This is Halloweeeen, this is Hallloweeeeen!
Thank you to each and every one who hosted a Halloween Party on October 27th, and those who popped in just to party with us too. I saw you there 😉
It was a blast!
You all out-did yourselves, what an awesome kindred gathering of whimsical hearts!!
And, to anyone who forgot to post a party or couldn't post a party for some reason or another, please don't fret. I know life happens. I do.
As for today…
And yesterday…
There have been preparations in the garden for our tradition.
A Halloween feast!
The mysterious autumn sunsets, and the glowing moon coming over the great big mountains, have been more than gasp worthy these last few days.
Little creatures pop into proper frocks…
Masks on faces…
And a little basket treat from Tracy for Miss Tattered Raggedy (thank you Tracy!!).
We are collecting blooms for the table, and working up a spooktacular menu.
Zinnia petals like paper.
So many watercolor shades.
Perfect nature gifts.
Pumpkins get shuffled about.
As our feast will be in the front garden.
Strolls encouraged with glowing cocktails in hand.
Mesquite trees hang on to the last days of leaves on limbs.
Rake here, rake there.
Light a Jack-o-Lantern.
And then a curious sound…
Hawks arrive, finding a cozy spot, high up in a cloud tall eucalyptus tree.
Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrarwk….
Everyone puts on their costumed best.
Pups chew on this or that outside the office, as I run about.
Getting their costumes ready of course.
Click!
Gotcha Matty 😉
(hates having his pic taken)
Sun fades.
Moon captivates over mountain tops, through branches…
Golden beams.
Twinkly lights go on.
And so….
We begin our Halloween festivities!!!!
A Halloween feast this eve.
Right here.
Under the stars and moon and trees.
Let the magic begin!!!!!!!
(this pic below, to me is, what a hauntingly beautiful violin tune might look like)
Of course, right now, it's still morning…
So I best start the caramel corn.
Oven baking butter brown sugar scent, on this Halloweeeeeeen!
Happy Haaaaaappy Halloween Friends!
Stay safe, and have goblin gobs of fun!
Hearts to all affected by the storm.
So many thoughts.
🖤
Also…
Party Giveaway winner is….
#37 Denise at Coffeeberry Cottage! Yay!
$50 credit to Sightly, woo hoo!!
E-mail me for details pretty please 😉
Off I go to make my Halloween treats, and plan some wicked lil' tricks 😉
Much Love, Vanessa
ps: If you are a Tori fan, this is incredible…
pss: If you'd like, take a peek at the Autumn 2012 online magazine called…
You can spy my little sitting room on the cover…
How beautiful is your garden??! I am in awe of everything, what a magical place to live.
Jess x
Thank for the link to the Tori concert. I am a fan from way back but have not kept up with some of her more recent stuff. She is phenomenal! I’m really enjoying this.
Cheers,
Dana Laviano
Hello Miss Vanessa! Happy Halloween to You my friend, Mr. L and Mysterious Matty and Magnificent Miles!!!
Love your amazing Halloween garden and all your adorable Dollies and creatures!!!
Congrats on the cover oF Pagan Living!!!
I must fly now sooo much to do before sun down!<3
Vanessa:
What a lovely evening party you’ll have. I adore the contrast between the Halloween pumpkins and the colorful zinnias. I spied with my little Halloween eye…a few morning glory blossoms. I have a few too!
Have a fantastic party and dance the night away!
xoxo
Kim
Gerushia’s New World
Your zinnias are a sight to behold – thank you for sharing.
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Happy Halloween, Miss Vanessa!!!! 🙂 I really enjoyed the blog parties this year. So much fun! Thank you again for hosting. 🙂 You put so much love into it. The day is finally here…hooray. I baked some apple cider cupcakes today. 🙂 And I put on some witchy attire. 🙂 Looks like you are going to have a most magical feast with some adorable dinner guests. Have a grand grand time!!!! 🙂 xoxo PS Congrats on the magazine feature. And thanks for the Tori link!!!! 🙂
Happy Halloween to you!
Your party was great! I still haven’t finished going to all the other ones yet!
It’s so fun because I’ve found so many other who love Halloween as much as I do.
Usually I seem a bit different from everyone else. Around here I fit in!!!
The trick or treaters will be here soon…I better get the candy ready!
Have the happiest of happy Halloweens. The Hip Classic City is rockin’ it this year. My furries say Boo…. one from the Rainbow, but three are still here. Your site is better than best and always brings cheer.
Candace, Still in Athens
What lovely zinnias, lights and – as usual – doggies 🙂 It’s strange to blog hop the Americas this Halloween, some have snow, some have a flower garden in full bloom, and some have had to evacuate due to storms and floods…
Thank you for always bringing us such inspiring pictures, and have a great Halloween!
I’m so sorry I missed the party! 🙁 I know it was fantabulous…lots of spooky, crawly, weird sounding things. So glad you and everyone else had a fun time!
Everything looks just gorgeous for your Halloween dinner…love all the lights, pumpkins and yes, the boys. Enjoy your evening!
xo
Pat
Boooooootiful festive Halloween makings!!!
Tonight the wee ones come out of their houses and stroll the streets of our neighborhood for treats. Two weeks ago Honey Man can home with 3 gigantic bags of candy for the wee trickers and treaters. A week later and half of one bag down, Queenie had to scurry away the candy to a secret hiding place for there would be nothing left for this night of nights. I truly think guys having bigger sweet tooths than gals even though we get the rap for being chocoholics -lol-
Happy Haaaaaapy Halloween to you too!
