HAUNT JAUNTS

Using the Magic Halloween Hat, I cooked up the winner of the $25 Shutterfly gift card in the fiberdoodles-inspired Halloween Blog Party Giveaway. I was surprised we didn’t have more entrants for this one, but I am thankful to those of you who did enter. Thanks! Congrats again to the winner. You’ll find out who that is in the video… (Don’t worry, there’s only one more drawing after this to suffer through.) Happy Halloween! Recommended Products: Rubie?s Costume Co Cool Ghoul Costume, White, Standard Halloween Bloody Clings 2 Halloween Skeleton Yard Flamingos Lawn Decor Mad Scientist Lab Kit Halloween Haunted House Prop … Read entire article »

Chef Courtie whipped up a winner for the $10 Starbucks gift card in the fiberdoodles-inspired Halloween Blog Party Giveaway. I knew there were coffee drinkers out there, and you guys sure proved me right! Thanks for all the great comments sharing your favorite drinks. Some were new to me and sure sounded yummy. I’m definitely going to give them a try! Thanks again for playing everybody. Congratulations to the winner. (If you’re new and this is your first winner announcement, I don’t tell the winner in writing. I decided to record the drawings so you’d know  I was really doing them. Then I make you suffer through watching me make a fool out of myself to find out who the winner is! Enjoy!) Happy Halloween! Recommended Products: Halloween - Unrated Director's Cut (Widescreen Two-Disc Special … Read entire article »

A HUMONGOUS “Thank You!” goes out to our special guest sponsor, PublishingWorks, who donated Haunted Cemeteries of New England, our prize number 5.2 in the fiberdoodles-inspired Halloween Blog Party Giveaway. I feel very fortunate to have received both this book and the Haunted Hikes of New Hampshire to offer as a prize in the drawing. And I know the person who won it is going to be over the moon that I pulled her name from the magic Halloween Hat! Congratulations again! (And Carol at PublishingWorks, thanks again to you for the providing such great prizes!) Now, if you want to see who won, hit “Play!” And speaking of “play”…thanks again for playing all who did! Recommended Products: And Then Comes Halloween Halloween - Unrated Director's Cut (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition) Halloween Clock with Scary Sounds Mad Scientist … Read entire article »

Oh crud. I just realized as I sat down to upload the video of the drawing for the fiberdoodles-inspired Halloween Blog Party Giveaway of the Haunted Hikes of New Hampshire book that I forgot to do something very important. I forgot in the video (videos actually, as I didn’t do it for the Haunted Cemeteries book either) to thank our special guest sponsor, PublishingWorks. I only had these books to giveaway because of them! They generously donated both copies. Dang it! Carol at PublishingWorks, thank you so much again. It was very exciting to receive these books, and VERY wonderful of you to entrust them with me in my giveaway like this. I won’t say in writing here who won, but Haunted Hikes is going to a very good home where it’s … Read entire article »

Well, it looks like I never posted the video of the winner of the $10 BP Gas Card in the fiberdoodles-inspired Halloween Blog Party Giveaway. Sheesh. Lesson learned? I’m not very good at these giveaways! Lots o’hiccups! But in my defense, I’ve never done anything like this before, so…I’m learning as I go! Next time will hopefully go smoother… At any rate, here’s the video with the winner being picked. Thanks again for playing, everybody! Recommended Products: 2 Halloween Skeleton Yard Flamingos Lawn Decor Halloween - Unrated Director's Cut (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition) Halloween Halloween Clock with Scary Sounds Mad Scientist Lab Kit Halloween Haunted House Prop … Read entire article »

The hiccup I had with uploading the video of the Nancy Drew drawing made me a little gun shy. I thought I might not video the drawing for Joe Hill’s Heart-Shaped Box, but…part of the deal for doing the fiberdoodles-inspired Halloween Blog Party Giveaway was I wanted to prove I’m really doing drawings every time so…. Even though I gave the magic Halloween Hat a break this go around to test out Random.org‘s number generator system, I decided fair is fair. I got it all on tape! I also explained the use of all the wigs lately. Put it this way, Wayne will be very happy when the Halloween Store tent folds up shop and moves on, taking all of its temptations with it! Anyway…who won? You know the drill. Watch and find … Read entire article »

Giveaway time is here again and the next treat up for grabs in the fiberdoodles-inspired Halloween Blog Party Giveaway is the $10 BP Gas Card! Admittedly it’s not much. It might only be enough to buy as much gas for a fill-up as what’s indicated on the gauge at left. (Especially if gas prices keep rising!) But $10 in free gas never hurts, does it? Another way to look at it is this: it’ll help fund any … Read entire article »

This was supposed to be posted at a different time. Like way before now. Please disregard the 5 p.m. central spiel for getting details on how to enter Giveaway #2  for the AMC Gift Card. Obviously that’s already been done! Oh well, better late than never… At any rate, I finally got the video uploaded. Here is how this post would’ve read if I’d been able to get all this done in a more timely fashion… Hello … Read entire article »

Hello Halloween Blog Party-goers! Ready for some more trick or treating? Here’s the next treat up for grabs: a hard cover copy of Joe Hill’s Heart-Shaped Box. HOW TO ENTER I’m going to make it quick and easy this go around to enter. All you have to do is answer TRUE or FALSE to this statement: Joe Hill is Stephen King’s son. You don’t have to give the right answer. Just leave a comment with either true or false … Read entire article »

I apologize for the back-to-back posts. As I explained in the post announcing the winner of Giveaway #1, I encountered a few hiccups when uploading the video where I drew the winner–and at the same time drew to see which fiberdoodles-inspired Halloween Blog Party treat I’d be giving away next. (I had hoped to pick a new giveaway yesterday, but personal matters interfered. Whoops! Nothing’s quite gone as planned lately!) At any rate, the next treat … Read entire article »