I am a proud new owner of...

A baby pumpkin!!! Yesterday, I went out into the garden and started watering my plants. Every time I go to water my plants, I creep down into the pumpkin patch and look under the big pumpkin leaves. Low and behold the glory of what I discovered.

I can not express how happy I am. This weekends plans will be to guard this baby with my life!

My visit to the Haunted Mansion

More inspirational shots. One of my most favorite places on the planet, the HAUNTED MANSION in Disney World! Below is some new additions just made to the Haunted Mansion. My time there was wonderful. The weather was perfect, not crowded, zipped right through onto every ride. The only thing missing was my husband. The kids and I had a great time. Later that night (bonus) I went to see one of my favorite bands, Interpol.

Welcome you foolish mortals.... and excuse the black photos, no flash photography. Now begin to sing the Grim Grinning Ghosts...

Inspiration

So I took some inspirational shots this spring. Thought it would be pretty witch'n to share.

First 3 shots of the skeleton in the cage
were taken here at the Georgia Renaissance Festival.

These next few shots were taken at our trip to

Disney World at the Magic Kingdom.

I liked the stacked effect they did with the skulls.

I wish I would have taken a better shot or more

of the moss that grows on the trees in Central Florida.

Spanish moss grows in the masses there.

I always put spanish moss in my tree

during halloween time and drape it across my tombstones too.

This was on one of the rides, skull on a stick, what's not to love.

Of course a nice shot of the head hunter.

Because shrunken heads are just delightful!

*must have one of my own, soon*

This was the Pirates of the Caribbean ride. They re-vamped

the ride quite a few years ago to include Johnny Depp

(sooo, hot want to touch the hiney).

Apparently the 60 year old lady behind me thought so, too.

These last two are a little blurry, but you get the point...

Summer is finally here! One bloody hot summer to go. Witch (lol) means our favorite time of the year is not so far away.

With love,

Madame Jen

Easterween & Mummies Day

Little late, but better than never. I spent the day before Easter with my mini witch in training dying easter eggs. I decided to get a little more creative with my eggs this year instead of using the tradional pastels, making circles or stripes. What if I had a halloween inspired easter!

So, I made an orange one into a pumpkin, a green egg into zombie, a purple egg into skeleton (seen above), and a midnight blue one into bat (seen above). I thought I did such a fabulous job, but after taking them out of the dye I noticed the clear wax crayons were not-so fabulous. Next year, maybe I will dye them first, then use some inexpensive craft acrylic paint to them.

Last, but not least on Mothers Day I received a real Bucky! Not a blucky! My very first BUCKY!!!!!  Not sure that I will wind up corpsing him, think I will keep him just the way he is. As for right now I find him sitting against the wall or in a corner of about every room in the haunted mansion. It's quite funny not sure how he's getting around, but he does.

Only, 160 days till Halloween my happy haunters!

Gothy Garden

I know this doesn't have much to do with halloween, but it's a little gothy to say the least. Welcome to my garden!

This is my daughters garden she planted pumpkins! We will see how they do this year...

Every good witch carries the essential herbs in her garden including lavender, sage and rosemary.

And every good goth girl has gladiolus growing in her garden *Morrissey*

My roses are growing and growing so I got a trellis last week and some thorns in my side (another Smiths plug). Really they were just in my fingers and scratches all up and down my arms. :/

Hiding behind this rose is one of our bat boxes.

The tree my husband planted died, so I bought a new tree, a japanese magnolia. Pretty purple flowers.

Slayer Reign in Blood Grill. Comes fully equipped with metal, blood, horns for handles and a skate deck to hold your raw meat and tools.

Saw my very first humming bird yesterday and he came back later for more and I saw him again this morning :)

The gardenia bush I planted last year didn't look so good anymore so I picked up a little piece of my home town... a palm! I <3 Miami/Fort Lauderdale.

With all that said... someone needs to mulch!