Once Upon A Midnight

 Last Summer Mata Dark and her family took a vacation.

Mata was almost 20 at the time and during her entire twenty years of life none of the Dark Family had set foot off of the Olympic Mountain Range in Washington State. They had never traveled further then 40 miles away from their hometown of Leaning Birches.

It’s because Mata’s Father was a workaholic and he had this thing about being replaced. He was terrified of losing his job.

” Lord Derby, do you really believe there’s a line of people waiting for to take your job? ” Mata’s mom Rue screamed at the top of her lungs while waving around a bunch of travel pamphlets in her hand.

Mom had wanted a vacation in the worst way and she felt like if she didn’t get this trip she wouldn’t have the energy to fight for another.

Derby’s eyes crossed a little like they always do when he thinks to hard and finally he said, ” I’m sure there’s a few people who would love to do my job. And do you know what Rue? They’re probably a lot younger and smarter and quicker then me. Don’t ask me to take a chance on losing the only thing I’ve ever been good at in my life.”

Rue who’s eyes never crossed when she thought to hard lowered her voice and said ” Derby you are the hardest working man in town and you’ve earned a vacation. Promise me you’ll think about it.”

Derby who adored his wife and family as much as he adored his job gave in about a week after that argument. He came home one night from work and out of nowhere asked Rue would she mind if they took a road trip? He had a route and a destination picked out. He even had a leather folder that read “ USA TOURS” full of flyers, confirmation forms and event tickets.

The travel agent he had worked with in town had even got them t-shirts to wear.

Mata’s Mom looked through the folder and then she unfolded one of the T-Shirts and held it up. ” You’ve got to be kidding. ” was all she could think to say.

The shirt read:

                                   ” UFO PALOOZA 2006 “

Derby smiled and shook his head. ” Pack up, we leave at Dawn “

Mata’s brother 15-year-old brother Wilton not only wore the t-shirt the morning they left he went out to Joker’s Galore the night before and bought a set of ” Deeply Boppers” to wear on his head too.

The ” Deely Boppers ” were silver antenna with gold balls at the top that were the size of marbles. When you turned your head something in them shifted and made a crackling sound.

Mata took one long hard look at her brother, walked out the front door and then jumped on her motorcycle and rode at break neck speed into town and bought herself a set too.

Mata and her brother Wilton had agreed with each other sometime during that very long drive that if Mom said the words, ‘ UFO’s? Are you kidding me Derby UFO’s? Our one and only vacation as a family is to celebrate something that doesn’t exist?” one more time they were both going to jump out of the car and take their chances on the New Mexico Desert, the New Mexico Sun and until they decided it sounded like fun the mutants that were suppose to have been created by the first Atomic Test back in 1945.

” Hey Mom ” Wilton asked, ” do you think there really  are Radioactive Mutants out here? “

” Well I haven’t seen any but that doesn’t mean they don’t exist…am I right Derby? “

Derby reached over and patted her shoulder and said, ” That’s the Spirit Querida “

The little town was almost full of people dressed up like aliens, there were also a lot of people not dressed like aliens and they all seemed to know a lot about space travel and where you could get ” Saucer Burgers “, ” Milkyway Meals ” and everyone wanted to know if you were able to get reservations to stay at the ” Station 51 Hotel “

Most of the Dark Family were secretly pleased they were staying at the ” Place to Be ” for the Festival but they kept it to themselves because of the look on Rue’s face.

Rue’s face was this mask; she looked like someone had attached strings to her eyebrows and yanked them straight up.

She had speechless since they arrived in town, which was actually a relief.

Finally she opened her mouth, breathed and said ” God in Heaven ” and then she went back to the hotel and ordered a blood red steak and drank Strawberry Margaritas until she couldn’t focus her eyes.

After that she went back out and joined her family.

Derby talked Rue into joining a UFO Watcher’s Group and by the time they got back from spending an evening learning to plot their own star charts and joined in on a few debates about the Roswell Incident and watched a video of a genuine Alien Autopsy it was obvious Rue was having a good time.

