Welcome October! {Countdown to Halloween Day 1}

The season is upon us and for the first time in a long while, I am behind. Work, and other non Halloween celebrations has put me at a sever disadvantage this year. I took of Thursday and Friday and literally put in 16 hour days getting the outside of Meade Manor transitioned over from Summer to Halloween...and I am still not done. The lighting is at about 50% and I have about 10 props that still have to be assembled and set into the scene. I only have 1 of the 5 projectors running and our interior decorations for our big party is at about a even 30% complete.

It is October, the best month of the year! I just have to dig in with both hands and get my wife to help ;) I have about a good 8 hours ahead of me to finish then we are going out to hit the first Haunted Attraction opening up in our area!

While The Wicked Woods is in process of completion I did grab a few shots of some of the decorations up. I will post a big update tomorrow with the (hopefully) completed haunt.

Yikes! Countdown to Halloween is upon us!

I almost missed it this year! Sheesh! Don't forget to sign up!

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Countdown To Halloween 2015

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Countdown to Halloween 2014

31 posts in 31 days during the busiest holiday of the year for me? Insane!!!! but I am in!

Check it out guys. Either participate or check in on all the great blogs that post every day in October to Countdown the greatest Holiday of them all! Click the picture above to see what all the fuss is about!

Sign of the Season....more of a badge really....

Time for the Countdown to Halloween once again....I plan on participating again this year despite my horrid time constraints. My posts may not be as magnanimous or in depth as precious years, but I assure you they will be daily and all Halloween! Drop by and plan to participate or at least follow along with all the fun!

Author and Blogger Annie Walls joins in as a contributor for the giveaway!

  Annie Walls, author of "Taking on the Dead" Sent me some goodies featuring artwork from her new book. These will be sprinkled into all the prize packs!
   If you would like to read her awesome new book, click *HERE* for details how you can grab it for your very own! While you're at it, check out her blog as well...just click *HERE* to be taken to it.
   As to the prize packs, there is still plenty of time to enter. Just head over via this link *HERE* and find out how you can win some AWESOME prizes.
  Also, as next week is the final week for entry, any posts, bogs, vlogs, interviews, pictorials, etc will carry DOUBLE POINTS! Enter often to increase your chance to win!

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  Monday starts the Countdown to Halloween. 31 days of Halloween posts. Hope I can manage it with all that is left to do at the house. Make sure you check in often and check out all the great blogs that are participating. I was able to connect with over 45 blog last year due to this event and I am still a loyal reader of all.
  I will also be posting some sneak peek pictures of this years yard haunt on Monday to kick the season off right plus I have some projects I have completed over the last few days to post about.

Hope everybody has a wicKED weeKEnD!

Countdown to Halloween 2012

Something wicKED this way comes.... and The Wicked Woods Cemetery have officially signed up to be a  Cryptkeeper for The Halloween Countdown of 2012!

You may be asking yourself, "What is a Halloween Countdown and how do I participate?"  Below you will find the answers to these questions taken straight from the Countdown to Halloween blog!:

So what is this Halloween Countdown anyway...and what do I need to do in order to participate?
These are the two questions I've been most frequently asked about this endeavor.
The Halloween Countdown is something of a virtual neighborhood to go trick or treating in. Imagine a neighborhood where all of the neighbors really got into the spirit of the holiday and went all out with decorating their yards and homes and on top of that also handed out the coolest treats whenever some kid in a costume rang their doorbell. Well, you are that kid in a costume, and the participants in the countdown are the neighbors with the cool houses and candy. When you visit their blogs, you will essentially be ringing their doorbell and shouting "Trick or treat." rewarded by a solid thunk at the bottom of your plastic Halloween bucket which is their post for the day. In a way that's even better than the actual Halloween (no way! I hear you saying) you get to ring their doorbell and trick or treat every single day throughout October. Not only that, but there is bound to be over 100 houses for you to visit each day as well.
As a participant, I suggest thinking of the Halloween Countdown as something of a virtual Advent calendar, only devoted to Halloween. Each day, throughout October, a blogger posts something new pertaining in some way to Halloween, or something emblematic of the season. This can be anything, photos of you as a kid dressed up in your Ben Cooper costume, recipes, crafts, horror movie reviews, holiday reminiscences, board games and children's books of the past, artwork, traditions, anything at all. The daily aspect of this is something to strive for, but is not expected. Veterans of the countdown will tell you how grueling it can be to put together a daily post without much advance preparation. The goal is to have fun, and if you're spending every spare moment composing a daily post, you won't have any fun, nor will you have time to see what everyone else is doing. Do what you can.
Whether you are a blogger participating with a countdown of your own, or someone who just wants to trick or treat without having to decorate their own home, all are welcome. If you are not on the list of participants, but would like to be, just let us know, and provide a link to your blog. If you have more than one blog you'd like to include (you're insane) provide links for both (or more).
Dusk is upon us, and the Jack O'Lanterns are lit and being set outside. Nows the time to put on your costume, grab your trick or treat bag and head off down the street to ring the doorbell of the first house. Happy Halloween!

Last year was a lot of fun and since I post almost every day during the Halloween season, it was super easy to participate. Check out all of the great blogs that participated last year by clicking HERE.

I am already working on content and time is tighter than ever! I hope you will participate or at least cycle through all the great Halloween content daily!

In the mean time.... wanna win some wicKED prizes? Sure you do.....click HERE and enter often!