A Ghoulish Answer

While poking around in the online version of the Napa Register I found the following :

Like Stratton, Danielle Dulle of 2192 Penny Lane knows that her neighbors can’t wait to see the yield of her decorating labors. “Last year, we were out of town and the neighbors were disappointed because we didn’t to it. ... When we do it, they always come up and say ‘thank you’ and that makes it worth it,” she said.

Dulle, who has celebrated Halloween vigorously for 15 years, said her yard currently features ghosts, spider webs, crosses, skeleton bodies, skulls, black lights and more. “We left it up to the kids this year to decorate and they did a pretty good job,” she said. "

Don't ask me how I could have missed it for 15 years...LOL I have to drive right by it to get to my moms.. Penny Lane is a dead end street (no pun intended) Oh, and the Register had this wonderful interactive map... with the whopping 8, yes EIGHT, count them, spooky houses in town.... http://www.napavalleyregister.com/maps/halloween/ you see the Dulle's little skull and crossbones int he lower right!

Ghouly Dulle's

Last week I went to Napa and took my grandmother to the grocery store. My father generally does that but he had been out of commission. After taking grandma to the bank and to the grocery store, I stopped by my moms house on the way out of town... A large Halloween display at the Dulle's caught my eye as I was leaving moms. I wondered why I hadn't noticed in on my way in... The only thing I could think of was that it was still daylight when I came in and they generally have so much "stuff" on the street around their house I'm generally looking at that! I'm use to seeing the ever growing, garish Christmas display; but, for some reason this was the first time I can remember seeing a Halloween display there....

Credit:
papers and elements by Lei Fhung at Ztampf
frames by Melanie Willmann (melgen designs) at Pocket Pearls... ok pocket pearls seems to have vanished; but, you also find the frames at OScraps

Perfect (details)

that adorable pumpkin patch layout I posted the other day but couldn't say anything about?! Well, the secret is out! A new collaborative kit, "Bountiful Blessings", by Julie Mead, Doris Castle and Michelle Sheveland is now available at Cottage Arts!

Oh, and right now... all downloadable page paks are on sale at Cottage Arts. (sales ends November 5, 2007)

Perfect

On the way home from our "beach session" a couple of weeks ago, we stopped by the Petaluma Pumpkin Patch and I snapped a couple....



I'm not suppose to post this yet but I wont be around when it is suppose to be posted... besides, I figure nobody reads my blog anyway... LOL. I'll post the credits when the word is out! (big secret)

So Sweet

Just one of the photos I took on Saturday... I love this photo!

The Problem With Mormons!

I dunno.... I found it funny!

Christmas Cards

The kids wanated me to take some photos of them at thebeach to put on their christmas cards, so Saturday we went to the beach. Here are a few of the pictures

Challenge

I did this today (instead of mopping floors) for the October Week 2 CT challenge over at Cottage Arts. The theme is nature.... These are pictures takenlast year at the pumpkin farm.... of course you recognize that adorable pumpkin in the middle!

Faux Pas

It's a funny thing about men... as they age, they grow hair from every orifice of their bodies. The well groomed man keeps these hairs trimmed... if not, the lady in his life generally makes sure extraneous hairs are kept in check. I'm not quite sure how this one slipped inspection... this man sat in front of mom and I at a concert last weekend. He had a small pet growing in his ears and I'm not even going to discuss the stuff stuck in his nose... Come on ladies.. for heavens sake... check your men... get rid of that hair... at least in the nose and ears... other defurring or waxing is entirely optional!

Say What?

I don't know, this is such a silly thing... It shouldn't bother me... could be the stress I have put myself under lately... I'm sure I'm making something out of nothing... with my weight issues of the past few years I have become sooo self conscious... So the thing is... My mom who has often commented on how shiny my hair is... and has even asked how I keep it that way... on Friday, told me that if I plan on washing my hair every day (have for the past 40 years) that I should use one of those "shine products"... because my hair is always "dull" So now I'm second guessing everything about myself... argh!

News to Follow Soon

I'll tell you in a couple of days why I made this Layout!

"One"

Have you ever gotten a song stuck in your head and all you want to do is play it over and over? Well, I'm listening to Joe Cocker in my head and on my web! I'm thinking the lyrics might serve as inspiration for something....

Is it getting better
Or do you feel the same
Will it make it easier on you now
You got someone to blame
You say...

One love
One life
When it's one need
In the night
One love
We get to share it
Leaves you baby if you
Don't care for it

Did I disappoint you
Or leave a bad taste in your mouth
You act like you never had love
And you want me to go without
Well it's...

Too late
Tonight
To drag the past out into the light
We're one, but we're not the same
We get to
Carry each other
Carry each other
One...

