Haunted Humpday 7

Hello and welcome

to Haunted Humpday #7

How was your week?

Mine got away from me!

I had planned on coming back 

and visiting with you again on saturday

but before I knew it, it was gone..

 I received an awesome gift
in the mail though!
I won a giveaway from
Ms. Lillypads
The prize consisted of
A gorgeous deck of goddess cards
lovely handmade magnets
and two beautiful stones.
Thank you!!

The winner of last week's
Haunted Humpday

giveaway

is Mexitali Rose

congratulations,

this will be flying over to you soon!

 How much reading are you getting during this

 super busy season?

I have a couple suggestions...

 both of these have a haunting aura,

perfect for windy October nights.

The first book is called

Year of Wonders,

This is wonderfully written.

Although it's about the plague

there's a lot of beautiful imagery,

and even a couple of witches

thrown in for good measure.

 There's a wistful quality to this.

This next one is the story of

the start of the Salem witch trials.
 it's a beautiful, hopeful tale .

a bit spooky at times.

I loved both of these

  

I get so excited when I find Halloween themed foods..
 Look what I found!

and this,

These caramel apple cupcakes turned out
amazing!

Lately I've been getting things ready
for our party!

Voodoo dolls will be an essential  part
of the festivities you know...
 But don't worry,
 it's all good magic we're brewing.

They are easy to make..
all you need are:
two twigs
 one slightly smaller than the other
Spanish moss or fibers
feathers
pins
twine & fabric (felt works great)
hot glue gun and glue sticks

place a stick in the middle of a piece of fabric
place moss/fibers along the length of the stick
leave a little bit hanging over the edge
add a feather to top
roll the fabric around the moss, stick and feather
hot glue fabric down one side 
To make the arms
poke a hole through doll about 3/4 of the way down
push the smaller stick though.
wrap twine tightly around it.
add a few pins.

you can add other details to it if you want
like buttons
or even a face.

speaking of parties
Celia from
Adventures of the striped stocking
is having a
little witch shoe challenge!
you can make
paper shoes
wooden shoes
take a pair of
real shoes and witch them up...
I'm definitely going to play along. 

Are you ready to sit around the fire?

You know how creepy it is here
in this old house...
banshees next door and graveyards underfoot.
My mom used to talk about her grandfather
quite a bit..
he was a very respectable man...
worked as a deputy sheriff in his town.
The thing is
he'd see things..
things that terrified  him..
scary little jet black creatures
with horns and tails
about  a foot tall.
They would follow him around
hissing  and clawing.
His attempts to kick at them
were pointless.
His wife called them duendes or goblins,
whenever she came around they'd run off.
She claimed it was because he wasn't baptized.

My great grandparents passed away long before I was born
but the story has stayed with me.
according to legend, goblins lived in the walls..
I always thought they lived in our chimney
because when I was a child I could hear them...
(or I thought i could)
rustling sounds..
muffled giggles..
strange little shadows..
small stones falling down through the grate.
 All could be explained away
I guess....

 

Something I've heard is that they like to play tricks...
almost like poltergeists ,
sometimes I think they're still around.

My daughter had a ceramic potato shaped bowl
  (I don't know why)
in her room on a shelf with some beads in it.
One early morning she awoke to a clink clink clinking sound,
when she'd raise her head
it would stop
as soon as she'd lie down again it would start.
She said it sounded like
someone was tapping something with their fingernail.
It went on for a short while
then a loud crash scared her out of bed.
The potato bowl lay shattered on the floor.
 It had been set far back on the shelf
with no way of slipping off.
My first though was
Duende!
another thing that happened is:
my older daughter and Helena
used to play this game.
Helena would howl
from her bed
Gabriella would howl back from her room...
weird? not for us, lol
one night Helena was howling
so Gabriella howled back
they did this for a while.
I got up to get a glass of water 
and asked her (Gabriella) why she was howling
at one a.m.
she said she was playing the game with
Helena...I told her Helena was asleep in MY bed
and had been for a few hours.

Okay...
I have a giveaway prize
but I don't have a photo
tonight
I'll post it tomorrow.
It's a ghost in a jar, sort of:)

have a great day
Hope to see you later!!

M