Halloween Fright

Now I am officially, totally, utterly, completely

SCARED of HALLOWEEN!

Halloween Greeting

Video created by Toulouse2k on You Tube

The soundtrack is from "Batman Begins"

Composed by Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard

{Weekly Giveaway}: Pixiepetals

This week's giveaway is from the cute little shop pixiepetals, a shop which stocks embellishments created with & inspired by vintage goods.

The winner will get a $25 voucher to spend in the shop:

go now to check out the full range of choices.

Sorry to bore you with the conditions again, only read if you're new here!

How to Enter? Anyone who leaves a comment on any post during the next 7 days is automatically entered in the draw, starting with this post and ending Saturday the 7th of Nov at 10am GMT. The winner will be revealed later that day.

Rules: only leave one comment per post please, meaningless comments will also be discarded. To pick the winner, I will first use randome.org to generate a number between 1 to 6 say, (i.e. 6 posts a week) and then pick a randome comment within that post. So to maximise your chances you can reply to every post, don't want to miss a post? follow this blog via Blogger, Reader or Bloglovin & these technology will remind you!

Now to last week's winner... Congratulation to Post 4 Comment 20, that's you Trixy!! I will contact you shortly for delivery address :)
xx

Modern Kitchen and Living-Room Designs Ideas

Your home is your sanctuary and you’re getting tired of the boring atmosphere you’re living in. The good news is that you don’t have to spend all your money re-decorating your home. Here are five simple tips to help you jazz up and snazzy up your living room.

GET A FRESH COAT

There’s absolutely nothing like a fresh coat of paint to brighten up and old, boring room. There are great paint techniques that you can apply to completely change the look and feel of the room. Remember to keep the color calm and make sure it matches your things.

You can also go bold and daring by painting one wall dramatic and keeping the rest of the panels easy-going.

RE-ARRANGE

Play with your furniture and position it in different places to get a “new look”. If you have a long living room and your furniture looks lost in it, try moving the couches into a U-shape to make it seem fuller and also create a cozier environment.

NEW PAINTINGS AND DÉCOR

A new painting and some candles will make a world of difference to a bland and boring room. There are many stores that offer affordable decorating goodies. If you can’t afford all the décor you want, buy it in small batches, and get your absolute must-have item first.

There is so much you can do with a room without stretching your credit. Many stores have a lot of mix-and-match options that can be combined to create a crafty, trendy look.

GET RUGGED

A new rug is a great way to change the look and feel of the room. It can also transform it from cold and open to warm and inviting. Put it under the coffee table in your living room for a great “homey” effect.

COLOR WITH CUSHIONS

Cushions are relatively inexpensive and can really turn the room around. For added color get a matching couch throw and play with various styles. You’ll be amazed at the difference.

Happy Halloween!

Halloween is a spooky time of the year,

I don't like ghosts and goblins or being in fear.

Not even scary masks and costumes,

Nor witches, brew and brooms.

It's bad enough when Samantha

disappears from the room!

I don't even like scary cartoons!

I'm definitely not into haunted houses and spooks,

Full of creaky doors, cobwebs and kooks.

Even these pumpkins have an eerie glow,

Although others look pretty all in a row.

And some are magical you know!

I do like the cute children all dressed up for show.

And then I remember... Halloween's not so bad,

("I got a rock!")

When I see all the candy... maybe I'll have just a tad.

This will surly make the dentists glad,

Just don't tell them how much I had!

Happy Halloween Everybody!

Another poem by me...

What's with my rhyming ability?

Here is a Halloween costume contest

that you can enter your little children in.

Just click on the Tom Arma website and send in a picture.

Photos of babies and children that parents have entered in the

"Is your baby a Tom Arma baby?" (Photo Contest for 2007).

Tom Arma, who the Wall Street Journal called

"the Armani of the kiddy costume world" holds a contest

every year for the cutest costumed kids.

Children must wear an animal or bug costume to enter.

To enter go to Tom Arma and click on the contest link.

Gifs, messages, love poems

psssst...

Sorry my sparkly card got cut off...

I just happened to open my post in two different windows,

and the music is overlapping in the most eerie but cool way!

Photo credits will appear in ghostly time

or soon as I get some coffee...

Chris Evans at the Monster Ball

Chris was at Splash's Monster Ball last wednesday to celebrate Halloween. You can see him here together with Giana Angelina DePasquale and Michael Winter.

Angel Wishes

Star light, star bright,

First star I see tonight,
I wish I may, I wish I might,
Have the wish I wish tonight.

What do you wish for in life?

For yourself and others?

Do you have any regrets and if so,

how do you reconcile them?

(I struggle with this a great deal)

Have your dreams come true?

You don't have to tell anybody,

but don't forget about your dreams.

