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I have finally chosen my Halloween costume!  Back in late August I finally decided on one and ordered it.  Buycomstumes is pretty good about delivery I have already gotten it in the mail.  Ya Ready??.........

Here was my choice!

BETTIE PAGE - DON'T TREAD ON ME

I love it and it looks hot on me!  The only thing though the horns that came with it did not look like the ones in the pic they are kind of cheap-looking.  So I am just gonna pick me up some awesome ones at the Spirit store when I take my anual visit there soon.  Also need some red gloves and thigh high red fishnets.  Its gonna look awesome!.

I had to get the wig that went with it too because my hair is kind of short and looks nowhere near Bettie Page's hair.

Welp got my costume.  I am looking very very forward to this Halloween its gonna be a blast!

Mood - Relaxed

Posted: 5:09 PM, Tuesday, September 4
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What am I gonna be this Halloween?

Its mid-August!!  That means its time for me to start thinking about what I am going to be for Halloween this year.

I have put together a few choices with a few pics and explanations of what I am going to do to see if it will work or not.  I had originally choose to be some type of fairy, but I am sure each one of these costumes can be modified to be a fairy of some sort.

Tea Party Hostess

Alice in Wonderland is one of my fav things.  I thought this was so awesomely cute as it is hard to actually find a Mad Hatter costume for a girl, let alone a cute one!  But with that insanely short skirt I am gonna have to get some good knickers to wear under it!

FairyLicious Fallen Angel



I loved the Black and White of this costume.  But unfortunely, I do not love the wings that come with this one, I would have to change that out with some goth ones that looked pretty decent.  Those look like they could get torn up in a new york minute!

RIPunzel



I really really liked this one, you can have so many possibilities with it instead of its original purpose, which I do like too, but I could make this an awesome fairy costume with some gothy wings, or even a really cool witch costume!

Bettie Page - Don't Tread On Me



By far this is my fav out of all the ones I picked, just because I LOVE Bettie Page, I would leave this one intact and change the boots to knee-high red boots, try to get as close as I can to the original image of Ms. Page as she looked in that awesome photo!

That about narrows it down to what I had in mind.  Of the best costumes I think I could pick out off the net.  I might go by my local Spirit Halloween store to see if they have any of these in stock that I can actually wear but I highly doubt it.  They didn't last year and I had a HARD time picking out what I wanted to be.  =/  My costume kind of ended up being less than what I expected but I tried to make the most out of it.

Whatever I decide to pick, will be lots and lots of accessories to come with it.  ;)  Those will be posted later!

Just so you all know feedback/Opinions are welcomed!!

Mood: 
- Impressed

Posted: 4:36 PM, Thursday, August 16
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Halloween Dreams

I had my first Halloween dream of the season last night.  It was borderlining on a nightmare though because I was at a costume shop with my mom and some other friends (some of those Unknown dream friends that I can't recognize for some reason), and the place was PACKED and I was trying to put together a really cool costume and I couldn't find what I needed (kind of like my RL situation..lol).  But all I really can make out of the dream is that I was trying to find a cute fairy costume and nothing seemed to work out right and my mom kept yelling at me and telling me we had to go.    Hopefully that won't happen to me when I do decide to go Costume shopping this year!!

I finally saw some Halloween stuff out around here!!  It was at The Cracker Barrel and not too far from where I live, they had a Halloween display starting out with all kinds of really awesome stuff!!  Can't wait to see other stores sprining into the spirit around here!  But I will definately keep everyone updated on the stores and also where on Hwy 280 Spirit Halloween will be located this time.  I think last year it was in an old Grocery Store building at the shopping center where Replays was.

Happy Haunting!  Halloween is a coming!

Mood:  - Happy

Posted: 12:26 PM, Sunday, August 5
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My Blog Just Got A New Costume

Wow, I apologise for the lack of entries from last year.  I think I forgot I had this blog.    But I am back now!  And I just gave my Halloween Blog a new facelift.  Ya Like?  Thought I would make it a bit more stylized for this year's Halloween.  I am gonna work hard to try to make it a blast.

Not sure what all I have planned at the moment. Just been throwing things around in my head on what I want to do.  I am still very uncertain as to what I want to be this year also.  But my two main choices for right now are:

Star Trek Science Officer Sress (from the old series)
Fairy of some sort.

If I can find a new job that pays better, I can probably save up to get both. 

