Happy Halloween

   Hi everyone. Happy Halloween to you.  It's also Friday, and time for Nicole's Friday Face Off   and Gillena's Friday Lunch Break.

     I haven't had much time to work on my self-portrait this week, so hopefully I can share one next week. But since it is Halloween and time for trick or treating, I can offer you some no calorie, healthy digital candy for stopping by my blog. 👻

     You have  a choice between some mini peanut butter cups and some assorted Trader Joe's candy bars.  (These Trader Joe's mini-knock off 3 Musketeer,  Milky Way, Snickers and Twixt bars are far better than the originals. I won't tell you that we've bought a few bags in the past few weeks either. 😉😈)

     And the candy bowl has a face too. 

    A couple of Sundays ago I went to a Witch's Fair with a couple of friends. It was mostly a big crafts fair and an area where you could get your  fortune told.  I enjoyed walking around and seeing people dressed up, and boy, was it crowded. Of course it was a gorgeous Sunday, so I don't blame people for being out.

    One of the craft booths had a deck of tarot cards and then a couple of booklets you could go through to explain what card you pulled on the deck. It was kind of scary how the cards my friends and I pulled fit us. My friend Dee pulled a card about feeling stuck in a bad situation. Just that morning she was telling us how her daughter was going through a bad relationship break up. And my friend Deb pulled one about a Greek god and how it meant she could find the power inside herself. Deb's Grandparent's are from Greece and the card suggested she needs to go back to Greece to re-energize herself. (She's one of the friends I traveled to Greece with in 2024.)

   And here's my card and the book reading that went with it.

    I don't have monetary wealth, but I have been thinking  a  lot about doing some cleaning out and donating items, expanding my wildlife garden area and even how to give back in other ways, now that my lake job is done with for the year. And of course with my husband semi-retiring in January (we'll see how long he wants to work part time before he actually retires completely), we've been talking a lot about money here and there over the past several months.  😏

   I do know that cards can be interpreted in many ways, but it was just a fun (and free) thing to do.  I enjoyed walking around, checking out the people dressed up as witches and wizards, and getting some craft making ideas. 

    One of those craft making ideas was making a little witch hat (like you see in this last photo) for my Halloween tree. 

   I need to remember to get  some lights for it some year.😏 Plus you can see some faces in this photo too.

   Finally I'll leave you with the Trader Joe's bouquet of flowers my husband gave me for our anniversary a couple weeks back. They are just about gone, but I think they make a great Halloween bouquet/decoration.

    Have a great Friday and start to your weekend.