I found with a little research

that there are spiders that eat frogs....yes...the world is that messed up :D

I need therapy (more therapy) now! :D

That is my, very, very, very lame excuse why I have not done my due diligence on this blog.

But I am mending my ways.  I have worked on the photos of the spiders and the swag for the submitters.  I promise next week to start living up to my end of the bargain on Spiderfest 2010!

Watch for details!

I keep him anyway

out of all the things that the cats have to play with in the house, and trust me I have three very spoiled cats, this is Hal's (Halloween Cat) favorite.

My sister in law, who is evil, gave it to me as a gift one Halloween. It is kinda hard to tell, but it is a furry spider on a pull string.....it vibrates when you pull the string....or I should say did vibrate.  The guts on the inside are completely crushed.

Crushed by me stepping on it because he insists on bringing it to me and dropping it at my feet!   I know he does it to mock me....my cats are evil. :)

I really didn't think

this was real. 

Have to thank Patrick over at Raven's Borrow (a great blog that you should be checking out) for this one.

I really like I would die if someone made me eat one of these.

Crispy, crunchy, and finger-lickin' . . . SPIDER!


•Oven-baked and ready to eat - just remove the fangs first.

•A charming (and hairy) delicacy of Cambodia.

•Dare you to eat one!

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Almost everyone on planet Earth, one way or another, is scared of spiders. There are many ways to conquer arachnophobia (the fancy name for said fear of spiders). But there is one method that we like better than any other: eat your fear. Literally. Just get an Oven-Baked Tarantula and eat the thing that frightens you.


Right now you're wondering if this tarantula is real. Yup! Every Oven-Baked Tarantula is baked in its native Cambodia, and collected from monitored sources (to protect the tarantula's natural population). Each one is baked, crunchy, and just a little hairy - but ready to eat right out of the package. Just don't forget to remove the fangs first. Then, enjoy your yummy Cambodian delicacy - your very own Oven-Baked Tarantula. Sorry, Jimmy.

If you are insane and must have one....sorry, they are out of stock (darn, I am SOOO heartbroken.)
 
I know I owe you Spiderfest pictures.....I promise to work on them this weekend!

Since husband posted some

on our blog.  I should at least post one Spiderfest2010 picture before I head out of town.

I promise to go through and find that one awesome picture when I get back.  But for now. Thanks to everyone that helped creep the f&ck out of the frog queen.

I know where you live.....well, most of you anyway :D

Thanks everyone!  That was fun! In that scare the frog queen to death kinda way!

Monsters are real

This is a picture of a real life monster that was in my office.

As you can see.....I am lucky to be alive right now.

It all started with this Spiderfest 2010 thing.

I mean I told everyone to weather proof them, but it rained for two weeks straight before Halloween, so I did not put them up. That and I really did not want to get on a ladder in the rain because I am blessed with an abundance of clumsy.

It stopped raining on Halloween day! So I grab all the boxes and Muffet and head out to the willow tree to make the first ever group Halloween display!!

Imagine, if you will, the frog queen in her yard hanging these freakishly large spiders cursing at all of you under my breath. Well, actually it was out loud....I figured none of you could hear me :D

Perfect! I know have the scariest Halloween display in the whole world and think to myself....man I need to get new blog friends....:D

(Well, all your weather proofing was not in vein, at about 10:30 the flood from the sky started. Seriously it rained nonstop on Monday.....wow, moving back to California is not sounding so bad right now.)

Well it cleared up and by Wednesday I had Spider Dan, the genius with a web gun, come over for the final touches.

Then we start taking pictures. Husband is off to the left and Dan is off south of him really close to the bushes that border the house.

Evil bushes.....that unbeknownst to me is where the monsters live.

I am working on something for Dan so I ask him to come into my office to look at it before I print it. He sits in my chair and takes a look. He likes it, so he gets up out of my chair so I can sit back down to print it. He and husband head out of the office.

When finished I take it over out to him and he reminds me that I forgot one of the pieces. Back into the office I go.

....here is the scary part....if you don't like scary, close your eyes now.

I go to sit in my chair and I notice that Dor and Hal are sitting on my keyboard looking at my chair....I think it is odd, but cats are odd, so I really do not think anything of it and sit down.

Almost immediately Dor is trying to crawl up my arm to get on the chair.

Now....I am not completely clueless....in my mind, I know what is likely happening. There is a spider or bug on the chair. I see where she is looking, it is the side of the headrest. ((shudder))

Alright, lets lean over and take a look.

Bad idea!

HOLY *&^%$#* SHIT!

