Lavender oil infusion

 

Don't feel bad, my husband doesn't get me either. To him I'm just the voodoo hoodoo lady. He just rolls his eyes at me as I show him my blue jar of full moon light water. I wonder what he would have said if he had seen or heard my ankle bells? It's my own kind of magic...this wonder I create for myself in my rituals and ceremonies. But believe me I had a lot of things to release last night to God under the light of His full moon. Of course I can do that anytime,but there is a certain magic for me in the dark, cool, still, night air with a candle and my sorrows,regrets,disappointments and botherings all held in my hand to be burned away..released in smoke, to float up into the night sky under the watchful lantern of God.

My morning jar of moonlight

 

Full Moon Tonight

 

Now remember, tonight you leave out a bowl of water to soak up the moon's light. Then tomorrow you infuse it with a few drops of lavender oil..then mist your home.
Put your regrets,failings,disappointments and sorrows on some paper, then release them to God under the light of the full moon into the light of a candle. The full moon is a reminder that He has given light for darkness.
Ham Sa

One last thing

This was my favorite Halloween. It was 3 years ago. It was the first time I bought anything from Fredericks of Hollywood..honest to goodness, I did. And it was thrilling. Robin should remember this costume,I showed up at the Center wearing it for the AW group. My goal is to get back into it!
Maybe next year ...I'll have a costume party....get ready women!

 

For Uta

This was a door behind the Bistro. I can see gumdrops stuck to it and icing on the roof.
Sort of looks like a Hansel and Gretal door if you know what I mean. Maybe it was the padlock.
Anyway, I thought of Uta, our Aussie painter friend who inspired me to be on the look out for interesting doors and windows. The city is filled with images....but driver in chief wouldn't stop! "Go with your girlfriends when you have time." I should. What are you doing Bev?

And for anyone interested in the boring details of my life....today I intend on sitting my butt in my writing room and getting my outline started. I guess you could say I have to walk through a door that has had a padlock on it.....hope there's no witch waiting for me...to do me in......

A Happy Day

The weather was beautiful..even for the BEARS.....the food was so French!  The gifts were abundant.... laughter and oohs and ahhs throughout the room....smiling grandmas.....and money to pay the bill.  What more could you ask for?

French walls

Great grandma's baby quilt

The happy couple

printed menu!

Don't even ask how much was this cake

A gift from one sister to another......it was fabulous

Wonderful French Bistro

This is my now pregnant daughter. This is her at a boxing match coaching a young woman who is an
Olympic hopeful. That's her husband next to her. See how much she likes her picture taken?

Baby Shower Today

He's due on the 20th of December, but he gets lots of presents today. My daughter has already informed me..no pictures of her gigantic belly! Oh foo..where's the fun? But she has claws and fangs, so I will obey. I am just happy to see the girls together along with my mom in one place. Life gets so busy. My mom made a baby quilt for her....she's been squalking about all those little pieces for weeks...now it's done and it's gorgeous! Maybe I can sneak a picture or two of the room ;)  I'll  get a shot of the quilt, don't you worry.
Now what do I wear?

Halloween

When I was a kid going to Lutheran school,we didn't celebrate Halloween. It was "Reformation" for us.
Every year we had to watch the same old movie about Martin Luther. Most of it I didn't understand at the time.  But boy, when 3 o'clock came and my brothers and I got home...........on with the masks and out the door with the biggest shopping bags we could get our hands on.  It was fun. We never got candy,except for on Christmas when the church ladies would make up goodie bags for us with chocolate stars and Brachs hard candies..ready for us after Christmas Eve service that was always the recreation of the Nativity. Oh such fond memories...but not now, it's only October.  Halloween. Now I don't know about you, but there is always one house where everyone swears a witch lives. We had ours. She was just an old lady...but it was fun scaring the bageezus out of each other. It was always cold and wet and we froze on the way home...but oh so happy to be heading home with our bag of loot.

Luther..smuther.....we want candy.

Glory

Can you see those purples and pinks!
That's the sun going down

Oh my heart

It was dazzling

Oct 30th sunset

The sunset was beautiful after all that rain

A treat

                                                                   Heart Ache Blue


Oh I have to put this camera down and get some work done!
Here's my treat for you too........Have fun with Halloween today!
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That's right!

Now Kid squirrel has been caught by my security camera (hehehe)
probably going to line his nest with spider webbing and gauze tape...which was wrapped
arpund that skull