Kushner Kreations Holiday Advent 2022

 Vendor; Kushner Kreations

Web; kushnerkreations.weebly.com

Facebook; www.facebook.com/groups/KushnerKreations

Owner; April Kushner

2022 Hocus Pocus Christmas Advent

Price; $70

December 1^st

Scent; Mary

Scent Description: pumpkin waffles caramelized sugar, and rich brown sugar envelope the nutty pecan and hazelnut topped with vanilla whip cream

Thoughts: This smelled so good!

Hit or Miss; Hit

December 2^nd

Scent; Dani's Gifts

Scent Description; Red Berries, Juicy Tangerine, Bergamot, Bubbly Champagne, Cyclamen, Violet Leaves, Soft Cashmere, White Amber, Musk

Thoughts: First off, it had freaking eyes! Super cute. There was something about this that didn't smell right to my nose, but it was still nice

Hit or Miss; Hit

December 3^rd

Scent; Life Potion

Scent Description; Fresh squeezed Turkish pink lemons, sugar crystals and honey

Thoughts: This was not my scent, I'm not a huge fan of lemon

Hit or Miss; Both

December 4^th

Scent; Christmas in the graveyard

Scent Description; Red Delicious Apple, Pineapple, Peach, Juicy Pear, Apple Blossoms, Green Leaves

Thoughts: Not my scent, it wasn't one that I really liked, the pineapple threw me off

Hit or Miss, Miss

December 5^th

Scent; Cauldron

Scent Description; Green Tea, aloe tangerine

Thoughts: This was a facemask; it was a nice change from wax

Hit or Miss; Hit

December 6^th

Scent: Now we Ride

Scent Description: Pistachio cake topped with Lemon marshmallow icing

Thoughts; Yes! I love Pistachio pudding cake!

Hit or Miss; Hit

December 7^th

Billy air fresheners

Scent: Halloween Candy

December 8^th

Scent: Full Moon

Scent Description; mulled cider with woodsy notes of oak, cinnamon bark and cloves, with hints of wildberries

December 9^th

Scent: Becca

Scent Description: Rum & Raisins, Butter, Butterscotch, Caramel Creams, Maple Syrup, Walnuts and Vanilla Beans

December 10^th

Scent: Cassie

What; Strawberry Sorbet Lip Gloss

December 11^th

Scent: I Banish the from Salem! Forever

Scent Description: Peach, apples, oak, balsam, fir, and pine, with a background of cinnamon and clove

December 12^th

Scent: Winifred

Scent Description: Orange Juice, Churned Butter, Pumpkin, Star Anise, Cinnamon, Clove, Vanilla, Baked Crust

December 13^th

Scent: Gilbert

Scent Description: Fresh blueberry muffins

December 14^th

Scent: Itch-it-a-cop-it-a-Mel-a-ka-mystica

Scent Description: Anjou Pear, Georgia Peach, Juicy Cranberry, Black Currant Preserves, Grapefruit Zest, Strawberry Vine, Rhubarb, Vanilla Sugar & musk

December 15^th

Scent: Izzy

Scent Description: Warm fresh apple cider donuts mmmm

December 16^th

Scent: Burning Rain of Death

Scent Description; This smells like a nice Fresh Winter blend.

December 17^th

Scent: Black Flame Candle

Scent Description: Delicious apples, red berries, Florida orange, cinnamon,

clove, golden nectar, falling leaves, white musk

December 18^th

Scent: The Christmas Power Spell

Scent Description: Pomegranate, Peppermint and vanilla bean noel

December 19^th

Scent: The Book is Alive

Scent Description: Rich pumpkin butter, festive pumpkin pie spice, sweet vanilla bean, honeyed graham cracker and gooey marshmallow toasted over smoked woods

December 20^th

Scent; Lock up your children

Scent Description: Red Grape, Strawberry, Ginger, Cherry, Plum, Rose Hips, Cabernet Wine, Oak, Vanilla

December 21st

Scent: Mother Witch

Scent Description: Cherry, Butter Rum, Eggnog, Nutmeg, Clove, Cinnamon, Buttercream, Vanilla

December 22nd

Scent: Cobweb's Christmas Cookie

Scent Description; Creamy orange sherbet with vanilla chewy sugar cookies

December 23rd

Scent: Older Town Magic Shoppe

Scent Description: Fresh Air, Spearmint, Winter Berries, Pine Needles, Wood, Moss and Musk

December 24^th

Scent: Resting Witch Face

Scent Description: Peppermint Candy Cane

December 25^th

Scent: Don't Taunt the Devil Book

No description found

Overall Thoughts:

I started off really into this! Kushner always go all out with super cute themes and her wax throws really well in my house.

