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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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Good evening readers! I can’t believe October is around the corner, and NO my neighborhood still HASN’t put up decorations. I also, am so excited to still be in the running for the Face Of Halloween competition. So, as time ticks closer to the next cut, I decided the stay in movie for the night is, The Conjuring: Last Rites, let’s brew about it!

I felt the beginning was a very quick back story but I mean short, sweet and to the point, right? The Conjuring: Last Rites starts with a back story of Ed and ( a very pregnant) Lorraine Warren going to a haunted shop only to cause Lorraine to go into labor. Flash forward Ed and Lorraine Warren have been out of the business of fighting against the ungodly forces of evil for years due to Ed’s heart condition.

But something dark and sinister, and very familiar comes back. Not only is this entity terrorizing a family but the Warren’s daughter, Judy, whom is set to get married soon. Thus forcing Ed and Lorraine out of retirement and back into the game (after some convincing from their daughter). I’m not going to spoil the ending but it’s a definite watch.

Now, I enjoy The Conjuring franchise and I’ve seen the timelines that have been built. The Conjuring movies have a set recipe that works and is enjoyable, jump scares and all. I found myself cringing with fear and excitement even though I knew it was coming.

BUT dear readers, the next cut is this Thursday September 26th, help keep me in the fight by voting. All the proceeds go to the Starlight Children’s Foundation, help them by voting! After this next cut I feel like it’s going to get dangerous, so keep the holy water at the ready and your weapon of choice sharp! My link to my profile is at the bottom, let’s help Starlight and unmask the murderer!

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

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Good evening readers, it was a long day at work. I kept glancing at the time, checking my stats. Thankfully busy, as time ticked by, the cut inching its way closer. I hope your work day went by fast as well. But, did I make it, let’s brew about it!!

I made it to the top 10 cut! For those that voted for me I thank you, and for those that haven’t toss your vote into the hat! It’s been an exciting ride and nowhere near finding out WHO is behind the killing in the Face Of Halloween, all I know is the competition is slimming down fast.

What have I been doing to try and keep some skin in the game? I’ve been vigilant in posting on Facebook and Twitter(X). Posting multiple times a day with reels, too. I was in the top 2 in a group of fifteen. Currently, thinking of new video reel ideas from the view numbers I’m seeing. There seems to be a lot of movement in the photos I recently posted from The Stanley hotel and it’s really encouraging.

What are my thoughts about the next cut? Well from the first cut of 70 plus people to 20, I guessed that it would go down to 15 then to 10 and then, down to 5. I’m GUESSING that after the next cut which is September 25th 7pm PDT, I think they are either going to have us either fight for the number one spot in our group OR they’ll take the last 5 of us and mash the other groups together. I’m thinking the latter, but time will tell.

Until, the next cut besides blowing up social media, I’ll be working on the tombstone I shown you guys yesterday. Please help be the last ghoul standing and vote for me. If you haven’t already, follow the Brewfeeds Facebook page, react, comment, share, and give a star! I look forward to see you there!

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

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Good evening readers, I can’t believe how fast September is slipping through our fingers! It’s almost time for Halloween, feeling a desire to run through the cornfield? I’ve been meaning to see if there will be any fall festivals or pumpkin patches nearby.. BUT as I have some research to do on that I want to talk about R.I.P’s, let’s brew about it!

So, if you haven’t seen my reel on Tuesday, I had made my way down to Kinkos to get my stencil printed. I had work in a matter of hours but I needed it done so I could use the weekend to detail and paint. BUT I have it in hand and will be cutting it out tomorrow night while I wait for the next cut on the Face Of Halloween competition.

I’m using a mashup of the Wicked Makers, James and Jay and another creator Cheryl Callender, for designs, tools, and materials. I LOVE Hocus Pocus and I couldn’t think of a decent spooky rhyme or design idea other than the shape, so I thought why not a Hocus Pocus themed headstone? There’s a tombstone for Emily Binx, Billy Butcherson, and even the Sanderson sisters, but not one for Thackery Binx, the iconic talking black cat. So, as I did my research, I found Cheryl Callender’s design! I thought I’d have to carve out a cat/ cat head out of the installation board, but thankfully, Cheryl had worked smarter not harder on this part and used a cat mask. The cat mask was hard to find and the shipping was more than the mask itself.

But I’m excited to get down to business ! Also, for those that have voted for me, thank you so much and for those that haven’t there’s still time. Your 1 vote resets after 24 hours, and if you have some coin just know it’s going to a good cause, The Starlight Children’s Foundation.

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

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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 channel called Wickend Makers. 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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