Happy Fall!

Well October is almost here..... I can hear it coming! We wait all year for this month and I think as fast as time seems to be turning... it will be gone in a flash!

I was almost not going to have my yearly Halloween party this year but so many are looking forward to it. How could I say no? This year I have asked for help decorating, Goddess knows I'll need it! About two trips to the basement wipes me out for the day! And I have about 17 crates of 'stuff' for Halloween down there!
With the weather being all wacky this year I am going to wait until about 2 days before the party to decorate... with help this can be done! I've always been skating on the lucky side with the party being outside with a bonfire. I just know someday it's going to have to be inside! Keeping fingers crossed!

Knee update...

I don't think I'll ever do this again! I had a total knee replacement about two months ago and it has been a rocky road! I've gone from a walker to a cane. Trying to get away from the cane..... makes me feel old!
What they don't tell you is how much it hurts! But I gues I gotta do what I gotta do! I have this lovley gawd-awful brace I am to wear at least 8 hours a day. Can't walk in it, just recline without the back of your leg laying on couch... can we say OUCHY!
Here I am standing....it's such a great fasion statement!

Blogging! Face Book Halloween Groups! Oh My!

Oh My! Oh Meeee! I just can't keep up!
I heard Blogging is becoming obsolete! Could it be true....Noooo! I hope not!
With all the social networks I just can't seem to keep up....please forgive me!
I guess I have a Twitter page....? I guess I have forgotten the password....hmmmm.
I have a Facebook under my name. Thinking I should try to make one for Haunted Swamp....?
I have this Blog which suffers.
And Halloween art groups on Ebay ... and other places?

I think I am coming down with a case of brain farts....thats foggy head to anyone else!
I haven't even gotten back into the art room. Well except to list a few things that have been completed. To tell the truth I am always thinking I can pull it all together. Then something happens and I'm once again days lost, in a fog....
I can't sit for long, hurts the back of my knee....you see... I had a total Knee replacement and it has set me back.... way back!
But I promise...yes another promise! I will do something with my blog at least once a week.
But for now I would like to share my little gouldlings I found in the swamp!

These that are shown are on Ebay now. There are others on my Hauntedswampdesigns.etsy.com store if you can't wait for bidding!

I'm back! I'm Back! Haunted Gourds!

Halloween is coming!!! The time is drawing near! With this heat and no rain the swamp is drying up! Creatures are coming up from the Haunted Swamp! And they are hungry! They need a new home.... yours will do!



I'm back! Cleaning cobwebs from my head, man some of those pain meds can make you loony-forgetful and blah!

I'm up and walking, even if it's a slow walk aided by a cane. I found one good thing about that cane... I can poke people and cats with it!!

This Bloody Eyed Creature is on Ebay now at a great price!

He's 12 inches tall and made from a Haunted Swamp grown gourd!

And you can only get these spooky wonders from the Haunted Swamp!

It's getting close! 19 more days!

Holy-Moly where does the time fly? Stop and think...it's almost the 4th of July. What happened here, did I fall asleep beside the old dead tree?

Ahhh I gave up trying to catch up... I'll just try to keep up!
If I had a swing this would be me, swinging away time....
I think Me and my sisters may have to gather around the fire and dance!

My Count down...starts now!

This is my count down........on July 13 I will disappear for a little while.

I just now, as in just today realised I will be down and out as Halloween listing time approaches!

Trying to get a few things lined up...and...oh girls this is the good part.... get hubby trained to list, wrap, and send items....? That is ship then if I have any sale!

I don't want to shut either of my Etsy stores, so what's a person to do!

Hubby is all worried I'll die! OMG! I am much to rotten to die!

Then he says...I know you are going to fall down and break something when you have to use that walker... Yes, ok I will admit I am a klutz.

I gave in and got a cane over the weekend, he insisted. Geeezzz men! But it is pretty...it's got a interesting blue design. I feel weird out in the public using it....blah!

SO now I must run and try to get some things done. Things that will bug the heck out of me if they are left..... undone!

I think I can....I think?

Well what a month...June aready?! Holy Moly where does the time go?
Well I know my time is all messed up....I'm on drugs! What! You ask... she's a druggy!!? Oh No!
These are all perscription... don't worry! But they do have a way of putting me in "a fog".

I have been sorting gourds. Planting gourds. Thinking about painting gourds. Wondering what I am ever going to do with all these gourds.........

This year I have had some bad luck germinating those gourds! But, I found some little seedlings growing out near the edge of the swamp (like how I tossed that in!). This will be a surprise gourd crop this year! I have a feeling they are eggs and mini spinners. But, hey! Who knows!

Trying to get so much done before surgery! I think I'm just going to give that idea up!
I did get the little gourdies transplanted, a few tomatoes, yard long and pole beans planted. I also planted two grape vines in the gourd arbors. Catnip is now fenced completly in.... we had a bunce of very high, stagering, rolling cats in the yard. My poor plant was nothing but a stub!
Got some new fish for the pond. How can 40+ feeder goldfish dissapear? Figure I'ld start with a 'few' and see how many grow.

And everyone that has been asking.... (THANKS FOR ASKING) Yes, I am in Ohio. Yes, I am fine. Tornados have been sliding south and north of us. We are getting some high winds and lots of rain. Rain is good, because I don't have to drag my hose out to water. Draging that hose is a drag! But dear Hubby has to mow more.... man is that grass growing fast!
Lynda

Going to be a HOT one!

Well it's Monday! Looks like temps are going to be in the 80's all week! Plenty of sunshine!
Well 80 is just too hot for me! I will either do the things that need done outside in the early morning or late evening. I have learned I don't like sunburns, that hurts! Oh and I don't like to sweat either! So I guess I will be in the house.... cleaning! I need to list some jewelry on esty / Mellowmoonstudio. And maybe, just maybe make a dent in this art room!
Sooooo.... wish me luck my friends I need it!

FRIDAY!!!

Times flies, it don't pause for me....
My sister went back home to MT Wed. morning after a two week visit.
My black cat Salem had surgery.... got his wee wee wacked and now pees like a girl. He has taken to chewing on my finger tips...that is weird, don't you think?

I have sorted out 5 bags of 30-dirty egg gourds ( all sizes small to large - mix)... coming soon to Ebay ( yeah if I don't get distracted). If you would like these before I list contact me. I'll give them to my blog buddies for $10 plus $7 shipping.

I am really going to try hard to get my act together and get my art room cleaned...toss, toss, toss. Get my tables cleaned off. Between jewelry and painting I think I need two or three of me.
I even gave in an cleaned some gourds this morning.... I truely do hate washing gourds. This room is so cluttered, even the shelves are looking cluttered...and the tables, floor, desk........

Have not yet decided if I am going to be in the Pond tour....empty pond, no one wants to look at that! But it's for a good cause - Childrens Hospital Burn Unit. I will have to give this some thought.

I have decided that July 27 I will have my knee replaced. Just can't put if off....hubby still has a job with insurance!

So everyone have fun this weekend!