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Sugar Skull Halloween

♦ Dress: Pyramid Collection ♦ Petticoat: Originals ♦ Red Contacts: Clearly Contacts ♦ ♦ Rose: Gift from mother-in-law ♦ Belt: Addition-Elle ♦ Fishnets: Torrid ♦ ♦ Boots: Fluevog ♦ Vest: Clothing Swap ♦ Scarf: Garage Sale ♦ Earrings: Claire’s ♦ This year Gary and I had decided to dress up as Sugar Skulls for Halloween and I had everything I needed from the makeup aspect, but the corsets I had ordered from the Wedding Checklist ebay store never...

The castle lights have grown dim…

Another Festival of Fear is behind us…at least for another year. The month of August was pretty jammed for me as I was working on Gary’s freelance life. We launched a new site, set up an inventory system and did a lot of last minute running around for various sundries. The culmination of all of this prep work was for Rue Morgue’s Festival of Fear at the FanExpo here in Toronto. Three days of smiling, chatting, shaking hands and exchanging hugs has left with with a bit of the...

Jack Brooks Monster Slayer

A few years ago, I had the opportunity to meet Robert Englund at Rue Morgue’s Cinemacabre’s presentation of Jack Brooks Monster Slayer and I simply have to say the man is awesome. He was engaging, funny and charming, easily banishing any sort of nervousness I had because I was meeting him. Now don’t try and pretend you would not be just a little bit nervous too if you were meeting Freddy! He terrified me as a child and here he was making me laugh and blush in a matter of...

Cinemacabre Movie Night

Every month, Rue Morgue, the magazine my husband Art Directs, has a movie night they they call “Cinemacabre“. This month, the movie was “Street Trash“. A pure B movie, with no character development, but some pretty gruesome gore scenes. Because I was meeting Gary directly after work, I had to make sure my outfit could go from a day of client meetings to an evening that included dinner, the role of ticket taker and a movie. I knew that I wanted to wear my new red boots...

Halloween – My Favourite Time of Year

If you know me at all you know that I love Halloween. Even before I met Gary, Halloween was always a huge deal for my sisters and I. Every year we would have to think of a costume to outdo the one we had last year. I’ve been everything from a gyspsy, to a witch, a doll, a faery, a Fraggle inspired alien, and…well you get the idea. When I met Gary and dazzled him with stories of my haunted house in Hamilton, I think he fell in love with me a little bit that night when he...