But, its just July, I have plenty of time to make my mind up in the coming months.

Mood:   - Rested

Posted: 9:31 PM, Monday, July 30
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Here Comes Halloween!

Weeee!!!  Its finally October!!  Smell that autumn in the air!!  I am all excited about Halloween this year!!  Well...  I am every year.  But I actually have time to sit back and enjoy this Halloween.

The other day I decorated the inside of the house (wow I have a lot of decorations!).  And personally I think it looks really good.  But you know with a true Halloween fanatic you can never have enough Halloween decorations to put in or outside of your house.  I am planning on decorating the front yard today.  I am minus my awesome scarecrow this year becuase it was on loan from my mom and she is using it this time.  LOL.  But if I can I am gonna swing by Big Lots later on this week and see if I can't find a really nice bigger Halloween decoration to put out there that matches my decoration theme (pumpkins, black cats, and ghosts.)

Also this year I plan on getting a nice sized pumpkin to actually carve for the big night.  Last year I had a real pumpkin and I just kind of sat it out by the scarecrow and didn't carve it or anything.  I also am having a hard time finding my Pumpkin carving kit, I think we lost it in the move, so they are cheap I will just get another one next time I go to Wal-Mart.

Yay my birthday is coming up soon, I will be 25 and still rockin my Halloween style.  We have been a bit low on money this year so the hubby offered to get me a Halloween costume as a Bday present.  So he told me to go to the Spirit store and look around and see what all I liked.  I haven't really quite decided what I am gonna be this year yet or not.  I will have to see what costume looks best on me.  I was thinking something witchy or something Egyptian.  But it all depends on whether or not my boobs fit into one of those costumes meant for ladies who are not that well endowed.  LOL.

But anyway, I am gonna start decorating the outside of the house and hopefully make it look as awesome as it did last year!  Looks like Halloween this year is gonna be a total blast!

Mood: Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting - Excited

Posted: 12:03 PM, Monday, October 2
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Halloween Magazines!

Oooh I got me a BuyCostumes Magazine today with coupons for the site in it!!!  That makes me very happy.  Not sure if I am gonna use them though I will have to see what I really want to be for Halloween this time.  I am just having the hardest time deciding what I want to be.  I have several ideas but so far can't put my finger one a good one yet.

Man last year I think I got 7 craft magazines before Halloween including the Martha Steward Halloween Edition.  Which had some awesome stuff in it.  I have already gotten my first Halloween Magazine of the year when I was in the checkout line at the grocery store.  Its called Halloween: Food, Fun, And Crafts, and it has got some really good stuff in it that I am planning on using for this Halloween.  I can't wait it should be fun.

Mood:  Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting - Sleepy

Posted: 11:55 PM, Wednesday, August 30
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My Sinister Space Profile

Wow I have a lot of Blogs, just opened me a profile on Sinisterspace too and guess what??  It has a blog!  LOL.  But thats cool I am a crazy Blogger and I just enjoy typeing out stuff.      Thought I would talk about my Sinister Space Profile in this blog just to let everyone know I have one out there now.  Not quite sure how it works yet but I am getting there.  It looks like it is gonna be great fun!  And you know I sign up for everything having to do with Halloween!  But if any of you guys out there want to check out my Sinister Space here is the link!

http://www.sinisterspace.com/CreepyKitty

I tried to make it match my blog and my other Halloween stuff so far I want all my Halloween stuff to me coordinated becuse I really like that pumpkin background I have had it for years and have no idea where I got it.  I used to use it for my wallpaper every Halloween but gonna try something different this year.

Mood:  Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting - Working

Posted: 11:44 AM, Wednesday, August 23
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First Halloween Shopping Day of the Year!

*inhales* Ahhhh, feels good to finally go in stores and see Halloween stuff out on the shelves!  It is approaching and I can't wait!  My mom and I just had a shopping day and I got me a cute little light up pumpkin stack from the Cracker Barrel of all places.  They have some good stuff!  Went to Michaels and saw lots of stuff I wanted, but I am going to be sparse until a bit later on becuase the stores have yet to put out the REALLY good stuff.  

My birthday is coming up soon, and my mom was originally taking me shopping today to look for a new sofa becuase that is what she is getting me.  Don't laugh, I NEED it.  Our poor old Sofa just looks totally tragic. IMO I thought it had about another year left anway.  And it doesn't really match at all its black leather and the living room doesn't have anything black in it at all.  LOL so its time for the Apartment furniture to leave!

