Sorry folks for not posting to you sooner but I have some terrible news to share. this past November, my mother passed away. The cause of her passing is still unknown at this time and we may never know the cause. But one thing is certain, my mother passed away peacefully and she wasn't suffering when she did. i thank to all of those who has been there for me and for all who donated to help with her funeral as well as well wishes and sympathy cards during this difficult times.
During this time, I decided to set up a charity in her honor and memory calling it Melvie's Love. the charity is set up to create and give away knitted scarves to the local community. But due to the cost of making these scarves, money is needed to help buy the yarn needed to make them. So I ask that you either help by donating or just by sharing the link below.
Last week, a friend of mine who does a lot of things from book reviews to crafting had asked me to be a regular guest bloger for her own blog. I was ready to agree to do the blog posts for her. So in the future, I will be sharing the posts for her blog that I have done. this doesn't mean that I won't stop doing my own posts here. It just means that others beside yourself will be able to see what I write and I'll be doing things I normally don't write here on my blog. things like future book/movie/tv reviews, crafting and the like. With no further Adue (sorry, my french is horrible), I share with you my first guest blog post. Enjoy!!!!
One of my all time favorite shows growing up was Alvin and the Chipmunks. the show was originally created byRoss Bagdasarina Sr, in the late 50's and steadily grew popular with songs like Witch Doctor and The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Song). Shortly after an animated TV series was created by the same name and the rest is history with doing numerous animated movies in the 90's and most recently a live action, animation movies.
We all know the song and we even sing along to it as well as snap our fingers when it call for it. What am I talking about, you ask? I'm talking about the theme song to The Adams Family. Like it counter part, The Munsters, The Addams Familyhas been the joy to every generation to date. And Just like the Munsters, the show is also a Halloween tradition of the Boomerang station with them playing it every year through out the month of October.
The Munsters have been a staple of TV History with it getting more and more viewers from the younger generations. They have also become a Halloween tradition with one recent channel called Boomerang which is owned by Cartoon Network.
The show was so popular that the creators made a TV movie or two. And after several years later in the late 80's to early 90's another show was created called The Munsters Today. Which only lasted for a season or two before it was canceled.
Below, I have found a video showing the opening to the 60's show from YouTube...
Here are a few videos to The Munsters Today from YouTube...
And as always, have a safe and scary Happy Halloween...
One show from Nickelodeon was called Aaaahhhh!!! Real Monsters. It was another favorite of mine while I was staying with my Aunt. It ran for a few seasons and did a few Halloween specials at that.
So below, I found the opening theme to the show from YouTube...
And as Always have a safe and scary Happy Halloween...
As a little kid, I loved going to my Aunt's house when ever they needed her to babysit me. She had cable and it was there that I first discovered Nickelodeon. One of the shows I barely remember watching is called Count Duckula, a spoof of the most famous vampire in history, Count Dracula.
Count Duckula is a funny animated take of the vampire and watching it now, I found it pretty silly but it did bring back those memories of when I stayed with my aunt. I also found some YouTube videos for you to watch...
As always, have a safe and scary Happy Halloween...
Another TV Show geared towards the kids and Teens was aired on the Disney Channel in the late 90's to early 2000's. The show is called So Weird. I can't mention much about the show because I never watched it before.
Below is a video from YouTube of the show's opening theme...
And as always, have a safe and scary Happy Halloween...
Tales From the Crypt was a popular show on HBO in the 90's but it was more geared towards the adults and way to scary for me to watch when I was a kid. However, they did create an animated series just for kids and was more tamer than the HBO show.
They aired the show on the ABC Saturday morning cartoonline up in the mid 90's. The show lasted a couple of years on the line up and you can watch a few of the shows shown below from YouTube,,,
And as always, I wish you all a very safe and Scary Halloween...
Another show that I liked as kid was called Goosebumpswhich played every afternoon on the Fox Kids Network. The show itself is based on the books by the same name and like Are You Afraid of the Dark, it told stories of horror but only a little scary for the kids.
