Witches and Pirates and Wizards, Oh, My!

Good Wednesday evening, everyone!

 

It's been a busy week around here; that's what I get for always being such an "Eleventh Hour" girl!

 

 Last weekend was a busy one, as well;
I painted faces at Civil War Days in

Columbus-Belmont State Park in Columbus, Kentucky, about an hour away.

It's a beautiful park on the bluffs above the Mississippi, and I always look forward to it...

However, about midnight Saturday (after I had steadily painted from about noon until seven),

a storm blew in and we were afraid our little tent wouldn't make it through the night,

so we packed up and came home...

I had planned to take lots of photos on Sunday, and that didn't happen ~ still, I have a

few that I'll share later...

For now, here's what's going on in my little corner of the world...

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First, I need to explain.

My husband likes to decorate.

He goes to Dollar General and brings home all sorts of things,

most of which I sneak into my donation boxes for the kitty sanctuary ~ Safe Harbor ~ later.

(They have a thrift shop.)

One of the things today was this witch.

Bless his heart.

But, I will leave it up, he was so pleased with it.

I just won't be able to find it next year...;^)

 

Now, there is nothing wrong with Dollar General, not at all.

I am thrilled that there is a new one about a half mile from our house,

so I don't have to make the ten-mile round trip to Wal-Mart on the other side of town...

(not nearly as often, anyway...)

...for laundry and cleaning supplies and milk and bread...

I even bought a cool black lace-spider web table cloth from the Halloween

section in there last week...

However, there are a lot of things in the decorating department that I would pass up.

Lots.

Not Nelson.

We even have a rubber dismembered hand and several eyeballs.

And some motion-activated ghosts that moan in one of my fig trees on the front porch.

This is what happens when I wait too long to decorate.

 

;^)

 

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This afternoon when passing through the kitchen, I saw Tallulah creeping very slowly

toward the front door, the hair on her tail and ruff standing out bottle-brush-style...

 

She had spied the witch...

 

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She sat and stared and stared at it...

 

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Then she reached for it...
I held her up so she could see what it was...

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Later on I came back through, and she was still sitting there, staring at it...:)

Silly Lulah.

She's wondering about our delightfully tacky taste in witches.

(If you know Mr. B, don't tell on me...)

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Here's what I'm working on for this coming weekend,

Vulture Fest in Makanda, Illinois.

A use for the little short heirloom okra pods!

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My makeshift work-table...

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And finally, a work-in-progress...

Tallulah the Witch, Cyrus the Pirate, and Leo the Wizard...

I'm hopefully going to get this done in time to "Zazzle" it into Halloween cards...(just pencil so far)...

I plan to use watercolor for the underpainting, and finish it with Prismacolor pencils ~

(Fingers crossed!)

Hope everyone has a great Thursday!

♥