It's all on me that I just gave up. I am really not sure what happened, but December got away from me and I let it, I went into a funk that I'm starting to crawl out of slowly.

As is normal with things like this, there were some scents that I didn't like but my family did or vice versa, but everything smelled great! I liked that it had a mix of wax and other items. I don't like that you always have to chase scent descriptions with her because she doesn't put them on the label or list them sometimes.

April sadly is closing. She has some health issues and won't be able to continue with Kushner Kreations while taking care of herself.

Movie: Last Night in Soho (2021) Caution Spoiler Alert

 Last Night in Soho

Came out; 2021

Time; 1 hours 56 minutes

Watched: Hulu

Rating; R for bloody violence, sexual content, language, brief drug material and brief graphic nudity

IMDB Rating; 7.1/10

Caution; Spoiler Alert

Staring;

Thomasin McKenzie as Eloise

Anya Taylor-Joy as Sandie

Matt Smith as Jack

Diana Rigg as Ms Collins

Terence Stamp as Silver-Haired Gentleman

Story Line;

Aspiring fashion designer Eloise is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s, where she encounters a dazzling wannabe singer, Sandie. But the glamour is not all it appears to be and the dreams of the past start to crack and splinter into something far darker

Thoughts;

This is so much more than what the story line says. It goes much deeper than what is appears.

The fashion, the music and the visual is all amazing. All the pieces just fit together at the end, it sucks you in and keeps going

CAUTION; Major Spoiler Alert

The film starts as Eloise "Ellie" Turner (Thomasin McKenzie) is dancing in her room. She is an aspiring fashion designer who lives with her Granmother 'Gran Peggy' (Rita Tushingham) and has been mourning the death of her mother (Aimee Cassettari), who appears to Ellie in mirror reflections at times. Peggy shows Ellie a letter she has received informing her she has been accepted into a fashion school in London. Ellie is excited, but Peggy warns her that there are bad men up where she is going.

Ellie takes a train to London and is driven to her room by a local taxi. The taxi driver (Colin Mace) makes creepy comments to Ellie, so she gets off at a shop and waits for the man to leave so she can keep walking to her room. She gets there and meets her roommate Jocasta (Synnove Karlsen).

Ellie goes out with Jocasta and her friends, where it is revealed that Ellie's mother died by suicide after a struggle with mental illness. While in the ladies room, Ellie overhears Jocasta talking trash about her to the other girls. Ellie leaves the pub and walks back to her room, spotting an older man (Terence Stamp) looking her way and smirking. Jocasta later brings a guy back to her room to hook up with while Ellie tries to sleep. She leaves her room and finds a party going on outside. The only student to befriend her is a young man named John (Michael Ajao). The next morning, Ellie wakes up late and runs to class where she makes it on time for attendance.

Ellie decides to find a place of her own for peace of mind. She finds a room in a boarding house kept by an old woman named Ms. Collins (Diana Rigg). She gives Ellie a set of rules to follow and allows her to stay in the bedroom upstairs. Ellie likes the place and rests for the night, sleeping all the way under the covers, enjoying the quiet.

When Ellie gets out of bed, she finds herself somehow in the 1960's. She walks into a venue called Cafe de Paris and sees her reflection as another young woman named Sandie (Anya Taylor-Joy). Ellie follows Sandie as though she is there watching everything unfold like an invisible spirit. Sandie wants to be a singer at the venue but is met with unwanted attention by a surly patron (Paul Brightwell). She is told to speak to a man named Jack (Matt Smith) about being a singer. Sandie meets Jack and is charmed by him. He starts to leave with her when the patron makes rude comments. Jack punches him in the face and runs away with Sandie, kissing her in a phone booth, which is reflected as also happening with Ellie. As Ellie keeps moving, she finds Sandie in her bed, but when she tries to touch her, she wakes up back in the present.

At school, Ellie becomes inspired to create a design based on what she saw Sandie wearing. Jocasta notes a hickey on Ellie's neck from where Jack had been kissing her/Sandie.

Later that night, Ellie goes back to sleep hoping to wake up in the 60's again. She finds herself as Sandie and Jack get closer, and he brings Sandie to meet the owner of a different venue, the Rialto, so that she can sing for him, performing the song "Downtown". The men note that she can definitely sing.

