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Good evening readers, I hope everyone had a fantastic day. I’ve been a ball of nerves about the cut in the Face of Halloween competition all day. But the time has arrived and the votes are in, let’s brew about it!!!

I made it to the next round! Let’s Tarantino this, in the start of the competition there were 71 or 72 of us trying to make it to the top 20 in OUR group. I thought okay, this isn’t so bad and then, I noticed there is more than JUST the group I’m in. Currently, I’m in the top 15 of my group and the next cut is in 6 days down to 10 people. I’m guessing the next cut might be 5 people before we all pushed into one BIG group; but I could be wrong.

So far, after the cut was made, no new videos or messages have been put out. I’m extremely excited and nervous as each cut is being made. Will I win? Will it be an influencer that takes the mantle as the Face of Halloween? Best believe I’ll be making a video here soon to ask for more votes. Here’s the link to my profile please vote for me, I’d like to see this to the very end. Remember 1 vote resets after 24 hours and if you do more than 1 vote just know it’s for a great cause.

What are your thoughts? Do you think after the cut to ten that it’ll be 5? Or do you think they’ll take us last ten and blend us together? The circle is ever shrinking down. I’ll keep you posted.

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

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Good evening readers! I hope your week is going well, I’ve been on edge as the days and hours tick by for the next cut in the Face of Halloween competition. If it was wasn’t for working I think I’d be a mess, but there are the other hours of time I needed to fill so I’ve been filling my time decorating and creating for Halloween, let’s brew about it!

So, I’m anxious about the competition, so what better way to spend the weekends and time after work keeping my mind busy (when I’m not posting on social media about the event!) The inside of the house is in full swing Halloween but I held off on decorating the outside. Trust me I want to turn the outside into a murder scene but I don’t want to be the first person in neighborhood to do so. So, I’m wrestling with the fuck it let my freak flag fly and the DON”T SCARE THE NEIGHBORS!! Plus, what if I put mine out and their’s is WAY cooler?!

Thus, with the fear and doubt of the front yard not looking cool, I decided to make some of my own decorations, tombstones to be exact. I figured this will keep my mind preoccupied, on both the competition AND the humbugs in my neighborhood front. I never really LOVED the tombstones you could get at the store, either you pay an arm and a leg or you get cheap flimsy fly away ones. I watched a few YouTube videos and stumbled on a dynamic couple, James and Jay, they end up making a couple of tombstones out of insulation foam board. They’ve listed the tools and materials they used in their video, I’ve put the link to their video in this post. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEpFd1oqwDA

Just a heads up the 2inch insulation foam board is HARD to find, I had to get a different brand. ( I used PolyPro, and the boards are 8 ft long, so be prepared to have a box cutter to cut them down to fit in your car!). SO far, I have shaped out my tombstone, next step is making the stencil. BUT tomorrow is the next cut and today all votes are worth double so please vote for me, and KNOW when you vote your helping a great cause. https://faceofhalloween.org/2025/nyssa-mcelfresh

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Good evening readers! I hope your week has been treating you well. Today is the day that the Face Of Halloween does their first cut and I’ve been a ball of nerves all day. But as of 7 pm PDT or for me 10 pm EST it’s official and the votes are in! Let’s brew about it!

I MADE IT!!! The first cut has been made and I’m in the running still to be the Face Of Halloween 2025. I still don’t have any clue FOR SURE if there are other groups that will converge or if its just us 20 contestants. But if there is more than, I better stay on my toes. The next cut is September the 11th at 7pm PDT. So, best believe around the clock posts on social media will be made to keep myself relevant as possible. However, besides the thrill of competition and the grand prizes what’s the true story or core behind this competition? The Starlight Children’s Foundation, all the proceeds go to this wonderful organization.

Starlight Children’s Foundation has been helping hospitalized children since 1982. The donations help to provide more comfortable and fun hospital gowns. I know, the word, fun, seems out of place in conjunction with hospital gown, but if your hospitalized you’re already miserable so why not have something that is a little bit more fun and comfortable while feeling your worst. They also provide handheld games and areas for kiddos to meet with other kids AND toys. Kids are tiny humans in bodies meant to be in motion, not bedridden and miserable in a unfamiliar place. I know personally I would miss feeling normal, home and my family, but having a caring foundation like Starlight Children’s Foundation would be a shining light in the surrounding darkness.

I can’t put into words how lucky it feels to be a part of something greater and can only hope that I make it to the final round to meet these little warriors. Please, help me win by clicking on the link below, every vote counts and for those that have I thank you and for those that haven’t don’t hesitate to vote and donate today!

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

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Good evening readers! I hope you are just as excited about Halloween as I am. I keep eyeing my neighborhood in hopes to put up my outside decorations, the inside is a totally different matter and my Amazon cart is currently loaded and ready to rock (come on PAYDAY!!!). But I did say I’d give you guys an update on the competition for the Face Of Halloween 2025!!! Let’s brew about it!

