crafts and magical gifts

The heat has arrived!! Well, a little bit..

It will get much hotter before we get out of the month.

Good news is...Monsoon season starts on Saturday!

I look forward to hearing thunder and smelling the rain come in.

It peaks in July😀 but sometimes we get lucky and it drops sooner.

It's getting closer to Halloween!

We only have 

139 Days left!!!

 I have a few things I've been making lately..

This is a book trinket box

A couple of cookie cutter witches

made of clay..

 

These paper mache dolls are a work in progress,

(Can you tell one of them is Frida?)

So is this junk journal..I absolutely love

Where The Wild Things Are!! 

It's the first book I remember reading.

I'll show you the pages 

once I'm done with it.

I found this quote a while ago, and I feel it's

fitting in perfectly with how I want to live my life.

I think if you look for magic everyday, you WILL find it.

Lately it seems as though magic and gifts keep 

drifting into my world.

Here's a little list of amazing things that have happened:

 

I recently had a visit to my doctor and he told me I 

was done with my post-operative bi-annual appointments, 

I don't need to go back!

That is Magic to me!!

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 oooh, I was given this candle the other night!

It smells like the green tea perfume

from Elizabeth Arden:)

 

This next candle smells just like a coffee shop, SO GOOD!!

It's so saturated, the whole house was filled with this 

incredible scent...

 

 

The view out of my kitchen window,

 

 

 

New magazines with my favorite birds

and projects!

I love all things Haunted Mansion so

this giant box with the hitchhiking ghosts was

such a great surprise.

This was gifted to me yesterday.

One of the lovely little hummingbirds

posing for me...

These are bookends!!!

Incredible, stunning, glittery bookends💫

I love all these amazing treasures!!

I think my favorite one is this one:

Peeves just getting ready for a nap.

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Well, I have to get going for now..

I hope everyone is doing well.

I'll be by later to visit.

 

Skeletons and Gratitude..

Hello!

How was your Halloween?

We had a pretty quiet one, only six trick or treaters showed up!

It's okay...

We watched The Amityville Horror, ate candy and snuggled up under a blanket on the sofa.

Look at this!
I won this adorable wreath from Lady Caer Morganna at The Wiccan Life 
She also sent a pumpkin dish towel and a super cute Halloween card!!
Thank you so much!!

 

I also participated in an artcard swap with an instagram friend.

She sent me this..

 

 I sent her these..

It was fun..I hadn't done a swap in a long time and I'm hoping to do more in the future.

Anyone? anyone? lol!

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For Dia de los muertos

I set up our altar like I usually do..

Helena and I made some salt dough ornaments to add to it later too.

I had a dream about my dad, which was great..

I seem to dream of him on days that are significant.

I miss him so much.

In the dream , he looked young..about 60. 

We made plans to go shopping then have lunch.

It was nice to see him again.

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So, it's November!

I'm pretty excited about it, I love the Holidays..

But there's something about November..

Obviously, I look forward to Thanksgiving.

I love roasting the turkey and preparing all the food.

But this month reminds me of fairy tales and magic.

There are 

bright yellow leaves on some of the trees that rustle around,

Deep velvety skies filled with shimmering stars

&

The cool, crisp air sparkles with an energy that other months don't seem to have.

Maybe because here, in Arizona, it finally starts to cool down, 

and you can actually tell that there is a season other than Summer.

Anyway, all this fills my heart with hope and my thoughts turn to gratitude

Gratitude for so many things! 

So....

I want to start a new weekly blog post..

I'm going to post recipes, crafts..a lot like HH , but more of a holiday vibe to it..

It's going to be about gratitude, magic, blessing, inspirations and joy.

You can join in, or just come by to visit.

If you do a post, it can be:

 a story about a person that inspires you,

a picture of something that makes you feel grateful,

an incredible recipe,

your art or living space,

anything that makes you feel the magic of the season. 

We are including our abandoned art in these posts too.

Helena and I make something...usually something small  that has an inspirational theme to it,

then we leave it somewhere.

(I used to do this before, you can read about it Here)

 

I'm going to start this week and

it's going to be called  Merry Monday! 

I hope you will join me!

I'll post something every Monday.

Have a beautiful weekend,

See you soon.

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