HERE it is....THE DAY BEFORE HALLOWEEN


Several friends asked me to repost this Halloween tidbit
so here 'tis....

This has always been one of my favorite holidays...

I so enjoyed it as a kid.....then...with my kids...and now.....GRANDkids...

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My mother and my AUNT LILLIAN always dressed me up as a gypsy woman...

A scarf around my long black hair, lots of eye makeup and lipstick

.Oh, I was lovin' this at the age of 7 and 8....

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lots of jewelry, long skirt.....I felt just beautiful.....
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"The day is often associated with orange and black, and is strongly associated with symbols like the jack-o'-lantern. Halloween activities include trick-or-treating, wearing costumes, ghost tours, bonfires, costume parties, visiting haunted attractions, carving jack-o'-lanterns, pranking people, reading scary stories, and watching horror movies."

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Yes, I always dressed like a gypsy woman....i always thought they were so pretty....

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BUT...FOR THIS PARTY....

......IT'S SUPERGIRL....with the shapely legs and tiny feet.....
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MISS LUCY LOOSE is our guest of honor at this HALLOWEEN table...
come on it and join us before a nice, warm fire in the FRANKLIN wood burning stove...
We have our table right in front of the fire so you will stay warm...it turned COLD
out here in West Texas...
(well, for THIS day, anyway..a cold front blew thru and right on to somewhere else)
this was in 2009

I've set the table in the grandest of HALLOWEEN magicalness....
NEVER, NEVER anything scary....OH, NO...NEVER SCARY !!

We like "fun and colorful"
for HALLOWEEN....

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OH, here's MARSHMALLOW, our live in GHOST-WANNA-BE...
we're so glad you could come and join in this fun party, MARSH.....
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MARSH chose a chair right in front of that roaring, comfy fire....
and check out that ghostly smile....he is SO happy to be here...and warm!!
He is usually hanging around out on the front porch at this time of year...
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EXCUSE ME, Miss Lucy....it is VERY impolite to

READ AT THE TABLE...
especially when there's a ghostly guest...
this IS a party, you know.
Even if you are reading a really great magazine..COUNTRY LIVING with some of the BEST Halloween recipes in it...

IT WILL HAVE TO WAIT....!!
***I hope you like the ceramic pumpkin I bought last year at WALGREEN...

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AHHH HA!! I am so glad to see you put away the magazine and have made friends with MARSH....
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We are all so glad you came by...
We all hope YOUR Halloween is safe and 
fun ....
love, bj

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MARY'S MOSAIC MONDAY
SHOW OFF YOUR COTTAGE
TABLETOP TUESDAY

STRAWBERRIES, AUTUMN LEAVES and HAPPY HALLOWEEN

Q. Why didn't the skeleton cross the road?

A. He didn't have the guts.

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Q. Why do ghosts have so much trouble dating?

A. Women can see right through them.
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Q. What do you get when you cross a snowman with a vampire?

A. Frostbite.
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 pink pumpkin...

These are just waaay cool...

HAPPY PINKS, EVERYONE...

This is the time of year when you can have

STRAWBERRIES

mixed in with

AUTUMN LEAVES and pumpkins...
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The time of year that you can wear

SHORTS

or

SWEATERS....or both !

You carry a light jacket in your car...

and a cap to put on and pull down over your ears....

a light blanket, too....

You start pouring over catalogs, looking for that

PERFECT  Christmas gift for someone special...

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You move your

SUMMER CLOTHES

to either the back of your closet or to an OUT OF SEASON closet...

but you save a few SHORT sleeved tops....just in case it gets HOT again for a few days....

and I wear my jean capris all year long.....

 are they still called capris ?

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Being OLDEN, I somehow am FOREVER behind in fashions...

actually, I have never been too fashion minded..

well, maybe when I was a young thing....

yep...at one time, a loooong time ago, in another galaxy.

my closet held a little over 50 pair of shoes, at one time..