Mood:  Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting - Chipper

Posted: 11:13 PM, Monday, August 21
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The Countdown Has Begun!

Merry Meet!

It's finally the week of 100 days until Halloween coundown for me.  I have been excited about it for some time now.  I can always feel it coming on and when it hits it hits like a freight train, here it comes, here comes Halloween!

Since last year was so chaotic for me I have decided to just have a very "Low Key" Halloween this year and just sit back and have fun and enjoy the Holiday as it was meant to be.  Let me sum up my experience last Halloween for you guys since I didn't have the energy to post it;  That morning I got up, showered, put my costume on, went and had lunch with my husband at his work place (where also everyone else was dressed for Halloween), came home, did some things around the house, went back to pick up my husband after work, and waited on the ToTs to arrive...  Now here is the catch..  The whole night the TOTAL ToTs we had were around 15.  It was a bust.  But those 15 ToTs did get some great surprises I gave out Halloween Pencils, glowsticks, and lots of treats.  By the time 9:00pm rolled around I had passed out fast asleep on the couch with the cauldron of candy in my lap witht he TV on a horror movie.  I felt the night was wasted because I was so exhausted from running my kitty tail off the whole month preparing for everything.  All in all, I think I worked TOO hard on Halloween last year!

So this year I am taking it very easy and just laying back and having fun.  Soon I am gonna start working on fun stuff to do during the month of October that will be relaxing and still fun for my whole family.  Also this year the hubby and I have decided to attend my cousins annual Halloween party at her house like we did year before last.  The only reason why I wanted to stay home last year was to see if we had any ToTs.  Since we did not have many at all I think we will skip it again this year.

Looking forward to the coming months.  This Halloween is gonna be a blast!

Mood:  Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting - Complacent

Posted: 11:21 PM, Monday, July 17
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Weeeeeeeeeee!!

Welp The Mad Tea Party is tomorrow night and we are all so excited here!  Today I am going to spend the day cleaning the house and getting everything ready for tomorrow.  Then most of the day tomorrow we are going to spend on food and decorating the house.  Everything is just about already set up though so it shouldn't be much of a problem.  It has made it so much easier on me because I have been planning this party since January.  So far everyone I have talked to that is coming is really excited about it and thinks I should make it an annual deal.  I just might.  Just really depends on mine and the hubby's money situation really.  This year hasn't been too good but I have still been able to buy new decorations and throw a party at the same time.  So I really don't think it will be a problem for next year either!

I have my camera all set up and ready to go for the party and we should take some awesome pics!  My friend and I went to get the little corked bottles for the drinks yesterday and she thought it was the coolest idea ever!  lol.  Also I was running a little short on ideas for other party favors and I had planned on getting glow necklaces for everyone, but when I went to Wally world to get them they only had TWO PINK ONES left.  So I had to scratch that idea, and i Just ended up getting glow sticks you can hang around your neck.  I am hopeing they will still be fun though.

But that is just about everything going on so far and I probably won't be able to post again until Sunday with the pics from the party because tomorrow I am going to be super busy!!

Oh and also to all of those throwing parties this weekend on Halloween Forum GOOD LUCK to you guys and HAVE TONS OF FUN!!!

Mood:  Image hosted by Photobucket.com - Ecstatic

Posted: 11:37 AM, Friday, October 28
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BOOing Who?

I didn't have time to post this yesterday but I finally got a chance to BOO my neighbor!  Well it really wasn't a full-fledged BOO mainly I just got together two Halloween Pails (One for my neighbor and one for her grandaughter), and went over to give it to them.  My neighbor's grandaughter was so excited!  She is only 2 and she loved the Tot pail with tons of candy, stickers, and yes even a pair of Halloween socks was in it.  lol.  Of course I gave my Neighbor something to decorate her house with.  A pumpkin basket with fall napkins and candles and stuff in there.  I thought she would like it and could use it to decorate with.  And they BOTH loved them!  Made me feel so good.

You know, I really love just giving to other people because it makes you feel good that you have done something nice for others.  I really like it that I have the chance to do that now and then.  Also my neighbors grandaughter is just a little sweetie and she was so cute carrying around that big pumpkin pail. 