Have you come here for forgiveness
Have you come to raise the dead
Have you come here to play Jesus
To the lepers in your head

Did I ask too much
More than a lot
You gave me nothing
Now it's all I got
We're one
But we're not the same
Well we
Hurt each other
Then we do it again
You say
Love is a temple
Love a higher law
Love is a temple
Love the higher law
You ask me to enter
But then you make me crawl
And I can't be holding on
To what you got
When all you got is hurt

One love
One blood
One life
You got to do what you should
One life
With each other
Sisters
Brothers
One life
But we're not the same
We get to
Carry each other
Carry each other

One life

One...

I had forgotten what a genius this guy is! (my opinion) Yea, I suppose I should give U-2 some credit here too....

Darkness

I started a layout yesterday.... I was going to use a new pink kit from Doris to make a new page for my art therapy book... started and was going are key phrases here... This layout quickly got dark and right in the middle, I lost all focus, so here it is... unfinished... I guess I will have to come back to it another day... maybe one when I really feel pink!

Hello darkness... is that a song?

Hmmm... the other day, I was feelin' pretty good, thought I would buy myself a treat... It wasn't what I was looking for, but at Gottschalks I found this beautiful gold chain and they were haveing a great sale.. $1000.00 came down to about $380.00. I was using my debit card to pay for it. When I showed my drivers license to the clerk, she looked at the photo and said "Wow! That must have been about 100 pounds ago." Great... just what I need right now... another reminder.... I think I'll take the chain back today.....
Oh yea, I remember now!

Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence

New Project

The 2008 Cottage Arts CD Case Calendar Templates have arrived! you can find them here. All other papers and elements used on this adorable calendar of Rye are also available at Cottage arts. The specifics for each are posted in my gallery here

Back At It

sort of.. it's been about a month since I scrapped anything... and I'm not happy with anything I do.... argh! This is Rye last month when he caught the frogs. The entire quote is, "I catched him on the ground and I had him and he pee'ed on me. He was hungry but he wanted his mommy and his daddy and I like him! Is that not just the cutest thing!

Smile

Have a good time, make life cheerful and bright, dance if you want to, sing if you can, play as long as you live and leave the world with a smile. - Lemuel K. Washburn

Disconnected Thoughts

without cohesive words (A to Z) version 1 A Message, Alone, Another Brick in the Wall, Apology, As Time Goes By, Back Where We Started, Breakdown, Can't Fight This Feeling, Childhood Dreams, Collide, Comfortably Numb, Complicated, Constant Craving, Control, Crush, Crying, Dancing With Myself, Darkness, Darkness, Dazed And Confused, Deliver Me, Dirty Little Secret, Dream, Eyes Without a Face, Far Away Blues, Forever Blue, Free Fallin', Full Circle, Gloomy Sunday, Going out of My Head, Hanging On, Harden My Heart, Head Games, Heart of Stone, How Long, How You Gonna See Me Now, Hysteria , I Grieve, I Keep Forgettin', I Try, In Too Deep, Isn't It a Pity?, Its Not Easy To Be Me, Just a Dream, Killing Me Softly, Lines on My Face, Little Drop of Poison, Lonely People, Losing My Touch, Manic Monday, Midnight Confessions, Misery, Misunderstood, My Destiny, Nasty Habits, Never Know, Numbness for Sound, Obsession, Ocean Of Sorrows, Only Fooling Myself, Out of Touch, Paint It Black, Panic-Stricken, Paralyzed, Precious Illusions, Ramble On, Reflections of My Life, Refugee, Rumors, Sad Eyes, Same Old Situation, Shattered, Silent Running , Strung Out, Stuck in a Moment, Tainted Love, Tears On My Pillow, Tempted, The Compromise, Time After Time, Too Many Voices, Torn & Tattered, Us and Them, Use Me Up, Vacation's Over, Waiting, Walk Over Me, Warning Sign, White Rabbit, Who Am I, Wicked Game, Yes Or No, Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, ~J

Hanging On

by a thread.... Several years ago I suffered a huge emotional trauma that I am still trying to recover from. One of the many "issues" I am left with is the inability to cope in social situations. They just drain me and for years I avoided them all together. These past couple of months have just been full of them for me. I can't remember them all, but in the past two weeks, I have attended a birthday party for a family friend, had visitors from church on two occassions, took missionaries to dinner, picked up a hitch hiker, spent the day at the gun range with family (yes that counts), and hosted a birthday lucheon for my mother (today)... I have way over done... I am soo frazzled.... I sit here now in my home town at my mothers house knowing tommarrow only brings more and wondering how long I will be able to hold it together. 12:42 omgosh... i need to go to bed... moms dialup is too slow to do anything with anyway... I even canceled my incomming mail because it was too slow... LOL i picked it up on my blackberry zippy quick!
Night All!

Happy Birthday

to my dear friend Dan, whom I met when I was 10 years old... Todays play list is for you!

Prices

Am I the only one who thinks the pricing is way out of line on this product (as beautiful as it may be)