The Great Pumpkin Project

Absolutely loving this idea! I first heard about this from Pumpkin Rot, of course, and promised I'd share it along! Not sure I can pitch in as I'm a little bit busy since I'm moving during these next few days, but if you're a haunter or Halloween purest, feel free to keep classic Jack o's alive and join in!

Here's the project: carve a pumpkin for every night left in October and leave it in a place that you feel needs a handsome jack o' lantern. Here's the site for the details, where I found these fantastic pictures from people from around the country, and the world, showing off their jack o' lanterns in awesome places: The Great Pumpkin Project.com

Lizzie Borden Took an Axe...

... And you know the rest!
    Finally got the chance to check out Lifetime's Lizzie Borden Took and Axe, and I must say I was pretty impressed as far as TV movies go. I would have preferred better music, more true to the period, but eh, what can you do? Overall, I think the movie captured the incident fairly well, though I'm no historian. Christina Ricci was very good too and really brought to life the Lizzie that most people tend to believe DID kill her parents. Here's the trailer!

Oh, and here's this, because it's down right awesome.

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The New World

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New England?

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     Living in Southern California, one doesn't always get that "Traditional Halloween in New England Feeling"... it's really more like a desert with a beach next to it and around October is usually when fires begin to break out. I happen to be one of those few people who pathetically tries to pretend that it's cold when it isn't, that everyone around me has at least a little bit of Halloween excitement on their minds, and that the trees are at some point going to turn beautiful fall colors. 

       Most Haunters I have heard of live somewhere on the East Coast and talk about the gorgeous seasonal look that their locations acquire every year. On my Halloween night, there's usually so many wild fires going around that we have to be careful not to put too many it candles outside. Instead we have to use some of those fake, battery-powered tea-lights. On the whole it doesn't bother me that much, those little candles do come in handy and "So Cal" is a pretty awesome place to live, our winters aren't freezing cold. I just always end up being the only person living in a beach town that doesn't really go to the beach, instead I plan Halloween stuff. I think it's safe to say I am obsessed.