Right now, you can catch episodes of the show airing on The Hub Network. But if you don't have cable or Satellite service that carries the network on their programming line up, then no worries, I've have a show posted from YouTube below.
So sit back and relax and enjoy the programming....
And as always, have a very safe Happy Halloween...
One of my favorite shows when growing up was watchingAre You Afraid of the Dark on Nickelodeonin the 90's. It would come on every Saturday night on the station on a segment they calledSnick. I was always easily scared when I was a kid but for some reason, I always was able to watch this show and knowing that when it had gotten too scary for me, I could always change the station until the 'scary parts' were over. Needless to say, I continued to watch the show until it's end some time in the late 90's.
So as part of the Halloween season, I decided to find some of these shows on YouTube and place them here on the site for some Halloween fun time. I hope you guys enjoy the show...
It's that time of year again, the leaves changing, the days getting shorter. It means one thing, fall is and and with it my favorite holiday (besides Christmas), Halloween. so this time around, instead of doing what I do in the past by sharing memories of halloween past and sharing halloween decorations with things sitting around your house. None of that this time.
This time around, I thought I would share a few family movies for little ones in your family (or if you're like me, young at heart and want to let the inner kid out). So here are some movies (in my opinion) you should watch and it won't keep your kids up at night either.
Animaniacs: Spooky Stuff
Rated: Not rated Year: 1993 Cast: Voices of Rob Paulsen, Jess Harnell, Tress MacNeille
Inkblot sibs Wakko, Yakko, and Dot run amok in six skits featuring Frankenstein, the Grim Reaper, and the big baddie himself, Satan.
Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein
Rated: Not rated Year: 1948 Cast: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello
It's a monster mash when Abbott and Costello meet Count Dracula, Frankenstein, and the Wolfman. The
hapless duo are baggage handlers who encounter more than one classic screen monster in McDougal's House of Horrors and become part of a plot to give Frankenstein a new and feebler brain -- Costello's.
Casper, Casper Meets Wendy
Rated: PG, G Year: 1995, 1999 Cast: Bill Pullman, Christina Ricci, Hilary Duff, Cathy Moriarty
Ghost for tweens: Ghost meets girl, ghost saves girl. Can ghosts and girls, or ghosts and witches, really be friends, or (gulp) more? In the first film, Ricci is the daughter of a paranormal psychiatrist who makes house calls to the mansion where Casper and his uncles haunt. In the second, Duff is a fledgling witch, who must flee to a Catskills resort with her three aunts to escape a warlock
Max is a California teen whose family relocates in Salem, Massachusetts, where local lore has it that the three Sanderson sisters will return to wreak havoc. The three witches are intent on getting eternal youth and beauty the old-fashioned way -- by sucking the life force out of children.
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
Rated: Not rated Year: 1966 Cast: Voices of Peter Robbins, Christopher Shea
Oh, nothing compares to the breathless suspense of Halloween, except for maybe Christmas. Linus and Sally wait all night in the pumpkin patch for the Great Pumpkin to appear, Snoopy is in high-flying form as an ace pilot, and the gang compares their Halloween loot.
The Little Vampire
Rated: PG Year: 2000 Cast: Jonathan Lipnicki, Anna Popplewell, Rollo Weeks
Tormented souls can be sweet, or at least they are to Tony, a lonely American boy who dreams of vampires. In Scotland he finds a soulful family of bloodsuckers who harbor a secret craving: to become human. Magic amulets, comets, vampire hunters, and a herd of flying vampire cows add clever and startling mischief to an entertaining yarn.
Huston is the Grand High Witch who presides over a convention of cackling, scheming witches in a sleepy seaside British hotel. It's up to Luke, a brave 6-year-old, to stop their evil plan to turn the world's children into mice, using chocolate as the lure.
The Worst Witch
Rated: G Year: 1986 Cast: Fairuza Balk, Tim Curry, Charlotte Rae, Diana Rigg
Mildred is the new student at a very proper British boarding school for witches, where the lesson plans include flying in formation and concocting laughing potions.
