My Type Of Scary...

It's Halloween and I have to be honest - I haven't figured out what to make art-wise for my Halloween yarn swap. I guess it's that overly critical Me who thinks that nothing is good enough to give away because it has to be...PERFECT! Oh well, I know I have to get crackin' in that department.

So, to help me feel inspired, I'm pulling out my list of favorite scary movies. As an aside I am reading The Historian, which is about vampires, most notably Count Dracula, but it's a bit meandering at the moment. But the fear is slowly building though - so I know it will be a wonderful scary read.

Here is a partial list of my favorite "horror" movies. Some of them I remember from the 80's when I was just in my teens, because my mom always would take us to see these movies with her. Some of them really resonated with me, and some...well, my mom wasn't into those slasher movies after all, thank goodness.

If you're curious, the links will take you to their trailers on Youtube.

The Orphanage
Pan's Labyrinth
The Others
28 Days Later
Ghost Story (1981) This had Fred Astaire, Douglas Fairbanks, and Melvyn Douglas
The Changeling (1980)
Dead and Buried (1981)
Shaun of the Dead (After all, their movie wallpaper isn't headlining this post by accident!)

I have been busy in the spinning department. I did finish the YarnZombie batt and am getting ready to give it a rinse. I also finished my shetland kettle dyed roving from Shunklies. I swear my index finger is getting callused just from drafting it! That, too, is getting ready for its soak and then I'll take a little break and continue with my wip's. The list is growing, and Christmas is fast approaching so I best be ready!

I also bought this a few minutes ago from Watermelon Yarns on Etsy. Maybe something I can use for my swap after all!

Sex And The City, Circa 1896

Okay, in honor of Valentine's Day, I give you some advice on how to snag your man, courtesy of the New York Herald, in 1896:

To Marriageable and Married Women -- After 1896 there will not be another leap year until 1904. THE SUNDAY HERALD offers a prize of $100 to the woman who sends to this office before February 28, 1896, the best answer to the question, "How far may a woman go to encourage a man to propose marriage?"

Here is a fine opportunity for the "twentieth century girl." A competent committee will decide the contest.

HER HEART MUST LEAD
So far as her heart bid her
-D. W., Orange, N.J.

LET HIM DO IT ALL.
Not at all. A man who is truly in love does not need encouragement, but on the contrary, will let no obstacle to keep him from declaring his love, and no girl of spirit would want a proposal from a man who had to be led on to it. So, let her keep her maidenly reserve and dignity, and the true man, worty of the girl I have in my mind, will propose in due time.
Mrs. J. J. B.
Hampton, Elizabeth City county, Va.

IF TOO BASHFUL SHE MIGHT WRITE
AT length 1896 has arrived in this land of liberty and leap year, and if nature teaches anything, it is observation and experience. A woman's instincts are greater and keener than the opposite sex. I should therefore confidingly tell the man of my choice that he might be cheerful and perhaps contented in single life, but never happy, which is unnatural.

There are many ways whereby a lady may venture further. If she dare not trust to words even in his presence, let her write the question on a slip of paper and request him laughingly with a true woman's heart to give a plain no or yes, and thus she might approach the subject by agreeable stages in a hundred ways, depending upon the circumstances.
Mrs. F. A. L.
Kingston, N.Y.

POSE AS A HOUSEWIFE
If a desirable result is to be achiever, she should send him an invitation to dine with her on a certain evening. The dinner should consist of everything which pleased his taste, cooked by her own hands, and served as homelike as possible. She should study his every wish and see there was nothing which he disliked. She should pose as a housewife, so that in imagination he would be drinking from that enchanted cup of happiness found only in domestic bliss. She should lead the conversation into the delights of having a happy home and loving husband who enjoys her company and is happy at home -- home, the only place where love and pure, true happiness is found.
Mrs. H. P.

OFFER TO SUPPORT HIM
A girl who has money and is in love with a man who has none may with perfect propriety - provided she knows he loves her enough to marry -- make him understand that she would support the house. Let her be frank and honest, and tell the man, "I know you love me and cannot marry me yet for a while; well, I'll settle the question by supporting the establishment till such time until you can do so yourself." If he looks hurt, let her say, "Well I'll advance you a certain sum, which you can repay me later on." NO many man would take offence at that.
Magdalena

Magdalena, I think you're way ahead of your time, girlfriend!

I love the posing as a housewife advice the best though...who woulda thunk???

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I'm no die-hard country music fan, but when you have:
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