Fortress Of Good Fortune

It's Halloween Week!!! *squees*

Man, the energy is just swirling around like the leaves! It's a gorgeous fall day, all golden and orange and crimson, and the weather is just right: cool enough to wear a jacket but not uncomfortable. Crisp air and the bounty of the harvest ready to be enjoyed.

A few weeks ago I went to the local farm stand and bought a baby pumpkin and gourds, all colorful as the leaves were all bright around me. There were giant gourds shaped like swans and other interesting shapes. :) Big pumpkins and little ones. Colorful Indian corn. Mums of red, orange, and yellow!

Houses are decorated on the street, some with autumn themes of cornstalks and scarecrows and pumpkins while others are spooky Halloween themes, complete with grinning Jack O'Lanterns and pumpkin lights! ;) One house has an inflatable Haunted House on their front lawn, LOL!

This is the week I usually see a flurry of submissions for my current Halloween Challenge, and while I may just be whistling past the graveyard this year, I bet something pops up in the trick-or-treat bag! *dances*

I've got a Witch cut-out on my front door and a vampire on the back. Lots of decorations and I have to get my plastic Jack O'Lantern handy and filled with candy! ;)

So get ready, boys and ghouls, for the magic in the air of the Night of Nights and the costumes of the kiddies as they shuffle through the fallen leaves up to the door and yell, "Trick-or-treat!" and the adults party hearty in full costume! :)

Hey, flist! Any plans for Halloween? I'm going away this weekend but should be back by late afternoon on Sunday so will be handing out trick-or-treats dressed in a top, long skirt, and shoes (all black), my Witch's hat, my silver pentagram, and the broom I got from Old Sturbridge Village years ago. ;) I'll have on sparkly make-up and paint my nails sparkly red. The Patriots game will be playing on TV in the background. Darn, I really hate to give out the Reese's Peanut Butter Cups! They're my favorite! ;)

New Challenges:

Yes, it’s that time of year again! Autumn is coming swiftly with the turning of the leaves, and you know what that means! ;)

Hey, you didn’t think I could pass up a Halloween Challenge on my newest comm, did you? ;) I’ve got some ideas, some kind of melancholy, damnit, but I can’t control my Muses. What will be, will be. So says Doris Day. ;)

2010 DCU Fic/Art Halloween Challenge
Posting Dates: September 1-October 31, 2010

2010 Guns_Fedoras Public Enemies Fic/Art Halloween Challenge
Posting Dates: September 1-October 31, 2010

2010 Station_51 Emergency! Fic/Art Halloween Challenge
Posting Dates: September 1-October 31, 2010

Year-Round Challenges:

2010 DCU Fic/Art The Wheel Of The Year Challenge
Posting Dates: January 1-December 31, 2010

Sabbat No. 6: Mabon (September 23, 2010)

Sabbat No. 7: Samhain (October 31, 2010)

Please note: Deadlines are for seasonal timeliness. If you have an entry for a sabbat that’s gone by, still post! This is a year-long Challenge, so it’s all good! And ctbn60 already has some gorgeous banners made for the 8 sabbats! :)

2010 DCU Fic/Art Bondage Challenge
Posting Dates: January 7-December 31, 2010

Oh, and DCU covers all 'verses: comics, movies, 'toons, and TV (Smallville especially!). So if you have SV or Nolanverse fic or art or anything under those categories, please enter! :)

Prompt for the 2010 DCU Fic/Art The Wheel Of The Year Challenge is Sabbat No. 5: Lammas (August 1, 2010).

The First Harvest begins as the golden wheat and corn ripen in the fields.

NOTE: The Challenge is year-long, so if you submit an entry for a sabbat whose date has passed, it’s all good! Check out the banners for each sabbat here.

Omigoddess! It's almost the Witching Hour and Halloween!

*dances*

I'll be off-line possibly all day tomorrow so if you have any more entries for the 2009 DCU Fic/Art Halloween Challenge, I'll put them on the Master List when I get back. :)

Witches' New Year is almost here! *cues Addams Family music* *snap, snap* ;)

Happy Halloween!!!