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What's the best way to get everything you need for your Halloween style at great prices? You know the answer: Buy it second hand and decorate in DIY style. And where better to get great deals than at the auction. The only tricks to getting what you need are to start early, be patient, do a bit of planning, and use your imagination. Here are some inspirational ideas. It's the five great DIY Halloween theme ideas you can create second hand.
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Elegant Pumpkin Harvest
Who says Halloween can't be an elegant affair? This theme pulls together the bright oranges of fall and the abundance of harvest time with clean golds and whites to pull off the pumpkin celebration.
Color Scheme: White, Gold, Yellow, Orange
Optional: Black or Brown
Ingredients to Find:
- Clean white table cloths
- Gold shimmery or burlap table runners or fabrics that could be used as table runners
- Clean white or white-gold curtains or fabric that could be used for curtains temporarily.
- Fake pumpkins in a variety of sizes and colors ranging from white to yellow to orange.
- Fake fall leaves and/or brown vines
- White candles
- Wicker furniture
- Elegant serving accessories and other details
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Remember the essence of this theme is elegance. That means less is more. Pack away excess knickknacks that don't fit the theme; just temporarily. Cover your tables, including end tables and coffee tables in white and accessorize with shimmery gold accents such as centerpieces or runners. Add candles or flameless lights. Then drop fake leaves throughout and/or brown vines. Place pumpkins everywhere – one to two pumpkins per surface. You can even place large ones on the floor at corners of tables. Just be careful not to trip on them. Use wicker to complete the look. If you were lucky enough to find wicker furniture, decorate it with a few extra leaves.
Costume to Match
Depending on preference you could go as Harvest Royalty – turning the whole affair into a black tie soiree, or you could go as just you and wear something simple and elegant in matching colors.
Cooky Spooky Monster Mash
Maybe you're more of a Monster Masher! This theme is all about cuteness and family friendliness. Think mad scientist meets rock and roll, plus all the party guests – friendly versions of Wolf man, Dracula, witches, skeletons, zombies and whatever else you come up with. This theme works well for karaoke parties.
Color Scheme: Orange, Black, Purple, and Green
Ingredients to Look for:
- Happy or corny looking Halloween character decorations such as jack o' lanterns, bats, spiders, ghosts, werewolves, vampires, witches, etc.
- Green, Purple, Black, or Orange table clothes and scraps of fabric.
- Fake spider webs
- Motorized or motion sensored decorations
- As many Witch hats as you can find
- Musical Instruments and microphones– even if they don't work or are toys
- Chemistry set, especially flasks, beakers, and test tubes. You can substitute with Mason jars if need be.
- Purple, green, or orange food coloring
- Plasma ball and/or lava lamps
- Analog AV equipment with lots of knobs and buttons – not working is okay
- 13 inch (or smaller) analog TV that can power up enough to just show fuzzy snow
- Plasma globe
- 6 foot folding table
- White sheet
- Mannequin
- White lab coat
- Short curly wig
Tips to Pull It Off
More is more. Keep it light-hearted. Happy jack o' lanterns, motion-sensored bellowing ghosts, spiders that descend when the door opens… you get the idea. You can go a little crazy with the décor and it always adds to the fun. Think of a Frank Fiorello book come to life.
Mix and match colors from the color scheme for table cloths and runners. Use witch hats as lamp ornaments (as long as you have LED bulbs in), pumpkin ornaments, center pieces, drape accessories, and wall hangings. Hang fake spider webs everywhere.
Third, set up a Monster Mash Music Lab by displaying the chemistry set, plasma balls and lava lamps, and analog equipment along a wall. In front of that place your folding table. Lay the mannequin on the table and cover with sheet. Use food coloring and water to make your chemistry set look like someone has just been working in the lab. If your TV and AV equipment work you could play classic horror movies on VHS. Leave the sound turned off while you are not watching. After all, the Monster Mash is one big movie reference list.
This is the back drop of your stage. Next, set up microphones and musical instruments as if a band is about to play. If you have a drum set, tag it with the name "The Crypt Kicker 5." Around the stage and throughout the house decorate with music notes and pumpkins.
Finally, set up all your Halloween character décor throughout the house. You'll be having a Monster Mash Bash all season long.
Costume to Match
There are obviously plenty of choices. Dr. Frankenstein or a generic mad scientist take the cake this time. And the best part is, they are pretty ease to pull off. All you need is a white lab coat and crazy wig.
Haunted Mansion
The Victorian look is currently out of style in the antique world. That means you can buy authentic Victorian home décor at record low prices, and you'll create a Halloween look with all the drama and romance of a real Victorian mansion without the ghosts… hopefully.
Color Scheme: Black, dark red, dark purple.
Ingredients to Find
- Large (9 x 12 or larger) Victorian-style painted portraits in ornate frames. These paintings will be damaged.
- Victorian candle sticks
- Place settings
- A vase
- Oriental rug
- Victorian Furniture
- Tons and tons of fake spider webs
- Black and white Victorian photographs
- Mannequin in a Victorian style dress (A back dress is preferable).
- Lace fabric
- Lace doilies
- Black dye or spray paint
- A globe, player piano or phonograph machine, Victorian typewriter, and/or other Victorian tools and instruments
- Lots of old books
- Red, purple, or black candles
- Red or Purple table cloth
- Red, purple, or black curtains or fabrics to serve as curtains temporarily
- Black fake flowers or fake flowers that can be dyed black
Tips to Pull It Off
The key to the perfect haunted mansion look is intelligent clutter, lace, and the right chairs. Place chairs on the oriental rug with piano or phonograph nearby. Temporarily replace curtains with the color scheme fabric.
In one of your Victorian chairs, sit the mannequin in the Victorian dress. Lay large swath of black lace over her, so that her face and neck are obscured. She is now a widow in morning.
