The front door on wheels that I helped build & paint so we could go Trick or Treating in the store!
I am having a blast planning and executing the Do-It HERSELF Workshops at my Home Depot, I just can't believe a month has gone by already!!! Anyway, this Thursday, October 17th from 6:30 - 8pm, we will be learning Front Entrance Updates (like how to install a lock and other door accessories), then we will use that door to Trick or Treat DIH-style throughout the store to gather the materials for a fun and easy art project to decorate your front door for the fall holiday season.I thought this would be a great way to get to know the store and have a little fun in the process.I mean, why should the kids have all the fun this Halloween?!?
In order to prepare enough art materials and food & beverage for everyone, please RSVP here (*making sure to sign up for the Seminole store for mine, otherwise you can attend your local Home Depot, although not every store is doing what I am doing...OK, most aren't.) We will also have giveaways, treats, and plenty of time for you to ask our experts about any of your current home improvement projects.Remember, this is YOUR workshop - it is absolutely FREE - so please join in on the fun!
I hope to see you there!
The Do-It HERSELF Workshop/Seminole: A FREE, FUN & FABULOUS Way to Home Improvement!
This month, we will be making these wood pumpkins, ghosts & Frankensteins out of 4x4s, all for FREE!
I can’t believe I did
another literary music video so soon after “The Raven is Hard to Handle” but I
just love Halloween too much to allow it to go by without giving it some
“Pumpkin Luvin.”Everybody close
to me knows I obsess around the holidays with anything pumpkin.I think I am up to twenty pumpkin food
items (my pumpkin tea & pumpkin sparkling non-alcoholic cider being my
favorites), so of course being a designer, I also had to sew a pumpkin purse,
then a matching hat, and just a week ago decided I needed a skirt too.
Wearing my Peanuts hat, wristlet purse, and skirt!
So once again the idea for
“It’s the Great Pumpkin, CHRIS Brown” came from something I made!But this time it also incorporated a
joke I had been performing that mashed up the Peanuts classic It’s a Great
Pumpkin, Charlie Brown with a book
called Hip Hop Chris Brown.Mashing up books has become my
signature at my literary comedy shows.I just love it!But
whenever I did the joke, I just knew it could be better with Brown’s music,
some of his crazy dance moves, and a whole lot of humor.
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown meets Hip Hop Chris Brown!
Choosing Chris Brown was a
risky move due to his ongoing controversy with Rhianna.As a comedian, there were so many jokes
I could have incorporated into this thing but as I have chosen to be a comedian
that lifts people up, not puts them down, I decided to focus on my love for the
Peanuts gang instead. Besides, taking two extremes and mashing them together to
promote books and having fun at the library (or at this case the pumpkin patch)
is kind of what made me want to do it in the first place.
Hip Hop Peanuts! I made Brody this Linus/Snoopy security blanket scarf to wear.
And Busta Rhymes is an
incredible rapper!The speed to
which he raps in that middle section is a true skill.The minute I heard that song, I thought jeez, I bet he reads
fast too!And that is exactly what
I tried to do.I read the entire
book really fast, cut it in two parts, and then put the tracks on top of one
another so what you hear is actually the entire story!
For Busta Rhymes, I had to wear something batty!
It’s no secret I love to
dance and dancing in a pumpkin patch was pretty cool.Boy, did I want to break dance and do flips like Chris Brown
but knowing me, I would probably trip on a pumpkin or land on a rake or
something, and well, I have Halloween parties to attend and candy to hand out
so maybe next year…when I have health insurance.
Dancing in a pumpkin patch? A must-do this Halloween!
I hope this Halloween when
you watch “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” on TV, you might think of me
and little Brody drinking pumpkin juice and dancing to a great story.Then maybe go to your library and sign
up for one of the programs there.Just be safe this Halloween.Dressing up as someone else is fun for one night but if you are really
lucky, you might find yourself dressing up all the time…and being IN those
stories!
"Story time with the Stand-Up Librarian" is always a good time!
Shooting the video with my brother. Thank you Tampa Bay Times!
Happy Halloween
everybody...especially to my friend, Brody!