At least her eyebrows had gone back to their normal spot on her forehead and she had quit saying ” God in Heaven ” everytime someone walked by.

So it really turned out to be a good trip and on their last night Rue and Derby went out with some new friends to make arrangements to get together for next year’s festival and Mata and Wilton went shopping.

Mata and Wilton decided to go and pick up some souvenirs for their friends back home and they spent a lot of time talking to Mr. Fanshaw who ran the little Museum just around the street from the hotel. 

They talked to Mr Fanshaw about their Mom and their Dad and their home back in Washington.

Mr Fanshaw, Mata and Wilton were pleased to discover knew all about Aliens and he also knew at least an hours worth of  top drawer ghost stories and as he packed up Mata and Wilton’s purchases he asked, ” so tell me about your Mom, in the end she had a good time? Is she a believer now do you think? “

” Doubt it, ” Wilton said “she doesn’t have much going in the way of imagination.”

” Sorry to hear that…its a curse of the Modern Age ” Mr Fanshaw said sadly. Then he asked, “and what does she do for a living? “

” Homemaker, ” Mata told him ” she use to be a Phlebotomist. That’s how she met our Dad. See the offices she worked at used to get busted into and vandalized all of the time. One night she got attacked and our Dad actually saved her from being killed. They’ve been together ever since”

” And what does your Dad do? ” Mr Fanshaw asked.

” He’s a Vampire Hunter ” Wilton said from behind a stack of packages and then he and Mata thanked Mr Fanshaw for all of his time and as the two young people left the Museum Mr. Fanshaw heard Mata say ” hey Wilton we should talk to Dad about The Triangle for our next trip…”

” Did you see this? ” Marlene asked her friend Beset Lee as she handed her the morning newspaper.

Beset Lee, who was a Witch and her friend Marlene who was also a Witch were chosing out their Halloween costumes from a trunk in Beset’s attic.

Every year they liked to dress up like food related. Don’t ask me why, I’m just telling this story.

” I don’t like to concern myself with current events on Holidays.” Beset Lee said waving the paper away.

” I know, it puts you in a bad mood, ” Marlene told her friend ” that’s why I waited until now to show you this.” Marlene smooshed the paper in Beset’s face. ” Read it. I really, really think you should.”

” I can’t breathe.” Beset Lee said from behind the newspaper.

” Oh sorry. But read it. Please. Now. It’s going to kill you.”

Beset Lee took the paper from Marlene and warned her: ” If this kills my buzz I am going to cast an evil spell on you and it will involve spiders”

Beset Lee set the paper down after she read the story and said, ” I think that this year I want to be a that candy bar with the pirates on the wrapper. That way I can carry around a sword.”

“I  hate to tell you this Beset Lee but they’re not Pirates. They’re musketeers. Now what are we going to do about this story?”

” Why should we do anything? It’s wrong. The Press, they can’t get anything right, can they? Where is that silver tunic?” Beset Lee went back to work digging through the trunk.

” That’s not the point. Hey, why don’t we ever dress up as anything other than food?” Marlene asked.

” So what’s the point. And food is fun. Especially candy.”

” The point is, people will know we are up to something.” Marlene said.

” Marlene, we are Witches we are always up to something- especially on Halloween. Everybody with a brain knows that. For Pete’s sake, even the ones who don’t have a brain knows that.”

” When you are right, you are really right Beset Lee. I still think that story is just awful.  I’d go as far as to call it disgraceful. As if we would curse candy.”

” Besides it’s a stupid plan all around. ” Marlene continued as she started to feel better about their situation.  “As if everyone eats candy on Halloween. Besides that we love candy we must eat a mountain of it ourselves on Halloween.”

” Exactly.”

Beset Lee  found the silver tunic at the bottom of the trunk of costumes and she pulled it out with a flourish ” That’s why every year we use my plan to curse toothpaste for Halloween instead.”