Dye lace fabric black and lay it over lamp tables. Do the same with the doilies and fake flowers. Arrange stacks of old books, the globe, and other Victorian tools around the room and place a black doily under each of them. Place at least one Victorian photograph in each display. Lay black flowers near these items to create a dramatic look.
Use a table cloth from you color scheme, then cover it with black lace as well. Fill the vase with black fake flowers and set as the center piece. Surround this piece with the Victorian candle sticks and candles. Set the place settings.
Next, burn or cut out the eyes of the portrait paintings, and hang them on the walls. If at all possible hang or display one of the paintings in a place where a person could hide behind it and see the mannequin through the missing eye holes.
Finally, cover EVERYTHING in fake spider webs.
Costume to Match
Consider Victorian inspired attire. Both men and women's fashions of the time are worth revisiting. Also consider the ghost option – a white sheet is a simple fix. You can be the resident spirit of your own haunted mansion. But if you are feeling creative, combine your Victorian clothes with some white or gray face paint and be a Victorian ghost.
Mid-century Murder
All things mid-century modern have made it back en vogue and therefore back to the American living room. Smart shoppers know how to get great deals on in-demand items second hand. The great thing about this theme is that it is an excuse to buy the furniture you want.
Putting together a mid-century backdrop for Halloween can go two ways. The iconic Bewitched TV show displayed a well-groomed midcentury family with some witchy quirks. If this is your theme, check out the show for more ideas.
However, if you want more scare factor, mid-century America also harkens back to some grizzly history. Death Cults such as the Manson Family and the People's Temple give this theme a based-on-true-events feeling that can cross the line for some. Still, if you are into history, mid-century modern style, and like an edgy finish to your Halloween, this might be the theme for you.
Color Scheme: Burnt yellow, royal blue, red (blood), and brown (wood)
Ingredients to Find:
- Mid-century furniture including a wooden bar and color-schemed chairs if possible, preferably 1950 – 1970
- Mid-century style lamp
- Burnt yellow, blue, or brown table cloth and napkins (not necessarily matching) in solid color, paisley, or monochromatic large-print floral patterns. Vinyl is a bonus.
- Color schemed candles
- Mid-century place settings and silverware.
- Mid-century kitchen knives.
- A pumpkin or knife display block that you don't mind destroying
- Ready to hang or display pieces of modern or psychedelic art and mid-century art glass
- A record player
- A vinyl album collection
- Mid-century highball or lowball tumblers
- Liquor decanter
- Your favorite brown beverage (does not have to contain alcohol)
- Fake bloody weapons
- Fake blood
- A rug that can be destroyed
- Mannequin in go-go style clothes that can be destroyed
Tips to Pull It Off
The first thing to do is take that rug outside and pour fake blood on it. Work the red liquid into the fibers in a sloppy way so it looks like a struggle happened there. Be sure not to use too much. Then, let the rug dry completely before bringing it back in the house. (The drying process could take a few days so start early). Do the same to the mannequin, sprinkling and smearing fake blood on its body and clothes.
Then set up your home like a regular house …but from sixty years ago. Put the rug on the floor in front of the bar and set chairs and tables accordingly. Fill the decanter with your choice brown liquid, and place it and the tumblers on display in or on the bar. Next set up your record player and find a way to display your album collection nearby.
Next, find a spot for the mannequin. Will she be hiding in the guest bedroom shower or laying face-down on the red-smeared rug? There is real opportunity here to spook your family and friends.
If your art is not precious sprinkle it with some fake blood too. Whether or not you choose to decorate your décor, it is time to put it on display around the house.
Cover the table with your color schemed table cloth. Then set out napkins and place settings. Soak the blades of your Mid-century knives in fake blood and display them in their holder. Make sure the red liquid is visible on the holder as well. This will become part of your center piece. Sprinkle candles with fake blood and arrange them on the table with the fake weapons.
Costume to Match
You can go as murder victim in mid-century vintage style clothing with fake blood and a fake knife sticking out of your chest, or you could go as the murder in mid-century vintage style clothing with fake blood spatters on your face and fake blood on your hands, OR you can go as the detective. Think Nancy Drew or the Hardy boys. You'll need some plaid and a magnifying glass.
And then of course if it's all too gory for you, you can skip the red liquid entirely and go as Samantha or Darron Stephens. Samantha will need a short apron and good practice wiggling her nose.
Mannequin Nightmare
We saved the most revolting idea for last; nothing is scarier than mannequins. You've had that dream, right? The one where you're lost in a dark department store or warehouse, and you can't find your way out and closing in on you is an army of mannequins. You never see them move, but somehow you can't escape them! They surround you, pressing in on you. Sharing your air until you feel you'll suffocate. Unseeing, untouching, and something about them seems …alive!
Well, if you haven't had that dream, maybe you will now. This theme is all about tricking the eye and confusing the senses. And don't worry. If you think you can't get your hands on a whole menagerie of mannequins, you're wrong!
Color Scheme: Clinical white, black, tan, and red, as well as miscellaneous colors. What ties this theme together goes beyond color to common texture, appearance, and experience.
Ingredients to Find
- Five or more mannequins with clothing
- Assorted fake human body parts including heads, hands, and feet. Broken mannequin parts will work perfectly.
- One or more life size skeletons
- Large mason jars
- Large swaths of cheese cloth in white or black
- Fake blood, if desired
- Two or more creepy baby dolls, preferably porcelain with a cracked face
- Thin rope, about 3 feet long
- Fake rose petals
- Black candles
- Doilies
- Sound of a heartbeat. You can either get a sound track or look for one of those motion sensored Halloween sound machines that plays this sound.
