My Creatively Random Life

My Favorite.. is a weekly meme hosted by Maureen’s Books. In this meme we share every week something we love with each other. Because let’s face it.. The world can be a dark place and it’s time to share something positive. For more info:  My Favorite Meme . My favourite holiday is Halloween.  I love dressing up and seeing the kids so excited to go out and interact with the community.  I love making up little packages to give out. I wear two costumes at least every year.  One for work and one to take the kids out trick or treating. I also love to see the house that really go all out decorating for Halloween.

It's a little grainy but this is me in my Belle cosplay on Halloween of 2015.  I love this costume, I can't wait to wear it again come Toronto ComiCon.

When I was much younger than I am now, I loved nothing more that a good "spooky" story.  I spent many nights laying up in bed reading books that were designed to make your skin crawl and leave you with goose bumps. My personal favourite author for Young Adult Thrillers was and probably still is Christopher Pike.  Twenty years after reading his books some of them still stand out in my mind in perfect clarity.  The top one would be Remember Me. Something about Shari's story struck a chord with me that has echoed through the last twenty years, as any good book should I suppose. Sadly when I was a teenager I didn't hold on to as many books as I do now so I spend a lot of time hunting to replace the ones I really wish I had kept. (Sweet Valley High anyone?) I am giving away a $15 Amazon gift card in the hopes that you can use it to buy a book to be loved as much as I loved this one. a Rafflecopter giveaway This post is part of The Spooktacular Giveaw...

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Ok, so it's only August, but two highly anticipated events (at least in my household) are just around the corner and I will be ready ... what am I talking about? Halloween and the December 18th release of  Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens , of course! I'm already planning on attending our neighborhood party and trick-or-treating festivities dressed up as Boba Fett. Or maybe Darth Vader ... Or maybe a Stormtrooper .... or maybe -- well, whatever. I'll eventually make up my mind. The  point  is, I'm already starting to plan. And not just for Halloween, mind you. Oh no. I plan on attending the movie in whatever costume I eventually decide on. It's too big of an event to just go in my regular clothes!  So, what about you? Have you decided on what you're going to be for Halloween? If not, I highly recommend selecting a Star Wars character. It's not only timeless, it's also  timely  with the new movie releasing just a month and a half after Halloween...

The worst of the move is over, all of our furniture is in the condo (and it fits) now it's just a matter of moving over a few final boxes, cleaning up the old place and oh my the unpacking.  I think that might be worse than unpacking. The last few boxes I packed are just a hodgepodge of stuff; papers, wires, books, clothes and even worse they aren't remotely labeled.  One can only guess at what is in each box, it's like playing the lottery.  It just got to the point where I was of a mood to just get things into the truck so that we didn't have to make a second trip.  Didn't work but hey, I tried. The most important thing I learned from this move is that I didn't need 60% of the stuff that I owned.  Very little of it outside of the books and the craft supplies made me happy or had any real value in my life and the only thing that I have been super eager to unpack is the stuff needed to work on my Fan Expo Cosplays.  Oh and my stationary because my pen pa...

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Cat's costume from two years ago, can you guess what she is supposed to be?

Remember that bunny costume I was talking about on Tuesday?  Well last night I found a picture of it. It was a lot less dorky looking in my memory...

The Express Yourself Weekly Meme is hosted  Bouquet Of Books  and  Entertaining Interests .  This week's topic is: What is a costume you wore for Halloween as a child? Being born in 1981 I wore many awesome Halloween costumes as a kid, I vaguely remember the year of the carebear costume with the mask I could barely breathe out of.  Or the year we were in Montreal for Halloween to visit my Grandfather and my mom dress me up as a Hobo. I think my favourite childhood Halloween costume though was the year I was a bunny, because bunnies are awesome.  Plus I really love face paint.