Awesome Weekend of Horrors

So I attended my first Weekend of Horrors which was at Chicago this past weekend.  It was a tad smaller than what I had origonally expected but I heard the numbers were down from last years.  Hey...not many ppl have the money to spend right now with everyhing going on.  But anyways...I met so many ppl that taught me so much.  I networked with some great ppl and I can't wait to meet up with them all again.  I thought I was going to be nervous meeting all the ppl I watched while I grew up and surprisingly enough I wasn't at all.  I wasn't even when Robert Englund himself sat next to me at my table and spoke with me a few mins.  It was a awesome moment.  Betsy Palmer was a riot.  I love that lady to death.  She is such a sweet heart.  I was happy to also meet Marcus Koch who I have spoke with several times through myspace.  Him and the ppl he films with are such great ppl.  I hope to meet them all again.  Some new ppl including Ryan Nicholson and Chris Patrick were way cool.  They taught me some awesome tricks that I can't wait to try out.  You can never know enough in this business about what you specialize in.  The more you know the farther you'll go.   I can't believe how many ppl I met while I was there and how many cool new friends I made.  I hope to keep in touch with you all.  Hopefully I will see you all soon.  I want to try and make it to the LA one but we will have to see.  If you are going to the LA one please let me know.  I would love to meet whoever goes.  You can never know too many ppl.  I am adding a new album with some pics from WoH but here is a taste of some. 

Ted Geoghegan and Marcus Koch doing a panel for Sweatshop.  Also check out 100 Tears.  They are both on my top friends. 

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Awesome guys Ryan Nicholson and Nathan Witte that did a panel for Gutterballs.  Looks way cool and has some awesome death scenes. 

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Neil Marshall, director for Doomsday and The Decent, did a panel.  He is a awesome guy.

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My fav lil lady ever!! Betsy Palmer!  She is such a sweetheart.  Also pictured is Mari.

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I can't WAIT to watch The Ruins! Carter Smith is way cool.  Told me about some of the makeups Shane Thomas did for the film.  Even got to watch a special clip they previewed.  Lets just say it made me even more excited for the film.

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Freddy himself was even there.  Robert Englund is such a cool guy.  As many films as he has done it doesn't seem like the fame has went to his head.  He was so awesome to talk to.  Very funny guy!

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For more pics check out my Album for WoH!!!!!!

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Weekend of Horrors Chicago!!
Current mood: giddy

Hey everyone...so I got a ticket to go to Weekend of Horrors in Chicago!!!! I am so excited!  If there is anyone from my friends list that is going let me know cuz I will be there the whole weekend.  I can't wait!  So please if you are going message me and maybe we can find the time to chat.  I would love to meet you all.  On another side note...if you know of any films going on that need makeup help in the Chicago area from now until May I would love to hear about them.  I am up here for a while and would love to network with some film makers or get a chance to work on something.  Hope to hear from you guys out there!!  See you at WoH!!

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upcoming profile news
Current mood: excited

Alright guys...I know I have slacked from my myspace lately and I apologize.  This next coming week I will be working on adding new pics and redoing my profile.  I hope you all enjoy it so Please come and check things out.  Also I am going to start writing more blogs cuz I know it has been to long since I last wrote one. I hope you guys like what is in store.  See you Ghouls later!!

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Busy lol
Current mood: tired

Ok ok I know it has been like FOREVER since I wrote a Blog so I thought you all deserved to know what is going on.  Things are going well.  I have a few feature films coming up and I am very excited for them.  I am even Key FX on one which makes me very excited.  There is tons to do on it and I can't wait to start filming in June.  The film is called Shadowland and they are on my top friends list.  The director's name is Wyatt Weed and I couldn't have asked for a better person to learn from for my first full time on set feature.  This is also the first film that I would have gotten paid for other than kit fees.  So you can see what I am very excited to start filming.  I can't exactly tell you much about it but you will see pics when I can release them and a trailer when one comes out.  Also I am involved in another film called Miller's Tale.  I am doing FX on it as well so I am pretty excited about it too.  The other I am not certain I am involved with yet but there will be more news on that later. 

