6 years and counting

This is my sixth humble hand drawn fortune cookie wisdom calendar! I can't believe it. Where has the time gone? The calendar is still humble and still hand drawn but there will be a little upgrade this year. It will now be professionally printed! I like the idea of my little calendar taking this baby step and growing up a bit.

A few of the hand drawn originals, ready to be scanned.

The calendar can be pre-ordered and if you sign up for an MBS newsletter you can get a coupon code for 10% off, but hurry, it's only good through Oct. 21st.

I can't wait to get the calendar back from the printer!

We had a frost warning so I cut all the flowers that were still blooming in our little backyard garden. Now we've had a few days of Indian summer and the snapdragons and morning glories are back, at least for a day or two.

Fun with candy corn. Hope you all have a happy halloween!

xo

happy halloween!

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i'll be listening to this ryan adams song all day -  maybe not strictly a halloween song but i love it!

enjoy!

happy halloween

for years we lived in the country and pretty quickly i learned not to buy any candy or at least none to give out.  we had no sidewalks and even though our road was a little over a mile long there were only a handful of houses.  not exactly trick treating territory.  

now we live in town and i picked up a bit over 20 bucks(!) worth of candy - about 250 pieces.  i figured we'd have a little left over to treat ourselves. um... no.  does anyone else get tons of trick or treaters?  is this just the norm?  or am i now in halloween hell having to make up for all those years of not having my door bell ring every 3 minutes? 

i realize i am sounding like a halloween grinch and i don't mean to.  it was actually a lot of fun.  the little ones are just adorable in their princess and pirate costumes.  one mother came to the door with her 7 month old baby in her arms.  the baby's round cheeks had whiskers painted on them - so sweet.  mom took a few milky way bars.  i figured she deserved them. 

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can you guess what candy bars these are?  i think i have intimate knowledge of a few of them.  just a few mind you.

i hope it was a happy halloween for you all!