Halloween Crafts Even You Would Love

Vampire Bites
Vampires are hot this year. There's a resurgence of blood suckers. Join in the fun here.
Bat's Have Taken Over
Classic spooky vampire bats are always welcome. Thanks to Martha for this one. Directions Here.
Paranormal Portraits
Get Directions Here
Haunted Houses
Bird houses are the base for haunted houses made of store-bought mini cookies adhered with homemade royal icing. (Source: Matthew Mead)

More Bonus Beast Songs...
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Creepy Beautiful Illustrations by Fred Banbery

The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall

Just the name Hitchcock conjures up memories of huddling in the dark with images of bewildered eyes full of fright.

All of the following illustrations were the work of the great Fred Banbery (1913 - 1999). Banbery often included drawings featuring Hitchcock himself. He also illustrated a total of six Paddington picture books although his artwork has never appeared on any of the merchandising products.
This is the cover of Alfred Hitchcock's Haunted Houseful (1963)- nine cool stories about haunted houses and ghosts for boys and girls.

The Title Page
Endpapers
The Wastwych Secret written by Contance Savery
Cover of Ghostly Gallery (1962)
Inside Cover

Let's Haunt A House
Dust jacket for a 1959 compilation of mystery and suspense stories under Hitchcock's name
Alfred Hitchcock Solve-Them-Yourself Mysteries, published in 1963

(source: The Skull & Pumpkin, Illustration Station, Raining Rita

-Some spooky music by Perks's (of perks and mini) album Bonus Beast. Download song#1here
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Halloween 2009: Disney Gone Wild

I'm a total insomniac at the moment. The clock says 4:40 AM and that is still early for me. Here I am typing away.

Halloween is less than a week away. This year my friends and i are doing Disney gone bad, but I will already be a villain. So it's gonna be really bad. Lots of fake blood, knives, transexuality, and drugs.

Kind of like this except our Ariel is going to be a cutter, Pokahontas is going to be a tranny and Snow White a cocaine addict. Wholesome stuff I tell you.

my halloween inspiration

I watched the newer version of 101 dalmations with Glenn Close to get some attitude inspiration. It turned out to be very difficult having a salty demeanor all night. I got caught smiling and laughing a lot.

This dude's makeup is amazing. Look at his brows!
(i followed Kandee Johnson's makeup video tutorial.Thanks Kandee)

...working on my costume. I bought a heavy cream coat and sewed on black felt dots and severed dalmation puppy heads with felt blood drops on the back and front. My Cruella wig turned out to be smaller than I had wanted so I attached a victorian white wig to it. It actually added lots of soft curls to my look. My bag is a gutted leopard doll with an old belt as a stap. I attached some alpaca fur scraps to my gloves. I think the fur addiction was beginning.

With a limited budget you can really make most of your costume work for you. I had a craft night at my place and invited Ariel and "Poka-hot-ass" over.

final look!
(vtg coat: $9, vtg dress: $3, vtg gloves: $1.50, cigarette holder: $15, handmade animal print bag $1, wig: free, xtra materials: $3, shoes: very old)
I encountered a fellow fur enthusiast in line. I held back from knocking her out for her coat.
lots of amazing makeup application going on.lifesized dolls
Poka-hot-ass - the whore
(we had a Disney gone bad theme going)
Ariel - the slave
Cruella De Vil - the pimp
Vampires were so hot this year:)
My henchman and I. Now where are those puppies!!
my long lost brother the walking corpse
snow-white (the coked out version) and Dorothy (on drugs)