So things are going good but REALLY busy.  I have a TON of responsibility on Shadowland and have already learned a lot and filming hasn't even started yet.  I have been happy about even getting anything here at home.  I didn't think I would get even one single film so it is great.  So once these get done I don't know whats next.  I am just taking things slow and will worry about that when it comes. 

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Home again, Home again
Current mood: bored

Hey!! Well everyone who knows me in RL knows that I just headed back home from the great life in FL.  I have been home almost a week now and it is really weird already.  I arrived at 5:30 am on Sat. and we drove though town and I was like "where are all the lights?"  It was really crazy.  Nothing changed since I was gone...and I mean nothing.  So I am already bored.  I haven't done much but then again there isn't much to do here.  Things are good though.  I have some demos at the high school lined out and a demo with some boy scouts..yeah crazy but hey I can put it on my resume.  I have many things I can work on so I think I am just going to throw myself into working until my trip in Dec.  That is really all I can do...haha  Well I hope to tell you more when something interesting happens but hey who knows when that will be...haha

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Short film

Hey everyone!  I started a short film called "Garage Sale" today.  I had soooo much fun I can't even explain.  It was freakin hilarious and the people are great.  I can't wait to go back next weekend to do even more.  Today was a light makeup day but next weekend is going to be a lot more to do.  I can't wait!!

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Latest projects
Current mood: accomplished

Hey everyone...here are a couple things I have been working on.  One is a new possitive mold and the other is a middle-age sculpture.  The detail is hard to see in the picture so I am going to try to get another one that is better.  I will post it if I get a good one.  Also they are not the same possitive.  There will be a new scupture pic coming soon that I am working on it right now.  Hope you all like it and tell me what you think! 

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Practice makes perfect
Current mood: excited

Tomorrow I am going to practice some more with my airbrush.  I want to keep working with it so I can get a lot more familar with it than what I am.  I know how to use it...it is just I want to feel more confident with it.  So lots of practice is headed my way.  Also I have to find time to work on my current prosthetic.  I should be done before to long and I will post the pictures. 

Also I am going to add pics of a new mold I did.  There will be more pics of things soon.  I can't wait to work on more.  I am sooo excited.  Oh also I have two new things to add to my resume.  One being a Lab Assistant at Joe Blasco Makeup Center East and a new film I am going to be working on for a couple days.  So happy about that. 

Also I found out that I will be leaving in the begining of Dec. for the LA area.  I don't know the exact date yet but I will keep everyone posted.  I have some places to visit out there so I am really excited about that.  I can't wait to work more.  I love this soooo much! 

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Lets try this again
Current mood: hopeful

Ok so this is driving me crazy.  I went to post this nice LONG blog and guess what...server error.  I always copy before I send something but when I do the blogs it won't let me copy it :(  Oh well I guess.  I will just write a short version of what I was going to do before. 

Ok I just realized this week that I dont' have much time before I go back home.  I head home at the end of this month.  There is still so much I want to do here and I can't believe it is almost time to leave.  It has went by so fast that I can't even realize I have been here for 6 months.  But I guess time flys when you are having fun.  This has been the best experience of my life. 

I must say today I turned down my first job.  In the beginning of Aug. I went to an interview to do Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Orlando.  I really only went to get practice at an interview because I knew I wasn't going to be here for Oct.  Well time went by and I started to like the idea but I also missed home.  I hadn't been at all since I have moved here.  This whole time it has been a toss up of what I wanted to do.  I finially decided here lately not to and also because they called me just today and I have to be out of my appartment by Oct. 1st.  I had to give a notice of when I was leaving.  But here lately I have just got this "gut feeling"...which I get a lot...that I need to go to LA.  That is the reason I will be heading out there this fallish sometime.  The date hasn't been decided yet.  The last time I got a gut feeling I ended up here in FL attending Makeup school.

