Now they are both gone and I’ve upgraded my main blog, but I still wanted them to be part of my story. This year’s Halloween Party and all others that come after it will be dedicated to them! Please check back for some Halloween surprises!

I haven’t dressed up one of my dogs since this picture of Dante on Halloween of 2014. We lost him the next month.

I also love creating potions. Since I’m a good witch I don’t have all the fire and brimestone stuff going on. I just have a little wee cauldron that I often fill with goodies when I’m not using it for potions!

You know I made my very own potion book and labels for my potion bottles. But my potion book is not full of your every day potions don’t you know!

But I must say the first potion I created sort of back fired…I wanted to conjure a black spider, but well, agh, he came out purple.

Which, hey is fine for me, ’cause like I said that’s my favorite color. Hmm, I wonder if that happenend on purpose! Maybe I had purple on the brain! Ah! Who knows! I love him just the same!

So I for practice I conjured another spider. This one turned out black. My spider buddies help me pick out my potions. Wanna see my recipe cards?

I made Love Potion #9 for today’s party! But we all need to be very careful with this one!! Oh! Wow! Will you look at that! That’s where my chocolate cheesecake recipe went to!

Well I know you’ve got to run, there are so many others to see tonight! Here, I’ve made this treat just for you! Enjoy!

Happy Halloween!

Additional credit: Itsy Bitsy spider box template from Jeromina Juan

The Warning

As sudden thunder
Pierces the night;
As magic wonder,
Wild affright,
Rives asunder
Men’s delight;
Our ghost, our corpse and we
Rive to be.

As flies the lizard
Serpent fell;
As goblin vizard
At the spell
Of pale wizard
Sinks to hell:
Our life, our laugh our lay
Pass away.

As wake the morning
Trumpets bright;
As snowdrop, scorning
Winter’s might,
Rises warning
Like a sprite:
We buried, dead and slain
Rise again.

Oh, please Igor you’ll scare these nice people away! Please do not listen to him, he likes to be dramatic! That was just a famous poem from Thomas Lovell Beddoes. Come, come, come inside. I have a story to tell you, so please stay for a spell.

But first, may I interest you in a drink? Please, name your poison…

Now, that we’re all settled in. Let me begin. It all started on October 31st in the haunted house high uptop a spooky hill

Ever since she was a little girl she liked to experiment with paper, you know what they call papercrafting. She had no friends, everyone was afraid of the family that lived on that haunted hill. So instead she made her own friends out of paper. Take for example Frankie here…

She even made him brains…but the worms ate them

She experimented with candy…

And even tried selling some of her concoctions…

But these just scared people away. She had a brain storm after meeting with a family friend…but these tiny treats seemed to cast a spell on people (reese’s peanut butter cupitis).

She decided to stick to making cards… and would recite her most favorite Halloween poetry while she made them:

Hallowe’en
The ghosts of all things past parade,
Emerging from the midst and shade
That hid them from our gaze,
And, fall of song and ringing mirth,
In one glad moment of rebirth,
And again they walk the ways of earth
As in the ancient days.

The beacon light shines on the hill,
The will-o’-wisps the forests fill
With flashes filched from noon;
And witches on their broomsticks spry
Speed here and yonder in the sky,
And lift their strident voices high
Unto the Hunter’s Moon.

The air resounds with tuneful notes
From myriads of straining throats,
All hailing Folly Queen;
So join the swelling choral throng,
Forget your sorrow and your wrong,
In one glad hour of joyous song
To honor Hallowe’en!

Oh, no, I think you’ve had too much to drink! Here, here, stand up straight!

Hurry you must go its almost midnight…fare thee well..back to Ms Vanessa’s you must go!

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