Tips to Pull It Off
From the first moment this theme plays with your mind. You feel watched and uneasy. To maximize these effects, place mannequins in areas where people will see them when they come around the corner or in front of the right or left boarders of windows. Sprinkle fake rose petals on the floor around the mannequins' feet.
Their appearance is creepy no matter what. A horde of naked mannequins missing pieces is sure to be spine tingling. But dressing them in normal clothes will add to the confusion about whether they are real or not. Another choice is to dress them in formal gowns with unkempt hair and distorted makeup. These details make the dummies seem a little more desperate and hopeless.
Set a crowd of mannequins just inside your front door so that everyone has to pass through their body language to get to the other side.
Shroud a pack of mannequins in their own semi-see-through cloth such as cheese cloth. Wrap the cloth close to their bodies to give an eerie mummified visage. Or let it hang loose and turn on the ceiling fans; the cloth will blow in the wind giving the impression of movement out of the corner of your eye. Mix life-size skeletons into these groupings just for good measure. Apply fake blood at your discretion.
Set up the table with a black or tan tablecloth, and cover with cheese cloth. Set the two dolls in the middle of the table. Tie them together with the rope. This is your centerpiece. Arrange candles around it and sprinkle rose petals on the table.
Set other dolls around the house on doilies on lamp tables and bookshelves. Sprinkle fake rose petals around them. Place assorted body parts into mason jars and add water. These jars can be displayed on tables and bookshelves throughout the house.
Turn on the heartbeat sound machine when your guests arrive.
Costume to Match:
Whatever you do, don't be a mannequin. But if you can't help yourself, wear a formal gown or suit that is too big and hangs from your body incorrectly. Paint your face with pounds of foundation and accentuate your cheek bones. Use heavy eye shadow, and draw on eyebrows. Add a matted wig and elbow length gloves to complete the look. Get into character at parties by standing still and pretending you have no soul.
Each of these Halloween themes has its own personality and perks. Every do-it-yourselfer should feel free to make them his or her own. If one of these themes doesn't work for you, no doubt you can still find the object of your DIY creativity at the auction. Don't forget you can pull together children's character themes, gore galore, and plenty of others because sooner or later, auctions sell everything. Happy Halloween!
See you at the auction!
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Family Christmas Traditions
My oldest kid is only four, so we don't have a ton of family traditions yet, but I seriously love the idea of having the same things to look forward to every year. My son is the age now where he remembers things from last year, and he loved them so much that those will probably be our traditions.
North Pole Breakfast
One that I started two years ago and has really stuck in Micah's mind is the North Pole Breakfast. Every year on December 1, the Elf on the Shelf comes back with a "big" breakfast for the kids. Usually, it's just donuts, hot chocolate, fruit and some Christmas PJ's wrapped up for them. We also go all out with the Dollar Tree decor. Not really. We usually just use some cute little cups with straws, a festive tray, and I break out the handy tiered dessert platter. (I use this thing for every special occasion. Ever.)
The kids love this tradition, and even if you don't celebrate with the Elf on the Shelf, it's such a fun way to welcome the Christmas season. Micah asked me every day from Thanksgiving until we did it, when Santa was going to bring him donuts. Kid after my own heart.
Storybook Land
We live in a pretty small town, and with that comes a lot of quaint, cute, Christmas things that have been around for a while, everyone loves them and you have to do every year. For us, it's Storybook Land.
This is located at the fairgrounds, and it's a walk-through with a bunch of Christmas lights, displays and you can meet Santa at the end. (Does anyone else think it's weird HOW MANY SANTAS there are, everywhere?! Micah is too smart for this. "Why is Santa here? Shouldn't he be at the North Pole getting ready for Christmas? Wait why is Santa at so many places?" Ha.)
If you live in the Albany, Oregon area and haven't been, go check this out. It is free (donations of food recommended – helping charity this time of year is awesome!) and can take as long as you want it to.
Here are some other Christmas traditions from other bloggers around the internet.
Fueling Mamahood
Lindsey over at Fueling Mamahood has some great ideas about how to enjoy the time together this Christmas season – and her kids are super cute! She talks about Christmas Eve boxes, which we have done before as well!
The Peculiar Treasure
Kristin is a faith-based blogger who talks about traditions that keep Christ at the center of the season. This is something that I know is important, but can have a pretty hard time doing so I really enjoyed these suggestions!
Keri Lynn Snyder
I love Keri's suggestion of how to teach children about the Christmas story. Micah understands a lot of it through reading and Awana, but Sophia is totally hands on more than verbal – and this Star from Afar book will help her begin to grasp. She has also written posts about how to be intentional with kids this Christmas and some simple DIY advent candles!
What Christmas traditions do you celebrate? Comment below! It's never too late to start being intentional this Christmas season!
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TraciDecember 13, 2017 at 9:07 pm
We also do storybook land, and visit some special light displays each year. One thing my kids really look forward to each year is the the first Sunday in December, my mom and Aunts on her side, plus all the kids and their kids meet to make a Norwegian dessert called Krumkake. The kids decorate cookies or gingerbread houses or ugly sweaters, and take a turn in the kitchen in the krumkake assembly line. A few hours later everyone has a big batch to take home.


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BSEK announces form submission date
Karachi, June 12: Secretary Board of Secondary Education, Karachi, Hoor Bi Mazhar on Friday said that the registration forms of SSC Part-I (Class IX) for private candidates, annual examinations 2011, can be submitted without any late fee from June 21 to August 13, 2010.
She added that Rs350 would be charged if the candidates follow these dates. The forms are available at National Bank, Habib Bank, Askari Bank of Board Office Booths, she also said.
The Board has announced that the private candidates for SSC Part-II (Class IX and X Combined), could also deposit their forms which is subject to the prior permission obtained from the Board for the year 2011, she further said.