So, pretty much all of my plans for Halloween have fallen through this weekend, partly due to my daughter being ill with H1N1 and partly due to our heating not working at home, so I am staying with friends.  We are having a simple little home celebration instead…Chinese food for dinner, the World Series (go Yankees!), and shortly, the piece de resistance….Rocky Horror Picture Show!!!  The kids nowadays don’t seem to know what a phenomenon that movie was back in its day…wearing newspaper over our heads and spraying water guns in the theatre, throwing toast , toilet paper, and rice,  and of course all the moments where we felt that we, like the characters in the movie, had lines to recite.  Ahhhh, the good old days!  Our city just had its first public showing of Rocky Horror in years (sad that I didn’t get to go 😦 ) and there were people dressed in the characters’ costumes and carrying props just as there should be!  (Want to know more about the props you are supposed to bring?  Check out the Rocky Horror fan guides online such as this one:  http://www.rockyhorror.com/participation/proplist.php

Of course, the best part of Rocky Horror Picture Show is, in my estimation, the Time Warp song and dance! (yes I do still know all the steps! 😛 )  So here for your viewing pleasure, I give to you…Frank N Furter!!!

Looking for some more Halloween amusement?

Here’s a Thriller parody from Regis and Kelly!    http://video.yahoo.com/watch/6312722/16379640

A Fame Halloween performance  http://video.yahoo.com/watch/6007857/15611471

 For the weirdos like me:  25 Pumpkins Vomiting–> http://bit.ly/F74Ti

A collection of art all with a “haunted” theme http://www.halloweenishere.com/haunted_art/haunted_art.html

For all you ghouls and ghoulettes out there…want to get buried alive?  Go to this link, choose your cemetery, fill out the short form there, and the Grave Keeper will happily bury you alive!  http://www.halloweenishere.com/buried_alive.html

Also at the delightful “Halloween is here” site, you can sign up for Ghoul School.  Once you do, there are a bunch of fun (but creepy) games to play such as Haunted Castle, Frankenbrain, and Whack a Monster.  Have fun!  http://www.halloweenishere.com/ghoulschool.html 

Candy Corn Pylons from Diabetik, Flickr

Well it’s Halloween here in Ontario and we all know what that means…bags and bags of candy corn are gracing the store shelves! MMMMM It seems from doing my research for this post that there are two kinds of reactions to the mention of candy corn:  mmmmmmm or YUCK!!!  Candy corn seems to truly be one of those love it or hate it kind of things.  I, as I am sure you have already figured out, fall on the side of the LOVE IT people but it is incredibly sweet and even I can’t eat more than just a little bit (something my waistline and teeth thank me for).    Candy corn is so popular that October 30th has even been declared as National Candy Corn Day in the US.  Despite its many sugary ingredients and sweet sweet taste, a cup of candy corn actually has fewer calories than a cup of raisins so indulge away! 

Candy corn has been around since the 1880’s.  It was originally invented and produced by George Renninger, an employee of the Wunderlee Candy Co and then later by the Goelitz Brothers Candy Company, which later became the Jelly Belly Candy Company.  (yes those Jelly Bellies…more mmmm).  In early days, candy corn was only available seasonally.  It apparently was produced from March to November but I know that in my area it was (and often still is) only available from September to just after Halloween.  (When I lived in the US, it was available longer…usually right up through their Thanksgiving).  Now with the advanced machinery they have, the company is able to produce candy corn in a variety of seasonal colours throughout the year at a rate of approximately 25,200-40,000 pounds per hour.The main ingredients in candy corn are fondant (which is comprised of about 20% sugar and 80% corn syrup), and marshmallow (which helps it to retain its shape).  Each of the three colours are produced separately and then done layer by layer from orange to white.  Back in its early days, this layering process was all done by hand, pressing the layers into moulds that had been dusted with cornstarch.  Want a more detailed description of the production process?  Check one of these out:  http://recipes.howstuffworks.com/candy-corn.htm    http://candydishblog.com/2009/10/20/candy-science-tuesday-candy-corn-and-starch-molding/  Apparently there is a video from The Food Network showing the candy corn production process but I can’t add it here as it says I am unable to access due to the fact I live in Canada.  Perhaps you will have better luck! 😉  http://www.seriouseats.com/2008/10/in-videos-how-candy-corn-is-made-goelitz-factory.html

