Cats in the Kitchen, Flora in the Garden

Yesterday I had a lovely day, what I call a 'stolen day', thats a day when you please no one but yourself in what you do and by the end of it you should feel blissfully peacefully and have a smile on your face. It's sort of like a day out of time.

I started by finishing off eight podlings in various stages of making. So that's eight ready to go up on sale, I have got behind with my making schedule due to the comings and goings and sorting out of matters concerning my Mother. Now I must get busy and finish the five Daisy Fae's who are literally hanging around my workroom awaiting completion. I also have numerous other projects to get to grips with.

By lunch times the sun was shining and I decided that today was just the sort of day that would be beneficial to the planting of the seeds the delightful Tara, from Silver Apples of the Moon had sent me, as one of my Secret Fairies. The sun shone on them as I platned them and the moon has begun to wax again, and hopefully will shine on them at night. I always try to plant my precious seeds with the waxing of the moon. I made a lovely sandwich for lunch, started off a hearty winter casserole for dinner, that night, now is just the t ime when soups and casseroles become craved food again, then returned to my artroom.



I finished the final two of the four, 4x4 pages I am doing as a swap. With these collages I sometimes put words in them and sometimes not. Today, these funny little sentences kept coming into my head as I was making these cards. So I went with it, maybe I just have a bizarre sense of humour, but I was giggling away at these two cards as I made them. I think there is some sort of old saying concerning a fool and something about laughing at his own jokes. That must be me. Anyways, I have uploaded both these cards above so see what you think. The one above right is my favourite it is called Somedays Daphne found her wings too heavy to bear and the one on the left is Lavinia stole the show with her unusual hat decoration.


I ended my day with my lovely hearty liver, onion and vegetable casserole, which if done long and slow has the most thick delicious gravy of any casserole, and then sat in my candlelit room with insense, my book and a lovely glass of red wine. Plenty of iron for my body today.

I think we all have to be wary at the moment and tread carefully, there are two reasons for this. The first is the usual reason at this time of year, from September to Samhain/Halloween, the thinning of the veil between worlds, a time when more people are more likely to see or be aware of spirits. Do you know that is how 'trick or treat?' started? I think, correct me if anyone knows different, that an ancient race, the Greeks, I believe, used to put food and drink outside their homes at this time of year to feed wandering spirits so they would not come into the house looking for nourishment. The second reason is that Mercury is in retrograde again, this started at the weekend and ends on the 24th November. That's the last one for this year, the next is in February 2007. So bear all this in mind if things become chaotic and carry some appropriate deflectors, such as crystals and herbs, around with you.



I am writing this on Wednesday morning and have just been interrupted by the mailman, with a packet from USA. Its my ATC fave movie swap from Judi, of the GPS. What an absolute sweetie you are Judi, not only are there my cards but a plethora of unexpected goodies wrapped up in such cute material printed with ladybirds. I have managed to cram them on the scanner as they are flat items so we can have an instant photograph of them and not have to wait for camera film developing. I feel quite overwhelmed with the goodies. Thank you so much. Also have scanned the ATC's which managed to hit the nail on the head as they are all fave movies of mine. TheWizard of Oz from Pam Aries, my all time favourite film, The Lord of the Rings from Katespin, with two of my favourite men pictured on it yummuy, Chocolat, from Lisa, Groggy Froggy, another film with a lovely piece of eye candy in it and The Dead Poets Society from Abbey with a thought provoking quote on it :-

'We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.... What will your verse be?' John Keating



The night of the Giant Story Telling Circle moves ever nearer I hope you all have a good scary story ready.

I want to be too frightened to be in a room alone and to lie in bed listening for strange noises in the house wondering what they are, to hear the wind blowing through the branches of the trees outside and wonder if I can hear a scratching at the window. Truth or fiction, it really doesn't matter which, as long as it gives us the heebie jeebies! That's what a good ghost story should do, so we keep reliving little snippets of it in our mind over the next few days. What's that noise on the stairs?


I have had an idea to let us all enjoy it in a more leisurely fashion. This is what I thought and I would like to know your opinions. I thought I would start a temporary blog called 'Daisy Lupin's Halloween Story Telling Circle', put all the stories together on it and keep it up until the end of November. Then just delete the whole thing. It occured to me that it might be nice if a good few people participate, and I really hope they do, that we could then take our time reading the stories over coffee etc, and they would all be collated in the same place. Yes, they would be on individual blogs but for one month they would be together on the temporary blog. Please let me know if you like the idea, if you are participating and you definitely don't want to be put on this blog just let me know. I just thought it was a really close way we could all share Halloween together.

Don’t forget to join in Daisy Lupins’
Halloween Ghost Story Posting
Post a ghost story, something strange that happened
To you or a tale you want to tell
On 31st October, or as near to before
As possible.
Let’s have a Giant Story Circle

Have some fun
Coming soon in early November
Daisy Lupin’s stream of consciousness game
Pick one of the words or phrases
Let it take you where it will, Go with it,
See where you end up, then post it on your site.
Come on, join in, let’s ramble