Back in the present, Ellie dyes her hair blonde like Sandie's and continues to work on her dress design, which her teacher seems to like, while Jocasta just mocks her out of pettiness. Ellie later sees the venue where she saw Sandie perform as it appears in the present day. She then goes to a pub to ask for a job. As she heads back to her room, the old man who saw her from the other night follows her and claims to recognize her because of her hair, but he insists he is not trying to pick her up.

Ellie returns to the 60's and goes to the Rialto but finds Sandie is now performing as part of a group of skimpy-dressed women dancing as backup for a woman performing as a marionette. As Ellie follows Sandie around a little more, she sees that Jack is more abusive and is telling her that she has to make certain men happy if she wants to make it in the music business. Ellie sees Sandie in the bedroom as a lecherous man approaches her with his pants off. Ellie screams at the man to not touch Sandie, and he appears to hear her, but Ellie wakes up. The experience causes Ellie to rip up the pink dress design she originally drew in class.

Ellie continues to get through work and school while keeping her excursions to the past a secret from everyone else. In her next trip to the 60's, she sees that Sandie is becoming more jaded and unhappy as Jack her forced her into prostitution and she must service a barrage of horrible men, while she also develops a drug and alcohol problem. She uses fake names like "Alex", "Lexie", or "Anna". Only one man (Sam Claflin) does not take advantage of her and is polite and charming to her. Sandie talks down about herself while Ellie tries to get her attention through the mirror. She manages to smash through the glass and grab Sandie, but she wakes up.

John sees that Ellie is looking a bit unwell, so he invites her out to a Halloween party. Jocasta and her friends see them together and give them drinks. They all start dancing, but in the middle of things, Ellie hallucinates seeing ghoulish visions of the men who took advantage of Sandie, as well as Sandie herself dancing alone. John takes Ellie home when he sees her looking bad. They start to kiss and go to her room for sex, but Ellie looks up and sees the ceiling mirror showing Jack attacking Sandie. Ellie starts yelling at him to get off her. She then appears to see Jack stabbing Sandie to death. Ms. Collins overhears the noise and orders John to leave, as one of her rules is not having male visitors. She simply tells Ellie to go to bed.

The next day, Ellie apologizes to Ms. Collins about what happened. She asks her if anyone died in her room but Ms. Collins is dodgy about it. Later, Ellie goes to the library to look up murders in the 60's. She begins to hallucinate the ghost men following her around the library, nearly leading her to stab Jocasta in the face with a pair of scissors. John runs after Jocasta to explain things while Ellie leaves in a panic. She runs to the police station to report the murder, now believing that the old man is Jack and that he got away with killing Sandie, but the detectives know she has little to go off of.

Ellie arrives late for work and finds that the old man is waiting for her. She takes out her mobile phone to try and record a confession out of him, but when she brings up Sandie, the man says "Alex killed Sandie" and that whatever happened to her was something she got herself into. Ellie runs after the man, but he gets hit by a car on the street and dies. Ellie's boss tells someone to call for help and say he's a former cop named Lindsay. Ellie realizes the man is not Jack, but rather the gentleman who was polite with her and didn't sleep with her.

Ellie returns to her room and makes plans to go back home in the countryside to live with her grandmother. Ms. Collins gives Ellie tea and her mail. One letter is addressed to Ms. Collins, revealing her name to be Alexandra.... which is what Sandie told Jack her name was short for. Ms. Collins reveals that someone did die in Ellie's room: her. Ms. Collins was Sandie. After enduring all the abuse in her life, she let her life as Sandie die when she stabbed Jack to death. She later got revenge on all the men who abused her by murdering them. Ms. Collins then reveals that she poisoned Ellie's tea and will make it look like a suicide. John then comes looking for Ellie, who regains enough strength to warn John to run. Ms. Collins stabs him while Ellie tries to run upstairs, seeing the younger Sandie attacking her. Downstairs, a fire starts and begins spreading. Ellie locks herself in her room where the spirits of Sandie's victims break through the floors and walls, begging Ellie to kill Ms. Collins. When she finally breaks in, she sees her reflection as Sandie and realizes she has become just as much of a monster as the men who hurt her. She tries to slit her throat but Ellie stops her and tries to help her. Ms. Collins chooses to stay and die in the fire while letting Ellie go. Ellie gets John out of there as medics arrive, and Ms. Collins allows the flames to consume her.

Sometime later, Ellie presents her work in a fashion show with Peggy and John in attendance to cheer her on along with the rest of the audience. Her teacher congratulates her, as do the other girls (excluding Jocasta who continues to remain a petty bitch), and she once again sees her mother's reflection smiling at her. As Peggy and John come to congratulate her, Ellie sees Sandie's reflection in the mirror waving at her.