Always, Queenie
Happy Halloween Vanessa!!!!! I am so excited! Who are you dressing up as?? I am debating between the wonderful Alice costume my mom made for me last year (OMG last year….how can time fly by so quickly??) or Hermione 🙂 I have a Gryffindor tie and badge, and also Hermione’s ear rings, bag, wand, love potion, and time turner. (I have been collecting all of these artifacts since about 3rd grade…) Which would be better? 🙂 Have a spooky day!
I say Hermione 🙂 As one last hurrah to HP
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In a message dated 10/31/2012 3:19:55 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
Happy Halloween! Another beautiful post. Love all the pretty pictures. Hugs, Bobbi Jo
Samhain blessings vanessa x
Happy Halloween, sister! I hope you have a very spooky Halloween!
Sorry I missed your party, but Mickey and Minnie say hi!
Wow..what a lovely place to have a Halloween feast. Wishing you a blessed and truly magical Halloween, Lady V.
Lovely Halloween post, Vanessa
It has all of the ambiance of a very special feast.
I am off to a real live tea luncheon tomorrow, a hundred miles away…they didn’t know it was my birthday (tomorrow), but found out from the two gals I am riding over with, I hope they don’t do much for me…as I didn’t want to ‘rain on their parade’ so to speak, just because I wasn’t the one to let them know they were having the tea party on my birthday…you know how that goes. I just want to have a relaxing tea time with a ‘no big deal’ about my birthday.
Ta! Ta!
hugs,
Miss Teresa
This is so amazingly beautiful! And in Arizona too?? I didn’t know you could have such amazing gardens here, you make me want to try harder at growing green things!
A magical day!
My little Sally (from Nightmare Before Christmas) had her little friends over…..Capt. Hook, Rapunzel, a witch and a vampire….and they all went trick or treating with Jack Skellington (my Husband) whilst a pirate lower in ranking than Capt. (me) dealt with tricks and treats from other fantastic visitors 🙂
All the while, the jack o lanterns grimaced and grinned and the (sound effect) thunderstorm raged on!
Happy Halloween, Dear Vanessa!
Congrats to the winner! Happy Halloween and Blessed Samhain!! I didn’t even know there was such a magazine!
Thanks to SANDY (we were dead center of landfall)I was without power, cable, water, septic etc for almost 3 days…still visiting Halloween parties.
we lost a lot of trees, saly one was a beautiful blue Spruce, son thinks we might be able to safe it is it healthy and the ground it still wet (it was up rooted, but it is being held up by a maple tree so not quite totally out of the ground. we also lost one of our HUGE, ancient yet healthy pines…it is in our neighbors yard now…they lost their Old mud room…NOT from our tree though.
Ron is in the hospital again (3rd time since June) he was in the CCU – glucose thru the roof and A-Fib..due to a necrotic toe…which we think happened the night he fell outside (19th0 I saw his feet earlier that week and they were ok. Now in Telemetry and out of critical condition…YEA!! but they are going to take the toe…BOO! but it is good also to keep the infection from spreading. They are going to do a complete cardiac work up first.
Life has really been crappy for us lately. UGH!
Congrats on being published!
BB,
Susan
Happy Halloween. Hope you had a fabulous party and don’t have to much tidying up to do today. 🙂
Happy Halloween! Stay safe, everyone, with Sandy on the loose.
Oh Miss Vanessa, Your zinnias are beautiful. Her in Michigan weare dealing with the color of brown…Brown flowers,brown leaves. Our color will come back in the Spring. Some of the mums still have color but..oh well such is life. Winter weather will be here soon. Your colorful photos make me smile, the photos are wonderfuly amazing.
I hope your family had a safe Halloween.
Gorgeous garden!Beautiful decor.I’m so surprised and excited to win the giveaway.Amazing to Me,out of all the entries,it was Me! I have to babysit My grandbabies all day so I’ll e-mail you late tonight or tomorrow.Thank you for everything you go through to make your parties so fun.Hugs Denise
Really, just an amazing garden! Love it!
Dearest Dear Miss Vanessa,
I’m so sorry I didn’t come see you yesterday, Dear Lady! I hope your Halloween day was fun, fun and fun! Your garden is SO, so beautiful! Just a gorgeous riot of colors! I am especially in love with your violin music photo!!! Isn’t it funny that Matty does not like to have his picture taken?? I dog-sat my neighbor’s two barely-there dogs (chihuahua and pomeranian mix) and when I tried to take a picture of them, they skittered under the kitchen table to hide! Until then, I had no idea that some dogs don’t like it! My dear Blinken and Chloe were apparently both big hams for having their pictures taken! So funny!
Wishing you more beautiful days in your gorgeous garden, Miss Vanessa! We “weathered” the storm here in Western Maine just fine. Lots of wind and rain, but absolutely nothing compared to some of the other devastation in other places like NY, NJ and everywhere else. We were very, very lucky.
Hugs to you,
Betty
Your “Sleepy Hallow” tree is a keeper….I see new postcards in the future?
Thank you for your toil & trouble, your inspiration bubbles over…🖤Debi
Thanks to your inspiration, the entire month of October was enchanting and this post is especially so. Diane
Can you press zinnia blooms like pansies?
Fantastic pictures!! It inspires me to have a trip to my hometown.
I just can’t get over how gorgeous your gardens are, so beautiful and peaceful. Thanks for sharing your lovely pictures!
Halloween came and went too soon didn’t it?
Take Care,
Tracy M.
Good Morning Vanessa! I just e-mailed you to get the details on My AMAZING and so GENEROUS winnings. Hugs and blessings Denise