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When Witches Go Riding and Black Cats Are Seen: The Moon Laughs and Whispers Tis Halloween 🧡🖤🎃🎃🐾🐾🐾🐾🎃🎃🧡

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SEPTEMBER WOODS

SEPTEMBER WOODS


A glory of gold
And russet and grey,
The tree-tops old
Glow in the day;
And, one by one,
The dry leaves fall,
And the Autumn sun
Smiles on them all.


Where all is still
The rabbits play,
And pheasants fill
Each woodland way;
And, one by one,
The dry leaves fall,
While the Autumn sun

Smiles on them all

~ Sunlight and Shade

 

WORM MOON FOR MARCH 10 TH💙🌚

So, I missed the real SUPERMOON but was lucky to get my very own WORM MOON for my birthday. So beautiful, I love it! Thanks, guys 💙🌚

BLUE MOON

" THE WINDOW INTO THE UNSEEN IS OPENED IN WAKING HOURS " 🎨🖌🖼

Painting Magic? 

Waking from my sleep, the dreams of the night filled my head with lovely, mysterious, secret places to escape to and so I thought I would try to paint some magic.
The trials and tribulations that accompany a wip painting are many, at least for me. I am just an amateur painter who loves art, doesn't and can't produce artwork in minutes or hours and even if I could, I'm too fussy and like to work on the little things that I believe make the painting special. 

This painting has been lingering around for some time now and with everything else that has happened in life in recent weeks, it has been left behind. So this morning I returned to it, didn't like the trees, cat, cottage, cypress, etc and made some changes. Still far from finished but I like the direction it's taking. The cat will return, only a little different.

SNOWCAT

Home Sweet Home is especially nice in Stormy Weather. While hubby and daughter watched Monk, I listened to music and played on the computer forgetting all about lighting the fire even though my husband had brought more than enough wood inside to last us the entire night. I found a picture of a Snowcat, “SnowBall The Cat” someone built out of snow and it reminded me of the Snowcat I made a long time ago made with felt, applique, and embroidery. In the past when the kids were little we built a real SnowCat and although it would be great to have a Snowcat in the front yard now, I really don't want to venture out in the cold and build one all by myself, not much fun.

The painting, “Michetto Hill” that you see at the back of the SnowCat Pillow, I painted a long time ago but it is different than the one I have posted online, it's missing Michetto, so eventually, I'll need to paint him in and fix a couple of mistakes I forgot all about.

The good thing about stormy weather, it makes me spend more time on my art.

***** Purrrfect Halloween Haunts *****

Happy Halloween

We will begin our haunting here in my home......For the past few weeks pumpkins were following me everywhere I went and when I came upon the Booutiful glass mosaic one at Homesense...about the size of my footstool all I thought about was how lovely it would be to have one, place it on four old rusty wheels and turn it into a pumpkin carriage but then this week I came across the actual Cinderella Pumpkins nurseries grow and after googling how to craft this particular kind of pumpkin the “Hallmark Carriage” came up.So here is my version .....

***** Cinderella's Haunted Ride *****



I cheated a bit for the pumpkin turned out to be a tad too heavy for the dowel axles they said to use so I improvised and used a wooden salad bowl to prop the pumpkin on and then just set the Turkish caps on the dowels and arranged them to look as if they are attached. As for the windows I was clean out of buckles and door pulls so I used antique frames I bought in Merrickville. For the top of the pumpkin I used a curtain finial and covered it loosely with Ferrero Rocher chocolate gold wrappers; who doesn't collect the wrappers for crafting. A chocolate I adore and a wrapper for sooo many crafting uses … an essential in my crafting cabinet!!!

Here you will find the instructions for Cinderella's Carriage.

http://www.hallmark.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/article%7C10001%7C10051%7C/HallmarkSite/Ideas/IDEAS_FANTASY_PUMPKIN



***** A Witch's Study ***** A place where I spend quite a bit of time in



My hat...a Witch's hat I bought at Walmart and eventually covered it with an old black velvet dress I wore to my husband's Century party for Domtar before the plant closed. I was going to donate it or cut it up but I changed my mind and it now remains intact...a purrrfect fit for a Witch's Hat lampshade.