Movie: The Invitation (2022) Caution Spoiler Alert

 The Invitation

Came out; 2022

Time; 1 hours 45 minutes

Watched: Netflix

Rating; PG-13 for terror, violent content, some strong language, sexual content and partial nudity

IMDB Rating; 5.3/10

Caution; Spoiler Alert

Staring.

Nathalie Emmanuel as Evie

Thomas Doherty as DeVille

Sean Pertwee as Renfield

Hugh Skinner as Oliver

Carol Ann Crawford as Mrs. Swift

Alana Boden as Lucy

Stephanie Corneliussen as Viktoria

Courtney Taylor as Grace

Story Line.

After the death of her mother and having no other known relatives, Evie (Nathalie Emmanuel) takes a DNA test...and discovers a long-lost cousin she never knew she had. Invited by her newfound family to a lavish wedding in the English countryside, she's at first seduced by the sexy aristocrat host but is soon thrust into a nightmare of survival as she uncovers twisted secrets in her family's history and the unsettling intentions behind their sinful generosity

Thoughts.

This movie looked interesting when it first came out, I'm not gaga over vampire movies but this one had a different feel to it.

This movie was great! I loved it, the way it played out was more secretive and kept you guessing than I first figured it would.

CAUTION; Major Spoiler Alert

In New York City, struggling artist Evelyn "Evie" Jackson makes a living freelancing for a catering business with her best friend Grace. Evie takes a DNA test, discovering she has a distant cousin in England named Oliver Alexander. She meets Oliver, who tells her the scandal of her great-grandmother, Emmaline, who had a secret child with a black footman. He invites her to an upcoming family wedding in England. Evie arrives in Whitby at the New Carfax Abbey, where she meets the lord of the manor, Walter De Ville, and Mrs. Swift, a longtime maid of the estate. She also meets the rest of the Alexander family and the maids of honor, friendly Lucy and condescending Viktoria.

Evie gradually begins to notice unsettling occurrences during her stay. She sees an apparition of Emmaline, who was shown in a flashback, hanging herself from the staircase. Maids start disappearing as they are attacked by a shadowy figure. Evie finds herself romanced by Walter before discovering he had been researching her before her arrival. She confronts him and threatens to leave, but the two reconcile and have sex.

The family hosts a rehearsal dinner, where Evie expects to finally meet the bride and groom. Instead, Walter announces that he and Evie are to be wed. The butler, Mr. Field, slits a maid's throat and pours her blood into a bowl. Walter, Lucy, and Viktoria are all revealed to be vampires who then drink the maid's blood. Evie's ancestors, the Alexanders, are one of the three families who, for centuries, have each offered one of their women to become Walter's wife in exchange for protection and wealth. Emmaline was originally intended to be Walter's third bride, but she killed herself due to her guilt of killing humans, and due to the loss of her love, Evie's great-grandfather, and infant son. The Alexander family had trouble finding a female member until they found Evie. Viktoria locks a frantic Evie inside a coffin, but she is freed by Mrs. Swift, who is killed by Mr. Field. Evie makes it into town and asks an elderly couple, who reveal themselves to be Jonathan and Mina Harker, for help but is knocked unconscious, as they work for Walter.

Evie wakes up to find herself with one of the maids, Imogen, and Walter. Walter reveals himself to be Dracula as he mentions he was once known as the "Son of the Dragon". Evie then watches Walter bite into Imogen's leg and falls unconscious. Upon waking up, Evie is now in a wedding dress, walking down the aisle to wed Walter. As they finish exchanging vows, she bites Walter's arm, consuming his blood, and instantly transforms into a vampire. She sets the wedding chapel on fire, stabs Walter in the heart which rapidly ages him, and flees with Diya, another maid. An enraged Viktoria ambushes Evie, who is helped by Diya. After Diya flees, Viktoria attacks Evie again before Lucy intervenes. The two vampires fight before Lucy impales both Viktoria and herself onto a spear, turning them both into ashes.

Shortly thereafter, Evie is attacked by Field wielding a spear, who states that he wished he had killed her great grandfather and grandfather, before she kills him by breaking off the spearhead and stabbing him in the chest. She is then chased by a wall-crawling Walter, who grabs her by the throat. She breaks free by severing his wrist with a cutting wire and kicks him into the flames. As he burns alive, she loses her powers due to his death, and reverts back to human form. Evie escapes as the manor is engulfed in flames.

Two weeks later, in London, Evie and Grace have tracked down Oliver, who prepares to flee after having paid off the police. The two women intend to kill him for tricking Evie and being complicit in the murders committed by the vampires.