This site has a list (and recipes) of 10 things to do with your candy corn from candy corn popcorn cakes to adding them as sweetener in your coffee and tea to adding them to your Chex mix and your apple pie recipe and more!  http://www.fox4kc.com/lifestyle/holiday/sns-halloween-candy-corn-ideas,0,7740621.story  One of the ideas I really want to try is their idea for adding candy corn to baked apples ( just use your favourite baked apple recipe and add about a dozen pieces of candy corn to each apple).    Prefer to make your own candy corn?  Here ya go!  http://candydishblog.com/2009/10/21/make-your-own-candy-corn/ (for a recipe) or if you prefer a step by step tutorial:

Some great links to check out for more candy corn fun!

Skip to my Lou (I HIGHLY recommend this blog!) has a collection of ideas for candy corn themed foods and drinks which could make the basis for a really rad candy corn themed party!  http://www.skiptomylou.org/2009/10/26/yummy-candy-corn-themed-ideas/

Living Locurto (another of my favourite blogs) has this adorable candy corn treat bag and tag printable:  http://www.livinglocurto.com/2008/09/halloween-candy-corn-bag-tag-printables/

This candy corn Halloween bracelet is easy to make and just adorable! http://www.favecrafts.com/Halloween-Crafts/Candy-Corn-Halloween-Bracelet#

I found a tutorial on Youtube for applying your eye makeup in a way inspired by candy corn but honestly I didn’t think it had any relation to candy corn whatsoever.  Instead, I offer for your viewing pleasure, how to paint your nails in candy corn fashion!

How about this thoroughly adorable candy corn hat pattern?  http://reeniewhirled.blogspot.com/2008/09/candy-corn-yarn-and-free-hat-pattern.html

A tutorial for a really adorable candy corn mini-book   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toNqVeV13Qc

Making candy corn out of polymer clay (use it for jewellery or as embellishments on other projects)  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7PKDaTUNf0&feature=related

And lastly, if you enjoy the bizarre humour of Mr. Bill from the old Saturday Night Live show, I leave you with this offering…Candy Corn Man!

Some fun Halloween decorations and crafts to make:

Witches’ Cauldron: Buy one of those inexpensive black plastic witches’ cauldrons they sell at this time of year. Cut a hand sized opening in the bottom of it. Cut off the toes of a long black sock and use something like duct tape to attach it to the hole. Now fill up your cauldron with the candies for your trick-or-treaters. Put your hand up through the hole and sock and when your Halloween visitors go to reach in the cauldron to get some candy, there will be a moving hand within it! (From Rachael Ray show)

Glass jars and beakers to represent specimen jars: Place items in water, plain or coloured with food colouring (either the water and/or the items) …Vienna sausages look like fingers, certain shapes of gourds look like various organs, certain cabbages or cauliflowers can look like brains (especially effective if tinted with food colouring before putting into the water), and so on. Do you have any other great ideas for things to use as the specimens? From Rachael Ray and Martha Stewart shows

Have a ceiling fan? Turn it into a spider! Cover each of the blades with a pair of black pantyhose that has been stuffed with some black crepe paper streamers to give it some form. You’ll want to leave a bit of the pantyhose hanging down from each blade for extra creepiness as the fan slowly turns and the legs potentially brush up against people! For the head, use a black Styrofoam ball (you can sometimes buy precoloured foam balls or you can use spraypaint on a plain one. You have to use a light touch with the spraypaint as applying it heavily can cause it to sort of melt the foam. In our area, large Styrofoam balls can be really expensive. You can also adapt this idea to using other spherical objects…an old small beach ball or child’s playground ball for example…even a black balloon!). If using something like foam, you can pin two red peppers hot peppers to the ball to form the spider’s pinchers. Certainly, fun foam, felt, or even construction paper would be an effective substitute for the peppers. Make sure to keep the fan on low or you risk losing spider parts as it spins! (from Rachael Ray show)

Papel Picado Halloween flags/banners: a tutorial based on the patterns available at The Toymaker http://www.skiptomylou.org/2009/10/29/papel-picado-halloween-banners/

