Grim Grinning Ghosts - Disney Lyric Photo Shoot

*Be on the lookout for a hidden Mickey head in each post this month, and please enjoy!*

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When crypt doors creak

And tombstones quake

*SLAM*

Spooks come out 

For a singing wake

Happy haunts materialize

And begin to vocalize

Grim grinning ghosts come out to socialize

Now don't close your eyes

And don't try to hide

Or a silly spook may sit by your side

Shrouded in 

the draft disguise

They pretend

To terrorize

*screams*

Grim grinning ghosts 

come out to socialize

As the moon climbs high 

o'er dead oak tree

Spooks arrive 

for the midnight spree

Creepy creeps with eerie eyes

Start to shriek and harmonize

Grim grinning ghosts come out to socialize

When you hear the knell of a requiem bell

Weird glows gleam 

From where spirits dwell

Restless bones etherealize 

Rise as spooks of every size

Grim grinning ghosts 

come out to socialize

Grim grinning ghosts come out

Grim grinning ghosts come out

To socialize!

"Hurry back.... hurry back!"

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Grim Grinning Ghosts

- The Mellomen

(Disney's Haunted Mansion)

Well... that was probably the most I've ever cried over a post lol!! 'XD

HAPPY HALLOWEEN, MY FRIENDS!!! I hope you had an absolutely splendid one and got lots of candy and complements on your costume (and if you don't celebrate, I hope you just had a super cool epic day still filled with candy because let's be real, candy should be an everyday thing ;) ) 

So, we come to the end of another Disney Villain Takeover Month. Not gonna lie friends, the end of this month ended up a HUGE mess lol!! 'XD there were actually supposed to be two more posts for this month, I had costumes made and dolls dressed, but the weather wouldn't cooperate so in the end I had to drop everything except for this one with hopes to shoot it today when it wouldn't be raining, then low and behold THE ONE DAY IT WASN'T SUPPOSED TO RAIN IT RAINED ALL DAY HDGVSHSKHBHSDFIHSHGD -_- Those outdoor pictures? Yeah, shot those in the rain. everything was pretty damp by the time I came in (prayers that my dolls' eyes don't rust and that I don't get sick from the emotional strain of the day would be greatly appreciated *-*). This whole post ended up being a mess too, I had really high hopes for this one, but it's so hard to translate something like this into a lyric shoot (and there was so much more story I wanted to tell and so many more easter eggs and ride scenes I wanted to add but the song is SO DANG SHORT :'(  ), and ultimately I can't help but feel disappointed in my work. Which really stinks because I LOVE the Haunted Mansion so SO much, I've wanted to make this post for years and I know y'all have been asking for it for a long time too. I'm really sorry if this ended up being a letdown, I didn't want to scrap it but I also recognize it's not great despite all my efforts. I'm hoping maybe I'll feel better about it later on like I did with Kidnap the Sandy Claws but idk, that's the hardest I think I've ever cried over a post and I'm just really bummed right now lol...

Anyway, like I said I'm a HUGE Haunted Mansion fan (I even have a full-size version of the 13-hour clock in my room, fun fact XD), and this post is actually inspired by the Haunted Mansion story I wrote when I was in my teens! A very large number of my stories have characters based on my dolls, my Haunted Manison story being one of them, and every now and then I name my dolls after characters from my stories! Stella (in the story) was based on Saige, which is also why my duplicate Saige (featured in this post) is named Stella lol, it seemed fitting (And if her outfit looks familiar, it's because I wrote the Haunted Mansion story around the same time as the Easter post I wrote over here, and I liked Saige's outfit so much at the time that I decided Stella was also going to wear it. So for authenticity's sake, she is wearing it here too XD) And Mitchel was my other main character in that one, his story counterpart was based on Carter, but when I received Mitchel (the doll) for Christmas awhile back I liked the name so much that I passed it on to him, even though he looks nothing like Carter and therefore looks nothing like Book Mitchel. Did that make any sense at all? Idk I'm so tired y'all XD Anyway, kinda trippy and random but I went to go see the newer Haunted Mansion movie in theaters with my friend a few years back and that movie has a SUPER similar plotline to my story?? Like the basic plot is almost exactly the same with the exception of The Bride being the main villain in mine instead of Hatbox (idk The Bride makes more sense to me as the main villain, especially since I think she was the one who separated Hatbox from his head if I remember correctly, but sure lol XD), idk it was honestly the craziest thing to watch. Most intense deja vu of my life for real XD I always kinda considered adapting the story to the blog since all the parts/characters are played by my dolls in my head anyway, but the story also gave me nightmares back when I was writing it (stopped writing it at one point because of that actually) so it didn't feel like the most family friendly thing to do XD Oh well, maybe someday I'll make it a bit more chill and post it as a series over here, let me know your thoughts on that...

SO!! How has your Halloween been? How was your week? My Halloween was spent entirely making this post lol!! So I don't have too much interesting stuff to share other than we made our own little pizzas for dinner.

Ah yes! Look at that delicious thing! It was so good, I haven't had pizza in forever because of my health issues so this was lovely :D

(AND I WILL NOT ACCEPT PINEAPPLE ON PIZZA SLANDER DON'T MAKE ME TELL SANTA ON YOU!!!)

As far as my week, it's been pretty good! I'm officially back to dance now which is AMAZING!! I got my first dance for our upcoming Hearts on Pointe show choregraphed in like an hour LOLLL XD It's to Jingle Bell Rock and I think it's going to be a really fun one! :D I'll be performing for the first time in over a year (probably close to two now actually *-*) in December as well so that's kinda insane.

We also had a going away party for one of my friends from my Bible study group on Thursday (Mr. Game and Fish who I told y'all about in the Cecile post awhile back), which was really sad but we all had such a blast and I think it was a really nice sendoff for him which was so wonderful. Plus, I won a round of Jackbox, so just thought you all should know that LOLLL XD

Well, I should wrap it up so this actually gets posted on Halloween lol 'XD I hope you guys enjoyed Disney Villain Takeover this year!! I always look forward to it and put so much heart and soul into all of it to try to make it the best it can be, so even though it went kinda off the rails at the end I hope it brightened your day and I can't wait for the next one!! :D

In the meantime, I'll see you in November with some fun things, I hope life until then is absolutely epic for you!! Definitely let me know in the comments what you went as for Halloween, what your favorite Villain Takeover post has been, and what the first Christmas movie you're going to watch is now that it's officially Christmas LOLLLL XD I love you all so much, like seriously you guys are the best!! I'm going to try to catch up on comments tomorrow now that I'm a bit freer on time lol (I was working so dang hard on all the posts y'all lol XD). God bless and I hope you have an amazing day <3

-Katie :)

P.S. I have two easter eggs in particular that I really love and was super excited about, so let me know if you spot them!! :D

P.S (the Sequel). Did you know one of the singers of this song is the same guy who sings You're a Mean on Mr. Grinch?!? I didn't, I really thought it was Boris Karlof (the Grinch narrator) Singing it 'XD Okay bye!!