My Favorite Month!

Hi, everyone!

 

Can you believe it's already the fourth of October??

 

It's truly my favorite time of year...




First of all, I want to invite you to join me in a delightful Halloween Celebration!



Vanessa, of A Fanciful Twist, is hosting her Fifth Annual Halloween Party...



This will be my first time doing this ~ it's like the Mad Tea Party that I did an



"impromptu" version of...



Tallulah, Leo, Cyrus and I will be having our own Halloween Party!



Basically, it is a "blog hop", where the participants all share their own party photos



in a post on the designated day (or you can just visit if you don't have a blog), which will be



October 27th, 2012.



Click here to visit Vanessa for more information, or if you'd like to join in!



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Tallulah..."Woo" ~  is already getting in the spirit of things...:^)

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Here I am, in Daddy's big red chair, in 1959 ~ I believe ~

 

The photo isn't dated, but I look about two, don't you think?

 

(I would have turned two the day before!)

 

I still have the little pumpkin my Grandma Collier got me,

 

and will be using him in my Halloween Party decor...

 

I love him ~ so glad I still have him!

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I think I must have carried my little pumpkin everywhere with me for a few days...!

 

Luckily, my Mom put him away with the Halloween things we had ~

 

~ very little, actually, at the time...

 

(or I'm sure I would have continued to play with him,

 

 using him for transportation for toads and snails and such...

 

I was never a very "girly-girl"!)

 

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As for the Halloween decor; we had a few figural candles

 

  (that didn't make it into this century, unfortunately...;^),

 

A couple of noisemakers and costumes collected as the years went on...

 

Halloween decor just wasn't as popular as it is now; it was basically of the "perishable"

 

variety...Jack O'Lanterns and Indian Corn, things like that...

 

or paper decorations, very fragile.

 

Stay tuned!

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Again, I'm offering Cypress Vine seeds to anyone who wants some...

 

this time, pink and white ones ~

 

(I've already promised some to a few and I haven't forgotten you!)

 

I ordered 10 seeds each this past spring from an eBay seller,

 

"White Feather" and "Bright Pink" ~

 

and now I have pinks and whites galore!

 

(Last year's more common Cardinal Red is actually in the minority in my garden now!)

 

 (Just e-mail me with your address (anne@octobermoondesigns.com) if you would like some ~)

 

See the little brown seed pods, above?

 

When you get a start of Cypress Vine, you will have bazillions of seeds from

 

now on that you can share...

 

I also just learned two new names for the vine...

 

Cupid's Vine and Star Glory...

 

to go along with Cardinal Vine, Hummingbird Vine, and just plain Cypress Vine.

 

Funny, all the names we have for the same plant!

 

It's such a delicate vine that it really isn't invasive; it's very easy to just pull the little

 

tendrils away from whatever you don't want it to grow on...

 

I just liked the way it looked, enveloping the Witch Balls!

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That's all for now...

 

I have to go dig out all my Halloween things and start making party-plans...

 

Have a wonderful evening!

 

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