OMGosh....

and mostly HIGH HEELS..

GOOD GRIEF !

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You keep the OVEN going just a little longer in the mornings...

to knock the chill that's settled into the rooms....

not quite ready to turn on the central heat....

You know Halloween is right around the corner...

and you start noticing every WOOD YARD you pass...thinking about a big fire in the fireplace..ummm

Which, by the way, our log holder is getting mighty low of firewood...

but enough there to build a roaring fire on halloween....booooooo

You still hold on to the summery days...

but

pumpkins start showing up ALL OVER THE PLACE...
in the most luscious of colors...

Our trees here in WEST TEXAS are just beginning to turn..
...another couple of weeks, and we'll see a big difference in colors...
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I still have a FEW summer blooms ...
but the AUTUMN JOY is saying....fall

It's trying hard here in our part of TEXAS to turn FALL..

...it's just almost there.....

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I am linking with:

SATURDAY NIGHT SPECIAL

PINK SATURDAY

MY FAVORITE THINGS SATURDAY

SEASONAL SUNDAY

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My thanks to all the fine hosts...

BEVERLY has asked us to introduce a new or a "new to us" blog
and I would love for you to meet my new friend, BRENDA.
She has a beautiful blog, BRENDA'S BLOG and I hope you will go by and give her a hug and a WELCOME..
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The following is what she has written beneath the photo of herself, with her grandmother.
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"This weekend my grandmother turned 90.
The year she was born (1920), the bandaid was invented.
She is a breast cancer SURVIVOR of 44 years.
For her birthday, we all went to church together, because that is what she wanted."
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BRENDA is fighting breast cancer...please visit her and give her all the encouragement you possibly can.
Her motto:
IF LIFE WAS EASY, WHERE WOULD ALL THE ADVENTURE BE ?
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My love to all...
I would really like to know WHY my font goes to such SMALL letters ??

That Pottery Barn...they sure know how to strut their stuff.....

POTTERY BARN
has several found  items in their catalog...
FOUND meaning vintage, I am assuming....
WHATever it means...they do have some pretty cool things...
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Wouldn't you LOVE to find a crate like this ?

I sure would...Pretty expensive..

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Bet a really nice, wooden COKE box would look awesome, too...you could add some rusty or even rope handles on each end. ...........Now THAT would be so cute...

I am going to start looking for one.

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On someone's blog, I noticed that they BUILT a crate to their liking...

Now...that's a great idea...

Oh, yes...NOW  I remember that it was 

HOLLY that lives over at 504 Main

that made the above fabulous CRATE...

go over and see just how she made it and then lets build ourselves one....

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 Most of you know how much I LOVE coping POTTERY BARN

with my thrifted  items...it just doesn't take much to entertain moi.
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LEFT:  POTTERY BARN woven wine bottles...$99 to $279.00

RIGHT:  SWEET NOTHING'S ....thrifted for $2.00 to $6.00

and MR. SWEET dug up the olden, thick dark green glass bottle so.....free..
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I just learned from SALLY that these woven bottle holders are called
demijohns...
"Demijohn is an old word that formally referred to any glass vessel with a large body and small neck, enclosed in wickerwork". ....from the net.
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Now, I just HAVE to add SHELIA'S comment on Sally's DEMIJOHN post...
"HI Sally! I didn't know what a demijohn was - I was thinking a small portable toilet! :)" lol...
oH, Shelia..you silly silly girl...
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 vintage rake from POTTERY BARN

$129.00

whew....I would love one of these wooden rakes...really cool looking
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Heck...I'd REALLY like some of those beautiful FALLEN leaves..
We just don't have many of these out in WEST TEXAS..
they surely are pretty....
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and while I'm at it...
I'd love having a bench, hat rack and a pot of lovely flowers..just like theirs. :)).
I am soooo WANTING everything...everything life has to offer...I WANT IT. !
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I do hope that you know what is MOST IMPORTANT in this world, I do have...and I am very thankful for them all.

