Well, this was it. The final giveaway, which makes me one very sad witch. It means it’s the end of Halloween. Rats! Just when we were starting to have so much fun. Ah well, with any luck we’ll be Halloween partying together again next year. For now, enjoy the lastContinue Reading

Mr. Skull didn’t stand a chance. Everyone who entered pointed the finger at him being the culprit of the crash. And everyone gave very convincing arguments for why they felt it was him too. Only one person thought he had an accomplice. (Mommy D, I loved how you found a wayContinue Reading

WOW! I was SO excited to see all the entries on this one! When I opened it up to multiple entries, you all entered galore! GREAT! To pick the winner for this one, I dressed as a gypsy and gazed into my crystal bowl. (Yep, you read it right: bowl.Continue Reading

I apologize for being late posting the winner of this contest. I was supposed to do it yesterday, but I ended up being distracted. Sheesh! Talk about being a pot stirrer…(Or “shaker” as the case may be. You wouldn’t know it to hear me talk, but I do know sauceContinue Reading

  Yesterday a box arrived on my doorstep. I opened it up and found something else to giveaway! I tried to get a good picture of all the goodies inside this basket, which was sent to me to giveaway to you courtesy of Maggie’s Station. Tucked inside the purple hauntedContinue Reading

  Mr. Skull may be one of the culprits that crashed my computer. He had a reason to be mad at me. He didn’t much like this video I made of him, which, thanks to a data rescue feature on my fix-it disk, I was able to retrieve. Now youContinue Reading

If you’ve been following the Haunt Jaunts Spooktacular Halloween Blog Party festivities from the beginning, you know that early on (like right at the start) there was a big hiccup: my computer crashed. What I didn’t share was some of the events directly preceeding the crash. I’m going to share them nowContinue Reading

Remember back in the day when ushers at movie theaters used to direct you to your seat with the aid of a flashlight? (Well, maybe some of you won’t. I really don’t. I think they’d done away with such courtesy by the time I started going to movies. But I’veContinue Reading

A couple of Sundays back I was watching Mad Men and learned an interesting tidbit: The Zombie Cocktail was first popularized at the 1939 World’s Fair. Huh, I didn’t even know there was such a drink as a zombie cocktail! (I’m not a big drinker, though, so that’s not too surprising.Continue Reading

  We’ve got a winner in the Exercise Your Demons contest and that person’s name is…Revealed in the video! Along with which way the racket fell. Thanks to all who entered. I hope you had as much fun playing as I did.  Continue Reading

    The next stop on the Party Express is to a very good friend of mine’s blog, Chris Verstraete’s Candid Canine. Let me give you a little background on Chris… We met online 10 years ago. We were both members of a Yahoo Group called Short Mystery Fiction Society.  ChrisContinue Reading

    I recruited a tennis buddy to help me with the next Haunt Jaunts Spooktacular Halloween Blog Party Giveaway. After practice I had her record me doing something we do before games: spin the racket to choose serve or side.  Make the right call and, if your name’s drawn,Continue Reading