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Halloween Shopper Comparison Shopping LaunchedHalloweenShopper.com has now been officially launched. This site will enable consumers to search the database of multiple stores to find a costume, prop or other Halloween/Horror oriented product.
Check it out http://www.HalloweenShopper.com
5:24 PM - 3/26/2006New COB ForumHorray! I finished the conversion of the CavernsOfBlood.com forum. http://www.cavernsofblood.com/forum/
The old script was fine for a small forum, but was just not keeping up.
There are MANY new features in our forum. Make sure that you explore and make the most of it.
5:21 PM - 3/26/2006Caverns Of Blood ForumCavernsOfBlood.com is my horror oriented site. I will be soon upgrade the forum to a much better script in order to really make that forum kick-butt!! The database conversion is the trickiest part about it. 12:20 AM - 3/20/2006HalloweenShopper.com updateI am planning on launching HalloweenShopper.com in a few days. There are some final touches before launch. More features will be added in time. You can read previous entries in this blog for more info. 12:19 AM - 3/20/2006Costume MagazineI moved http://www.costumemagazine.com from an ASP/Windows server to a linux server. The growth potential was limited. Right now the site has ideas for costumes and where to purchase costumes. Hopefully will get a chance to greatly enhance this site later in the season. I would be happy to accept submssions of content for the site. 12:17 AM - 3/20/2006Stuff, Stuff and more stuffStill working hard on HalloweenShopper.com
Getting some bugs worked out and hope to launch pretty soon.
I have been busy moving sites to new servers and preparing for the season. This IS going to be the best Halloween season yet! 6:35 PM - 3/9/2006March Madness?It should be time to get out of the prop making slump but I'm still not motivated... Perhaps soon.3:30 PM - 3/2/2006HalloweenShopper.com now in beta testing.Announcing the beta-launch of HalloweenShopper.com. 3:15 PM - 2/22/2006HalloweenNews.com re-launchI rel-launched HalloweenNews.com. HalloweenNews.com began providing relevant news in 2002. 3:13 PM - 2/22/20062006!It is time! I have started working hard on the network of sites for Halloween 2006. All kinds of big changes. Changed to a new banner/text ad system. Added a server, migrated some sites from Windows to Linux (still a bunch more to do).
I just made 2006 advertising packages available at http://www.HalloweenAdvertising.com
I am currently working on CavernsOfBlood.com. Going to do some major changes and additions for the season.
2006 is going to be a great year! 11:09 AM - 2/10/2006Plans for 2006Well, since I've seen DeathTouch getting so much stuff done already I've decided to at least get some things into the planning stage. I have been inspired by some stuff I've seen him do and antoher haunter here in NH. We have a few somewhat major projects to get going on, new pirate ship area, new UFO, additional walls for the castle, the ever elusive "Pepper's Ghost" and a dragon prop to beat all dragon props this side of Universial Studios...
I have a good idea about most of these and I will start work on them as soon as I can, I will have to in order to actually have any for Halloween 2006. I will keep you all updated as to the progress, or lack there of...and will definaltey have photos as I go along... 3:40 PM - 2/8/2006Halloween 2005 photosFinally had a chance to get this done, only a couple months late....lol!
Our Pirates will be getting a new ship for next year, I hope.
The guy was hanging arounf deep in the woods...
We added a bridge over our stream this year, we may have spilled some bad stuff in there, not quite sure where the glow came from...
Our hall of doors, we had some surprises in and around these this year...
The graveyard out front, the Headless Horseman keeps an eye on the place...
The electric chair, this will get some upgrades for next year...
The "a frame" creature, he needs some real help for 2006, his eyes are about the only thing that'll stay the same...
Julia's Banshee, he kept our guests on the right path deep in the woods...
The Badseed, he'll go back to a "live" gag in 2006, he just stood there this year... 11:45 AM - 12/14/2005Snow comes early to Virginia this year
Richmond has roughly a 2 percent chance of seeing a snow of 4 inches or greater during the first 10 days of December. The 50-1 shot occurred yesterday.
10:08 PM - 12/5/2005Big Flop!!Well as of today, my fundraiser was a huge FLOP. A little discouraging, but I'll figure out something else. I'm trying to get back into the forum and posting on my blog and others. After Halloween, I usually end up completely checking out of Halloween for a little while. I checked out the forum today, posted a little. I really dig skullandbone's website and his grave diggers are an awesome idea. I think I'll work on that once I pump him for information....
I hope everyone is doing well and had a great Thanksgiving. If anyone has any good fundraising ideas, I'm all ears!!! I'm walking 12 miles on Saturday for marathon training and planning next Halloween in my head - LOL!! 6:41 PM - 12/1/2005Halloween 2005 resultsI'm so late posting this but here goes. We had around 250 or so people come through our haunt over two nights, more or less the same as last year. We raised about $145.00 for breast cancer research, not much but it's better than nothing. We had a ton of people say they couldn't wait for us to run the haunt, said they'd been last year and will be back next year too. It's great to hear that people like what we're doing. We had a lot of help this year getting setup and running the haunt, that helped a ton! Wasn't nearly as crazy getting ready for guests as last year was, hopefully it's even easier next year.
We extended the haunted woods further into the back yard. The new path went out over a little stream that runs through our property. My cousin and I built a bridge over it and most guests loved it, some turned around and didn't go any further...LOL! We have a ton of plans for new gags for next year and have a few new people interested in helping out. With any amount of luck Fitzy's Fright Fest 4 will be bigger and badder...
I will post pictures very soon... 12:25 PM - 11/29/2005Halloween FundraiserI've started a fundraiser on halloweenforum.com to raise money for the Leukemia/Lymphoma Society. Check all the details here: http://www.halloweenforum.com/showthread.php?t=9693
1:30 PM - 11/6/2005A Successful '05The weather this Halloween was fantastic. We had nearly 100 kids ring the doorbell for candy and at least 50 or 60 adults visit our yard haunt. It was a beautiful night for Trick-or-Treating.
More pictures can be viewed in this gallery: http://64.226.23.133/woodycarr/scarefx/halloween%5F2005/ 9:48 AM - 11/1/2005News, news, newsBig news - I am entering the L.A. Marathon in March to raise money for the Leukemia Lymphoma Society. Anyone who would like to donate or if you have any suggestions for fundraising, I'd love to hear it. Any donations you make are greatly appreciated. Please see my website here for donating or getting more information: http://www.active.com/donations/fundraise_public.cfm?key=lrella
I know what big hearts the Halloween community has, so thank you in advance!!! 1:10 PM - 10/26/2005
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