Meanwhile, Board would collect Rs100 as late fee from August 16 to September 30, 2010 and Rs200 from October 01 to 29, 2010. Furthermore, Rs500 would be received as fine from November 01 to 30, 2010 while late fee Rs1000 would be collected from December 01 to 31, 2010 whereas surcharge of Rs1500 would be imposed from January 03 to till last date of submission of examination forms, Hoor Mazhar said.Your Comments
FUUAST extends registration date
Karachi: Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science and Technology (FUUAST) has extended registration form submission date of BA, B Com and MA (private) with late fee extra Rs1000 (total Rs2600) from June 15 to June 30. The new
Rs 7bn for education development sector
Karachi: The Sindh government has raised the education development budget from Rs 5.9 billion to Rs 7 billion.
Rs 500 million have been allocated for elementary education for the year 2010-11 which was Rs 160 million in the previous year. The government would spend Rs 5 million on teachers' education while the allocation for this purpose last year was over Rs 6.2 million.
The government has set Rs 470 million for secondary education compared to the Rs 341 million last year.
Over Rs 2.6 billion have been reserved for college education against Rs 1.6 billion in 2009-10. Over Rs 16.3 billion have been reserved for the non-development education sector in which Rs 7.9 billion have been reserved for employees' expenses.
Over Rs 2.9 billion have been reserved for teachers' allowances this year that were over Rs 2 billion last year. Rs 7.5 billion have been set for operating expenses in the non-development sector compared to over Rs 6.4 billion last year. Over Rs 1.5 billion have been reserved for grants subsidies and write off loans, Rs 112 million for transfers, Rs 43 million for physical assets and Rs 57 million for repair and maintenance purposes. Daily times
KU conference on cultural, intellectual heritage
Karachi: Thought-provoking speeches and well-researched papers and presentations marked the inaugural day of the national conference on cultural and intellectual heritage of Pakistan at Karachi University's arts auditorium on Friday.
The two-day event is organised by the Pakistan Library Association (PLA) and the department of library and information science, University of Karachi.
Noted media-person and scholar Javed Jabbar was the keynote speaker of the first session which was presided over by KU Pro Vice-Chancellor Shahana Urooj Kazmi, while well-respected philosopher and former dean of the arts faculty Dr Manzoor Ahmed was the chief guest.
Mr Jabbar's speech was peppered with historical facts, thoughtfulness and humour. He started off by likening the library department to the institution of the army since like the armed forces it too had camps (libraries) where it took care of its weapons (books). Speaking of culture and intellect, he said contrary to what people think culture and intellect were not conjoined. He said culture was a vast subject and it existed wherever human beings lived. Even the making of a tie or a certain kind of kitchen utensil was part of culture. "Culture is spontaneous and can't be controlled, but intellect is self-willed and is not as pervasive," he said, adding that one had to be willing to be an intellectual.
Mr Jabbar said Pakistan's heritage predated the country and there were three basic factors that shaped cultural and intellectual heritage of the country - universal, geographical and political. While the history of the former two factors spanned thousands of years, the age of the political part was just 63. Expanding on this theme, he said Pakistan was a political miracle, something created out of sheer political thought and strategy. "How can you create a nation like that?" he asked, arguing that it took ages for a nation (qaum) to form. He said after the Second World War Pakistan was the first country that got dismembered and broke into two. He said Pakistan's majority rejected it and its name, forming another country Bangladesh. He posed the question if an effort was made to fuse the cultures of East and West Pakistan. He said: "Today we're again trying to create an identity for ourselves and we must realise that Ghalib, Khusrau and Iqbal were part of our culture."
As a note of caution, Mr Jabbar raised the question: "Does the opening up of the media represent the closing of the mind?" He then touched upon Allan Bloom's book The Closing of the American Mind.
Mr Jabbar said society and state were faced with five challenges: (1) finding our history (2) preservation of the parallel streams of history (3) access to parallel streams for all (4) respect for new versions of culture (5) to stimulate creativity.Dr Manzoor Ahmed lauded Mr Jabbar's speech and informed the audience that the real issue lay in the time when Pakistan hadn't even come into being. He said there was 'vacuity' in the word 'Pakistan' and efforts were made to fill it with meaning. He said there was also a religious concept in the word which had its pros and cons. He said the issue of low intellectual content was always a problem for Muslims because, though there had been renowned Muslim names in the fields of arts and science, no one originated anything or began a tradition.
Dr Ahmed said the question of culture was a tricky one, because then we'd have to ask ourselves "who are we or what's the salience of our identity? What is the peculiarity of our intellectual heritage?" He said it's an enigma and an open-ended debate and added Mr Jinnah was left with no choice but to seek a separate land, for if Muslims had got their rights while remaining in India things would've been different.
'Society in self-denial'
After Dr Manzoor's speech, Prof Shahana Urooj Kazmi congratulated the organisers for putting together the conference.
Prior to the speeches, President PLA Prof Malahat Kaleem Sherwani gave the background to the conference and informed the audience that the event was held after a long time. She thanked the guests and those who had come from all parts of the country to take part in the event. Prof Muneera Nasreen Ansari told the audience about the topics of the papers that were going to be read in the course of the two-day conference, and Prof Shireen Gul Soomro officially thanked all the speakers and guests for their participation.
The second session of the conference, presided over by media person Mehtab Akbar Rashdi, commenced with journalist Shahanshah Husain's paper on Pakistan's film industry. He traced the history of the film trade and discussed the issues that hampered its growth. He criticised the role of the censor board in dictating its terms to filmmakers and claimed that it was important to invest in, and revive, Karachi's film industry.
Chairperson of KU's department of visual arts Durriya Kazi gave a very impressive presentation on the confluence of cultures in the Indus Valley. She talked about the importance of the Indus and how a variety of cultures had their effects here during different time periods. She concluded by emphasising the significance of art commenting that "art gives soul to a civilisation".
