in the Southern states but to my Northern friends, I would encourage you to try a jar of muscadine preserves or a bottle of muscadine wine, both can be found online.  I bought a couple of baskets from a curbside market today and am going to make homemade jelly from them.

Halloweeny enough? Hallowe'en Countdown- 31 Days Left

Finished the graveyard candles except for the spray paint...gave them a test drive tonight

Haunted Book Review Thursday

How To Build A Corpse: Easy Step by Step Instructional Manual

Published by DiStefano Productions

 http://corpsesforsale.com/

First of all, it's October 1 and I am all a tizzy over it!  This is my favorite month and to commemorate it, I will review one of my favorite how-to books that I have read but haven't used....yet.

You've seen home made corpses on the internet.  You've seen home made corpses in people's yards.  You've seen home made corpses that look more cardboard than cadaver, but if you're in the market to make a humdinger of a dead person, one that looks dried out, smelly and musty, then you MUST have this book.  My copy is many years old, it was sent in a packet unbound but from what I see, they must do a spiral plastic binding on the pages which is good.

Ok, if you want to make a dead person, this is the book for you.  The instructions are easily followed and understood, all of the parts are readily available (aside from the liquid latex and the Bucky skull which you can get shipped to you; he used a model skull but I would suggest going on EBay and getting a Bucky).  What is so neat about this book is the personalization that you can apply to your corpse, whether it is the stage of decay, eye color, clean, dirty, whatever, it's covered!  If you're ambitious, you can make your corpse's eyes glow, mouth move, whatever!  Think what you could do with a 3 axis skull!

Looking for a cute party book that will tickle your fancy with darling recipes and sweet crafts sure to please the whole family?  Then take a hike because we're talking making a scary-@$$ prop that could traumatize a child and not in the good way!  If you're serious about authenticity and anatomically correctness in your haunt, you MUST buy this book! 

One word of warning, some of the images on the website are a bit disturbing, this person has a delightfully morbid sense of humor...you have been warned but you're no doubt scrolling up to click on the link to find the pictures for yourself.

I know you people so well because you're just like me!