Happy Halloween!!

 Happy Halloween everybody!

Here are just a couple more Halloweeny incoming mail pieces I've received.

 And my pumpkin candle (cheap from Goodwill), finally set alight last night, Halloween Eve. :-)

So, yes I have been missing for about a week. I had lots of wonderful family visiting me and they took up all my extra time.  We said goodbye last night.  Sigh.
But it's nice to have some down time to myself.
Soon I'm off to watch The Shining with Clayton! I've never seen it before! I've heard it described as the scariest movie ever.  Yikes!

This reminds me of one year when I went to a friend's house for trick or treating.  We used pillowcases as our candy bags.  When we finished we watched the Exorcist, the first and only time for me! I sat with my candy in the pillowcase in my lap, and I was so scared I couldn't put my feet on the floor. I had to have a blanket covering me with my feet tucked up under me on the couch. I got so hot under that blanket but I was too scared to take it off... I needed that protection!
Finally when the movie was over we took off the blanket and when I looked in my pillowcase of candy I discovered that I had melted all the chocolate because I was so hot!! It was pretty gross. haha

Hi everybody,

I'll probably be absent for the next week as I have a lot going on school-wise and I have a lot of company from out of town this week.
If you are craving fun mail and don't already follow other blogs, check out the ones on my sidebar. Lots of lovely people. :-)

Guilty...

Yes, I forgot to post before midnight again... Blogtoberfest is getting harder for me... But here I am up late!
Anyway, today was a good day.  I got a new issue of the USA Philatelic catalog in the mail and the Washington Capitals (my hockey team) creamed the Detroit Red Wings 7 to 1! And I ate dinner at Raisin' Canes, best fastfood in the world (Chick-fil-a is a contender though).  Also, my guilty pleasure, I downloaded Sims 3 the Pets expansion and I spent a few hours brushing my horse (I named her Rum) and training her to run races. :-) Maybe tomorrow I'll make a dog.

And here for your enjoyment is a postcard I painted at the end of the summer.

I named him Fat Dirty Panda.

Can you guess what I want to do to these sweatpants???

I got these comfy sweatpants at Goodwill.

And boy do I have some plans for them!

Take off a few letters, maybe embroider a little envelope on there, and I'll have the perfect pair of sweatpants to lounge around and write letters in!

Today we bought 3 kinds of squash.

And to end the post... I had a very autumn-y dinner tonight thanks to my awesome cook of a boyfriend!

And Mom and Dad I hope you read this because he got me to eat squash!

Before being baked:

 Baked and filled with sauteed onions, garlic and chicken.

Clay figured out the cost and for both portions it was about four dollars total.  DELISH!!

What are your feelings about big postcards?

 I really love Pomegranate's postcards and I have several of their postcard books, both given as gifts and purchased myself.  The only thing is that I really don't like the fact that they are oversized and I have to pay regular letter postage for them.  For this one I trimmed off the edges so I could just send it with a postcard stamp.  But that doesn't always work without cutting out a nice part of the image too.  It also makes the back look not nearly as nice, sometimes just missing cutting of the description of the postcard or the stamp here image.

I find myself loath to use them except for international mailing when I already have to pay more, or I use them in an envelope, figuring that I can get more bang for my buck that way.

Am I being too picky?

In other news, the postage rates will be going up in January.  Just one cent more for regular letters. You can read the other details here at the LWA.
I really don't mind the stamp increase.  I'll do whatever it takes to keep the USPS around!

P.S. The above postcard is from the Pomegranate postcard book "America Dances".  I love these photos!

Happy Halloween Card

When I got home today, I received this from my wonderful boyfriend.

Happy Halloween indeed. :-)