October 31st. Halloween! That word makes me nostalgic for a night of plastic masks, bowls of homemade vegetable soup for dinner, a steady drizzle (classic Oregon late October weather) and dashing from door to door yelling Trick or Treat! Afterwards we brought our loot home for Mom to examine before we got to eat the full-size candy bars. This was a yearly one-night event when I was a kid growing up in the outer suburbs of Portland, Oregon in the 60s.
Fast forward to 2020. Yep, if you do the math I’m an old lady and I still LOVE Halloween! It’s a billion dollar industry and commercialized, monetized and advertised up the wazoo but that doesn’t bother me a single bit. Bring it on!
I’ve always said I love the MONTH of Halloween… all October long. This is a big birthday month in our family including both the grandkids, sister, niece, honorary daughters AND myself. We have parties and cake galore! The weather is downshifting into winter but fall is often sunny and warm during the day with cool crisp nights. The leaves are a riot of color, on the tree or the ground beneath. The year’s harvest is winding down to a pumpkin spice & cider-filled finale. What’s not to like?
Well, for me it’s that I have masses of projects planned with a vague Halloween deadline. But somewhere in the day to day stuff, those nifty but seasonal projects get put on the back burner to resurface a day or 2 before October 31st when time has run out. I make myself a promise of ‘next year for sure’ and the daily grind resumes.
Here we are now. It’s late July 2020. The ‘next year’ I promised myself. And we both know it sucks. I could say more but this isn’t a political or current affairs blog, lol.
I’ve often thought about blogging about my favorite holiday. Those projects could finally be planned & completed, movies watched, I could go places and do things. This year is the perfect time to finally make that all happen since I’m spending so much time at home crafting while I should be working. I shortened the blog name & URL to 99 Days Of Halloween because I procrastinated again about actually starting this project. See how I am, lol!!
So welcome to day one of 99 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN. It’s a simple, classic web log of my Halloween countdown. No plans for monetizing tho I may make some stuff to sell somewhere. But there’s less than 100 days till the main event… better get started! I waited till the very-last-minute to start this blog so I’m posting this opener without pix. I’ll fix that asap… not expecting any company for a while anyway.
Today I’m working on some so-called spooky little dolls like the ones shown above and will talk about them in a later post. Hope to see you again :-)
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