THREE DAYS until The Mad Tea Party!!!!  I may go and get the streamers and everything to decorate with later on today if I have the time.  I can't wait!!!  Its going to be so awesome!!!

Mood:  Image hosted by Photobucket.com - Bouncy

Posted: 12:46 PM, Wednesday, October 26
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Fear Factory

Already posted this on Halloween Forum, but I thought it would be a great blog entry too.  I was tryig to think of how to post about my experience at Atrox all weekend.

 Me, my friend, and my husband went to our Local Haunt this past Friday and had a total blast.

The Atrox Factory - Leeds Alabama

We got thier super early, before the gates even opened because last year when we went we ended up waiting almost 4 hours just to go through the haunt because there were so many people there.  When they opened we were kind of dissapointed to see they were charging a $2 cover charge to just even get in, and when we got in we had to buy a higher ticket price of $13 per person.  We almost didn't have enough money because we didn't know they were going to charge a cover charge.

We did find out however that night they were having the guy who played The Creeper in Jeepers Creepers there for autographs and stuff, and on Halloween they were having Kane Hodder in person (Jason Vorhees).  So that was really awesome and then we understood why they went up on the tickets and the cover charge, so that was pretty okay with us.

We didn't have to wait long at all to get in the haunted house, and got in with the first group!  I would say since we got there we had probably waited about 15 minutes total.  MUCH better than the 4 hour wait we had last year!

As always the Haunt itsself was amazing.  A lot of scenes from House on Haunted Hill - the Mad doctor operating on the insane and stuff like that.  I loved thier optical illusions they had!  They had an older lady cut in half sitting on top of a table!  All while the theme music to Alice was playing in the background, and of course I was freaking out about that.  :D  This time though their clown room was kind of dissapointing.  Last time we went they had at least 12 clowns in there and one was sitting next to a huge gun shooting at people as they went by.  This time there was only two, but I couldn't really do much counting because I am terrified of clowns and didn't really want to look at them.  ;)

But I would have to say that its STILL awesome and still going strong.  They actually made it a little better with the celebrity appearences.  I thought that was too cool.  But if anyone lives near Leeds Alabama I would highly suggest checking it out its well worth it for all the awesome stuff you get to see and do in there.  Plus if you get there before they open there is almost NO waiting at all.

Mood:  Image hosted by Photobucket.com - Pleased

Posted: 12:02 PM, Sunday, October 23
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Bringing The Decorations To Life

All day today I have been working on the layout for the decorations for The Mad Tea Party.  Threw around some new ideas and really liked them.  I am sticking to my original idea about lots and lots of Black streamers, they are cheap, and you can do a lot with them.  Also I felt today I really needed to give the party a more "Spooky" and "Party" atmosphere other than just lighting candles and leaving the lights on.  After all it is a Halloween party right?

 I figured it would be a great idea to string the streamers everywhere and make it look very ominous, even streaming them on the tables and bookcases.  Of course during all this time my poor puppies will have to be put up, because I am afraid of thier appetites for paper.  Also decided to go "Lights out" in the living room and dining room, which are connected.  Also our foryer is basically its own little room, and I am seriously thinking about hanging streamers down like a curtain to the guests will feel like they are in a fun house-type deal.  The guests will then walk through the black streamer curtain and into the living room where most of the party will take place.  The lights will be out, and I have decided to use my old strobe light set on very very low so it doesn't annoy anyone but still creates a party atmosphere.  Also to cut down on the annoyance of the strobe light I will have my regular decorations indoor lights on and lots of candles lit for the mood.

As for music, I have just decided to can the idea of using DirecTV's Sounds of the Seasons channel because apparently its two weeks before Halloween and they do not have any Halloween music on there STILL.  So I have totally given up on that.  I do however have a natural love for Rob Zombie, and I do happen to own a DVD of his most popular music videos.  So I thought it would be a cool idea for music to have it playing on our big screen TV for music and something fun and spooky to look at.

Also the kitchen is in a totally different room in the house so I figured I can partition that off with another streamer curtain, and leave the lights on in there for people to get food and drink and sit down and what-not.

It is very hard for me to explain the layout though without everyone knowing what my house looks like.  Hopefull though I will get to take some pics right after I decorate and will be able to post them.  I would love feedback on this layout too so if anyone else has any cool and cheap ideas please let me know!