Theatre person Imran Pirzada's topic was performing arts. In his brief talk, he narrated a personal experience hinting at the mindset of those who called the shots. He said once he was asked by a school to do a play for their students. He made the schoolchildren write the play for themselves and they came up with an interesting love story about a girl confessing her love to a boy. To which the school drama committee objected saying it couldn't do it and instead asked Imran to do the famous play Mama Mia. Mr Pirzada said he told the committee that the play (Mama Mia) had some sexually explicit language to which they replied 'we're going to change the lines.' He said the problem with our society was that it lived in self-denial and hadn't yet accepted its culture.
Known scholar Uxi Mufti in his typical free-flowing style claimed that Pakistan's cultural heritage was oral and not written. He said if such things were penned, they'd be dead. He said there's no book available on how to learn the sarangi, instead if anyone asked Shafqat Amanat Ali to sing something from Amir Khusrau's repertoire he'd instantly comply. He said the greatest of philosophers Socrates never wrote anything and our most wise people were the ones who're not educated. He asked if any library in Pakistan had a folklore department and argued that before digitising any library, the process of documenting records was essential. He then continued his discussion after a break with the help of a presentation touching upon other related issues.
In her presidential address Mehtab Akbar Rashdi said she agreed with Imran Pirzada that we lived in a state of self-denial and it's time we started accepting each other with open-mindedness.
"To begin with, you must believe in what you have and then accept what others have to offer," she said. She rounded off her speech by saying that change was the only constant thing in the world. Dawn
SSUET to hold Hajj balloting
Karachi: Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology (SSUET) would hold a Hajj balloting at 3pm in the University Auditorium on Tuesday. According to a notification issued on Friday by the registrar of SSUET, VC Professor Dr Saiyid Nazir Ahmed would preside over the balloting at Block-C of the auditorium. The news


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I hadn't planned to buy the Monster Manual. With so many years of gaming, creating monsters of my own and other material on my shelves I figured I didn't need it. My wife knew all this and decided to buy me the one RPG book I would not buy on my own.
Such a good call!
My first impression of the book is a positive one. The art is enjoyable and the layout is familiar and easy for me to use. I especially like the collection of NPCs at the back. It's nice to have some opponents all statted out and ready to go at a moment's notice. Players have a way of taking the game outside of the prepared zone so it's a handy resource.
Thanks to my daughters waking us up at 7 am to open presents there's something of a gap between our morning and the first visit for brunch at my in-laws. In that time I've had a chance to leaf through it and put my thoughts down here.
Seeing the images, reading descriptions and statistics for all the classic monsters and some new ones as well is more fun than I expected! Each entry I land on gets my wheels turning. Thinking about how I could build an adventure around the new take on the Medusa, where the yuan-ti fit on the my world's map, how I need to change the monsters' history or habits so they fit the story of the Last World, and what WotC's ideas can add to my own.
I'll definitely write up a proper review in the new year after I read through the thing in detail and try it out at the table. Until then, have a Happy Holiday and I hope you received some RPG goodness too!


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April Bookstagram Challenge Day Two:
Cover Change
So funny story, I've had Got Fangs since I was either ten or eleven years old. I've had this book for almost fifteen years! It's the oldest book on my shelf. So when I saw that it got a cover change, I had to get it. It's definitely gotten a better make over.


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MRA Sailors:
Due to the sea state and storm surge expected to be caused by hurricane Earl, clubs are pulling ramps and access to floats over the next 24 to 48 hours (please check in with your club for specific details).
Because access to the water is not expected to be returned in time to accommodate racers on Saturday, the MRA is officially cancelling the racing for Saturday. We will review the feasibility of Sunday racing by 5pm on Friday afternoon. We may still cancel Sunday racing, depending on sea state and access to the water via lifts and docks.
A follow up e-mail will be sent to racers by Friday evening, to provide an update on Sunday racing.
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Improved showing for non-traditional CXC subjects
THE less traditional subjects have shown marked improvement in the May/June 2017 sitting of the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) and Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examinations (CAPE).
For public school CSEC entries, agricultural science single award recorded a pass rate of 91. 3 per cent, up from 86.8 per cent last year, while agricultural science double award recorded a 96.8 per cent pass rate, up from 94.3 per cent in 2016.
A total of 3,145 students sat agricultural science single award this year compared to 2940 last year. The number for agricultural science double award this year was 373, compared to 402 in 2016.
Technical drawing also showed improved performance this year, with 70. 2 per cent of the 3,664 candidates receiving a passing grade. The figure for 2016 was 63 per cent of 3,634 candidates.
There are also improvements in theatre arts — 88.1 per cent, up from 78.8 per cent in 2016; food and nutrition — 92 per cent, up from 89. 4 per cent last year; economics moved 12.8 percentage points up to 84.1 per cent; additional mathematics moved three percentage points to 65.3 per cent; while physical education and sport recorded 96. 2 per cent pass, up from from 96.0 per cent in 2016.
Further, the results showed that males achieved higher percentage passes than females in three subjects — biology, chemistry and electronic document preparation and management.
For CAPE, electrical and electronic technology saw a 29.6 percentage point increase this year, and integrated mathematics had a 28.8 percentage point increase over the previous year. However, applied mathematics and pure mathematics recorded a slight decline of 7.8 and 1.9 percentage points respectively when compared with 2016.
Unit 1 art and design, which had 84 candidaates, was the only subject with a 100 per cent pass rate.
For Unit 2, the subjects that recorded 100 passes were French, performing arts (cinematic arts), performing arts (dance) and performing arts (music).