Movie: Boss Level (2020) Caution Spoiler Alert

 Boss Level

Came out; 2022

Time; 1 hours 40 minutes

Watched: Hulu

Rating; TV-MA

IMDB Rating; 6.8/10

Caution; Spoiler Alert

Staring;

Frank Grillo as Roy Pulver

Mel Gibson as Colonel Clive Ventor

Naomi Watts as Jemma Wells

Michelle Yeoh as Dai Feng

Will Sasso as Brett

Story Line;

Retired special forces agent Roy Pulver is clueless why his worst nightmare day keeps repeating in a seemingly endless time-loop, but became resigned at going through the spectacular motions, starting with a man trying to cut his throat while he wakes up and being killed by rapid fire from a helicopter, jumping down several floors, next hijacking a sports car, meeting and interacting with his ex Jemma Wells and several weird people at a diner and being killed there. Slowly he works out how to get further in a next run, and that it all relates to Jemma's invention and how to use her hints, while finding out it's also about his pre-teen son Joe, who doesn't even know him but ditches school for a gaming arcade, and the key is guarded by a Chinese sword expert in the skyscraper fortress of mysterious colonel Clive Ventor. Besides learning better physical motions, his view in things also evolves, even his priority becomes leaving a world to Joe

Thoughts;

After watching the preview, I wasn't sold on this, it seemed like a more violent version of Ground Hog Day which I never cared for. This was decent, it kept my interest, and, in the end, it was a great movie.

There were many clues, and it was comical with some twists and turns.

CAUTION; Major Spoiler Alert

Roy Pulver, a retired Delta Force soldier in Atlanta, awakens in his loft with a machete-wielding man trying to kill him. He disarms the assassin before a helicopter gunner kills the man believing him to be Roy. Roy kills the gunner causing the helicopter to crash into Roy's loft. Roy leaps from the window into a truck full of sand, carjacks a man and is chased by a pair of assassins. Roy's car is hit by a bus, into which he is thrown and dies. It is revealed that Roy has been reliving the same day for over four months, and is being targeted by multiple assassins. He now knows their locations and strategies.

On attempt 48, Roy tries to call his estranged wife Jemma. Her phone is answered by her boss, Col. Clive Ventor, head of defense contractor Dynow Labs. Ventor tells Roy that Jemma died the previous evening in an accident in the lab. Roy is suspicious, but is killed before he can act on the information.

In the unlooped timeline, the day prior, Roy visits Jemma at Dynow Labs, believing she has gotten him a job interview. Jemma and Roy argue over their son Joe, because Jemma has not told him that Roy is his father. Dynow's head of security summons Jemma to speak with Ventor. Jemma reveals that she needs Roy's services, not the company.

On attempt 143, Roy arrives at Underground Atlanta and spots Joe, Roy follows him into the main arcade area, where he confesses he ditched school to participate in a video game tournament. The assassins arrive, and Roy uses his body as a shield to protect Joe, revealing that he is Joe's father before he dies. Roy realizes he is being tracked and discovers a transmitter in his tooth.

Roy uses the next several resets to probe Dynow's defenses using trial-and-error. On attempt 156 Ventor reveals the truth about the machine in the lab and his plan: it is called the Osiris Spindle, a quantum device capable of rewriting history. Ventor plans to use it to set himself up as the world's dictator. Ventor also confirms his responsibility for Jemma's death. Roy realizes that Jemma used the Osiris Spindle to put Roy in a time loop. A later attempt reveals that the Osiris Spindle can't be shut down and that if it runs too long it will destroy the world. Roy discovers that while he is at Dynow, Joe was being targeted by the other assassins. Roy arrives at the arcade to find police removing Joe's body from the scene. As Roy attempts to get past the police, the Osiris Spindle explodes, destroying the world.

Roy starts spending his days bonding with Joe through various activities. On attempt 249, Roy & Joe have a longer conversation and Joe reveals that he had gotten a voicemail from his mother that morning. Roy sees the timestamp on the message and realizes that Jemma is still alive when he wakes up each morning.

On a subsequent attempt Roy jumps onto the helicopter and orders the pilot to fly them to Dynow. He knocks out the pilot, uses the minigun to kill all the assassins who tracked him to the facility - thereby saving Joe - and fights his way downstairs just in time to kill Brett & Ventor and save Jemma. Roy reveals he has been spending his attempts being a father to Joe, and that he saw the end of the world. Jemma explains that they may be able to stop the chain reaction if Roy enters the Osiris Spindle, which will send him back to the start of the day one last time. Roy enters the Osiris Spindle, and awakens in his bed.