And as you guessed....this is where I lose my mind. I run for my life into the kitchen to tell husband that the biggest spider I have ever seen is in the office.

He starts to grab some paper towels.

....hum, I have seen her and that is NOT going to work.....my fault really, I always say that the spiders are "huge" and he comes back and tells me that it was "not that big"....

And because I love him.....I try to warn him one last time.....it is really a big spider....that is not going to work.

He rolls his eyes and he and Dan head into the office.

Me? I head for my cell to find my sister-in-laws phone number....she is a real estate agent....and I need to sell the house.

That is when I hear....from both of them.

OMG what the f*ck? That is ....

Now, I should say that Dan only likes spider slightly more than me....

I am usually happier when I get to say "I told you so"

So Dan stays in the office to take pictures and guard the spider while husband comes in the kitchen to get a glass, when we both decide....yes, we are going to need a bowl.

Husband tells both of us to calm down and get out of the office. So Dan and I are standing in the kitchen trying to figure out how the spider got there.....Dan thinks it was on him. He turns around and

Holy shit again!

There is a big web on the back of his jacket....I pull it off.....it does not want to come off....I think I (and maybe Dan) am going to faint.

Husband walks past us and out the door.....he comes in and says something about the spider being rather crab like.....

...thud....

So, I am thinking that I can now never use that office again. Husband is going to have to trade with me. ...his office is blue.....not my favorite color....but I could learn to like blue.

Spiders vs. Zombies

So the zombie dance team was here on Halloween and they were hungry from brains....spider brains!



Miss Muffet and her fan club



The spiders are free!

We finally have a dry day. Setting up for Spiderfest 2010!

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I am only procrastinating

because it is pouring rain outside.  It looks like Thursday will be a dry-like evening, so I will try to hang the monsters, I mean spiders, up for Spiderfest2010!

Thanks to everyone for their suggestions for curds & whey and dust.  I think I have it worked out and we will see how it all comes together.

I plan to have it all or mostly all finished by Saturday evening so we can snap some pictures for everyone....in between rainstorms :D
I am going to leave it up until the following weekend when we take the yard down (November 6th), so if anyone wants to get there spider to me late that is fine, and I am really hoping that we get a dry day in there so we can get some good pictures.

Updates to follow.

I could use some suggestions

for Little Miss Muffet

I am using a Bart skeleton in a terribly fluffy, frilly dress that will almost be as terrifying to me as the spiders....but that is not why I called you her today.

I have a wig, and I am going to put a ribbon and bow in her hair and sit her on the bench....so far I am good. We will also have "Spider Dan" web the holy living crap out of the tree and her!! 

I need to make a bowl of curds and whey - which sounds awfully appetizing....anyone have any suggestions...ones that don't involve great stuff :D  Just kidding, I am learning to love appreciate great stuff....slowly...very slowly. 

How about we look at it this way....why don't we make it a challenge to make it without great stuff....lets think outside the pumpkin for a few moments.

But if great stuff is the answer......I can deal with the sticky.....one last time :D

And I want to make her look dusty - like she has been there for a while.  I want to coat her, including her hair and the bench around her. 

Now I realize in the rain this is not going to be easy or possible. 

But let us dispel reality for a moment and pretend that it might be dry outside.....I was thinking Christmas tree flocking.....lightly sprayed and painted gray....or baby power (or a combination)......I be there is "dust" that I can buy at some effects store......I bet there is.....

Well, if anyone has any suggestions for those two effects, I would really appreciate it.

What better place

to feature the LOLspider and ROFLspider sites than here, and Spiderfest 2010.  If you have not seen these sites, check them out.....the spider in the pizza about made me physically ill.  But entertaining......in that creepy, OMG - that is terrifying and I better NEVER see that in person kinda way.

Frog Queen has to go now....I don't feel so well :(

BTW- going to work on Little Miss Muffet on Sunday and start hanging spiders next week. 

Oh, this is gonna be fun!

It is not just the basement cat

You have to worrry about. :) 

Have I mentioned today that I hate spiders?  Well, I do. 

((shudder))

Husband calls me and says

"You have a winner for the best packaging award for Spiderfest."  

To which I say, "Yeah, I know, Mr. Chicken drew a cool picture on his box....all kinds of awesome!"

He replies, "No, this is way better than that."

"Really?!  How could anything be way than that?"

"You are going to have to wait to see it when you get home."

"Can't you just tell me?"

"No, I really cannot, and I REALLY want to see your face when you open the box!"

.....hum.....this does not sound good.....not at all :) 

I was very curious and in a way a bit relieved that I was working really late that night....... :D

Cause I was scared....just a bit.

