Posting a special Halloween haiku every week for Monday Macabre.
Our theme this month is Halloween Carnival.
cards on the table
fortune teller’s crystal ball
beware of danger
Happy Halloween!🎃
Halloween Time Crunch
Feeling like you just dont have time or energy to go all out for Halloween this year? It doesn’t matter why. Stop feeling guilty for being too tired to celebrate your favorite holiday. You are not alone. People are busy. There’s work. There’s kids. There’s zero bank account. Life happens and spoils our good time. Don’t get down! Get creative!
Here are 10 low-effort ways to celebrate Halloween that don’t take up a lot of time or energy.
- Watch a spooky movie on free streaming service. PlutoTV, Tubi, Film Rise, YouTube, WatchFree, or Amazon with ads.
- Watch one episode of a spooky TV show a week.
- Carve a pumpkin.
- Read a spooky novel from the library or local book shop.
- Write your own spooky story!
- Listen to a free spooky story podcast or old timey radio broadcast.
- Create a Halloween centerpiece for your dining room or coffee table.
- Color Halloween free printables or pages from a coloring book.
- Make your own Halloween art.
- Surf Halloween web blogs and comment on their posts.
- Walk around your neighborhood and look at all the Halloween decorations
- Halloween window shopping never goes out of style!
- Plan and make a Halloween costume out of whatever you got.
You don’t need fancy costumes, big parties, haunted houses and lots of money to get your Halloween fix! Just setting out the tiniest pumpkin will warm the little black hearts of the Halloween gods. There’s no wrong way to do Halloween. Just do what you can.
Happy Halloween!🎃
Sinister Saturday – Graveyard Dirt Brownie Bites
After last week’s semi-fail (that’s two in a row), I decided to do an easy one. (shut up, three layer Jell-o is hard!)😆
Today’s pre-mixed batter is Betty Crocker Brownie Cups, Cookies and Creme version.
I’m not much of a baker, so anything with only 3 ingredients is king to me. That still doesn’t guarantee that I’m gonna follow the recipe correctly.
Luckily, everything started out alright and I managed to bake a perfectly nice little tin of 12 brownie bites
Unfortunately, they didn’t look much like graves and I guess I needed another ingredient or candy to embellish my brownies.
Luckily, they were delicious! So, not anything special to look at but they were yummy and that’s a total win!
Happy Halloween!🎃
Friday Fright Nightcaps – Boo-Scary Margarita
Happy Friday! Tonight’s Friday Fright Nightcap is a deep blue concoction called the Boo-Scary Margarita. It’s only got 4 ingredients and it’s highly customizable to taste.
Ingredients:
2 oz. Tequila Blanco (white)
2 oz. Cranberry juice
1 oz. Blue Curacao
1 oz. Sour Apple
Garnish: Rim salt or sugar or fresh lime
Pour chilled ingredients into a mixer and shake well. Then, pour into a glass with a salted rim.
I tried to make my own black rim salt and it turned blue-green. It could’ve been cool but my glass was too wet or the salt was too cheap, who knows, it didn’t stick right.😄
Please don’t drink and drive.
Happy Halloween!🎃
Timeless Thursday – Which Witch Board Game
It’s Timeless Thursday and today I’m celebrating the Milton Bradley’s classic board game from 1970, Which Witch!
Which Witch also went by the name Haunted House and there was apparently there was a release of the game in different style box in 1971.
The point of the game is get to the Charmed Circle at the top of stairs by moving through a spooky haunted house made of cardboard.
There are three witches that live in the house and rolling the die during their turn will direct a player to pick a card for either Ghoulish Gertie, Wanda the Wicked or Glenda the Good, each with instructions on what to do next.
Moving through this mysterious house isn’t so simple as it seems, as there are spells and traps, loose floorboards, moving walls, danger spaces, and some type of swinging broom.
Sadly, I never got to play the game back in the day, but everytime I see one on eBay, my inner seven year old tries to possess my wallet! If you’ve ever had the chance to play, hit me up in Comments with some stories!
Happy Halloween!🎃
Wicked Art Wednesdays 2026 – Kurtis Rykovich
I have to be honest, searching for art is not like it used to be a few years ago, hell, just last year even. AI and capitalist marketing of goods, often AI rendered art, is heavily promoted in search engines making it nearly impossible to find anything. This could seriously be my last Wicked Art Wednesday if I don’t come up with another plan.
That said, I chose a phenomenal artist whose stunning art is worthy of closing out my Halloween 2026 schedule. I present to you the fine art of Kurtis Rykovich!
Artist: Kurtis Rykovich
Company/Studio: The Art of Kurtis Rykovich
Where to Purchase Goods: https://www.rykovich.com/
Why we love it: Spooky cats, fantastical creatures, haunted images, spooky and cute, colorful macabre, it’s all here, a visionary smorgasbord for your eyeballs.
Social Media: https://www.instagram.com/kurtisrykovich/
Kurtis Rykovich sells prints and original art online and you can meet him in-person at Midsummer Scream, Oddities & Curiosities Expo, and other shows.
Happy Halloween!🎃
Trick or Treat Tuesdays – Old Halloween Trivia
Happy Trick or Treat Tuesday! Traditions and customs may have changed over the years and across regions but Halloween has been a community celebration since Celtic times. Do you know the answers of these old Halloween trivia questions?
Post your responses in the Comments Section.
What ancient Celtic festival from Ireland and Britain became the precursor to Halloween?
Before pumpkins, these vegetables were often used to make lanterns to ward off evil spirits on Halloween night.
What’s the name of the popular paper company that became famous for manufacturing Halloween decorations?
What were the first Halloween party books filled with party planning ideas, recipes, and decorations released in 1909 by this same company called?
What’s the name of the company thst made inexpensive plastic masks and vinyl smocks that became an iconic American symbol of Halloween?
Name one of the four major popular Halloween postcard artists whose scary works are now a collector’s dream (hint: if you click the link, you’ll find some names). 😊
Happy Halloween!🎃
Monday Macabre – Week 2
Posting a special Halloween haiku every week for Monday Macabre.
Our theme this month is Halloween Carnival.
two tickets for fun
popcorn, pink cotton candy,
and buckets of blood
Happy Halloween!🎃
Halloween every day?
Not so long ago I told a coworker that I wished Halloween could be every day.
Every day? She asked with a smirk.
Like she was skeptical or something. Like she did not notice I was wearing a candy corn sweater in August. Like I didn’t just return from Midsummer Scream, a weekend long Halloween convention in Long Beach for the tenth year in a row. Like I didn’t carry everything and the kitchen sink in my Mickey Halloween tote bag to work every day, even in spring. Like I didn’t have a dozen spooky or Halloween curios decorating my office cubicle 365 days a year. I didn’t already buy a $30 bag of the “good candy” for the community candy bowl. Like I didn’t just ask if pumpkin spice latte was back yet. Like I didn’t already say thirty times this year that I can’t wait for Halloween!
Yes. Every day.
And I’m in better company than she is.
Happy Halloween!🎃
Sinister Saturday – Candy Corn Jell-O
Happy Halloween!🎃
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