I’m unsure if I’m allowed to vocalize the murder story, but I will say it kind of reminds me of one of the horror movies back in the 90s and so far no one knows WHOM is behind it. But I DO know when the first cut occurs, it’s September 4th 7pm PDT. I constantly post on social media and I’ve been poking at co-workers to get their vote. Secondly, there’s more than 1 group to this contest. But how many groups are there?!! The suspense is killing me, but I love the interviews from the celebrities and the story that is unraveling.

I’m both excited and nervous, but if it wasn’t worth it then I wouldn’t be chewing through my fingernails. It would be outta of this world to meet Jamie Lee Curtis, Kane Hodder, and Matthew Lillard! I just hope that if I do that I don’t fan girl or 100 yard stare at them, but rather have the pizazz and moxie when the time comes.

Here’s my link so you can vote for me! Every 1 one you make resets every 24 hours! So keep me in your ghoulish thoughts!

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

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Good even readers, I have tonight’s dark story, Weapons under my belt. I mentioned talking about some movie bangers coming out and this one I feel is underrated. Weapons, was eery and I feel diabolical. Grab your favorite lickies and chewies people, and let’s brew about it!

The story takes place in a quaint town with a new teacher, where every single kid, but one comes to class. Of course the parents are distraught, their child is gone, and at the town hall meeting the parents are looking for a boogie man to point the blame. In my head, The kid was under YOUR care when they left the house, isn’t it your fault? Or someone else’s fault not the teacher showing up to work to teach your child? It’s not like she’s the Pied piper and stole your children, but that’s what they do. No one really knows this new lady and so it MUST BE her.

I loved that Julia Garner’s character, Justine Gandy, is gritty and not a goody two-shoed Disney Princess type. She’s loud, she’s angry and she’s tired of being treated like a villain and an outcast. However, her quest to find out how her remaining student is a flop and if it wasn’t for a one parent I don’t think they’d come to the conclusion that it is stemming from the remaining student.

This is where I find the movie cruel, and perfectly so, Alex, the child remaining, is under the rule of his aunt whom, has vegetated his parents using them as weapons to sway his actions AND has the missing children. With Julia’s character and the help of Josh Brolin’s chacter, Archer, the bring down the evil auntie with the help of Alex.

It doesn’t necessarily tie up with everyone home safe and normal but at least the wicked conceited bitch of an aunt bites it. However, Weapons, is a great flick to watch and make you jump, have you seen it? If you haven’t, why not?

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Good evening readers! I hope you had a great weekend. I know I normally don’t post on Mondays, but I gotta spill the beans. I was selected to be in the 2025 Face Of Halloween Competition last night. However, today is the official day that the polls have been opened!!! Let’s brew about it!

So, I seen these posts on my Facebook feed with Jamie Lee Curtis, talking about a competition for the face Of Halloween, and I got excited. I’m over here tapping my toes and fingers for Halloween to get here and I wondered, what is this all about? Started to get that itchy feeling that the registering opportunity was shrinking, so Friday night I put my name in the pot. I was super nervous, but if I wasn’t then, it wasn’t important / exciting, right? Sunday night I got the email that I was selected! As soon as I could I went to all of Brewfeeds social media and shouted to the world. This was something I was looking for, since The Stanley Hotel.

So what is the prize for winning Face of Halloween? Well, it’s a banger, You get to meet Jamie Lee Curtis, Kane Hodder and Matthew Lilliard, a photoshoot with Rue Morgue Magazine and a spooky 13 grand. I love that each meet with each person is unique with Jamie Lee Curtis it is about the foundation, Starlight Children’s Foundation. Matthew Lillard is a meet and greet( I have so many questions) and Kane Hodder you get to do a paranormal investigation. I’m over the moon!!! I love that it’s about helping children although while having fun trying to make it out alive!

The first cut is September 4th, so, with that being said dear readers, please vote to keep me alive until the final dawn. Here’s a link to vote! I appreciate all of you for voting and stayed tuned. I don’t know what each day will bring and I may be posting each day as D-day gets closer and closer and I want you to experience this wild ride with me!

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

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Good evening readers! I’m coming to you off of a childhood high! I never seen the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles from the 90’s in theater. Why is it here may you ask? Because, it’s the 35th anniversary of the movie and it doesn’t sound like they’re stopping at the first. Who decided to revive this beauty? Let’s brew about it!

I have and will always be a big fan of TMNT, I had the ation figures, the shirts, watched the cartoons and recited lines in everyday life since I was knee high to a duck. However, some amazing companies got together and decided we need to bring the greats back, which Fathom Entertainment, Saga Arts and Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group. It’s not the only one their bringing back, Hayao Miyazaki films will also, make their trip out to the theaters as well.

Like I said I never seen the movie in theater,(YES, I fan-girled and took photos inside the theater, tI didn’t use flash) I’ve seen all the Michael Bay and I’m sorry I haven’t nor will I see Seth Rogen’s TMNT. All of the newer versions just never slapped the same way. Jim Henson in all of his glory made the suits and the animatronics to bring these lean mean fighting machines to life. I understand everyone has their version of the turtles, but it felt slightly like a sacrilege, a stain on what was amazing.

