Picture it: A group of soldiers are on a routine military exercise in the wilderness of Scotland. Everything is fine and dandy, until they find a rival group completely slaughtered with only one survivor babbling total nonsense. They soon discover that what committed this gruesome act was not man, but a deadlier foe who is already on their trail.

This foe is a pack of large, deadly, and very hungry werewolves.

Dog Soldiers was written and directed by Neil Marshall, the man responsible for the utter creepfest The Descent and the fun post-apocalyptic movie Doomsday (that movie kicked ass). What makes Dog Soldiers great is that it’s not a standard “werewolf movie”. It’s more like a war/male comradery movie… with werewolves. It’s about soldiers fighting a deadly foe, the main character Cooper overcoming his own issues, and the bad guys getting their just desserts… with werewolves. There are the standard set-ups and payoffs that exist within the genre, but since the movie never takes itself too seriously they totally work. Marshall makes this story a damn good time and a lot of fun for anybody who is a fan of werewolves.

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This month I’m going to be showing you what I’m crocheting and sewing for Halloween as well as some patterns I won’t have time to get to, but I think are totally awesome.

To kick-start this craft-extravaganza, I’m going to show you a chapstick cozy I made from Girl On The Rocks. I found the pattern via Ravelry.

A cozy, if you don’t know, is what you generally wrap an inanimate object in to keep warm. Most common in the UK are tea cozies which keep tea pots warmer for longer.

I don’t entirely know why you need to keep your chapstick warm, but who cares? It looks like a chopped off finger!

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Halloween is my favorite holiday out of the year. The way most children feel about the holidays is the way I’ve always felt about Halloween. One of the many things I have loved about this holiday is that for the whole month of October different channels would have horror movie marathons. AMC had “Monster Fest”, Turner Classic Movies showed the classics of the horror genre, and as a child this is how I was introduced to many of my favorite movies today. These horror marathons truly impacted and influenced my love for movies.

I thought that until Halloween, as a sort of countdown, I could post blogs about some of my favorite horror movies. I know it’s not quite October yet, but as far as I’m concerned it’s never too early to start talking about Halloween.

The first movie out of this “Halloween Movie” series is Waxwork.

 Waxwork is about a group of friends who go to a private midnight showing of the new wax museum in their town. The minute they step inside they can tell there is something… different about this place. The wax figures are eerily lifelike. Each different tableau in the wax museum depicts a scene from famous horror movies. The Wolfman, Dracula, The Mummy, Phantom of the Opera, Frankenstein, The Invisible Man, and even includes an exhibit of the infamous Marquis De Sade. There’s a catch, though. Do not cross the red rope. If you do, you’re no longer in a wax museum. You’re in the world of the tableau where anything can happen, especially death.

One by one the different characters walk into these scenes and become part of their own horror story. Later we discover that ever since this wax museum has come to town, people have gone missing...

For me, what makes Waxwork great is that it’s an homage to the classic horror movies with just enough 80s horror thrown in. If you’re a fan of classic horror then you will definitely love Waxwork because it contains the eerie atmosphere and gothic vibe that made older horror movies get under your skin. Yet, it also has just enough cheese, such as bad wigs and mustaches and over the top characters, to make it fun and perfect for a Friday night.

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Halloween is coming up around the corner and the itch to be the most amazing super-duper costumed chick is sure to become stronger as we roll over into October. Stroll into any costume shop and you have a ever growing selection of “sexy” costumes. Everything from sexy cat to sexy Wizard of Oz. I find that these costumes reveal more than they conceal and that’s kind of the opposite of what Halloween costumes are for.

Though one is free to flaunt their wares as they see fit (re: Cady from Mean Girls: “Halloween is the one night a year when girls can dress like a total slut and no other girls can say anything about it.”, I find it appalling for people to charge an exorbitant amount of money for cheap, flimsy, and unflattering   garments that all have the same shapes year after year.

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It was Halloween Day! Where did we end up? At the Long Beach Comic Con, of course! My boyfriend and I got out of bed and into our costumes- he wore his Fei Long as Kato costume while I wore my Pikachu kigurumi. It only took us a few minutes to get to the convention since I lived closed by, and picked up my professional badges without any trouble. I have to say, the people running LBCC are the nicest. I’ve said it before, but I really do want to support the growth of this convention and I hope to help entice more and more attendees each year.

This year is their second, and despite the small size, the convention has a lot to offer already. They have great guests and an amazing artist alley. Seriously, so many talented artists are at this con, it’s exciting! I got to take a photo of Steve Yuen and Adrian Kali Turner, who are actors from new AMC series, The Walking Dead, based on the graphic novel. Other notable guests included Stan Lee (of course!), Jeph Loeb, and Amanda Conner. My favorite “guest” was most definitely the DeLorean DMC-12 from Back to the Future.

There were a lot of people in costumes, encouraged by the spirit of Halloween to dress up! Most tables and booths had a bucket of candy ready to generously hand out to kids and adults alike. There are enough exhibitors to offer a variety of merchandise for shoppers with great discounts and deals on books, toys, etc. Overall, it was a peaceful and fun comic book convention- a must for the true comic book lovers.

I am definitely happy to have this convention in my city. Again, I wish them the best of luck… and I’ll be there again next year!

Check out our slideshow of photos below, or go directly to our flickr album HERE to check them out!

This is still a temporary layout for the blog. Unfortunately, I haven’t had the time to push my true vision to life…! I’m still making tweaks here and there, so hang on. The blog portion is going to remain relatively the same though.

I had a fun Halloween! BEHOLD! My boyfriend and I as Aladdin and Princess Jasmine!

It was worth it slaving away under the sewing machine for those costumes.

First of all, sorry that the website is looking a little strange right now. I’m in the midst of moving and redesigning the front page around, so things are gonna be funky for awhile! But I’ll try to keep the blog as readable as possible, at least. Ha!

We celebrated Halloween a little early at work and had a Halloween Karaoke competition at Backstage Bar & Grill! I highly recommend this karaoke bar. Their song list is a 50 pound book, the drinks are good and they have REALLY good food!

I love their garlic fries…

I went as a witch to work– well, a lame attempt at a “Cute Witch” costume, at least. The outfit was pulled together from my closet, but I actually made the hat out of posterboard and fabric, all pieced together with a hot glue gun. Skills, man… skills.

We had a costume contest, too, but I lost to a dog. That’s okay, though… the dog really is cuter than me.

Check my flickr for a few more photos!!!