The Countdown to Halloween: October Wishlist

Hey everyone! Welcome to my version of Countdown to Halloween! If you're an old friend, welcome back! If you're new, then welcome to my lair!

I always try to start off October with what I'd like to see/do/make/experience during the month. Here's my wishlist in a jumbled order:

• Have a Halloween party with some of my closest friends
• Marathon scary movies/tv shows/online videos
• Make delicious treats, especially if they deal with pumpkins or apples
• Carve pumpkins
• Complete the costumes I have planned for Ian and Evelyn
• Pick up some cute Halloween themed clothes for Evelyn and myself
• Consume classic Halloween cereals that they have put on the shelves at Target
• Ditto the comment above (except with the revived Jone's holiday Sodas)
• Make some creepy collages
• Raise money for Trick or Treat For UNICEF
• Read a bunch of creepy books
• Lose sleep over more CreepyPasta stories
• Make a gothic cape from scratch
• Purchase something Toxictoons related (if someone got me the limited edition Halloween Ouija board, I would love them forever!)
• Steal peoples' souls with analogue cameras
• Play creepy video games that I have been wanting to play for quite some time now
• Read more Junji Ito mangas (Uzumaki is my favorite horror manga series of all time)
• Play with and feed the stray black cat kittens that live just down the road =^.^=
• Send a Halloween care package to my brother, J.R.
• Make awesome Halloween crafts
• Decorate the living space to its fullest extent
• Celebrate the day Ian and I first declared that we were a couple (October 12th)  Completed 10/10/2013 (We celebrated early since Ian didn't know if he was going with ward to Stake Temple Day)

That's my wishlist in a nutshell. What's your wishlist for this month? Comment below! ^w^

The Countdown to Halloween: Trick or treating for UNICEF

(Posting this since some of the Fear Series posts are still in the works. The ones that are getting revamped will be lumped together.)

I'm glad that I was able to start up this tradition again. I participated in this since I was in the fourth grade, specifically in Girl Scouts. We were handed these boxes by my troop leader that we had to build, and then sent out in small groups to collect donations. Collecting donations for kids in need made me feel warm and fuzzy inside. I remember after we were done, we would go to a local corn maze, pick pumpkins, carve the pumpkins, and enjoy hot apple cider together. It was a blast, and I have always associated trick or treating for UNICEF with awesome memories. It was skipped last year due to focusing on graduating from Stevens-Henager College. With restarting this tradition, I hope to leave Evelyn was awesome memories that she'll cherish for years to come, along with teaching her good morals.

The cute kit that held everything for trick or treating for UNICEF. It, unfortunately, got here three days later than the Halloween party, so we weren't able to trick or treat as a group. To make things fair with the lack of boxes, they became first come, first serve. All of my friends that receive the boxes are either going trick or treating with us, or are throwing random events to promote raising money for UNICEF. I was even thinking about doing a bake sale for this.

The selection of boxes that UNICEF sent me. I asked for twenty, and they sent me twelve. They also sent me princess boxes when I requested the witch or pumpkin design instead. :/ So far, Steph and I have claimed the black cat boxes. Evelyn and Eli both claimed vampire boxes. There are only eight total boxes left that are up for grabs within my group of friends.