That is my list of halloween movies that I recomend for your little ones to watch or if you're like me, let your inner kid out every now and then. If these aren't enough for you and your family then here is a link to another blog site called Family - Friendly Halloween Movie Countdown
And Remember folks, have a safe and Happy Halloween.
When I was younger and going to school, I played the violin. Yes, I played an instrument when I was going to school. Anyway, I played the violin all the way through high school and I had always wanted to play one ever since I could remember. The reason for my choice of instrument was due to two reasons, one, my favorite detective Sherlock Holmes and two, one of my elementary school teachers who was at one time my second grade teacher. (she now teaches her favorite subject, music.) Of course, I don't play anymore because I chose another path in life after getting out of high school but that doesn't mean that I don't pick it up every now and then and play it. However I do stumble upon some pretty talented violinists every once in a while like this guy on you tube...
I grew up with parents who had me when they were in their forties. I am now 29 years old as I write this and by the time some of you read this post, I will have turned 30. Both of my parents are now in their seventies and one of my memories from childhood, I remember well...
Most of my friends now that I love to crafts and share crafting ideas and I owe this to my parents. You see both of my parents used to do a lot of crafts when I was a kid and growing up, it was part of my life. You see, my parents grew up during WWII, well they were born in '40 and '41 when it was just after America had joined the war after Pearl Harbor was bombed. so they were 4 and 5 when the war ended. During that time, one of the ways, my parents entertained themselves was sewing, knitting and crocheting things. And even in their forties they continued to do these things. Both parents sewed and crocheted and my mom, knitted but only on occasions when some one had requested her to knit something for them. And I grew up knowing how sew and Crochet but mainly sewing, didn't have the patients to crochet, nor do I now.
Every Halloween, my parents never did go and buy me a costume at the store like other parents did. No, they always made mine by hand and nobody never complained about it because they always did such a good job at making it. just between me and you, I believe that some of the other kids were jealous of this because none of their parents didn't sew. Plus, my parents were very popular with the teachers in my elementary school because I was constantly bring a finished crocheted product to school in a small brown box with a lid to keep the said item from being crushed in book bag. If one of the teachers ordered a quilt from them, then they would always deliver the quilt in person, either before or after school.
Out of all of this, there is one thing I remember most. My parents used to have this cast iron and oak sewing machine and it didn't run on electricity. It was foot pedal driven with a leather belt strapped to two wheels.They would use it more than the modern sewing machine because it was a hundred years old and it was a family heirloom from my dad's side of the family. For it being a hundred years old, it was still in good condition and it never failed in what my dad used it for. (Picture is not of the one we used to own. But it is similar to how I remember it it looking like.)
I remember playing with that foot pedal when my parents wasn't using the machine. I played with it because of the sound it made when I pressed the pedal, it always sounded like the wheels of train when in motion and I loved it greatly. Because of this, my dad would always call me over when ever his feet would get tired of pushing the pedal and it was always done on the weekends when there wasn't any school. Oh how I loved that old sewing machine and I probably will never see one again, especially one that is made from oak. It wasn't until after my parent's divorce and my dad moving to Alabama to stay with my cousin that I would never see that old sewing machine again.
So I now invite you to share your own child memories that has never faded from time. It may be like my own memory or it may be another memory of something else totally different. What ever it is, please leave a comment and share your own memory...
Sorry folks that I hadn't written so long but there has been a lot going on this past year or so. First of all was that I have been going through a lot of family issues only a select few have know about, mainly my closest friends and my even closer writer friends. So right now, my schedule is still a little shakey right now on wheither or not I can write future blog posts for you guys. so as of right now, my blog posting might be erratic on when they will be posted.
But two good things have came up. One being that I have been finally able to write the sequil to the Dylan Knight Series, Fallout. The other being that I've decided to create another blog solely on nothing but crafts. But this will come later as I am still maping out what I would like to be show cased in the new blog. so sufice to say is that you'll just have to keep checking the blog out for what is to come. So here is to the new beginings of the blog and I hope you guys will enjoy what is to come...