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I get home and husband tells me to open the box....I head for the closet to get a broom stick to open it with....I am not touching this thing.

"Nothing is going to jump out at you silly!  Just open it, you really are being a baby about these."

"Fine"

I open the first flap....nothing, just a little paint on the box....he must have reused a box, no worried.  No pops, thousands of baby spiders do not come running out of the box....okay, those were my worst thoughts...how bad can it be?

I open up the next flap and guess what was on it?

guess??

Yep, spiders!!!  He glued spiders to box flaps!

About gave the frog queen a heart attach!!

That was until I looked inside......there is a huge.......massive.....

really, it is frickin huge.......spider, and that is not the worst of it, no....not it is not.....it is all covered in, I can barely say it with out passing out...........spiderwebs!!!!

He webbed the spider in the box!

What kind of evil person does that to someone!!!?!?
Grim from Grim Hollow

:)

I LOVE it, it is really clever and cool!  I shriek!!!  This is awesome.

I am not sure if it is "better" packaging than Mr. Chicken.....just different.

Both really creative.

I took the spider out of the box and went

"Damn!  That is big spider - this has to be the biggest spider I have ever seen."

I wish that had been the case.....

.....really I do.....but then Stolloween's spider arrived a few days later.....oh lordy!  You people are trying to kill me, aren't you?!?!

Really, it is because

i am busy and NOT because the spiders creep me out that I have been slow at posting the pictures of the latest spider arrivals.....yeah, that is the excuse I am using.

Sounds even more believeable when I say it out loud!  Sweet!

Anyway - more spiders have arrived.  You are going to love these....and we have a winner - bet you didn't know there was a contest huh? Of the best packaging award....I know, how could anyone beat Mr. Chicken....but it has been done my friends.  Yes, yes it has and it is all kinds of awesome.

Fangs!!?!?!?!?!?

It had fangs!?!?!

((thud))

They came in pairs.....

again:)

The very nice and super talented Dave from the  http://joomla.asmarteru.biz/horton/ site has sent me not one....but two spiders.

I have to apologize to him that he sent me pictures of his work in progress before they shipped....but I got distracted with the whirlwind going on around here.

I love them.....red is my favorite color so this red and "yellow kneed" spider is just perfect.

Then you can imagine my delight when I opened the box to find two spiders and the other being a "pirate" spider....the crew loves it. I has great details, so I snapped a few pictures.

I so want to apologize to Dave for getting this on the site so late. Thank you man, they are both awesome!

When they come with names

it just makes me want to post a for sale sign in the yard and start packing!

Here is the latest spider on the way to the Davis Graveyard Spiderfest.

He has a name....of course he does, I guess fear would have a name like NOCTURNUS....Oh, this is going to creep me out.

Anyone want a house cheap....I will even through in a "graveyard"...but I have to warn you....it has a spider problem. :D

Thanks Scotty - really looking forward to seeing this one!  Check out his blog for more pictures.

Stop by and wish him well, sounds like he has the a cold like I had, I agree, it just killed my energy.  Get well soon!

You know, I have never met

Johnny Thunder....I visit his blog and really enjoy listening to him and Chris talk about horror movies on Hauntcast.....but never met him.  I want to now.....cause I owe him.  Not sure what I owe him....but I will think of something :)

He keeps sending me these spider stories.......why?!??!

The latest is that they discovered a new spider....that makes the largest webs in the world.  Thank goodness it did not take the "largest spiders in world" to make those webs....cause we might need big webs, but there is no need for bigger spiders!!! 

Fortunately I have no immediate plans to visit Magagascar. 

But actually, that is pretty cool!  I am talking about the web....the spider is not cool, not cool at all :D

Although the crew

who are very into steampunk stuff - I like it too - they just like it more.  Would have loved his original version....I am thrilled in that "I am really scared" kind of way to see the progress on the SpiderFEST 2010 offering from Stolloween.

Since I really hate pink....I think it is frickin' horrifying as is....painting it will only make it less creepy.  At least that is what I am thinking today.  I am staying with that thought....it keeps me from crying in fear :D

Head on over to his site to see more pictures.  Impressive.

....oh, you know what would make it scarier....pink glitter.....:D

It is awesome - thanks so much!!

So what do we have here

OMG - it is freakin' scary spider!!!

I would say I have had nightmares about spiders like this....but since my mind had not gone there yet...... I should say now I am going to have nightmares about spiders like this....as if "normal" spiders were not scary enough, I present you the offering from Grimvisions....

Yeah, I hate him now :D

Check out his website for more pictures.

I will be hiding in the closet.... :D

You guys can make me

these spiders all day long :D

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