Mood: Image hosted by Photobucket.com - Artistic

Posted: 10:00 PM, Thursday, October 20
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A Few Days Off To Rest In Peace

Finally got the invites finished, addressed and stamped and sent out for the party!  With that over with I have decided to just relax and rest without any tedious planning for a couple of days to clear my head so I am not so overwhelmed.  I thought this may be a good time this week since Friday the hubby and I and some friends are going Haunted housing, then Saturday we are supposed to all go see DOOM.  So this weekend is pretty busy but at least I will be good and rested, and then starting next week I can really grind at getting the decorations and food ready for The Mad Tea Party.

My costume arrived too the other day!  So I don't have to worry about that anymore, just have to make that last trip to get the accessories for it, which shouldn't be too terribly hard to do.  So far so good I have gotten a ton of things done and even have time to spare for a very small restful vacation.

In my time off however, I have already started brainstorming for next year.  LOL.  Been throwing several ideas around and jotting them down in notepad, so far nothing rock solid yet, probably won't be until January, thats when I really kick off my Halloween party planning.  I really want to make these Halloween Theme parties annual events so everyone will have something to look forward to every year, like they did when I was in High School.  I suppose us Halloweenies never really rest, kind of like the undead.

See you in a few days!

Mood:  Image hosted by Photobucket.com - Relaxed

Posted: 11:37 PM, Monday, October 17
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The Mad Invitations

Invitations for The Mad Tea Party are finished!!!  Here it is in all its glory! You have already seen the front, now see the inside!  I have edited out some information I don't wish to post all over the internet so pay no attention to the white splotches on there. 

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And a huge thanks once again to LHallow for letting me borrow her wording idea!!  *hugs*

Will be heading to my moms to use her huge awesome badass photo laser printer later on in the week to make them look REALLY snazzy!

Mood:  Image hosted by Photobucket.com - Pleased

Posted: 3:31 PM, Wednesday, October 12
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It's My Party And I'll Die If I Want To

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My Bday party turned out great!  Only a few people were able to come, but we had a great time.  Just spent the night hanging out and watching TV.

Now that my birthday is out of the way I can fully concentrate on Halloween and pulling The Mad Tea Party together.  I am just about done with the invitations and should be going to my mom's to print them out sometimes later on this week.  I have been so busy lately I haven't really had a chance to be really excited about Halloween yet.  Still waiting on my costume too.  I emailed the people who are making it and they were very nice and told me it would be another ten days before they could ship it.  Soooo, been waiting and waiting.  Luckily I already got my petticoat for it from BuyCostumes.  It fit great now I just wish I had the Alice dress to go with it. 

Pretty soon the hubby and I are going to take our annual trip to the Atrox Factory Haunted House in the next town over.  Trying to get some friends to go with us, we usually end up going by ourselves.  Haven't set a date to go yet but maybe planning on going sometimes at the latter part of next week.  I am excited about that too!  Can't wait.

So far thats all the updates I have for right now.  Just been busy busy busy lately.  The hubby also got a long weekend for Columbus Day so that was an added Birthday present all in itself.

More later!

Mood: Image hosted by Photobucket.com - Drained

Posted: 4:46 PM, Tuesday, October 11
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Picture Time - Daytime Pics

Just got done taking some daytime pictures of my outside and some of my inside decorations.  I am not totally done decorating yet because I can't find my fiber-optic pumpkin.    But the hubby and I are supposed to look for it tonight.  Certainly it couldn't have gotten lost in the move.

The front of out house.  Don't have that much of a porch or a front yard, so I was pretty limited on what I could do.  Hubby went crazy with the mums. 


The fireplace and mantle during the day time.


My 5ft scarecrow that is on loan from mom this year.  I thought it would look great standing right where it is.  Also pictured is my pumpkin I fought for at FoodWorld!


Front flower garden.  I thought the pumpkin stake lights I got from Big Lots turned out fantastic.  All around our block our neighbors have thost little solar lights in thier gardens and I am the only one with some Halloween ones!  I have had people ring the doorbell asking me where I got them.


My beautiful fall wreath my dad got me!  He's got such great taste!  Also wreaths looks really good hanging on the doors of these old-english houses, I think everyone in the neighborhood has a fall wreath of some type hanging up.


The flaming pumpkin! Muahahahahahahaa!!  lol.  I think this is my this years favorite decoration.


