Today is an important day on the march toward Fall. Oktoberfest in Munich starts on Saturday, September 21st this year. By my count, there’s only 100 days until the ceremonial keg tapping that kicks off the party. Fall officially starts with the autumnal equinox the next day, September 22nd. Of course, if you believe that […]
Category Archives: Funtober
It’s been a beautiful Spring here in the Philadelphia area. I’ve taken a few evenings off from Funtober over the past two weeks in order to enjoy the weather, the NCAA tournament, and some time with the family. But as I learned last year, Spring quickly turns into Summer and Summer turns into Fall. Farmers […]
I woke up this morning to discover that the file system on the Funtober server was corrupted. If I had implemented a proper daily backup system of the entire server, I would simply reinstall yesterday’s server backup. But I’ve only been backing up the website files and database rather than the entire server. So I […]
In September, Funtober was selected as Philadelphia Startup Digest‘s first Startup of the Week. As part of that honor, I’ll be the first entrepreneur at the weekly Meet the Founders series they are cosponsoring with Benjamin’s Desk, a shared office and coworking space in Philadelphia. So, if you would like to meet me and learn […]
I owe a big thank you to a number of people that made Funtober possible this year. Sarah Ehman, Kris DeGraeve and Megan Applegate shared some fantastic craft tutorials and recipes on the Funtober blog. It would have been a pretty quiet blog without them. The costume store couldn’t have happened without my parents. They […]
My last Saturday in October started with a trip to the grocery store. Frankenstorm (aka Hurricane Sandy) is bearing down on the East Coast and it pays to be prepared. So I’m now the proud owner of 30 bottles of water. It eerily reminds me of last year, when a nor’easter deposited snow for Halloween […]
I ran around town to do a few errands this morning and it was obvious that it is October and Halloween is quickly approaching. The first stop was CVS – where there was an entire aisle of Halloween candy. My local pet store, Doggie Style, was ready for Halloween as well. They had dog costumes […]
It’s the first day of October! Time for the best month of the year. I thought we would kick things off right here at Funtober by joining the SPOOKtacular Giveaway Hop hosted by The Review Wire. From October 1st to October 15th, you can enter the SPOOKtacular Giveaways at more than fifty blogs. The minimum […]
I realized at the end of August that I couldn’t run Funtober alone. I must have been delusional for the first half of the year. How did I ever expect to sell Halloween costumes, post to the Funtober blog, run five directories of Fall fun AND sleep? So I found some help. Three new friends […]
When I started working on Funtober last December, October seemed so far away. Now it is right around the corner. I don’t even have to look at the calendar in order to know. As I step outside in the morning, I can feel it in the air. I’ve consumed my first bag of candy corn […]