I was working a 9-5 job at a craft store called Hobbly Lobby.  I realized that I can't do this my entire life...day in and day out.  I didn't want to do framing all my life.  So I went to my second home...the Barnes and Noble...lol or as Dave would say Fire Kindling...he don't like to read...Well I headed to the mag section and found a makeup artist mag.  I got really excited and ended up having that gut feeling again.  I searched around and found a past issue which was the feature of Narnia/KNB and how to choose a school.  I was so excited that that night I ended up reading them both front to back.  Since I was a small girl I dreamed of doing makeup for movies.  Movies was always my family's and my thing.  We would rent 4-5 movies and watch them during the weekend.  There isn't much to do in a small farm town...lol.  And it was uncommon there to dream of makeup.  No one around there had ever heard of leaving and doing it for movies.  I knew one day I had to.  Once I saw the #57 mag, which was odd for me to find it since they only come out ever 2 months, I knew for some reason it was there waiting for me to find it.  I was so excited that I called Joe Blasco Makeup center and I got paperwork sent to me.  Not long after my family and I drove the lovely 16 hour drive to visit the school.  It was amazing...like a dream really.  That I was in a place that taught my dream career.  We all fell in love with it and drove back home.  Within the next couple of weeks I got accepted and I packed my bags.  We yet again headed down there to drop me off.  It was the first time I ever left home...let alone my family.  I have never been this far from them in my life.  But I do have to say that this was the best thing I have ever done.  I can't imagine it going any other way.  So here I am 6 months later...graduated from all the courses...and following that same "gut feeling" that got me here to finially make a trip to LA.  I have never been before but I had never been in Orlando before this either.  That is why I turned down the job the most I think.  That for some reason I am being pulled there like I was pulled here.  Who knows what going out there may bring me but I am ready to try.  If I fail...all I have to do is try again.  I will keep doing it until I make it.  I can't just give up what I love to do the most.  Now that I finially have it I don't wanna let it go...so I am taking a chance and a risk to do what I feel is right.  Only god knows what will happen now....

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Can't sleep
Current mood: awake

Ok so here I am still awake.  I have to get up early and yet here I sit messing with this crazy thing they call the internet.  I don't know...for some reason my mind just won't let me rest tonight.  I know I will be paying for it later though.  Have you ever had so much going on in your mind that it just won't let you do anything?  I tried reading some but I just couldn't focus.  So I hopped on here and searched some prices of Plane and train tickets to LA.  The plane tickets aren't as bad as what I thought they would be.  I still have to decide though if I want a one way or two.  The only prob with returning is what if I am not sure of the date of return.  Who knows what will happen out there and I don't want to lose that money.  I just don't know what to decide on yet but I do have a while.  I hope I figure it out soon before the prices go up.  I couldn't get a definate price from the train.  It kept giving me the run around...maybe I will just call when the time is right.  I guess those were just a few things that I have been thinking about. 

Next in line is my return home at the end of this month.  I feel I am ready for it but I am afraid or well I know that when I get there I am going to feel out of place yet again.  I never felt in place in that small town besides my family and few close friends I do have but now I have changed a lot.  I will have been gone for 6 months and many parts of my life have changed.  When I go home everyone is going to be talking about situations that I wasn't there for.  I am going to feel left out again but then again it could be a good thing.  It will push me to see why I left in the first place.  It will make me want to strive for more again.  I mean don't get me wrong but I give my best at what I do and then some.  Maybe going home will give me the push to make the move to LA easier.  I am going to miss my David, family, and friends but it is what I must do to keep this career going.  My dream is very important to me and they all know and understand that.  I want to make a better future for my family and life.  I can't let this go without giving it my all.  If I fail the first time all I have to do is try again until it works.  I love this to much.  For the first time, I am actually happy with what I do.  Doing just odd end jobs never made me happy.  I know I will have to have a job in LA while my makeup career kicks off but that is the price I have to pay.  Even if I am unhappy with that job I know that it is taking me to my dream job in a way.  I really want to be successful in this.  I hope one day I am. 

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