Adorable Halloween printables and crafts from The Toymaker: Includes treat boxes, goodie bags, bookmarks, and little novelty toys like the Dancing Skeletons, Ghost Show, and more! http://www.thetoymaker.com/Holidays/Halloween/1HALLOWEEN.html

Candy Corn Bowl http://www.favecrafts.com/Halloween-Crafts/Candy-Corn-Halloween-Bowl#

Witch’s Hat wall-hanging http://www.favecrafts.com/Halloween-Crafts/Bewitching-Wall-Hanging

Free Halloween printables http://www.skiptomylou.org/2009/10/24/free-halloween-printables/

Halloween Glass Ball Ornaments http://www.favecrafts.com/Halloween-Crafts/Halloween-Glass-Balls

Hanging Lantern Ghosts http://www.skiptomylou.org/2009/10/08/hanging-lantern-ghosts/

More Halloween printables http://familyfun.go.com/halloween/halloween-printables/

A Murder of Crows silhouette pictures http://www.cantstopmakingthings.com/2009/10/murder-of-crows.html

More Crow Art http://www.cantstopmakingthings.com/2009/10/murder-of-crows.html

Halloween Pop-up Card http://www.cantstopmakingthings.com/2009/10/halloween-pop-up-card.html

Halloween Picture Frame http://dollarstorecrafts.com/2009/10/halloween-frame-revamp/

Spider Decoration http://dollarstorecrafts.com/2009/10/spider-decoration/

SPOOKY candleholder http://dollarstorecrafts.com/2009/10/candle-holder/

Creepy Halloween Birds http://dollarstorecrafts.com/2009/10/halloween-birds/

A Vampire Bouquet from Kathy Cano-Murillo http://thecraftychica.blogspot.com/2009/10/vampire-rose-bouquet.html

An Easy to Make Paper Halloween Village from Claudine Hellmuth http://claudinehellmuth.blogspot.com/2009/09/easy-to-make-halloween-village.html

Bat Napkin Rings http://celebrationsathome.blogspot.com/2009/10/cutest-diy-batkin-rings.html

Halloween Printable Paper Dolls http://www.livinglocurto.com/2009/10/halloween-paper-doll-free-printables/

Halloween Silhouettes for your windows http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2009/10/fabric_and_felt_halloween_silh.html

Glittered spider’s web placemats from Eddie Ross http://www.eddieross.com/eddie_ross/2008/10/oh-what-a-glittered-web-weave-weave.html

Lots of amazing crafty Halloween ideas here! (ps a favourite blog too) http://4crazykings.blogspot.com/search/label/Halloween%20Craft

A Halloween quiet book (have never seen “themed” ones before…am going to start on a Christmas themed book for some little ones I adore) http://everydaycelebrate.blogspot.com/2009/07/halloween-goodness.html

Adorable Halloween paper doll http://babalisme.blogspot.com/2009/10/halloweenie-dress-up-printable.html

Some adorable Halloween crafts adapted from Woman’s World Magazine:

A Witchy Treat Container: This uses a plastic gallon milk jug painted green inside and out as the base. Tip: A coating of spray adhesive applied to the jug as a base coat prior to painting will help the paint stick better. Cut out an oval for the mouth opposite to the handle. Make a hat for the jug by using a cone of black felt for the pointy part and a brim formed out of a circle of black fun foam. The facial features and teeth can also be cut out of felt or fun foam or even construction paper. You can use stickers or trims like rick-rack or even pieces cut from scrapbooking paper to add embellishments to the hat or to create cheeks for the witch. For hair, you can use strands of yarn, lengths of raffia, strips of construction paper that have been folded accordion style or the magazine suggests using chenille stems (coloured pipe cleaners…they used purple!). They took 40 of the stems and twisted them together in bundles of 10 at one end. Again, bend these accordion style (zigzag) and glue two of the bundles on each side of her face. Glue the hat on top of her hair. They added a cute little touch making a little spider out of a Styrofoam ball with googly eyes, chenille stem legs, and a little black witches’ hat on and placed that in the witch’s hair. Fill the jug with candies and use this as a positively adorable way to hand out candies to trick-or-treaters!