Wish Upon A Star

Invisible Sparkles

I need more of these delicate white sparkles in my hectic life right now...

(images from oops* at Flickr)

Back from the dead: Tennessee Williams, Orson Welles in Oscar race?

Heath Ledger won a rare posthumous competitive Oscar for "The Dark Knight" in February.

Could Tennessee Williams, who died in 1983, be the next?

For half a century, his original screenplay "The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond" has remained unproduced — until now. But novice feature director Jodie Markell, a Williams aficionado, has rectified the situation with her new independent feature that gives Williams a brand-new screen credit and a renewed shot at the Oscar, which eluded him while he was alive. He was nominated for his adaptation of "A Streetcar Named Desire" in 1951 but lost to "A Place in the Sun" and then again in 1956 for "Baby Doll," losing to "Around the World In 80 Days." Both movies were directed by Elia Kazan, and the original plan in 1957 was to see a reteaming of the pair on "Teardrop," reportedly to star Julie Harris, but Kazan went on to other projects, and the picture never got made. The script did surface in an anthology of Williams' screenplays (which also include "The Glass Menagerie," "The Rose Tattoo" and "The Fugitive Kind"), but now it has been rescued from the footnotes of Williams' storied career and turned into a feature in a very different cinematic environment than the one in which it was created.

The film, starring Bryce Dallas Howard as Fisher Willow, another of those Southern belles Williams so loved, will open in Los Angeles and New York on Dec. 30, just under the wire to qualify for Oscar consideration. It costars Chris Evans, Ellen Burstyn, Ann-Margret and Mamie Gummer (Meryl Streep's daughter). In the classic Williams fashion of Maggie the Cat and Blanche DuBois, Howard fiercely and impressively portrays a reluctant debutante who lures a handsome young hired man at her father's plantation to escort her to the season's big societal balls, parties she must attend in order to gain her aunt's inheritance.

Orson Welles, another great name from the ghosts of Oscars past, is also starting to turn up prominently this award season, but in his case he's being channeled by Christian McKay, whose phenomenal and uncanny impersonation of the legend is the driving force of "Me and Orson Welles," another indie trying to get a foothold in the Oscar race. Opening fairly wide on Nov. 25, this 2008 Toronto International Film Fest entry has genuine box office bait in costars Zac Efron, as the 'Me' in the title, an idealistic young actor taken under Welles' wing, and Claire Danes as a love interest for both. Efron and Danes are quite good in this highly entertaining film, but it's McKay who dominates, as you swear the young Orson Welles has returned from the dead. Although McKay could probably qualify as either a lead actor or supporting actor, depending on how you look at it, a run in the supporting category could possibly gain some traction. There aren't a whole lot of contenders there right now, and the academy has shown itself to be a sucker for performances based on people they know, love and, in this case, have even given Oscars to (Welles shared a writing award in 1941 for "Citizen Kane" and also received an honorary statuette in 1971). English actor McKay was nominated this week as most promising newcomer by the British Independent Film Awards.

Of course, with the high costs of campaigning and big-name competition, the Oscar odds are long for both of these independently made and distributed period films, but they are counting on the fondness for a couple of legendary last names that both start with a 'W' to get them through the academy's door this year.

by Pete Hammond

Foggy Friday

Sweet - Castle Masters Collection - 1990

Teenage Rampage
Rebel Rouser
Solid Gold Brass
Stairway To The Stairs
Turn It Down
The Sixteens
Fox On The Run
Fever Of Love
Lies In Your Eyes
AC/DC
Sweet F.A.
Action
Peppermint Twist
Into The Night
Restless
Set Me Free
Heartbreak Today

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A second glimpse of Lucas Lee

Keep Calm

Super busy this week, lots of deadlines to meet.. Hence short post today.. I think I need this in my kitchen!

(photos from ivy style33 at Flickr)

Luxury Bedroom Designs with Beautiful White Bed by MobilFresno

We’ve already shown you minimalist furniture for living room by Mobil Fresno and now we’d like to present you one of new collections by this company, Abril, made in absolutely another style. This collection fits for those people who dream about an opulent and luxury bedroom. Abril is an excellent bedroom set, consisted of Epoch style furniture. The centerpiece of it is a beautiful white bed with lacquered base and amazing big upholstered headboard, which changes this bed in unique element of any bedroom design. The white bed can be perfectly accomponied by elegant night tables with lacquer and veneer finishes. One more very attractive item in this set is a stylish chest of drawers with original sophisticated shape. It has four drawers and doors with a internal lighted distribution, which can be used to store jewelry or you could organize a mini bar in it. This chest is finished by combination of gloss lacquered veneer with expensive natural Rosewood. You could find more information about this luxury bedroom set on Mobil Fresno site.