***** Boo *****



An inspiration devired from the movie "Black Christmas"...where Billy is hiding in the closet, Halloween and the book and movie "To Kill a Mockingbird".."Boo Radley"..my favorite novel.I bought this frame this past Spring at a church sale and when I went to add a picture inside I noticed the hole in the wood backing and thought it was better left uncovered and used for something creative...surprisenly I'm not spooked by it! It rests above my desk in my study.


***** Little Hoot *****




A small little salt shaker I bought a very long time ago. She looks quite cute in her Witch's hat.




Not in my favorite color but the novelty of the light and being an owl I couldn't pass this little magical fellow up. I adore Owls! Thinking of altering....just don't know what element I'll use.





My daughter Em decorated the fireplace this year and decided to use black tulle, orange lights and my vintage owl lamp.I like him more in the dark since I'm not too fond of his exterior finish. Still debating how to alter him.



And now ....are you ready for a Haunting????
Then step thru this door and come see what I have found....

p.s. working on creating an actual door for next time.....Hehehe!Later...






The World of Tony Diterlizzi ... one magical artist I discovered some time ago.You probably already know of him but do step into his world and be enchanted.







http://www.diterlizzi.com/
http://diterlizzi.com/blog/




Or the Mysteriously Strange and Beautiful art of Jasmine Becket-Griffith ~ Strangeling



http://www.strangeling.com/ Artist dark side


.....Or if you wish to travel to past Haunts of your childhood films there is no better place than Obscure Hollow....A HAUNTING IN BLACK AND WHITE


http://obscurehollow.blogspot.com


If you and your family adore furry kids...creatures great and small then this site is simply indulgent to two wonderful, intuitive and positively adoring kitties who share their abode with two very polite humans.....The true ongoing escapades of Olivia and Cliff….Don’t miss it! (A Wonderful site for the kids)


http://cliffandolivia.com/blog/?cat=11





Cliff pretty boy


Olivia in the Library










Visit Johnny at http://lovemanor.com/blog/

...And this is certainly one of the most Loveliest of Hauntings I have come across... A must see!


I may drop in later and add a few more Haunts but for now I better go see if anyone has answered my six secret questions to winning the HALLOWEEN banner.

HAPPY Haunts and a Very HAPPY Halloween....>^..^<

A Witch called Annabelle >^..^<

*** Happy Halloween ***

Do you ever go by your plan? I seldom do and it is no different with Halloween.
Initially we were going to have one pumpkin but I ended going to Pioneer Nursery and falling in love with a certain pumpkin and ended up coming home with not one, not two but seven more pumpkins….can you believe it?
So the kids and dad are now elbowing deep in sticky orange creating their mysterious little creatures. Won’t be long ………

Happy Halloween >^..^<

The Owl and the Pussycat

Just finished this piece, “The Owl and the Pussycat Sun catcher” inspired by Edward Lear's poem; only it isn't a pea green boat but a Blue Glass boat that when placed in the sunlight, sparkles like a sea of dazzling diamonds. Wrapped up in their glass bottom boat with plenty of money and some sweet honey, crystals are the moon and the stars, and pearls are the waves of the sea with crystal drops at their tips, a little pewter bird flies high up above the Owl and his Pussycat love.


Fairytales are made of this...the memoirs of our childhood.

And now the inner child in each one of us, once again wants to play... *~^..^~*

Need to find him a small guitar…or make him one. Then it will be heading over to Etsy.

The Owl and the Pussycat

The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea
In a beautiful pea green boat,
They took some honey, and plenty of money,
Wrapped up in a five pound note.
The Owl looked up to the stars above,
And sang to a small guitar,
'O lovely Pussy! O Pussy my love,
What a beautiful Pussy you are,
You are,
You are!
What a beautiful Pussy you are!

Pussy said to the Owl, 'You elegant fowl!
How charmingly sweet you sing!
O let us be married! too long we have tarried:
But what shall we do for a ring?'
They sailed away, for a year and a day,
To the land where the Bong-tree grows
And there in a wood a Piggy-wig stood
With a ring at the end of his nose,
His nose,
His nose,
With a ring at the end of his nose.

Dear pig, are you willing to sell for one shilling
Your ring?'Said the Piggy,'I will.'
So they took it away, and were married next day
By the Turkey who lives on the hill.
They dined on mince, and slices of quince,
Which they ate with a runcible spoon;
And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon,
The moon,
The moon,
They danced by the light of the moon


~ Edward Lear