Halloween Weekend + Cosplay

Hello my dears!! I can't believe it, I opened up Blogger to type this post up today and I saw that this blog has over 3,000 page views!!! 

I never, ever in a million years would have thought I would get so many people reading my blog. Thank you so so much from the bottom of my heart! It continuously surprises me how much people actually care about what I have to say. When I started this blog, I thought it would be cool if even 1-2 people read this blog. I was surprised when even 5 people read it. Hell, I was surprised when I started my twitter account that 10 people would follow me and be interested in my thoughts let alone the 600+ that follows me now. I was always the weird kid in school. Growing up people generally didn't care what I had to say. I continually got ignored when trying to voice opinions, I even had some people tell me "Shut up, no one cares what you think". So to have so many people care and continue to read this blog and to support me in my endeavors makes me more happy and humbled than you could ever know. 

So again, thank you so much everyone. Without your support I probably would have abandoned this blog long ago. I'll continue to do posts that interest you and to share aspects of my life with you all. You're all amazing <3.


Enough feels now, onto the post! I love when Halloween falls on a weekend day - it tends to mean that I celebrate all weekend long. At the last minute I nearly ended up losing my plans and I was unable to make new ones. That crushed me. Halloween means a lot to me. I was at the point of swearing off the holiday because every single year some sort of drama/disappointment revolving around plans. Luckily things turned out alright in the end! 

My Halloween weekend kicked off Friday, the day before Halloween. One of my close friends came over. We made cocktails, did a face mask (I'll spare you all my scary goop covered face) and watched Rocky Horror and Hellsing Ultimate. I got tipsy which was quite funny. I got cut off when I started to crack up over my own laugh. 

We tried the Game of Thrones Ale that I mentioned in a previous post. I'm not a fan of beers or rather ale so I wasn't a big fan of it. It was pretty bitter. We made cocktails called Witches' Brew which contained coconut rum, pineapple juice, cranberry juice and sprite. 

It was really good *^*. We didn't get to the vanilla vodka pictured above but I had the small bottle of marshmallow vodka and it was really good. It reminded me of UV's cake vodka. Many lewd comments at Alucard's expense were made. When my friend Beckman and I get together, the floodgates to lewdness open. Vicky usually has to deal with the aftermath...she can tell when we've hung out xD. 

I accidentally got some blood in my hair from the knife so I just went with it. 

Though we didn't do much, I felt like dressing up. This was supposed to he a creepy ghost sort of costume. I wanted to see if I could do a scary type of makeup without blood or prosthetics and still have it be creepy . And I ended up having blood in my hair anyway. Oh well! I had fun doing the makeup and taking the pictures for it. I walked around without my glasses for half the day because I really liked how this turned out.

Blueee liiipsss. This is Sweetpea and Fay's Limited Edition Lip Joule Liquid Lipstick in Lottery Bride.

I admit the blue lips are a bit bright...but honestly I just wanted an excuse to wear it!

I tried to make the scary cute. DERP. 

Halloween, I spent with my friend again. We went to Home Goods in costume. I certainly got many odd looks which was hilarious! That's probably because I looked like a gothic-hooker-anime-drag queen xD.  Sadly there was an incident that ruined the mood of the day but we still had fun. We watched anime and horror movies.

For the first part of the day, I was a gothic version of Asuna from Sword Art Online. I even carried a little plushie of Kirito around with me. This costume was interesting to deal with all day. I had limited visibility because the two sets of false eyelashes I wore were so big! They also kept hitting my glasses. I need to try to get contacts before Connecticon!

Cookie fun. I made a huge batch of Halloween sugar cookies the Thursday before Halloween and I topped them with an orange icing I made. 

My friend Becky and I

This picture makes me feel short ._.

Doesn't he look kawaii???? 

Later in the day I did a costume change and became Sakura from Naruto. This was a spontaneous costume because I had a pink wig and the leaf headband.

Sensei's pet <3. If I had Kakashi for a teacher, there sure wouldn't be much learning happening (hehe).

I became the ultimate weeb on Halloween - we watched Sword Art Online while I was Asuna. My friend kept going "there's your husbando!" Whenever Kirito was on screen. I kept going "look I'm on TV!" When Asuna was on.

I should've watched Naruto dressed as Sakura. But that would have ended in either me telling myself to shut up....or lewd comments at Kakashi's expense.

Though my friend had to leave while the night was still young I still had fun by myself. I watched some horror movies and did some Samhain rituals. For those that don't know - Halloween evolved from Samhain. Samhain is a Wiccan holiday equivalent to the Mexican Day of the Dead; it takes place on the night of October 31st and the day of November 1st. It is where the term Halloween came from, as it was referred to as All Hallows Eve. It is the day where we honor our departed ancestors. It is when the veil between the worlds is thinnest and the dead roam the earth along with us. Samhain is also New Years to many wiccans/pagans. I just use the day to celebrate spookiness and to connect with my beloved dead. I did a few Samhain prayers and I set an extra place at the dinner table to invite a departed relative and to show them respect.

