Had lunch with my Red Hat sisters today. We played Family Feud and took silly pictures with our Groucho glasses. It was a good time!

 

Never forget

 

It's a very foggy morning in Kinmundy town.

 It's a very foggy morning in Kinmundy town.

 

What a beautiful sunset tonight.

 What a beautiful sunset tonight.

 

Throw Back Thursday

 It's TBT...this photo sure makes me miss my youth..It's TBT...back in the day with no make-up, still had thick hair and no fat, 2003...good times at Carlyle Lake on a very hot summer day with Bill.

 

Ravenswood Family Album

 I finished my vintage Ravenswood family album. Since I made it for myself for my Halloween display thought I would share it with you all. Remember, it is supposed to look like something from the 1800's. I had to age it, beat it up and make it look like it was lost in a leaky attic for a century or two. It was a lot of work, but also great fun. I really needed some of those little corner things that were used to mount pictures and calligraphy pens to write the captions, but I did not have either of those things...so it is what it is. 

 

Throw Back Thursday

 TBT...we had such great times with our little motor home. We drove all over the place, from Texas, to Michigan, to Colorado to New Orleans and all places in between! Good times with my sweet husband. you can tell this was a long time ago, my hair is dark..

 

New Potion Bottles and pending project

 

Here are a few potion bottles I've made lately. This time of year I try to make fun ones that can be used for Halloween parties. I make and sell them all year though. My new favorite thing is making the color-changing bottles. The colors keep swirling and it looks magical! Also,I started making a vintage photo album out of a book that I got at Goodwill. I have the cover done. I am putting old copies of vintage photos in it with some captions. At least that's the plan. I am just making it for me, so no pressure. So, that's what I'm doing on this 102° day!

Everyone stay cool and pretend snow is in the forecast! 

 

It's 102°actual degrees!...feels like...it's HOT!!

 It's 102°actual degrees!...feels like...it's HOT!!

A Praying Mantis Tale

 If you have nothing better to do. Here is a "scary" story. Yesterday we were sitting outside and I happened to look at the hummingbird feeder and there was a praying mantis sitting right next to where the hummingbirds were feeding. A praying mantis can easily kill a hummingbird, they eat them alive! So I knocked him/her off of there and he flew/jumped right back up on the table that is under the feeder. Bill grabbed the fly swatter and managed to throw him in the fire pit. There was no fire, just ash. We thought we had seen the last of him, but no! Soon an ash covered claw came up over the edge and then his head popped up and began looking around like a periscope...creepy, like something out of a horror movie. Plus he was all ash-covered. Then he climbed out, down the bricks and into the grass. He was heading back towards the hummingbird feeder! Bill grabbed the swatter again and got the mantis on there and took him about 200 feet away and flung him over the railroad track, the whole time he was trying to climb up Bill's arm! I used to like praying mantises, but now they just creep me out! They also kill bees. Keep an eye on your feeders and even your flowers, they like to hide there too.

Lunar Eclipse

 These aren't the best eclipse photos, as I don't have a tripod, but it was a perfectly beautiful eclipse tonight. We sat outside and enjoyed the whole thing...these photos are out of sequence, but you get the idea.

 

R.I.P. Dolly Parton

 R.I.P. Dolly Parton.....how sad this amazing lady gone from this earth...