Seasonal horror...

We had a gory movie night yesterday with the rather disturbing Rob Zombie movie House Of 1000 Corpses and a large bowl of popcorn. No more nightmares, strangly enough.. Maybe I'm adjusting to my new surroundings? Or maybe my surroundings just seemed some what "normal" after the disturbing images in the movie. Never the less, a great movie to warm up for Halloween with;) It was my beloved husband that introduced me to it, I can't believe that I've missed out on this movie! Horrifying story, twisted and disturbing!! I really loved the wicked dollheads, I'm thinking how easy it would be to make and how great they would be for any disturbing dsiplay.. Also thought that the murder ride was totally rad.. hahhah A little harder to copy though. Maybe I should get myself a haunted house;) Moooohahahah

Also we watched Trick 'r Treat a couple of weeks ago, an other great Halloween story! I love the little Halloween spirit Sam. The combination of the babysuit and the horrible creature that he is makes him all the more scary! It was after watching this movie we decided to make a little Trick r' Treater Sam of our own this Halloween. With a twist, our Sam will have a wicked clown mask instead of the mask he is wearing in the movie. We'll have him by the coats, greeting the guests as they come in... With a bloody trick or treat bag in one hand and a knife in the other:) Cute!

Morning coffee and sculls

O isn't it just lovely to wake up and have your first morning coffee, by a scull decorated table and surf the world for gory props and ideas? Which by the way resulted in an other horrifying dream last night.. What you say about being chased by a bunch of madmen and a set of vintage fake teeth? And a wild car chase to top it with!? Every time I woke up, I could swear that the monster in the corner was alive.. In the morning light, I could see that my "monster" was indeed our wintercoats and not so much alive.. Scary monster. Sounds just like an other Halloween nightmare to me. Hmmm ask me in 10 days time, maybe I'm not so cocky about it by then..

O joy, only 10 days left!! Exciiited! Yet a bit nervous for my costume:/ I couldn't see that it was sent with the tracking number I was given.. Which gives me a bit of a bad feeling.. Crossing legs, fingers, hair and toes and pretty much everything else I got!!! In the mean while I'll occupy my worried mind with some more satisfying issues. Like which haunted house to chose for our wall decor. I've decided to print out a few pictures (found at Photobucket) of haunted houses to hang on the wall over our family photos, maybe a grave yard or two to go with it! I think it will add that extra spooky feel to our Cabinet Of Death...

A few haunted places that I have in mind... Be aware;)

Our private family graveyard in the backyard

Night at the mansion..

Our guests last year..

Frontyard decor..?

Those summers in the south..

Cousin Victoria paying a visit..

Marie Antoinette's resurrection..

After hours on internet searching for a cool costume, I decided to go for a sassy Marie Antoinette costume this year with loats of petticoat sticking out underneath! I think it will look just GRRRRREAT with a slashed throat, white powdered skin and doll makeup, a big powdered wig with flowers and feathers. My horror now is that I bought all the bits and pieces at different sites, I'm crossing legs and fingers for them to arrive before the big day!! If not... Guess I'll have to go wild in the closet and see what I turn out as. As we're speaking, my dear man is laying his final touch on a small giljotin model, that I'm sure will be the party favourite this year! hahah

Wig from The Halloween Costume Store

Costume from ebay Now Discount Shoes

White, teardrop petticoat from ebay Gotlingerie

White ruffle panty from ebay Laceville

Haunting family portraits...

A few of our family portraits for the season.. Who said you can't choose your family? I'll add some pictures later to show you the final result of our upgrade of the mansion;)

Ghouly, gory Halloween.. Finally here!!

As allways, we are doing some redecoration this time of the year... Our little appartment is slowly turning into a horrifying, haunted dungeon from hell! This year we have chosen the O so suiting name "Cabinet Of Death" Moooaaaahhahaha!! Enter if you dear...

I've been surfing the entire web for props we can use to make our cozy little place into a frightful cabinet. In my search for inspiration and gory home decor I have stumbled over some goodies that I like to share:)

The labels from Love Manor just blew me away, they are absolutely gorgeous! I printed them out in color and have used them on all our kitchen jars, bottles, jars and more bottles.. Our shelf looks like some wicked witch's shelf right now, or something taken out from some horrifying lab you don't want to be caught in by the mad scientist.. Hahah together with our "family portraits" it looks pretty spooky. I'm not sure how I'm gonna sleep here for the next two weeks as it's slowly developing into the Cabinet Of Death. I allready had spooky dreams last night, dreaming of all the crazy props and stuff I've been searching up. To good of an imagination is not allways good....

Ralph Lauren's House Of Horror!!

