Halloween Invite

I drew this invite just for you my very special blog followers: Thank you.

Free Downloadable Halloween Invite 

          Happy Halloween!!!

Craft: Ghostly lights for Halloween!

Here’s a fun way to light your table for Halloween dinner.

The supplies you’ll need:

1) Foil wrap

2) White cloth

3) White glue or starch

4) Thread

5) Black Sharpie

6) Battery operated tea light candles

1) Mold the Foil wrap into a ghost shape about 5” high. Start with a ball.

Then mold the body around it.

    2) Then cut a piece of white fabric into a 10” circle.

3) a. If you use white glue you will need to mix it with water until its consistency is like maple syrup then dip your fabric circle into the glue until it is wet.

Halloween Ghostly lights 

      b. If you use the starch spray your fabric circle until it is really wet.

Halloween Craft: Ghostly lights

4) Now mold your fabric over the foil ghost and tie the thread around the ghost neck and then around each arm to hold the fabric in place while it dries.

 Halloween Craft: Ghostly lights

5) Once your ghost has completely dried draw on a face with a black sharpie.

6) Now cut the threads off and remove the foil from inside.

Halloween Craft: Ghostly lights

7) Place your ghost over a battery operated tea candle.

Printemps Paris

Printemps department store is a corner stone of Paris fashion. It is always on the cutting edge of what is going on in the fashion world. 

 I thought you might like to know what they are saying about this season's trends and remember their forecast is usually a season ahead of ours so you'll be a fashion leader.  :) 

                             AUTUMN/WINTER 2013 TRENDS

Rock, Punk and Grunge

Inspiration from Men's Classics 

 Inspired by Post War Heroines

Blueberry picking and the changing times

I have different news sources emailing me articles all the time. I enjoy seeing what’s going on in the cyber and real world which often feel very different to me. Even with my blog and website I find it hard to organize the two worlds in my mind.

I believe something is getting lost somewhere in the middle and this headline from Digg kind of brought it to a head for me.

Don't Waste A Vacation

picturelife.com

What's the point of taking a vacation if you can't show it off? With Picturelife you'll

 know that your photos are forever safe and secure. You just worry about taking drool-worthy pictures, they'll do the rest.

This is an ad for the website above but it got me thinking. Is life now all about the photo opp or do we share on the web to make people jealous of our lives?

The stand where you pay is on the honor system 

 I recently took a very nice family from out of town to a blueberry farm that I've gone to for years with my boys. They were excited to see it.  Pictures were taken right as we entered the field in all kinds of wonderful poses. A few blueberries were picked and then they were off to the next part of the plan. 

 Blueberry bushes

 I thought about it as one of the girls was still with me in the field and we picked and talked for awhile. She was very young but she picked and talked just like my boys used to do. It was a sweet calm time for maybe 20 minutes until we had to join the others.

Blueberry bushes 

 My boys, my Mom and I used to go late in the day to these same blueberry fields when the air was a bit cooler and the sun was low in the sky.  We’d pick for hours until we could no longer see the berries. When we left we’d have enough berries for several pies, bowls to eat and some to freeze.

Blueberry bushes

More important than our blueberry haul was the time we spent talking and laughing about so many different subjects. We have picked berries every year since my boys were in Kindergarten. We never missed a year sometimes going two or three times a season. 

Blueberry Field

Now that they are both in college and away from home it’s not very easy to get to the field but sometimes everyone is home during blueberry season and we still go out to the fields because to all of us it’s a treasured time. And the funny thing is there are no photos of us out in the fields but in my mind and theirs the precious evenings will always make us smile and have been one of the wonderful links that have bonded us together in life.

Welcome Back a Fun Flash Dance

I'm so glad advertisers are putting their money into things like this. Their helping the staving artist and making people smile money well spent. I don't mind sharing it because it will make you smile too.

I would love to come off of a long flight and walk into this.

A Fun Summer Party Idea: Dancing the Night Away

Dance Party: A Fun Party I Hope You’ll Try

This summer my husband hasn't felt like entertaining but I have so I decided to try a party idea I had been kicking around in my head, a dance party with only women.

I got my son who is a DJ and had him play 70's and 80's dance music. You could easily do this with an Ipod or a CD player and probably your phone.

Then I invited my friends and told them to invite their friends.

A Women's Dance Party

I made it a potluck with the rules being:

The food had to be bought at a store or restaurant and had to stay in its original container.

Also optional, you could bring something to drink.

All I had to supply was a clean house (I suppose the clean house is optional),

music, paper plates, paper cups, napkins, utensils and some beer and ice.

I started the party at 6:30 and had the music run from 7:30 to 9:30. I had the music just loud enough so we could still talk and still feel the music for dancing.

Dancing the night away

 I had the dance party on a Thursday so I wouldn't disrupt anyone’s weekend plans with their families.

I invited all my women neighbors to the party by hanging a note on their door and let my men neighbors know about the music so they knew when it would start and end.

The party turned out to be one of my best parties ever.  We all just let loose and danced funny and fun dances ate and talked. Most of us danced for the entire two hours.

I haven’t laughed so much in a long time. By the responses I got afterwards we all felt such a sense of playful joy as though we were kids again.

A Fun Party Idea

       Everyone wants to do it again so it is on my calendar for next year.

Wearable Art: Alexander Mc Queen Fall Fashion Show 2013/2014

I looked through the fall fashion shows and found this one. I thought this show would be fun to share because it’s complete eye candy. You would have to be very rich and a little eccentric to wear any of these dresses; it’s a walking art exhibit. I hope you enjoy it.