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1. Trick or Treating in Australia

It's been a while since I shared any photographs of my granddaughters but fear not I have lots!! First a little trick or treating; 

Whoops! A little costume readjustment might be in order Zoe.

Ah, there you are my pretty!

Where there is one witch, there must be two... 
and here is Lilly right on cue...

Mix them up, add some more.
Hocus-pocus, now there are four (behind you!) 

Beware!! Enter at your own risk...



Hah! Zoe is more than a match for you … 

Phew I'm glad to be out of there, but wait for me these treats are getting heavy. 

I know there are some scary creatures in Oz, but Vampire Dogs are too much for me, run!

Enough of scary things … Obliviate!  (With thanks to Harry Potter!)  Now for a few pics of my granddaughters returned to their charming selves.

Just look at those sunnies

Miss Lilly ... Superstar

Miss Zoe... trying out a new hair style

and enjoying a giggle 

Lilly ballet rehearsal

Show time

The show must go on  

Thank you for visiting, I hope you enjoyed Halloween and happy November! 

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2. Music Monday - A Halloween Playlist

Something for you listen to (and watch) while you are awaiting your trick-or-treaters:

Samhain Night - Loreena McKennitt

 The Dead are Dancing - Toni Childs

 I am Stretched on Your Grave - Dead Can Dance


Clohinne Winds - Niamh Parsons

 Witches - Cowboy Junkies

Black Wind Blowing - Billy Bragg

 Bittersweet - Apocalyptica

 Heaven's Gate - Toni Childs

 Bottom of the River - Delta Rae

 All Souls Night - Loreena McKennitt

 Dance in the Graveyard - Delta Rae

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3. Happy Halloween to One and All!


Round about the cauldron go;  
In the poison’d entrails throw.  
Toad, that under cold stone   
Days and nights hast thirty one  
Swelter’d venom sleeping got,  
Boil thou first i’ the charmed pot.  

     Double, double toil and trouble;  
     Fire burn and cauldron bubble. 





Fillet of a fenny snake,  
In the cauldron boil and bake;  
Eye of newt, and toe of frog,  
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,  
Adder’s fork, and blind-worm’s sting,  
Lizard’s leg, and howlet’s wing,  
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.  

     Double, double toil and trouble;  
     Fire burn and cauldron bubble. 



Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf,           
Witches’ mummy, maw and gulf       
Of the ravin’d salt-sea shark, 
Root of hemlock digg’d i’ the dark,  
Liver of blaspheming Jew,       
Gall of goat, and slips of yew
Sliver’d in the moon’s eclipse,           
Nose of Turk, and Tartar’s lips,         
Finger of birth-strangled babe             
Ditch-deliver’d by a drab,     
Make the gruel thick and slab:           
Add thereto a tiger’s *chaudron,         
For the ingredients of our cauldron.

     Double, double toil and trouble;  
     Fire burn and cauldron bubble. 

According to this online Macbeth Glosary *chaudron are entrails.  Who knew?


Macbeth, Act IV, Scene I
William Shakespeare, 1564 - 1616
This poem is in the public domain



By Pumpkins fat and witches lean...
By coal black cats with eyes of green,
By all the magic ever seen...
I wish you luck this Halloween..



Happy Halloween to family, friends, and all readers of my blog. Stay safe this Halloween. Me? I will be hiding under the bed covers. 

I must say a very big thank you to Yvonne for this fantastic Halloween card (right).  If you have not had the pleasure of meeting Yvonne, you will find her over at Melancholy and Menace or at her Etsy shop here


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4. Happy Halloween Spooky Raven

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Spooky-Raven-2-by-Floating-Lemons

 

A quick painted sketch of a raven holding a dying flower (I think it's a rose but can't quite tell), just in time for me to wish you a Happy Halloween! Be safe and have fun. Cheers.

 

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5. Halloween Orange Striped Bats Cake

31OrangeStripedBatsCakeI've been dabbling rather than drawing recently. One of the results being the above cake, sketched out in marker pens, to which I added little bats for Halloween. Also did a couple of other cakes at the same time and I'll clean them up and add them at a later date.

Meanwhile, I've been concentrating on updating past drawings and designs at my Zazzle store, adding them to new products such as their stationery line (letterheads, matching envelopes and address labels, I truly enjoy creating matching sets!), and on cleaning and sorting out my home, preparing it for the coming months of winter work. Getting rid of the clutter and oh my, there's a ton of that.

I've also spent the last couple of days experimenting with watercolour, with truly embarassing results. More on that in the next post as I'm trying to salvage my one attempt by whipping my watercolour pencils out. If it doesn't turn out too tragic I may share it here ... we shall see!

I did receive a Today's Best Award from Zazzle for the Orange Striped bats Cake Avery Binder design:

31orange_striped_bats_cake_avery_binder-p127284012204772944f7kvr_325 Cheers!

Orange Striped bats Cake cards and matching gifts at Floating Lemons at Zazzle.

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6. Telecommuting Jobs for Saturday, October 31, 2009

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Today I have a couple of good telecommuting job leads for ya’ll. I hope everyone has a safe and fun Halloween. Article Writers Needed Writer and Research Assistant Transcribers Needed Fiction and Non-Fiction Authors Needed Writers Needed for In-Depth Series Newsletter Writer SEO Writer/Link Builder Posted in Telecommuting Jobs Tagged: blogging jobs, freelance jobs, happy halloween, Telecommuting Jobs, writing jobs [...]

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7. Spooky Bridge























While stuck in traffic driving home from Rabbit Hill last week, I glanced up through the torrential rain and saw this bridge. Can you see the spider-and-web design? Oooo... spooky! Perfect timing for Halloween.

(The filter effect was inspired by my son, who has just discovered Photoshop and is trying to scare the bejeesus out of me with creepy effects. As if driving on the Merritt Race... uh, Parkway isn't scary enough...)

Here's a closeup of the ironwork, and more photos of this historic bridge:



















Elizabeth is hosting a collection of Halloween posts today over at her place. Check it out for more spooky fun...

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8. Happy Halloween!

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9. For you - for Halloween



Tim Burton, Vincent Price, Edgar Allen Poe... A morbidly gothic match made in Hallow's Eve heaven (hell?)

[For something more colorful, you can also watch Bach 'playing' jack-o-lanterns here].

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10. Halloween Safety: for the trick or treater's...


Before biting into that yummy milk chocolate, please don't forget to check and examine all of your candies! Make sure to eat only those treats in original, unopened packages. Have a safe and happy halloween!

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11. Sharm e- Shekh, Again…

Shlomo Ben-Ami, the author of Scars of War, Wounds of Peace: The Israeli-Arab Tragedy, is an Oxford-trained historian, a former member of the Knesset, Minister of Public Security, and finally Minister of Foreign Affairs. He has been a key participant in many Arab-Israeli peace conferences, most notably the Camp David summit in 2000. In the post below Ben-Ami looks forward and backwards at the peace process. (more…)

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