Tis the festive season my friends, and
that means like most of us, it is the busy, busy, busy time of the
year for me. Most of that I brought on myself in making Christmas
gifts, baking, baking, and doing yet more baking, and did I mention
there's more baking yet to come? Pizzelles, people, pizzelles.
Some of my efforts, however, can be
found at HorrorAddicts.net, as I've taken my crafting skills from
Halloween into the merriment with some kind of pseudo Victorian
ensemble featuring an outrageously tacky bonnet, shiny red cape, and
a goofy little muff made with the leftovers. Oh, there's a bell
brooch, too, so I can jingle all the way. What I thought was going to
be a day's worth of hot glue and done turned out to be a quadruple
fold project that took more than a week. You can head over to our
Horror Addicts Facebook Group and discuss how I rolled with the
sewing punches and made my lemons into some spicy ye olde wassail or
you can laugh at my video of the glue gun drama. Whenever I actually
get to finishing the video and putting it on Youtube, that is. It should
have been today!
Naturally, this means a lot less of
priority number one aka writing has gotten done this month. For me the
point of documenting projects and making crafts, videos, audio, and
all the other bells and whistles is to notify each audience of the
writing behind it – the how to article, reviews, and essays. So,
it's tough to balance doing everything in December when all the happy
festivities intervene moreso than the rest of the year when real life
obligations always push the pen and paper to the back burner. My
fellow authors know exactly what I mean! Will the craziness chill by
time we get to the next Horror Addicts.net Online Writers Conference
in February 2020? I hope so.
Fortunately, for those two of you who
have missed my literary events, author panels, and speaking
engagements, I will be taking part in A Christmas Carol reading
alongside a Carol Hymn Sing at the FUMC Hammonton! If you are looking
to belt some old time Christmas tunes or are just local Dickensian
trash like me, feel free to join us 6 p.m. Sunday December 15. My
spats, pocket watch, and top hat are ready!
"Wake Me on Christmas Morning."