Ralph Lauren's Lollipop Ghouls of the year has shaken up the whole world and forced the fashion house to go out with an official appology. Not so strange when nothing seems natural about the model's body on the photo. They have photoshoped the model look more or less like the scary, real life little sister of Barbie or some awareness add for anorexia. She makes me think of one of these paper dolls I played with as a kid... My first reaction to the photo is to feel sorry for the girl, because I think she is sick and about to die! What's wrong with the people in the fashion industry when they think it's perfectly OK to portrait the woman body like this? It's something very sick and very wrong about the industry all together. Photoshopping allready skinny bone models, using skinny boys for their women collection and young girls that hasn't grown any curves yet and jumps straight into their size 0. What about showing the beauty of the woman body, instead of photoshopping it away to an unrecognisable paperdoll?? Wonder what's next..? Straw Woman? I don't believe in their appology, I only believe in a change. Let women be women!

The model being interviewed at Today's Show

Parts of Today's Show and reported at msnbc.com

And as shown at the Rachel Maddow Show at msnbc.com



And LAST but not LEAST, how to make one of your own:

Dear lord, I've been a bad girl.. Again....

But how could I resist? After a long hard fucked up day at work, were I also got sacked like a sack of potatoes the day before.. Maybe not exactly, but that's how it feels. It's not that bad, or lets face it it is (need to stay positive, need to stay....). I can't seem to make up my mind about how bad it is, but here's how it goes: I've been working at the same project for some years now, after quitting my interior design school, thinking this would get me somewhere and also not having the heart to watch it go down the drain. The guy who was running the project before me got so sick of it he couldn't stand it anymore and all he wanted to do was to hide in bed all day with the covers over his head (that's how fun it is, so I should be glad). That's when I came in the picture as I was the only other one with any knowledge about it, which I must say was fairly minor at the time.. I jumped in to save it, like Wonder Woman on a train wreck, worked my ass off, managed to turn the fast downgoing graph upwards. And here I am a few years later, our company merged with an other big company this year. That's when everything changed. For the last years I've been working as an assistant on the project with a colleague, after teaching her what ever I knew about it so she could run it. This seems to have made me to the extra potato on the plate that they now don't need any more, as we are a bigger company than before and they have different ways of doing things. Instead they offered me 50% work at the front desk, and joy they want me to still go on with the project and do what ever I have been doing, the fun part is that they want to cut it down to 15 h a week (it's most of the time a 80% job, sometimes more than 100%). Someone must believe in miracles on the company board. They also said that maybe I can do it while I do my tasks at the front desk.. Someone looking for a two in one toy? My fine superior also wanted to know what I have been studying, he laughed a bit when I told him (the rotten bastard). Obviously he didn't think it was very relevant, and it's not at all. But what he seems to forget is that I have been in the business for several years now and I have experience, not only from this project. All I can say is, it's bloody hell by time to look for something new!!

It was after leaving work Tuesday, the day after the disasterous day, after having the ground underneath me being pulled away... Yes I did sin. The worse weather ever, rain pooring down like someone was standing with a waterhose up there and deliberately pointing it at us, the wind blowing it up underneath the useless umbrella making everything wet. Giving us a strange longing for full rubber costumes, fully water proofed and tried out for decades at sea by rough fishermen! Glorious autumn weather. That's when we decided to seek shelter from the weather at Last Train, a little rock bar down town. Coming in we saw them rigging up their equipment. Concert! On a Tuesday? One beer later and the desission was made, lets stay to check it out! (It usually starts with one beer, doesn't it)? More people coming and slowly filling up, turning out it is a release party. Some champagne later, a few beer and chillinuts they started. And WOW, what a pleasent surprise!! The band Seven were well worth the wait and the 80,- that they charged us for staying!!:D A sort of poped rock music. I really loved the cords, the beat, the vocal, yes the whole sound! Finding a new band that you like, is like finding a jewle among stones!! Long story short, Great night! Getting to talk to the bandmembers afterwards was really a plus. I love the small stage concerts, such a different feeling than the big productions.. Hmmm and guess what? One of the two cd's that was thrown off of stage landed softly in my lap, just where it belonged, after bouncing off some guys chest and hitting my love's hand!;) Karma?

Ps: Also worth mentioning, later on that night we were offered 7 weeks of FREE dancing classes in salsa by some salsa instructor from a dance school down town!! He thought we had such a good spark and connection when we were dancing lol... Though my man think he's just trying to be smart because he wants to dance with me hahha, call me naive, but I like thinking that he was genuinly nice! Hve to have some faith in people. Guess it will be salsa from now on! And my sin? Well, being out in the middle of the week again (no need to say the next day were spent in front of the computer like a zombie, working home)... But with all of that coming, I'm sure I'm allready forgiven;) A little ash on my wings allways suited me anyway..

Much love,
Soon to be SalsaMary (not to be confused with the hotsauce;)