It Always Feels Like Somebody’s Watching Me…Eyeball Mobile: These used Styrofoam balls painted white (I guess they painted them to make it more of a solid appearance but I would think you could just leave them plain). Ping pong balls would work nicely for this too!! Turn these balls into eyeballs with acrylic paints or for a dimensional look, use tubes of puff paints. In the ones I saw, they painted the iris of each eye a bright green and each pupil black with a tiny white spot as a highlight. Red squiggly lines branching out from each iris makes the eyes look bloodshot. Suspend these from a ring of some sort such as an embroidery hoop or you can even fashion one out of a bent coat hanger. You can hang them by string or yarn or for a little motion to them, you can use elastic.

Witch’s Hat Candy Holder: Use a Styrofoam cone painted black as the base. Create a circle out of black cardboard or foam core. Use a piece of wide ribbon or a strip of scrapbooking paper around the base of the hat where it meets the brim to add a bit of decorative trim. Use a knitting needle or something similar to poke some holes all over the cone to make openings for Halloween lollipops. They further embellished this by taking regular lollipops and turning them into Halloween creatures. For example, you could make the typical ghost lollipops using tissues, cut out shapes like Jack O’Lanterns from fun foam and attaching those to the lollipops or even adding black pipecleaners to make spider legs or black fun foam batwings attached to each side of a lollipop. Cute!

Halloween Totem Pole: Use a Styrofoam block as a base for this. You can cover it with scrapbooking paper, fabric, or you can simply paint it. Cut a 12” skewer into 4 pieces and use these to attach the various characters together. Paint Styrofoam balls orange to make Jack O’Lanterns (tip: they suggest using a wooden spoon handle to press into the ball to form the grooves of the pumpkin. You can also paint or draw lines on or glue on pieces of black yarn or strips of paper.) Add googly eyes and/or features cut from felt, fun foam, or construction paper or paint them on. You can even cut out little hands from fun foam and attach them to the Jack O’Lantern heads with coiled chenille stems. You can paint some black or purple…again add features and for a spider you can use chenille stems for the legs or for bats you can add batwings cut from fun foam (fun foam is best as it is stiff enough to stand out). If you would like to make a vampire or Frankenstein’s monster, use rectangular pieces of Styrofoam painted green and again using felt, fun foam, or construction paper to add features like fangs, hair and so on. Little pieces of fun foam or Styrofoam make ideal bolts on the side of the monster’s head or you can use actual bolts for them!

How to make a spider wreath: I just love this spider wreath from Canadian Living magazine. If you would like to see a photo of it, there is one on their website. They used a grapevine wreath as a base but a wire or Styrofoam wreath works well too. Paint the wreath black. Make some spiders by creating bodies made from black or orange cellophane squares gathered up around balls of paper (tissue paper, newsprint, etc.) and secured with string or a twist tie. Use black pipe cleaners to create legs for the spiders and attach to the bodies. If using orange cellophane, it can add a nice touch to take some black paint and just casually dab over the bodies to add some depth to the colouring. You might want to paint some plastic or silk leaves black and use these to fill in any open spaces between the spiders. Use wire or twist ties to attach the leaves and spiders to the wreath. Add a big black bow to the wreath for a final touch!

http://www.canadianliving.com/crafts/other_crafts/halloween_decor_how_to_make_a_spider_wreath.php

Halloween decorating video includes a beautiful dessertscape of jars of Halloween candies renamed and labeled with creepy names and a RAVEN stenciled on a white pumpkin http://www.39online.com/videobeta/watch/?watch=e3b4efa2-5ed7-4d9b-a8c5-dec11728cb30&src=front

Halloween Roundup of Ideas from the wonderful One Pretty Thing blog:  http://www.oneprettything.com/?p=7465

Creepy Bottle Labels  http://dollarstorecrafts.com/2009/10/creepy-bottle-labels/

Printable Halloween Crafts from Canon (I especially love the Zombie that’s part of the Halloween Night display:  http://cp.c-ij.com/en/halloween/craft/index.html