Later on in the evening I did an EVP session - my very first one where I didn't have another person in the room with me.  EVP stands for electronic voice phenomena for those that don't know. It is where you try to talk with spirits and record the session. Many times spirits can leave noises or messages on a recording that you don't hear while you are recording.The session definitely was interesting. 

This is a topic I tend to steer clear from because frankly I have no patience for skeptics. If you don't share the same belief, please kindly keep comments to yourself. My house is very haunted. So many strange and creepy things happen here nearly on a daily basis. This is what I am currently writing a book about. Many people have experienced things here, so it's not just me or in my head - some experiences with multiple witnesses.

Now I am a reasonable and intelligent person. I don't see something fall or hear a noise and automatically yell "ghost!". No I try to find a rational explanation of what happened first. But there have been SO many occurrences that simply can't be explained. On Halloween I try to connect with the spirits more in hope of having an encounter. The supernatural has always fascinated me and I consider myself an amateur ghost hunter. I do know how to handle myself and protect myself so don't worry guys! 

All weekend long I found myself giving Tarot readings from my new deck. Surprisingly 99% of them were spot on! It was getting pretty creepy actually. 

To end my Halloween, I finally watch the movie It Follows which I've been dying to see! It's a horror movie about this girl that has sex with this guy - then she finds that this thing begins to follow her. It is fairly creepy, it reminds me of the Halloween movies. It has such a unique premise! I really enjoyed it.

The aftermath of Halloween:

Lashes everywhere! At least my cats didn't eat my lashes like last year. Yes...in my house if you leave false eyelashes laying around my cats will eat them. I was so tired that I just took everything off in my living room and left it XD. 

Pumpkins I carved on November 1st because I wasn't ready to let go.

My favorite pumpkins! :D 

I'm going to cry this weekend when my mom forces me to take down most of my decorations. 

Anyway, that was my Halloween! What did you all do on Halloween? Comment and let me know!


Xoxo

Stay creepy! 

September Adventure Time & Scream Queens

What's up my zombies?? Guess what?? IT'S FINALLY OFFICIALLY AUTUMN!!!

Hehe I'm so punny...because you know, my cat's name is Autumn. 

But seriously, I'm so excited for the fall. It's beginning to get cooler here and every day I notice more and more leaves starting to change. It's crazy that it's nearly October and not even half of the trees in my yard have started to change. 

The view looking down my street from the end of my driveway.

The crap apple tree in my yard. Oh how I wish these apples were edible, I'm dying to go apple picking. 

The only thing I'm not excited about is the fact that I won't have an air conditioner to block out my tinnitus. Yeah...I have tinnitus (a constant, never ending ringing in my ear) as a result of some illness from early this year. It's quite frightening that I may have to deal with it for the rest of my life, and I'm only 22 years old. Shit happens.

Alright, Heather stop rambling and get to the point! Since I know some of you like hearing about my adventures, I thought I'd talk about my adventures from Tuesday! I had an absolutely wonderful day! And a few wonderfully strange coincidences. I'm convinced that the good karma from my Wiccan practices lately came back to me and payed off. It was all exactly what I've needed. I've had so many things on my mind lately and so many things happening at home, that it felt good to finally unwind and not think about it for the day. It was also nice to get some exercise.

I spent the whole day with one of my dear friends, Beckman. We went to the mall and some other places. We literally walked around all day, I ended up with a blister from all of the walking and the shoes I wore. It was worth it though!

We started our day by visiting my mom at the store she works at. She called one of her coworkers over to meet me. This man absolutely made my day. The first thing out of his mouth was "Oh my god she's so beautiful" to my mom. And he kept saying "You're so beautiful, wow" to me. The flattery totally made my day, I rarely get comments like this in public.

For those curious, here's my makeup from that day. Ignore the slightly irritated facial expression. I'm like facially challenged when I take pictures xD, I have no idea why. 

I wore all of this, along with my Sword Art Online T-shirt and capris. 

I swapped the crescent moon hair clip in the picture above for my My Chemical Romance bow. I layered my Opal crystal, my pentagram and my long chained clear crystal. I wore rose quartz earrings and my purple gem bat wing earrings. 

We went to the mall and went to the usual stores. We went to Spencer's and they had some fucking creepy masks O__O...Beckman is wearing the horse one:

I'm wearing the creepy anime one. I look like cousin It gone kawaii.

