Hello Darklings
So far I have been having fun this weekend!
One of our local Library’s is having a book sale and a
friend of mine who works there was able to get me two passes for their Preview
opening.
Of course anyone who is into reading knows you have to go on
Preview Night to grab “The Good Stuff” and I and my friends were no slouches.
Of course I’m a serious book buyer at these sales, I take
one of those “old ladies” shopping carts that I have with a cloth liner, and
right now I’m have so much fun having purchased black material with skull’s
imprinted on it and sewed up the liner for my basket, it does prevent small
things from slipping out, like one’s pet yorkie, (well that’s what one of my
friend’s does.)
Of course such a shopping cart is very handy at flea markets
as well.
And talk about luck, fantastic luck, I was able to find the
hardcopy bound editions of a number of Anne Rice’s books from “Interview with a
Vampire” and the two that followed, “Pandora”, “the Vampire Armand”, “Blood and
Gold”, and a number of others, including “Blood Canticle”, as well as a 1940’s
edition of the Catholic Douay Bible, still beautifully bound. The only title missing from my collection is
Rice’s “The Mummy”.
I also found several collections of vampire stories (mostly
the classic one’s including “Good Lady Ducane”) and Ghost Stories.
I also hit their audio-visual selection and found a
wonderful selection of classic music cd’s in practically brand new condition,
and several DVD’s of horror films I have not seen in ages. My senses were tingling at my treasured
finds.
My friends also struck it rich in their hunts, Doyle sadly
could not come with us, his job precluded his attending, but he and I are going
to the clearance sale, we may find some gleanings to add to our respective
libraries. One just never knows what one
will find.
The only problem with going on a preview night is how
everyone elbows everyone else, well I’ve learned to “elbow” with the best of
them, my Mother didn’t take me to clothing clearance sales when I was little
for nothing, I learned how to do body blocking and pretend to be so totally
unaware, looking like the sweet little angelic 7 year old I pretended to be at
the older women, while Mother swooped in and made a “killing.”
Wrestling Tag Teams and Roller Derby had nothing on Mother
and Me, we checked, blocked and tagged with the best of them; Mrs. Miller sometimes came along as relief,
she could be deadly with a well placed positioning of her cane and smiling
sweetly as a helpless little old lady.
As a matter of fact Mrs. Miller was the one who helped me
get my first apartment in her Apartment complex and Mother was relieved that
there was someone who would “watch over” me.
Although I laugh at the thought of some of the scrapes Mrs. Miller and I
would get into. I miss them, Mother and
Mrs. Miller, Dad and Granny and others who helped develop my outlook on life.
The weather is turning cool to cold, clouds and possible rain
is coming, I am looking forward to it.
Although it may mean I can’t take Belladonna on her walks as often, but
perhaps a little rain coat and hat for her might do, that is if she is inclined
to do her walks in the rain. Considering
how I found her I hope that experience has not scared her, but we shall see.
I decided to improve things for Belladonna for the coming
winter, I know that her feet get very cold on some of our walks, so I looked
for a heating pad that I can put under her doggie bed to warm it up when we
return from our evenings walks, and during our searches I just had to go into
the cosmetic area at our local drug store and found a bit of a treasure.
Some times Revlon nail polish will surprise a person with
something un-expected or not very well advertised, in my case it was a
find. I came across the last bottle of
what was their Halloween collection of colors called “Sweetly Sinister”, the
remain color was this one was called “Haunted Heart”, a lovely shimmery,
sparkly (I know Darklings “sparkly”) orangey coral, in some lights it is
intensely orange, in others an intense coral without out much pink, it is a
perfect color for Halloween or for the Summer and goes well with my Revlon
lipstick “Orange Flip”. This color is in
the “Top Speed” fast drying collection, the other colors were “Spooky Skull” (a
sheer shimmer white), “Wicked Star” a green shimmer and “Black Magic” a black
Cream.
Check out the web site “Frazzle and Aniploish” at www.thekarend.blogspot.com/ for a
review and Jen of www.xoxo-jen.blogspot.com/ especially for “Haunted Heart”.
Another way to decorate your nails, is to first put down a
clear base coat and then put a layer or two of an orange nail polish over the
complete nail, let it dry completely then follow with two coats of black on
top, have it cover the bed part of the nails but leave the projected part or
nail tips still in orange, simple and uncomplicated for Halloween.
But I have seen using “Black Magic” to put on Pumpkin faces
and with a touch of “Wicked Star” as the pumpkin stem, so Darklings you have a
lot of choices.
Myself I’m going to keep it simple and alternate with orange
and black, using a clear bottom coat to not have the dark color seep into the
pores of my nails (so hard to get out).
Of course Doyle has asked me why do I have so many colors of
nail polish and I told him even my nails need a color wardrobe---he looked at
me, shrugged his shoulders and said “O.K.”
Now it will take time to do it right Darklings, so I suggest
having an entire evening to do this.
Perhaps have a “man slave” ;-) to
feed you and change the T.V. channels
while your nails dry. Of course I’m
joking on the “man slave” part (or am I? Hmmmm Doyle where are you???).
Later Darklings
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