nana's brag book

Opening nana's brag book once agian...my little granddaughters were so cute this year at Halloween. My oldest granddaughter Lynsie also celebrates her birthday on October 31st, so she enjoys double the fun!

The candyland princess and her lady bug friend~

Lilian 18mo

Halloween Chuckle

I saw this today at the produce barn
where I was buying apples....

My kid's used this phrase often growing up!

I couldn't resist taking a quick pic

 Happy Halloween everyone!

Free images for Halloween

Life has been crazy busy at my house. My brother in law that was staying with us the last 2 months has left to go back to Australia. I have finally been able to get back into the guest room to continue redecorating it. It is also time to clean up the cottage gardens and tuck them away for the long rainy Oregon winter. Many of you may remember back last spring we cut down our huge Douglas Fir trees whose roots turned our wood fence into a pretzel. My hubby got the fence repaired and stained. We have been working every weekend on the landscape trying to get it done before the rain hits.We planted 3 lovely Jacquemonti birch trees. October 15th is a key date in Oregon. The last day to get a lawn seeded. Good news, we hit that mark. So that is done, and I will post pics of this new area in the spring! We are having Indian summer weather this week with sunny low 70's temps, so I plan on getting the front porch decorated for fall too.
Busy getting lots of Christmas stockings stitched for my website, again I am almost 3 weeks behind this year..note to self...plan ahead when you know you are having a long term guest!

I thought today I would share a few of the less common vintage Halloween postcard images I have in my graphic library.
Feel free to click on the pic for full size, then right click to save to your PC. These make great gift tags for your halloween treats!

Pumpkin decorating

You know, pumpkin decorating is really not my thing, but I sure like to see some of the creativity that comes out when a group is challenged. When I was a teenager, it was an annual tradition at the bank my mom worked at to decorated a pumpkin and submit it for the customers to judge. She spent hours planning and detailing those pumpkins. I think she did win one year. Anyway, I wanted to share with you another pumpkin decorating contest going on right now~pop over and vote for your favorite! Click on the phrase below.

Pumpkin Decorating Contest