Mood:  Image hosted by Photobucket.com - Accomplished

Posted: 4:00 PM, Friday, October 7
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The Pumpkin Problem

I swear I have had the worst luck today with pumpkins....  It has been a neverending battle up-hill..  Like the gods were telling me "No! You can't have a pumpkin today!"

Well first off.  I was soo excited because my mom was coming up today to help me decorate.  We went to breakfast, had fun doing that, went to Wal Mart, and was getting stuff we needed to decorate with and we found some great pumpkins at Wal mart, but they wanted to charge us BY THE POUND!  $2.99 per pound to be exact!!     I was so livid I just walked off and left the 3 pumpkins we were going to buy just sittng there.  The girl wanted to argue with us about it so she could freaking have them! 

I told mom they would be different at Food World, we were going there anyway to pick me out a bday cake for my party next week. On the way there we had to take a detour down this other road, and come back up because our town was having thier dumb high schools homecoming parade!   And we were right there! I am not kidding there was the traffic light, the street with the parade, and Food World!!  And we could'nt cross the dang road!  And we had to go way out of our way down this other street to get there.  So we finally get in the Food World parking lot and we can hardly get in the store becuase they have a cookout cart there with millions of people standing around that were all attending the parade. 

But the pumpkin fiasco doesnt stop there...  They had pumpkins for very resonable prices $2.20 for pretty dang big pumpkins (NOT by the lbs.) and I had found the most perfect one-- not a flaw, perfectly round and squatty.  Proceeded to the checkout counter, the cashier was running her mouth and left the convayer belt on too long, the pumpkin ran up under the side of her register and got a huge gash in it!!  By then I was so infuriated I started yelling at the cashier and she was just looking at me like I was crazy, she put the pumpkin over to the side and said "well I can't sell you that one since the skin is broke it will start to rot" and she was slamming stuff around and slamming around the other peoples groceries while she was checking them out.  She then told me that "we will get you another one" and I got really fed up and was like "NO, I will get another one myself."    So I go back to where all the pumpkins were and tell the produce manager all about it.  And he finds me the biggest pumpkin they have and puts a sticker on it for the same price as the much smaller ones!  That made me feel so much better.  I couldn't wait to get out of that horrible store.  My mom and I were in line and we decided not to go back to the jabberjaw idiot cashier that does not pay attention again, unfortunately, got in a line with someone who was apparently on crack.  Since the pumpkin was so large it was hard for my mom or I to lift it and when we went through the line we left in the in the buggy.  Well the cashier just looked at us.  My mom said "can you scan it with the hand scanner because my daughter and I have trouble lifting heavy things?" and the cashier replied "I don't have one."  My mom said "So we have to lift it and put it on the register?" and she just looked at us and said "Yep."  By this point, I was about ready to kill somebody, and there was another Food World employee in line behind us checking out groceries and she butts in asking "You don't have a hand-held scanner??!!" and the cashier looks at her "Nope." like she doesn't have a care in the world and is staring off into space the whole time.  Needless to say..  We FINALLY got checked out, with a little help from that nice person in line behind us.

Ohh and it STILL doesn't stop there....  See my bday party is having a Halloween theme to it, mom and I bought Halloween plates and everything and I wanted a Halloween cake.  Well before we go check out I get over to the bakery in Foodworld and they tell me they don't make Halloween cakes the best they have is a scarecrow cake for fall.    I just gave up right there.  And you know what I am going to do?  I am going to freaking drive over to where I used to live, in Birmingham to the Publix I used to go to every day where they always had EVERYTHING next week before my party and get me a freaking Halloween cake!

And after that mom and I  were so out of it we just hung it up and came home and started to decorate.  We got the outiside done except for flowers, and I got half the inside done.  I am still not finished though because when the hubby got home we went back to that sorry ass wal mart and got TONS of mums!  We got two huge baskets of them and four smaller pots of them to put out front!  I am gonna take pics of it tomorrow it looks so awesome!  But the front is finished now.

So that has been my day today.  I tried so hard to make today really exciting and fun, despite the setbacks.  I kept on decorating on and off until about 9:30pm tonight.  Boy and I am tired.  Just gonna have to finish the rest of it tomorrow.  But I am really glad I got the front porch done, looks really good out there with all the lights, scarecrow, and my single pumpkin I fought tooth and nail for today.