I saw a beautiful Ouija board necklace at Spencer's but didn't have enough to get it. I have been wanting one so badly, so I've been on the lookout for them. We then went to Hot Topic and I looked for the one I passed over the last few times I went there because of the price; it was gone. We then looked through the clearance section and I told Beckman that it would be pretty awesome if I were to find that necklace in the clearance section somehow. As we waded through the bins, literally a minute later I found the necklace and it was marked down to a price I could afford!! It was insane! I totally feel like it was one of those coincidences where the universe was rewarding me.

My lovely necklace. It's a cameo too!! *^* I'm completely obsessed with cameos.

They had nail polishes buy 1 get 1 free so Beckman bought one and let me get the free one. I chose this:

We went to Lush and I got to check out their new fall products. They have a wonderful new coconut hand scrub and a bubblegum scented shower gel called comforter....I so wanted it! And of course they were totally out of face masks so I couldn't try the new rose face mask ;__; this is the fucking 3rd time that I've had this happen!! UGHHH!

 Beckman and I were discussing some things about Wicca as I was explaining what I've been up to lately and one of the Lush workers casually listened in. She found it really fascinating and I love finding open minded people like that! So I explained a few things to them and about the book of shadows that I'm working on. Honestly, I don't think that I'm going to do a full separate post on Wicca and my beliefs. If you are interested though, I can still write one and just email you it. All you have to do is ask my dears! 

We went to Yankee Candle and Bath and Body Works and it was pumpkin spice everything!! I'm not a huge fan of pumpkin scented/flavored things. I much prefer apple. But I was happy to see all of their fall and Halloween products, as I never get to go to the mall in the fall. We then went to Sephora and got some skincare products to try and got Beckman some skincare advice.

After the mall we headed back to our hometown and went to Homegoods. The 2nd strangest thing happened. I was convinced that they wouldn't have any tea cups left. We went to the clearance section and they had the exact tea cup I was eyeing the last time I went...marked down even cheaper!! It was $3.50 and I literally had $3 and change left. It was insane!

 Homegoods has the most beautiful Halloween decor too.

We then went to Walmart and like the typical white girls in my redneck town we took selfies in the store xD. There isn't really all that much to do here so teenagers  (and sometimes us young adults) usually go to random stores and fuck around in them or in the parking lots.

We had fun playing around with the Halloween costumes. Beckman put on this creepy mask

I think the furries are taking over. I swear I saw animal related costumes like this everywhere!

And I tried on this beautiful witch's hat. Oh how I wanted it!

We then went to the liquor store and I saw this! Game of Thrones liquor yaaay! 

The bottle was absolutely stunning, it looked like it belonged in the show. It was closed with a cork that had a cap on top of it with the stark sigil. This was sealed with chains on the sides. It was also a pretty large bottle, not the size of a beer bottle. It's called Three Eyed Raven and it's a dark saison ale made by the Omme Gang brewery in Coppertown NY. I was surprised to find this in my town...especially this particular one when we have 4-5 different liquor stores. We didn't buy this but Beckman bought bought some Angry Orchard. The snotty lady at the counter carded us both even though I didn't buy anything because she thought we were teenagers. He let me have one of those to try.

I actually really liked it! I hate beer, so it was nice to find something similar to it that I enjoy. It's basically beer, but made with apples. 

Later that night, I watched the Scream Queens premiere! I loved it so much! If you're watching purely for the horror, you're going to hate it. The horror is pretty cheesy. Some of the makeup was atrocious. I did expect better since Ryan Murphy, the creator of American Horror Story made this, I guess he wanted the makeup cheesy to add to the comedy. It is funny though! I found myself laughing my ass off quite a few times. It's wonderful as a dark comedy. I want to smack the shit out of Emma Roberts' character, Chanel because she was a huge snotty bitch! I love Jamie Lee Curtis' character of The Dean. Seriously she's the best!! I think she's the person behind the red devil mask. I laughed my ass off at some of the kills like the spray tan one. THAT was beautiful. I love Keke Palmer's character, Zayday. I'm pretty sure that Grace and Zayday, maybe even Hester and Chanel will survive the show. Zayday and Grace being the few of the girls that actually seem to have a brain. I really liked seeing Lea Michelle in a different role, it was hilarious to see her in a neck brace. Yes, I used to watch Glee. I totally related to her character Hester because if I accidentally killed someone I know I'd know how to dispose of the body.  I was very happy to see Ariana Grande be killed off, I can't stand her. I'm so happy we won't have to deal with her for the rest of the season. Yaaaaaay!! I can't wait for next week's episode. 

Anyway, Tuesday was a wonderful day! I'm hoping to have another Halloween post this weekend or next week so keep an eye out! As usual, any ideas for my Halloween countdown that you'd love to see? Comment and let me know! 

Xoxo

Stay creepy