Katie Pumpkinhead’s Pumpkin Patch

Since last Saturday was World Doll Day, it got me thinking. If I’m “known” for anything at all around social media, it’s most likely my collection of Halloween art dolls. Photographing and sharing my dolls is a huge part of my life, and honestly, one of the biggest factors that I believe makes me, me.  Since I get a lot of questions and compliments about my collection and hobbies relating to it, I thought it would be fun to give a bit of backstory, and also share some of my favorite artists. I’ve really always been a doll person. As a child who was often alone with my imagination, I spent a lot of my time creating stories for my Barbies and other dolls. Sometimes they acted as friends, other times they acted as characters, but no doll was ever without a name and some sort of backstory. I didn’t understand girls who didn’t play with dolls. The idea was simply unthinkable to me.  My love for dolls didn’t go away when it was “supposed” to. In fact, my father would get annoyed whe...

It came to my attention that today is a very important day in spooky, horror history. It is perhaps an even more important day in my own personal spooky history. Thirty-one years ago today, Tales From The Crypt premiered. And if I had to make a list of the horror that has impacted me the most, Tales From The Crypt would likely be at the very top. I was two years old at the time it premiered. You’re probably wondering how a two-year-old could possibly have had any interest in a horror anthology series, but I was already a huge Beetlejuice fan, for what it’s worth. I don’t remember how, exactly, I even learned about the existence of Tales From The Crypt, but once I got a glimpse of it, I was hooked. The  opening sequence  still gives me goosebumps. My parents, of course, didn’t allow me to watch the full episodes until I was much older, but I lived for the Crypt Keeper’s introductions. He may have actually been the first fictional character that I developed a deep a...