Why couldn’t they bring back the way the turtles were? YES, I know the suits were heavy and required a lot of people to get them around BUT it was amazing; I’m sure Jim Henson Studios could revise revise the suits. Watching the movie in theater I couldn’t really poke hole in the aesthetic of the suits or the animatronic movements of the eyes and mouth, if I did it was slightly off.

Okay, I’m off my rant, BUT it was amazing to see, I laughed, I got pump, and I really wanted a slice of pizza. Go, see this movie you won’t regret going to the theater, I PROMISE you. I’m already wanting to go see it again, maybe sneak a slice or two in. But have you seen it before? Do you prefer the newer version, the Michael Bay or do you hold the 1990’s version?

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Good evening readers, movies are flooding in and I know I can’t catch them all. HOWEVER, I’m not missing this one because the Scream Queen herself, Jamie Lee Curtis, is reprising her role alongside Lindsey Lohan. Let’s brew about it!

I seen the original Freaky Friday back in 2003, it was a fun, heart warming movie that brought character growth and families closer, Freakier Friday did just that. I felt so many things in BOTH of these movies, I remember feeling Anna angst against her mother, feeling misunderstood and eventually seeing the mother’s side of things in 2003. But with Freakier Friday I definitely leaned more in on the mother and grandmother’s side of things. I love that they brought the whole cast back, even the little brother. It was a wild and cheeky ride.

Since, we already followed Freaky Friday’s story I’m here to talk about Freakier Friday where it follows Anna and HER daughter as well as her future step daughter and Tess, Jamie Lee Curtis’s character. It is a wild goose chase of a ride, filled with laughter and some tear jerking moments. All and all it is a great watch. What do you think? Did you go see Freakier Friday, what do you like/ don’t like?

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Good evening readers, I know I haven’t gone to my morning haunt in the back patio but I assure you the plants haven’t died. In fact, there are butterflies galore at the moment thanks to the passion flower vine growing. BUT I’m noticing a pattern I’ve been doing lately and we all need a night in with our lickies and chewies to unwind without having to leave the comfort of home and boy, is the movie Together scary, not cringy but it had me wanting to push away from the screen as far as I could go, so let’s brew about it!

I really love Dave Franco and Alison Brie as actors they really make you believe that they ARE those characters and this IS their lives. Naturally, for me to settle on my Friday movie, yes its Thursday but my week for me ends on a Thursday (just roll with it) is a horror movie. I love LOVE that the trailer is using the song Happy Together by the Turtles. Yes, I had to look up the song and the band, I’ve heard this song a million times but never took the time to find out whom sang it and what the title is, other than the happy together song.

Anyways, the sticky-squishing of these two people freaked me the hell out, but what really freaked me out is that their MINDS didn’t have a choice that their bodies were being FORCED TOGETHER. Literally had me crawling on the back of the couch to be far away as possible. I mean I knew it was going to happen because trailer, but the angle of the shots and cuts had me wanting to crawl away and that is good editing. So why pray tell ARE they trying to stick like Gorilla glue to one another? Well, it comes down to a cult deal and they unknowingly drank from the poisoned water well kids. You see them together but not really in sync with one another and after drinking the bad juju it seems to tear them further a part until they have their eureka moment of I really do love you and I don’t want this happening to you!

It is a creepy crawly fantastically horrific movie, so grab your popcorn, candy and favorite beverage and drown in this movie. BUT! Have you seen Together, why or why not? Do you think it’ll be the best horror movie of the year? What are you anticipating?

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Good evening readers! I’m still trying to get my sea legs after traveling. It was very rough getting TO the airport versus getting on the plane. But I digress, after a big ass event like The Stanley Hotel it’s really tough to top it. However, it’s not about topping but more about keeping the momentum and intrigue. Let’s brew about it!
Taking The Stanley Hotel off the bucket list is a big win, its rich in history and of course Steven King, revived it with one of his greatest stories, The Shining. So what’s next? Do I close up shop and retire? Two words, hell no. Although I’ll have to bide my time for another trip to rack up PTO hours and money of course, but doesn’t mean another big trip is out of the question. I heard, Jay and Silent Bob are holding down a cruise to Mexico and boy am I excited about that! It’d be cool to glimpse them around the ship but obviously you can’t just walk up to them ( a girl can dream.)

I have other places in town I have yet to sink my teeth into. The Catnip Cafe, veteran owned and rescue cat adoption cafe, Brownlee the garden center, and The Raven Faerie( yes, I went there for recon, but I’d really like to meet the owner). These are just a few places nearby that can bring the curiosity without having to pack yourself up and go halfway across the U.S. Which is what I’m getting at, local finds that can make the ho-hum weekend a nice little kick. But where or what would YOU like to see next? Is there a haunted place or event you’d like to see me head to? I know there’s an orchestra that’s doing a candlelight service featuring Halloween classic music, have you been?

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