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Happy Friday my friends!! I hope that fall is finding you well. It’s time for my weekly favorite post, Etsy Find Fridays, courtesy my friend Meg at Writemeg! She’s such a creative little bugger!

Fall is my favorite time of the year. I love the colors, the temperature cooling down, the crispness in the air and HALLOWEEN! I was so excited this past weekend when I was catching up on my DVR shows and I saw that Halloween movies started on SyFy. So, of course, I filled up my DVR with them. Now to find time to watch them, that isn’t in the night time because of course I will have nightmares

When you think of spooky movies and Halloween, you may think of witches. I always think back to the best witches, The Wicked Witch of the West and the Sanderson Sisters from Hocus Pocus.

So this Etsy Find Friday is dedicated to the witches of Halloween’s past. Bwah ha ha! 

As always, click on my witchy pictures to go to the Etsy shop selling these goodies!

Don’t even get me started on that TV show from Nickelodeon from when I was growing up. I have always loved spooky movies, but for some reason, that show was too much for me. But the movies, I could do them all day long, except for when it was bedtime, then I would have to watch a cartoon or something silly to get the scary thoughts out of my head. I still have to do that lol

This year, Halloween week, my husband is out of town, so I am watching these creeptastic movies by myself. I am ok with that, because he really doesn’t like them anyway. But, that also means I am alone when I go to bed and I feel like a goof being 24-years-old and leaving the light on. To prepare for this week, I have DVR’d all kinds of scary movies and plan on spooking myself out to the max. This is very easy to do thanks to SyFy, AMC and ABC Family. They are all running every scary movie possible this week.

I am going to do two things with this post. 1. I want to leave a list of my favorite Halloween’ish movies and 2. Leave a list of the movies I am watching this year.

There are two types of Halloween’ish movies that I love. I love the uber scary ones, but I also like the fun witchy ones.

Favorite Scary Movies:
1. Halloween: Halloween is by far my favorite scary movie of all time. To this day, when I hear the theme song for Michael Myers, I get chills. I’m not quite sure why, but I feel like there’s something about older scary movies that give me the willies more than new ones.
2. Halloween 4: The second Halloween movie is ok, I hate the third one, but coming back to the 4th and 5th, I’m a fan. These are the two that have little girl in them. Her name is Jamie and from this movie, I learned that if kids are involved, the movies are scarier.
3. The Skeleton Key: Based out of the swamps of New Orleans, pure witchraft is the source of this movie. I have seen it tons of times, but each time, it still intrigues me and makes me want to learn more about old witchcraft traditions.
4. Texas Chainsaw Massacre: When it comes to newer movies, this one takes the cake. It’s one that freaks me out, but I can laugh at the same time. For my senior prom, we actually rented this movie and ordered pizza before the dance.

If you can tell by my movie choices, I am a fan of anything that could be real. Those are the worst kind to go to bed on, but I still can’t stop watching them.

Favorite Fun Halloween Movies:
1.  Hocus Pocus: Does this surprise anyone? I think this is a fan favorite of the ages. I have always loved this movie and get in the true Halloween spirit when I see it.
2. Practical Magic: Another witch movies. You may see a theme here. Most of the fun Halloween movies I watch yearly deal with witches. I am a huge Sandra Bullock fan and actually watch this movie year-round when I need a good cheering up.
3. Any Harry Potter flick: I could watch these movies over and over and never get tired of them. I saw one on last night and wished that it was a Harry Potter weekend on one of the channels.
4. Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride: I still love me a little cartoon action and this one takes the cake. Although it is very dark, I love this movie. I caught it a couple of years ago on ABC Family and look forward to it every year.

Ok, so those aren’t the only movies that I have come to know and love. As promised earlier, I will be adding and updating a list of the movies that I watch this week right here on my blog. My movie watching actually start on Friday night. And if I don’t like a movie, I normally don’t watch it all and wste my time because there are so many great ones to offer.

1. The Skeleton Key

Friday:
2. The Hitcher- This was my first time watching this one. It was really creepy. The bad guy was a hottie though, so it was hard to hate him
3. The Final – OMG, the non-popular kids are fighting back against the ones who made fun of them in a really screwed up way.

Saturday:
4. Kill Theory – Could you kill your best friends to save your lives?
5. Final Destination

Sunday:
6. The Reeds
7. Prom Night (new one)
8. Corpse Bride
9. Secrets in the Walls - the was kind of crazy on Lifetime

Monday:
10. House on Haunted Hill - this one always freaks me out but there’s so many famous people in it

Tuesday:
11. Halloween – although it’s my favorite, I have so much reading to do, I may not be able to get all the way through it. Plus, once that song gets in my head, I can’t get it out!
12. The Craft

Wednesday:
13. Halloween 4

Thursday:
I took Thursday off – spent the evening with my mom, soaking up the Project Runway finale.

Friday:
Friday… well I am taking Friday off too. Tonight I am going to the Miranda Lambert concert with a friend and some family. I may be able to talk the girl’s into watching one with me late tonight when we get home

Saturday:
14. Scared Shrekless

Sunday:
15. Hocus Pocus
16. Halloween - Yes I watched it again!
17. Halloween 2
18. Hide and Seek

I love, love, love reading with the seasons. I have already stockpiled 6 books for the Christmas season, but I’m creeping up on Halloween with NOTHING to read. Last year I read Interview with the Vampire and a couple of True Blood books. The year before, I read The Historian.  I must say that the past two years, my choices have been stellar, so I have high hopes for a great book this year. So, my search begins!

My first place for the search is at work. I asked a coworker if he had anything in mind, he was the one who suggested The Historian, which is one of my favorite books ever. This years, suggestion:

I like the idea of changing up my scarer of choice from vampires to witches. I have been strictly vampires since I read the Twilight series. And I may have been slightly obsessed. The only thing that really scares me about this book, it’s like 1,000 pages. That is extremely scary.

But as any good journalist will tell you, the search can’t stop there. We have to make sure we are getting the best we can. That leads me to Jenn at Jenn’s Bookshelves. She has dedicated this entire month to the spook’s with Fright Fest. And of course, she has left us a huge list of scary books. From her list, I am going to check out:

Trick or Treat Murder by Leslie Meier (which also led me to find) Wicked Witch Murder by Leslie Meier – I have had my eye on these books forever. I may have to start them, just out of order so I am reading them as they holidays come.
Wait Till Helen Comes by Mary Downing Hahn

I am a huge list person, so I Google’d “Top 10 Scary Books” and found this:

This tops Amazon’s Top 10 Scariest Books list and I have chills from just reading this short snippet:

“For one night, Barrett and his colleagues investigate the Belasco House and learn exactly why the townfolks refer to it as the Hell House.”

I know there are always the Stephen King Books, which I haven’t read any of. But I feel like there is so much hype, I’m not sure if they would do the trick.

Do you guys have any ideas?

Goodness, I am not sure if I can read Hell House. I am still having anxiety about the synopsis.

So Halloween is by far one of my favorite holidays. As many nightmares as I have, all I do is watch scary movies and read scary books. Plus, I love all the decorations and pumpkins and costumes…. ok you get the point.

Another addition to this Halloween that I love? Ramblings of a Teenage Bookworm is hosting a giveaway. There are 12 books listed. One winner will get to choose the 4 books they want. There’s everything from Demon Princess to Hush Hush.

I am very pumped about this. Click the link on the blog title to check it out!