The subjects with an average pass rate of over 90 per cent for unit 1 include biology, building and mechanical engineering drawing, Caribbean studies, chemistry, communication studies, digital media, electrical and electronic engineering technology, entrepreneurship, environmental science, food and nutrition, French, geography, green engineering, information technology, literatures in English, management of business, physical education and sport, physics and Spanish.
For Unit 2, the subjects with and average pass rate of over 90 per cent are art and design, biology, building and mechanical engineering, drawing, chemistry, computer science, economics, electrical and electronic engineering drawing option A and B, entrepreneurship, environmental science, food and nutrition, geography, information technology, law, literatures in English, physical education and sport, physics, sociology and tourism.
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While purchasing a copy of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz for the upcoming Dolls for a Cause auction benefitting Kids Need to Read, she spotted this little beauty.
A Doctor Who Photo Real TARDIS Backpack.
And. It. Fits. Me.
(Well, I fit inside it perfectly.)
If you think her shriek was loud, you should have heard Mine!
Die-cut into the iconic TARDIS from BBC's Doctor Who, this TARDIS backpack features a padded back, adjustable straps and multiple compartments to fit all of your everyday needs. Whether it's for school, work or time traveling adventures, the TARDIS Backpack is the perfect way for Whovians to display their love for their favorite Doctor.
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Consumer packaged goods producer and supplier Libstar on Wednesday started trading on the main board of the JSE, in the food products sector.
Three-million Libstar shares traded on the opening of trade.
The proceeds from the listing will aid the company's growth prospects and provide access to additional capital for capacity and capability expansions. Libstar also aims to improve its margins and grow organically.
JSE capital markets director Donna Nemer commented that the listing brings the total number of companies listed in the food products sector on the JSE to eight.
The sector has a total market capitalisation of about R159-billion and contributes 1.1% to the JSE's overall market capitalisation.
Libstar co-founder and CEO Andries van Rensburg reported that, ahead of the listing, the company had raised R1.5-billion through an initial public offering (IPO) of 243.5-million shares at an offer price of R12.50 a share.
Including the sale of shares from existing shareholders such as buyout firm Abraaj and the Public Investment Corporation, the IPO raised a further R1.5-billion.
Libstar operates 27 business units across South Africa and owns brands including Denny, Cook & Bake, Lancewood, Cape Herb and Goldcrest. The company was established in 2005 and generated revenue of R8.83-billion in 2017, with earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation at R940-million.
"We had the idea that it was going to be a compact manufacturing company, but after our first acquisition of Mrs Balls in 2006 – subsequently sold to Tiger Brands in 2012 – the ball kept on rolling," said Van Rensburg.
Libstar has become one of the largest food and personal care manufacturers in South Africa.
Libstar's biggest customers include Woolworths, Shoprite Checkers, Pick 'n Pay, McDonald's and Spar, which accounted for 55% of the group's revenue in 2017.
Libstar, through its business unit Rialto, is the exclusive importer of brands including Tabasco, Kikkoman, Kiri, Laughing Cow and Lurpak.
Libstar co-founder and FD Robin Smith commented that introducing Libstar to the public markets will enable the company to augment its growth strategy and strengthen its market position in a number of areas.
"Libstar has a strong record of growth and financial performance, and is well positioned to capitalise on the opportunities that lie ahead for the future development of the company," he concluded.
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Tips for Homework
by Deborah Godfrey
When it comes to homework and schoolwork, I am passionate about teaching kids responsibility and ownership. One problem that often occurs is that the parent can be more "invested" than the children in schoolwork, homework and grades. When this happens, the kids don't have to care because the parents do all the work. I teach homework tips, from kindergarten on... ways to instill this responsibility and ownership. Yes, we need to be involved and helpful, but the way we are involved matters very much in whether the child takes responsibility or not. My favorite story of success in this area was with my daughter Michelle.
About a week before parent conferences, Michelle, then 9 years old, was saying that she didn't want me to go to her conference. She would get really upset and say, "You can't go! You're not going!" I was stumped. I kept asking her why she didn't want me to go and wondering what she had done that she didn't want me to find out about! A couple of days before the conference, we were having our nightly bedtime chat and she suddenly said, "That's not fair, you get to see my report card before I do!" I was speechless. I thought for a moment and realized that I have always taught my kids that their schoolwork is theirs. So this was HER effort, HER work, HER job and by gosh, HER grades! I said, "Michelle, you are absolutely RIGHT! I never thought about it before, but those are YOUR grades and I have no right to see them before you do! I'll make sure your teacher lets you see them before me at conference, OK?" She nodded and triumphantly went to sleep. I didn't get another complaint from her and she got to review her report card (with some hesitance from the teacher!) before I did. So here are some additional ideas for teaching your child ownership of his/her homework:
Homework Tips
- Watch use of pronouns. Notice when you say, "We need to work on our homework." Be accurate and replace it with, "You need to work on your homework, would you like me to help you?"
- When you offer to help, become clear about your role. Providing support means asking my child to read me the directions (or read the directions to her) until she figures out what she needs to do.
- Ask questions. Questions encourage your child to think, "What do you think that means?", "How could you make that happen?" or "What do you need to do?"
- Ask their opinion first. When your child brings you a graded paper, find out her feelings about it first. Look for signs of excitement or discouragement and make a comment, "You look proud" or "You look bummed".
As the school year starts, it's always a great time to start fresh, try something new and get on a better track. I have a recording of a live workshop available called, "Taking the hassles Out Of Homework". In this 83 minute workshop, you will learn the following:
Track One (8 minutes)
- 11 Keys for Successful Homework
- Why would a child have 5 hours of homework a night? What can you do about it?
- Your experience of homework and how that relates to your kids
- At 6 minutes there is a 2 minutes visualization. I suggest you listen to this portion of the MP3 when you are in a quiet place so that you can fully experience the exercise.
