Halloween pics and stories

I haven't dressed up in years, but I needed to pay homage to King Tut and Queen Ankhesenamun from my latest WIP.

I really need to grow out my hair and get permanent curls . . . isn't that wig HOT?!? And that guy - ooh, la la! Well, he needs to ditch the glasses . . .




Private Belly Dance Party later . . . in the Middle Eastern Room.



Two of my five guys! I have lots of men in my life . . . Gangsta coolness and piratey mahem. My other boys were AWOL around the country.



The littlest Little family with Sera as a mermaid and Adam's wife as a Gothic Geisha Girl.



She sewed this all week long and I have the evidence all over my house.


Coolness, especially the braids and boots.

Hope you all had a fun weekend and aren't too gorged from sugar.

Me, I am out of here for the next 9 days. Going to Louisiana with hubby to do research and swamp tours and stay in historic B&B on the Bayou Teche! See you next week! Be good while I'm gone and will someone please sweep up the candy wrappers . . .



Adam liked that cigar a little *too* much.

Halloween Spookiness!

I have been a very good girl - I haven't eaten any Halloween candy this week - yet!

Of course, that means *nothing* as I'm sure I'll be inhaling it over the weekend and applying it directly to my thighs and stomach.




Go read this very Spooky Story by mguibord : The Rustling of Dead Things

Go Watch lindsey_leavitt's spooky Halloween video about the ghost story she wrote and illustrated when she was only 10! Delivering the Spook I wrote one when I was 10 and made it into a book, but I don't have it, unfortunately, and I have no idea what happened to it. Maybe a spirit spirited it away . . .

Go here to enter a very spooky contest by lisa_schroeder
Trick or Treat!

My own ghostly experience in a cemetery in Natchez Mississippi! Click the link to see the pics and read the caption stories in which I spill all!

If you have a Halloween story please share in the comments with a link so we can all feel deliciously tingly!

Haunted Houses

Halloween is in only 10 days and Albuquerque has TWO haunted houses to scare the bejeebies out of you!

I am getting my arm twisted to go to 13th Street Manor: www.hauntplex.com/albuquerque/nm_13thstreetmanor.html

Who's twisting my arm? My new daughter-in-law (!) who works there seven days a week scaring people until Halloween is over.
I've never been a person who seeks out horror movies. I love mysteries and suspense and thrillers. The Bourne Identity, Mission Impossible, Dial M for Murder - but HAUNTED HOUSES with people screaming and blood dripping and zombies chasing you and vampires rising out of the dark and ghouls grabbing at your ankles? Thank you very much but I think I'd rather hit the dollar movie down the road and see Traveling Pants 2! (Watch the very cute trailer at this link.) Anyone seen it yet? Carolee Dean and I are going to go see it for a girl's night out soon.

Anyway, Milyssa really, really wants us to go, and I'm feeling guilty putting her off. I said maybe I'll go if my hubby is on one side of me, and my boys on the other three sides. And I'll hide my eyes. And run really, really fast!

See, when I was eleven years old I had a *bad experience* at our local haunted house in Concord, California. I went with my best friend, Starr, and I got so scared by people grabbing at me and getting electrically zapped on a bench that I was near tears and begged to leave. They let me out a side door. I was sooooo relieved. But my friend Starr FINISHED the tour ALL BY HERSELF. And didn't seem terribly freaked out at all.

I guess I'm a wimp.

I'll let you know next week if I went and if I survived.

If this blog goes dark, you'll know the outcome . . .