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Hello and Halloween

Hello Hello! I have a million half-posts in my queue, but we're moving into holiday mode. I had a splendid Halloween and I want to share the fun photos!

Life update: While, I'm a fabulous writer/blogger extraordinaire, I'm also a fabulous Trader Joe's employee. Retail is not my end goal, but the community there is wonderful. I've learned more about working as a team than I have at any other job. Plus I've become a total TJs junkie. The food is ridiculously good. Anyhow, they're all about holidays, which I love. We got to dress up for Halloween and I chose Eleven from Stranger Things. Have you seen that show yet? It's great! It's like The Goonies meets ET with amazing music. While I was working on Halloween, I spotted this mini me dressed in the same costume. How perfect is this photo?!

The weekend before that, I headed to the Halloween Dog Parade, which as you can imagine, was a total dream. I dressed as Eleven in a dress from Pinup Girl Clothing and I DIYed an Eggo costume for Talullah. She was thrilled obviously. haha

I met many others in Stranger Things garb, including the couple above and Egar the Mighty, who was also dressed as Eleven. Such cuteness!

#JusticeforBarb

Here are a few favorites. I was in doggie heaven!

I'll have to do a proper post for this Pinup Girl dress. It's super adorable and I will definitely be wearing it post-Halloween. This is my favorite season!

Halloween weekend, I purchased my first corset. Not sure how practical it'll be, but I'm hoping it helps my posture and such. I paired it with my Sunnydale tee and a witchy chapeau. Hope you had a wonderful Halloween. Plz post costume pictures in the comments!!! (if I still have any readers lol).

Links I Love: Halloween Edition

Happy Halloween! Hope you enjoy this week's Links I Love!

Let's start with some adorable Halloween pin-ups. Gotta love the glamour.

Next we have Barbie on Instagram. 50's Barbie is the cutest!

This tutorial by Keiko Lynn is pretty incredible.

You need to see The Best Costumes From This Year’s Halloween Dog Parade. I regret not going, but Tallulah would've gone nuts. She is so rude to other dogs.

In need of costume inspiration? This Sartorialist post is super cute and spot-on!

8 Urban Legends You Were Right To Believe: Some of these are pretty shudder-worthy, but I always found urban legends extremely interesting.

31 Days of Halloween: I stumbled upon this site and still haven't finished exploring. It's full of fascinating, morbid tales. Some are pretty gruesome so read at your own risk.

I'm loving the costumes this season therefore I'm loving this interview with Jade Brandt: Awesome Artist & Seamstress For American Horror Story.

Omg I'm getting nightmares from this tutorial for American Horror Story: Asylum.

The ladies of xoVain keep going with scary accuracy. Here is Alle as Marilyn Manson. She really captured that stare!

On a lighter note, I did a blog post for work on how to dress like a stylish witch. I like the way it came out. Some of our dresses happen to be very witchy!

If you haven't already, don't forget to check out my article for Refinery 29!

The 13 Witchiest Pop Culture Witches To Put A Spell On You

I must be witch obsessed this year!

A Spooky Story From a Real-Life Officer

This is a true story from my mom, who is a police officer in San Antonio, Texas. She's been an officer for over 20 years and this night shook her to the core.

"In the 1990's, I worked in the Missing Persons department. The office was open 24 hrs so it was not uncommon to work a double shift. This meant I was on the job from 2:00PM to 6:00AM. One night, during the late shift, we heard a sudden cry. "Ayúdenme! Ayúdenme!"someone yelled, "Help Me! Help Me!" The Spanish words grew louder and we went to investigate who needed our help. We searched high and low, outside and in the basement. There was no one to be seen.

The second night, we heard the same cry. This time, another officer was with us. He told me he'd heard the cry several nights in a row. He too had searched the grounds, looking for this desperate man. Since then, other detectives have spoken of the man in distress.

The building has since been demolished. Heaven knows if that poor soul will ever rest. Was it a Mexican soldier or a tortured prisoner? All I know is that the poor soul was suffering. He wanted and needed help, but we were too late."

Photo below: There's my lil mama on the bottom left-hand corner striking a pose.

What I Wore to Carve Pumpkins!

Although fall is my favorite season, it may surprise you to know that I've never carved a pumpkin! Jason and I gave it a go and, let me tell you, it's harder than it looks. We had a good time drinking apple cider and carving some really simple shapes. I threw on my pumpkin-colored dress for an impromptu photo shoot. What became of the pumpkins post-carving? They made a delicious snack for the squirrels in Jason's backyard!

The man behind the camera..

Buffy Week: What I Wore To Sunnydale High

In honor of October, I declare this "Joss Whedon Week" at Twee Valley High! Today's post and this week's Links I Love will have a general Whedon theme, primarily Buffy the Vampire Slayer, my favorite show of all time.

Today's post is a costume of sorts. I bought this Buffy tee at a comic book store in Manhattan. I like the subtle-ness of it, although when worn to work, people ask if this is my high school, which is an expected reaction I suppose.

Most of these photos are actually from a year ago. I got sick around Halloween and couldn't post that week. I recently wore the same look to a sing-a-long for Dr. Horrible. My lipstick got a berry upgrade and I found a matching scarf. The event was great fun with hilarious skits and attendees in costume. I even had Jason dress up. His name tag said "God." If you can guess the Buffy reference, many points to ya! The picture below is from that night.