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MORE of those demijohns...
POTTERY BARN...top left...

bj's....bottom left

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just having fun with it....

These are vintage PIZZA BOARD PADDLES...aren't they so interesting...

$129.00 EACH...

 I love just about ANY kind of signs...and especially killer ones like these...

$69.00

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O, all you talented ladies out there that can paint..

I am GREEN with envy..!!

 A couple of  vintage BULB TRAYS...

I'm in love...

$99.00...so it will continue to be a love affair from  afar...:)

Now, People...

I would LOVE to find one of these that I could afford...so so cute.

$129. to $199.00...talk about adding texture and personality to your room...!!

...for the life of me, i couldn't spend two hundred dollars for a pizza board... just couldn't do it.!!

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POTTERY BARN

They have so many pretty things

and can sit a table that looks

                               like a million dollars.

  We just can't always do that....

If you like something in a catalog but don't have

the neccessary THINGS they are showing....copy it..

Choose something else that's interesting

and different...

For instance, I am using this

VINTAGE SHOT BAG to house a

an extra special bottle of wine...

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FOUND items, whether they are from

Pottery Barn, that can be a bit pricey,

OR

GOODWILL, garage sales, other thrifty places, and our own LAND of ETSY,

are so so cute to use on your tables...

something a little different from all the others...

and I LOVE that !!.....don't you?

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I KNOW

POTTERY BARN

doesn't "do" CAKES....

but......if they DID...they would look like this !!
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I am linking with:
VINTAGE INSPIRATION FRIDAY  
FABULOUS FINDS FRIDAY
SHOW AND TELL FRIDAY
TICKLED PINK FRIDAY
VIGNETTE FRIDAY
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Thanks to all these fine hosts...
It's such fun playing in these memes.. YOU might like it, too.

BUDGET CENTERPEICE..don't 'cha love 'em !!

I just delight in finding something really DIFFERENT...

for my dining table.

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 Flowers are ALWAYS nice..

even FAUX ones, if they are pretty..

It's just that I get tired of the same things...

MR. SWEET says I am very fickle...

He says that I just LUVVVVV one thing one day

and be through with it the next...

EXCEPT FOR HIM !!!

Seasonal things are always great...

I do love this simple basket full of our Earth's bounty...

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 ...but it surely doesn't TAKE MY BREATH AWAY...

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This is totally OFF the subject but a friend brought

this AMAZING cookbook over for me to drool over..

Can't wait to get started on it.

THANKS, TAMMY !!

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 BORING...

just plain BORING !

 and, THEN...

thunderbolt right out of the sky and

I remembered this little cutest round pot CONTAINER

that I won last year from THE BRAMBLE BERRY COTTAGE.

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Jars with CANDY CORN and CANDLES...

I saw this done last year on a blog...wonder whos...

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 don't you think this is a simple but very cute CENTERPIECE

that won't break the bank.

You don't have to have a container such as this..
Jars gathered on a pretty tray...
or just lined up down the center of your table....
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I would LOVE to have an olden metal MILK BOTTLE holder...

Now, that REALLY WOULD be cute used like this..

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 Oh, I found these white CORN ON THE COB holders

on clearance at DOLLAR GENERAL..

They only had 2 left but....

there's only 2 of us at SWEET NOTHINGS..
I know..I know...I'm off the subject again.!

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 Yes, ma'am....I do love this..

It's cute...

it's different..

and I just shopped MY COTTAGE..!
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And the good thing...

IF the wax doesn't drip down into the candy....

We can EAT the CANDY CORN when we finish with the centerpiece.

I just LUV eating the CENTERPIECE...

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I am linking with

CENTERPIECE WEDNESDAY

TABLESCAPE THURSDAY

SIMPLE PLEASURES

My thanks to all the hosts of these fun memes....

Love to all..

bj