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Posted: 11:45 PM, Friday, September 30
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Fall Spring Cleaning

Been working my little kitty butt off today cleaning the house and getting ready to decorate!  Turns out my mom may be coming up either tomorrow or Friday to help me out.  We really want to try to get everything up in one day so she doesn't have to come back again until my birthday party (that she has been planning for me!).   

I spent the entire day today cleaning, started at 11am, just now got finished.  I really wanted to deep clean our house, even though its a brand new house it was STILL pretty dang dirty, especially from construction.  So I did a sort of spring cleaning for the fall.  Hopefully I won't have to do it again until its time for the REAL spring cleaning.

Ugh, its getting to be my really busy time.  I always hate that but kind of like it because I hardly ever get bored. Sometimes being a housewife is kind of boreing.  So much is going on this October, its kind of cool but it does kind of suck because I am going to be sooo tired.  Already just a few days before October and I am working my butt off!  lol.  But I am so excited!  I can't wait for the month of October to hit because its going to be nothing but fun.  A little work, but lots of fun!  My birthday is in October too!  My mom has been planning me a nice little bday party, but that is for my friends I am actually celebrating my birthday 3 times next week.  lol.  I have to celebrate with just my mom and dad, then I will have the party with my friends, and then my husband wants to celebrate it at the end of the week!

I can already tell you though the whole beginning of October is going to be crazy.  I can't wait!!!!

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Posted: 6:51 PM, Wednesday, September 28
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Mad Party Planning

Been really working hard lately at planning The Mad Tea Party.  I have most of it already planned out I juts have to DO it.    So far its turning out great.  Told almost all my friends about it and they are really excited.  My friend Christy is even going to try to be The Queen of Hearts!  Of course, not the one from the game, but a really awesome Queen of hearts!  Wanted to go over a checklist of the things I am working on or have already gotten done just need to go purchase them:

Invitations: Currently unfinished.  Got a great concept on them though, earlier this year I had made two teasers I was going to send out to everyone, but have now decided the teaser is quite possibly the best design I have ever come up with and am probably going to use the Alice teaser as the Invite:

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All afternoon today I have been working on the inside for the invite which did turn out very nice:

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Been struggling lately on the wording for the invites because I need them to sound very elegant and creepy, yet totally insane.  I am really hopeing to be done with them by the end of the first week of October, or my Bday, which is on the 9th.  So then I can make the long trip to my parents house to use thier photo printer to print them all out on.

Decorations: Mostly finished.  I have a very general idea of what I really want to do, but decorating for a party is best done WHEN I decorate.  I am going to be using a ton of black and red for the decor.  Lots and lots of black roses, red roses, and tons of red and black streamers.  Also planning on using a lot of skulls and gothic decorations, candles, and floating candles in vases of blood.  Been researching Gothic party decorations massively for this.  Have some great guidelines to go by.  Probably going to make this trip right before the party to buy all my supplies.  I am really staying away from anything too Halloweenie for the party, on the count I do want it to look really goth and dark, much like the Alice game.

Food:  Finished!  I have decided to use a variety of gothic and dark drinks and snacks for the party.  Alcoholic and non alike.  For the drinks I plan to use various vampyre alcoholic drinks, and tea. To distinguist the alcoholic from the non, I am going to get a set of small round corked bottles from Michaels.  They do very much look like old fashioned lab flasks and I am going to either make labels or paint the phrase "Drink Me" on them.  For the non-alcoholic I will be serving of course, Blood Tea, which is basically just regular tea with red and blue food coloring in it.  These will be placed in nice tea cups to those who do not wish to drink alcohol that night.  Food will be lots of fun, I will be serving cupcakes, muffins, and sweets.  The cupcakes will be the main focus though because they are also going to say "Eat Me" written in red and black icing on the tops of them.  Although I am not totally getting away from Halloween with this one, there will also be tons of candy, soda, and chips for everyone!

I have decided during the whole month of October I am going to work on buying all the things I need for The Mad Tea Party.  I am really not one to wait until the last minute with these things.  The only things I can really do at the last minute are the decorations and the food, which I have planned out to at "T".  I kind of figured the invites would be the hardest part on the count of I am totally making them through my magical powers of graphic design.  Unfortunately I am a perfectionist in this field so I will come up with probably ten different ideas, scrap them all over and over again until I come out with a product that is perfect.  Sometimes this is my downfall, but in this case, VERY original!

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Posted: 4:49 PM, Wednesday, September 21
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