Track Two (54 minutes)
- Participants share their experience
- Suggestions on how to use your experience for the benefit of your children
- What are the key factors for success during the elementary years? During the middle school years? In High School?
- What can you do to create a hunger to learn in your children?
- How can you help a failing child?
- A mom in the workshop shares an example of the success of these ideas.
- What statements do you make that can accidentally hurt your child regarding their schoolwork?
- What statements can fix that and help motivate them in a way that works.
- How to manage the pressure on children?
- Key questions to ask your children to make them successful at their schoolwork?
- What type of environment is best for creating a homework routine?
- What are the questions you need to ask to make your children have the best learning environment for the learning style?
- What are the questions you need to ask to really help them?
- When should you seek outside help?
- What was the best parenting advice an educational consultant gave me regarding my child's sleep and schoolwork?
- How do you balance helping vs. enabling them to be irresponsible? What criteria can you use to determine when to let go and when to get involved? It's EASY!
- A fun idea if your kids get all stressed out.
- Help your child figure out how they can be successful.
Track Three (22 minutes)
- Setting limits on your availability to teach them responsibility.
- What is my job and what is the teacher's job regarding homework? You will be surprised at how easy your job as the parent is to be the most helpful to your child.
- Learn ideas to not do too much for your kids.
- Learn several ideas to help get kids through the homework when they get overwhelmed.
- Learn several ways to understand what your children are trying to communicate when they are whining, giving up or fighting you about their homework.
- How do your children's roles in the family affect their success on school?
Don't wait! Start the school year out with a new perspective, fresh ideas, and lots of tools to instill responsibility in your child's schoolwork and homework. Purchase this workshop on MP3 now, and listen live to parents learning these tips and ideas.
Happy Parenting!


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Length of Event: depends how fast you want to go through....but about 45 minutes from beginning to end of both houses
Actor Performance: most of the actors nailed it! there were your typical ghoulies jumping out of the dark and bloody mental patients screaming at you, but some of the characters were really scary and suprising! (look out for the "living" statues!)
Patron Flow Inside Attraction: pretty good....sometimes the groups are too big to go in all at once, but there was never a back-up or feeling of being crowded or rushed
Appropriate Ages: 12 and up, although they do have glowsticks for little ones to "ward off" the actors
Props / Special FX: there are some awesome mechanical effects and set decorations...they really paid attention to details!
Costumes / Make-up: what you would expect from a haunted house...some are very good, with latex and blood effects and for the most part the costumes matched the characters and different rooms...some are run of the mill stock
Summary: i would TOTALLY recommend this place to anyone in the chicagoland area. It is fun, creepy, high energy,and totally gets you in the mood for halloween! Also, you don't have to wait outside, the price was fair, and there was plenty of parking.


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My work aims to find the optimal instructional conditions for L2 learning to take place. This involves the investigation of the relative effects of different types of instruction on second language development, as well as the investigation of various factors that may moderate such effects. The research methodology I have most frequently followed involves isolating at least one independent variable from other potential factors and studying its effect on learners' performance on a predetermined target language feature under controlled laboratory settings. Two broad questions that have guided my research program so far are the following: 1) What type of instruction is most effective? 2) Which a) contextual, b) psycholinguistic, and c) cognitive individual difference factors moderate the effectiveness of instruction?
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Shirley Jackson is like Jane Austen: she only lived to write six novels and she died in her forties, leaving the tantalizing beginnings of a novel unlike any other she'd written. Both authors have shelves of their very own in my apartment, because I have multiple editions of everything they ever wrote as well as lots of books about the writers and their work.
Austen is the greater writer of the two, but I have to say that Jackson is my favorite. Not just of the pair, but of all time. Austen taught me to read; Shirley Jackson made me think I could be a writer.
So of course when I saw this novel about her, I was conflicted. I wasn't sure I wanted to read it, but I felt as if I had to, if only so I could tear the author a new one if she screwed up portraying
I'm a cranky old lady when it comes to novelizations of the (fairly) recently departed. Historical figures don't bother me, because
can know what they were really like, so such novels are obviously purely speculation; but when, for instance, all those novels about Sylvia Plath came out, I want to have a head-smacking party. (Other people's heads, not mine.) I mean, her
were still around when those were written, you know? And her kids were
those novels. Being potty-trained, in one instance. I'm fascinated by Plath too, but that's just rude.
(Told you I was a cranky old lady on the subject.)
Really, though, I'm not just being righteous for the sake of the poor wittle children. That sort of novel just strikes me as presumptuous. Where do you get off thinking
the one who knows what it was like to be Plath? Especially when, if you know anything at all about her, you know she was ferociously prickly and proud. She would
to be the subject of such a project.
Shirley Jackson, on the other hand...given her sense of humor and her catlike self-assurance, I'm not sure she'd mind this kind of novel at all. I can imagine her ghost answering such a summons – leaning against the kitchen counter, smiling and lighting an incorporeal cigarette.
Think you know me, do you? Well, by all means, have at it!
Susan Scarf Merrell keeps a respectful distance from her subject, and it works. Although the book is called
the main character is entirely fictional – Rose Nemser, who is 19 and pregnant when she arrives at Jackson's house. Her husband Fred has just become a teacher at Bennington College, where Jackson's husband Stanley Edgar Hyman is a popular professor. The Nemsers are boarding with Jackson and her family until they can find a place of their own, but very quickly everyone wants the arrangement to be a more permanent one.
I don't want to talk much about the plot of this novel, partly because it's a largely character-driven work and partly because it's the writing that smacked me over the head and dragged me off to its lair. I will say that anyone who knows anything about Shirley Jackson will understand immediately that this novel is set in the last year of her life, though she was only in her forties, and that Merrell really captures something about Shirley Jackson.
