October Daily MEGA Thread!

When I was in middle school (then called junior high - when did the term change??) - the cool kids would get these McD’s buckets and carry them around all month. Some as a lunchbox, some as a school supplies box. The *really* cool girls would keep all their origami-ish folded notes in in, like a mailbox. I was reatsanted to do it to, but I was too dorky to feel I could be a cool kid too. 😆🤣

Prompts from Krystal:

krystalidunate.com/?p=2868

Found this list from Serena Bee. It's an image so I'm typing it in:

1. Favorite fall tradition/activity
2. Favorite Halloween/fall movie
3. Fall haul
4. The autumn weather
5. Favorite fall snack
6. Fall selfie
7. Something orange
8. Witchcraft
9. Sweater Weather
10. Spooky sparkles
11. sweet treats
12. pumpkin
13. favorite villain
14. decorations
15. warm and cozy
16. something scary
17. fall outfit of the day
18. current favorites
19. happy mail
20. getting crafty
21. hot drinks
22. outdoors
23. vampires, zombies, monsters, oh my!
24. something with washi
25. creepy
26. made you smile today
27. 11:11 pm
28. something black
29. halloween throwback
30. favorite halloween costume
31. happy halloween

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I think Middle School and Jr.High are two different things. Jr High is 7-9th grade. Middle School is 6-8th. At least that is what it is here. I went to Junior High and when they redusted the grade levels they changed the name to middle school.

I love the idea of "cool kids" carrying the buckets around. In my parts that definitely would not have been the cool kids doing that.

Krystal made a similar page in her Oct album using this cut file


www.clipartmax.com/middle/m2i8m2Z5N4Z5m2Z5_cauldron-cauldron/

http://instagram.com/p/CUxVpG-AxvU

Thank you! I think I can figure out how to use that one. My silhouette skills are limited but I will just use my punch to make bubbles that you pull out. I really like the oozy drips in this file.


Thank you! I loved that one. I truly watched all the videos people linked but I was in a fevered state and don't remember them all.

I just love the idea of a cauldron. Also I am making a cauldron with ornaments as bubbles and twinkle lights so I want that theme.

This group is so great.

Me about to blow these Americans' minds: middle chool in France is called collège.  

My order with the first bits of Prima Luna I bought (got a little more in a second order, hehe) arrived. It's so pretty! And a perfect match for last year's Thirty-One. I got some stuff from Simple Stories at the same time and I can't pretend that the print and cardstock quality for the die-cuts isn't significantly below Prima's. Kudos to Prima for sticking with premium materials. I know they kind of have to due to the nature of the brand with all the mixed media work but dayum, I paid nearly exactly the same price for both brands.

All that's missing from Luna is a dark night sky PP. Would have loved one with the cat head icon turned into the shape of a constellation with a foggy moon or something... Otherwise, it's pretty much perfection. Since they've used this colour scheme two years in a row for Halloween, I'm guessing they're done for next year. Secretly hoping they might pursue the pastel goth route and use lilac and mint instead of pink and orange next year... A girl can dream! 

There are two of each in the ephemera packs so I need to sit down and separate the ones I'm sure I won't use/need a second of so I can RAK them (simple letter envelope, 20 g global stamp). If anyone wants a few touches of Luna for their October Daily album, keep an eye on this thread the next few days. 

People are losing their sh*t on Twitter that Wednesday (Netflix) is coming out on November 23 and NOT during Halloween.

I know I've mentioned it here before, but annually we watch Addams Family Values because of the Thanksgiving play scene. It's coming out the day BEFORE the American Thanksgiving and of course it's on a Wednesday!!! I personally think it's perfect timing.

refugeepea I ordered a delicious lemonade that day instead of a coffee. It was named Voodoo Doll.

I finished my Disney scrapbooking for now. I just have our EPCOT day left to do. I'll pick it back up in January.

But that meant I got to spend some time yesterday getting all of my October supplies organized.

I just have to go through stickers now. I think I'm going to store all of the sheets of things in a 5X7 clear organizer box.
The box from the Ali Edwards Halloween kit is now full of that stuff and other flat things and I need to sort it out.

I went through all my loot from the Dollar Store and organized it too. They had some cool wood embellishments (skulls and jackolanterns). I got one of those clear plastic bins with dividers from Family Dollar and everything is fitting pretty good so far.

I'm working on my swap items now -- having so much fun with that.
I should finish those tonight so I can get them packed up and ready.

Then I can start the October Daily. I think I want to use the cat acetate for my cover page.
But it's pretty busy so I may end up using plain acetate and adhering a die cut or something to it.
So many options! I can't wait to play.

What is everyone up to?

Dh finished decorating outside on Saturday! 3 weeks ago I decorated inside and then did some outside decor - skeleton, hay bales with pumpkins and scarecrow, and spider.

Dh put up our inflatable Snoopy and new 6' spider on the upstairs front deck railing, lights, and front door light cover.

Spider webs will go up week before Halloween so they don't get ruined.

I have Indiana Bones dressed up in a robe with a wig and sun glasses, drinking a cup of coffee. Previous week it was wearing shirts and a KC Chiefs shirt.

Next weekend dh is going to make a stand so it can be standing up and hopefully water my flowers lol

Saw my first ad for Wednesday today and I'm so excited!
I just listened to an interview with Christina Ricci and it was great.


Woah. I could never watch any sports. My daughter just started high school so I have to go to at least one high school football game to see her march with band in the halftime show and I am dreading it.


OMG. This is hilarious. The wave! Best thing ever.


OK: I need to share this with this group:
I just listened to the WTF interview with Danny Elfman and it blew my mind:
www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episode-1232-danny-elfman

So he is the composer for almost all of the Tim Burton films. He's the singing voice of Jack Skellington and he wrote the entire score. He wrote the song for the Simpson's too. He's a freaking genius.
So if you love Nightmare Before Xmas and Beetlejuice, listen to this interview.
He talks about his process of composing and he said it just comes to him. Like all of it, all the layers, everything. He just starts hearing it in his head.
Incredible.

Anyway, he's one of my all-time favorites as Nightmare Before Christmas is my favorite movie. (If Darcy had been better cast in Pride and Prejudice with Keira Knightly there might be some competition but seriously not even Groundhog Day comes close and it's also in my top 5).

I'll post a little treat for you from my phone in a minute.

Thar is awesome! My dd is like whoa that is so cool!

Has anyone seen a cute October calendar to use in your OD? I’d love something journal card sized but Halloween themed or a digital file(s) would also be great.

I will have the least Halloween-y October month in this thread. It's really not a thing here. 

So far, I've spotted Halloween goodies IRL at 2 stores: Lush and Hema. Nothing elsewhere so far. My grocery store did have a few bags of Halloween-ified sweets and some ghosties hanging over the cash registers last years so I'm hopeful they'll get to it again.