Month: October 2025

Good morning readers! I hope everyone had a great weekend and a giid kickstart to their week. I think I can finally say I’m on the mend, I hope. It feels like when I feel like myself again, a wave of the gross comes back, but I’m in my writing spot before I have to get on with the grind and the air is crisp. Well, as crisp as Florida gets before we are blasted by the humidity and heat from all of our sins and transgressions. But on Sunday I visited that farmer’s market I briefly mentioned on my last post, I figured some sunshine would help and a change of scenery, so let’s brew about it!

Fox Squirrel Corn Maze is not even twenty minutes away from me, just in a more rural part of Plant City( obviously). It was a gorgeous secluded spot way off from the main road under a canopy of large chunky trees. It was like a Renaissance fair, just without the knights, elves and fire breathers. They had a few structures that were built for year round use including the main one being a barn. The barn itself housed trinkets to buy, a shop of fresh cut flowers and 2 spots to get frozen and ice drinks as well as sweets.

My wallet didn’t make it out of there alive, I ended buying spicy pickles from The Pickle Patch, Maple Bacon jelly from Fox Squirrel Corn Maze itself, and a top from Sweet Roots Apparel. I’m super excited with all my goodies and finished the day with a frozen apple cider bedecked with a apple cider donut. Although feeling out of sorts I’m glad I went and I’m keen to find more hidden gems around me. Have you gone through a corn maze, if so did you in the dark? Have you ever been to a farmers market and gone on a tractor pulled hayride?

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Good morning readers! I know it’s been over two weeks but regretably I’ve been sick and family has been in out of the house visiting like revolving doors. NOT that I’m complaining, but it feels like October has slipped through the fingers like water. On top of that, sadly, I didn’t make the cut during the quarter finalists round of Face Of Halloween competition, but what does that mean next for Brewfeeds? Let’s brew about it!!!

Like I was saying, I didn’t make the cut to the Face Of Halloween, it’s disappointing but a learning experience. I hope whoever wins enjoys the time they get to spend with Kane Hodder, Matthew Lillard, and Jamie Lee Curtis, the photo shoot, the ghost investigation with Mr. Hodder and the 13 grand! BUT what I’ve learned from all of this is that social media and exposure is a MUST for this competition. Having more followers, helps that vote count. The good that comes from the experience is that I’ve gained followers on Facebook, which is wonderful to see. Here’s my plan for next year, gain more exposure and hopefully when the competition arrives in 2026 I’ll be going in guns blazing.

So, what does that mean for BrewFeeds NOW? There’s a haunted B and B not too far from where I live. Welcome To Derry, starts today, and I can’t wait to watch it! I love Steven King so I’m excited to see what they do with the prequel of It. I’m almost done with the tombstone I’ve been working on, so more photos to follow. There is a farmer’s market nearby that could be interesting to get into today. What have you been up to this weekend? Are you excited for Halloween? I definitely am, and YES the neighbors have finally put up their Halloween decorations.

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Good morning readers! It has been a long ride on this competition journey, like I said previously I never been in a competition that goes on this long nor made it this far. However, it is looking bleak, let’s brew about it!

So, for starters, I made it to the Quarter Finals! Such a big step, each time the cut has happened I’m anxious and excited. But this go around, I’m more nervous than excited, the competition is getting harder, which is to be expected. I’m with 13 NEW people I haven’t seen, so the group I was in has been eliminated.

Duh right? But there’s a catch, from each group that made it to 2nd place got to have a lightening round. So, when the voting cut last Thursday, October 2, they were given a 2nd chance by being placed in groups to battle it out to be number 1 through the weekend.

The next cut isn’t until Thursday the 16th, 7pm PDT. Which gives a LOT of time for things to change, but what can be done to ramp up the votes? Social media, videos on Youtube? I know the competition to some headline via radio state or news station and provided templates. But I think the bigger the following you have the more exposure and votes you will get from all of the posting, reels, videos etc that you put the word out. I may try our local news station here in Tampa. I feel like I’m grasping straws.

BUT! I’m not giving up, going to give this competition all I’ve got. The link to vote for me is at the bottom, please help me get to the next quarter, I’d love to be able to meet Mattew Lillard, Kane Hodder, and Jamie Lee Curtis, to bring exclusive material for you guys! How cool would that be?

https://faceofhalloween.org/2025/nyssa-mcelfresh

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Good evening readers! Today just FLEW by I don’t know about you. It’s been a while ride in this competition and I hope you guys aren’t tired of me talking about it. But I’m excited, I never been a part of something so big, but tonight is the cut before the quarterly, let’s brew about it!

As the minutes wound down, I was neck and neck with a fellow contestant and as the seconds ticked away a thought crossed my mind, what if someone sends a vote to her before the last second and I’m one or more less?! It’s been very anxious lately about it. To me if I didn’t talk about it so much or wasn’t thinking about it so much and doing whatever I can to keep the publics eye on me then it wouldn’t mean anything to me. In the end end though as the seconds evaporated I was met with the results not there and that I had to wait as they counted the votes!!!

I about melted into nothing, when I seen “Results Pending,” how long will it BE pending is it an hour? Two hours or next morning?! I’m not sure if I will be able to sleep. However on the page of ” Results Pending,” there is a video of all three celebrities, Kane Hodder, Matthew Lillard and of course Jamie Lee Curtis thanking the contestants for supporting the Starlight Children’s Foundation, telling us they’re counting the votes and they will be right back!

I’m practically toe tapping, I want to know now, which is very Veruca Salt of me, but man am I curious if I made it and if I did what will the next group look like? This competition has been going on for over a month and I have never been in anything this competitive, ever. So although it’s long I’m constantly thinking of what I can do in between the cuts to keep myself in the public eye. What are your thoughts? What would you do? What do you think will happen next to raise the bar?

While I debate all of the possibilities of what could and what will be, I’ll be working on the tombstone over the weekend. Additionally, I’ll be listening to The Housemaid by Freida McFadden, there’s a movie about the first book coming out this year and it looks, thrilling. I’ve read the first book, it had me on edge and guessing, currently listening to the second book, definite a must read or listen.

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Good evening readers, I hope you had a great week! It’s been a long and crazy ride during this competition and the next cut is vicious, let’s brew about it!

SO, the next cut is this Thursday October 2 and although there’s 5 of us only one of us can make it in our group and NUMBER ONE at that. It is the quarterly though so that means there’s 4 more rounds to duke it out with other contestants. Getting ever nervous and curious I took to Youtube to see if or what other contestants are saying.

Low and behold I found a previous contestant from 2024 with the channel called Horror Realm whom stated that there was 2 thousand plus that had enjoined during the competition last year. That’s a lot of people, and he basically broke it down for each round and how much money you’d have to spend in order to keep your head above water. It honestly made me nervous, like do I deserve to be here? Can I even make it to this last round?

The grand prizes are amazing, getting the exposure alone not only for the BrewFeeds channel but for other ideas that have been circling my head would BE THE BEST kickstarter, plus the money would back it. A girl, or ghoul can dream, right? But getting votes are super vital and I’m not sure where I rank once or IF I’m thrown in the mix after this next cut. Seems, like a lot of people, but this girl isn’t going to throw in the towel even though the imposter syndrome is ever mashing it’s jaws at me.

So, here’s hoping I make it to the next round, gotta regroup and definitely put out more reels, Click the link below and help this ghoul make it to the final cut!

https://faceofhalloween.org/2025/nyssa-mcelfresh

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