Merrell has also clearly read the eff out of Jackson's work. She knows her stuff, and she also knows how to weave this knowledge into her writing rather than bludgeoning the reader with it. I think her only blunders are early in the novel, where she treats Stanley as a sort of biographer of his wife who spouts paragraphs about The Famous Writer:
"Hill House," I murmured, thinking of the novel in my purse. It occurred to me then that I'd never seen evidence before this of how a novelist constructs a world from fog and fact.
Stanley smiled approvingly but shook his head. "Shirley will show you the one everyone thinks is that house. Perhaps it is; perhaps it isn't. She claims a house in California as the source. The wise man would wager that Hill House came straight from her imagination."
Stanley Edgar Hyman was a brilliantly odd duck by all accounts, but I don't think anyone talks like that.
Or like this:
"James Harris is folklore's proof that man has never been trustworthy. We're not alone in our preference for that ballad; it's Shirley's favorite as well. D'you know, her book
The Lottery and Other Stories
was supposed to be subtitled
The Adventures of James Harris?"
Well, not exactly. First of all, see above re nobody talks like this. And second, the book in question
The Adventures of James Harris,
originally. I have a 1949 second edition, and it says it right there on the cover. The subtitle fell away in later editions, but it was there at first. Stanley would have said "used to be," not "was supposed to be."
As you can see from the four stars I gave this book, these are minor quibbles. I was updating constantly as I read, because the prose is so gorgeous I had to share. Rose is haunted long before she meets Shirley Jackson, and Merrell perfectly captures this sense of a lost young woman seeking a mother only weeks before she herself becomes one.
She also captures a sense of Shirley Jackson herself:
She was in the kitchen, leaning against the sink with the water running. Yesterday's dress again. A cigarette trailing smoke. Her hair caught up in a limp ponytail. She was watching something out the window, staring intently.
...and of the time, so recent yet so unlike our own – a time when you went to the supermarket and told the clerk what you wanted and he went and got it for you, as Jackson uses to memorable effect in her story "Just Like Mother Used To Make" and her far creepier novel
We Have Always Lived In The Castle:
When we got to the market, Shirley had already called; the chops were cut and the string beans and potatoes had been set aside. We took a container of milk, and some apples, and a bag of farina, as she'd asked the grocer to tell us.
...a time when men were men, and women were cute and decorative and useless:
We'd not talked about whether I would work, Fred and I. His mother never had; she was pretty and helpless and hardly knew how to open and shut the windows in their apartment. Her job at the store was little more than a social position, a way of visiting with her friends, keeping an eye on their children. Fred's father – most of the fathers I knew, my own the sole exception – would have been embarrassed if his wife had to contribute to ongoing expenses. A wife could work for something specific; if she wanted to buy new furniture she could take a job in a department store and reap the discount, without shame. Though most of the women I knew had been forced to work on and off over the years, no one ever talked about it.
Merrell also understands, and expresses, the kind of work and sacrifice it takes to be a great writer:
"It takes more than wanting," she said cruelly. "You don't have the language. You don't want to share. You hoard your past. You clean it up. Withhold the details that make you what you don't want to be."
..."You change your stories all the time – you do, you've told me so yourself!"
"I clean them up to make them read better. I don't care what the hell I look like, or anybody else."
And she knows how to be spooky as hell:
My mother. A slivered moon night, that part of winter before the snow has fallen, cold hits the body like a shock and we are outside, my fingers frozen, and those are her limbs by the crumbling stucco wall: her arms, her legs swept into a pile by some insane and diligent gardener. Her eyes are closed; her mouth is peaceful. I want to wake up, I admit it, I'm not ashamed.
Wake up. Wake up!
I tell the truth, confess it here:
Momma, I saved myself instead of you.
That's chapter fourteen in its entirety, and it represents the tone and content of this novel perfectly.
I don't know if this is the kind of novel that will make people unfamiliar with Jackson's work run out and read it, or if you should read some of Jackson's stories and novels first and then read this. I
say that if you enjoyed the understated terror of such novels as
The Haunting of Hill House,
you will enjoy this book.
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Observation is the key to beginning a garden. When you start out making a garden for the first time, you do not want to make mistakes like planting a tree so close to the house that the roots disturb the foundations or lay an irrigation system in place, where gravity feed would have worked better.
You need to spend time observing your surroundings to better understand what would be required to make a successful garden. In order to do this you should open your mind and ask questions that will make create a sensational garden.
Bearing this in mind, take a leisurely stroll around the site you are thinking of using for your garden, several times! The more often you do it, the more you will get to know the nuances and the subtle promise of abundance of the land in question.
Take in everything about the place. Look at the slope of the land, look at the kind of ground cover. What plants are there? Do you know them by name? Are the plants useful or merely ornamental? Do you have trees around? Make an itinerary of all the plants you see!
Examine the type of soil you have, how does it smell and taste, what does it look like. Is the soil rich and fertile or have you got a rocky outcrop that needs a ton or two of topsoil? Is it sticky clay or sandy sand? Do you have a source of compost close by?
How about water availability - is there any erosion? What happens to your rainwater, the bath water?? Do you have a tap or an irrigation system in place? Is there a spot to place a small pond?
What about the wind? Does it blow a gale through the yard and whip everything around? Do you have gentle breezes? Does the wind blow harder at any particular time of the year?
What wildlife is around? Do you have a good selection of birds? What animals or insects can you see? Are there frogs, lizards or snakes around? Can you identify the insects in the area?
All these observation you think may be irrelevant, but honestly it is important to take all the factors into account when you are starting a garden from scratch, naturally. Taking all the extenuating factors into account means that you are better able to recognize what is in your garden and how to create an abundant oasis in the middle of your own life. Observation is the key. Once your observation is done thoroughly, it is a key you can turn to create a natural garden that will feed you abundantly.