DARK SHADOWS Original Art Cards: Set #4

 

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DARK SHADOWS Original Art Cards Set #2

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Anne Bronte, Eisenhower, & Lovecraft! Oh, My!

   The internet had blown out with the WIND the past couple days. We went to a library book sale over the weekend, and I got a pile of books, so was able to catch up with my reading with Frankie cuddled next to me keeping me warm. All of the drastic renovations I've been forced into making for him have worked out. The aquariums are much healthier and happier in their new positions. I've come to notice that corners of the house towards the outside are not good positions for aquariums to prosper. Frankie still gets up on top of the glass cube as if he was in a Hawaiian glass bottomed boat. He did no real damage to The Collins Port Inn. I was even able to restore the Japanese screen I've had for thirty years. It's much better off against the wall where he cannot check in, out of the sun. I was just telling my grade school girlfriend that I binge everything including reading, always have. So when you witness me quoting Anne Bronte today do not judge to think I've been reading this book, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, about life with an alcoholic, for years. I have. I'm up to about page 400 of 500. Last year was a writing year, so I did not finish a lot of books. I'm still reading Brooke Shield's There Was a Little Girl, Catherine Cookson, BATTLEFIELD, and Hitty too. In fact, I'm reading well over a dozen books at a time, which is a lot even for me, but they are all very good, so I cannot help myself. I'm learning tons in Ambrose's Eisenhower biography including little wonder that like New Orleans, where the author is from, I always knew I loved Ike without reason. As the preface says, he was a good and great man. Mamie, too, is even better than my paper dolls make out. But, I'm not quoting that nor The Bolelyn Inheritence, or The Doll People today. The later quotes are from the second book I picked up at the sale after the first signed Jewish French, (I might have found Shushy & Woo, Y'all: Shih Tzu Chiahuahua mutts), quiche cookbook only now we can't afford $8 eggs at the little market due to New World Order BS, that are going to end up getting wasted as my dream, as nobody is dropping that at the bargain market. Holy cow, tangents, I'm trying to get to Jason Colavito's The Cult of Alien Gods H.P. Lovecraft and Extraterrestrial Pop Culture, a title that gives The Three Witches Magic Shoppe Adventures in Doll Land a run for its money.

 🤘😝🤘  I would send this book to my brother when I am finished if I thought he would read it. I suppose he would not think much of it, not being a Lovecraft fan, bur I think it is off the hook! The author is a lot of fun and spelling out what I've always known about the fanciful alien BS I used to 🤣😂🤣 with Ron's ninety-year-old mother about while my little nonreading brother was watching Ancient Aliens. I'd tell her how they sure thought we were stupid. Anyway, the book begins with Night Gallery and acknowleges Graham Hancock.It's about how all of the alien talk is directly related to Lovecraft, and it is a real hoot! I 💗 it. I have to make supper, so will TTYL, in the meantime, enjoy the quotes. 

"My dear child, I am not. Those are bad words, and wicked people often say them of others better than themselves. Those words cannot make people damned, nor show that they deserve it. God will judge us by our own thoughts and deeds, not spoken, Arthur, remember never to repeat them: it is wicked to say such things of others, not to have them said against you." Anne Bronte

"that not only does the invisible world that encompasses us contain Intelligences vastly superior to our knowledge of the Truth, but that it is possible for man to enter communion with these hidden and silent ones, and to be taught of them the Divine mysteries of Time and of Eternity." Jason Colavito

The Three Witches Magic Shoppe Adventures in Doll Land

Frankie's First Christmas Cookie & Necronomnomnom

  Frankie and I have been up all night baking. Shiner was my supervisor, but Frankie is worse. He eats about anything. He loves oysters and clams. We are using my Early American Cookbook this year. Christmas has been catproofed, so we're keeping it simple. We made simple butter cookies with a glaze: Yeti, Anne and Andy, unicorns, elephants, and ducks. I'd had one at Cornwall Furnace, a moose, and it was so good, better than mine. Cornwall has Christmas cookies, tea, and cocoa around their Christmas tree once a year. Next stop molasses and ginger snaps. My dear friend sent me Necronomnomnom, and I can hardly wait to get to that. Oh, my ghoul. I have a handmade Lovecraft doll and have yet to finish the complete works, which is huge. I've been sending offers out on Ebay for Collinwood, asking them to save it from the Leviathan, (Frankie). He's been checking into The Collins Port Inn for Christmas. Guess I have to move that too. 🌟

 

The Letitia Penn Doll Club Christmas

  We started celebrating the holidays all December years ago when it was just us. We have our regular go tos: Joanna and Cornwall furnaces and Bethlehem, but Ron is full of surprises and certainly out did himself this year with the Schoenhut event sponsored by the Letitia Penn Doll Club at The William Penn Inn, (1714). Over the Moon does not describe it. I am seriously considering joining The Letitia Penn Doll Club now. They could use me, I'm so crafty. I made a couple of videos for you to watch afterwards, for sights, but let me tell you all about it. I took Frannie, my Schoenhut, she was a big hit. Looks like my table, the last, thirteen, was the only to bring their doll friends along as Frannie met her sister, Nadjia, and her Japanese friend. I made so many new friends. Funny but Bev, the festive martini lady, was telling me how they love young people, she was referring to me. 🤣 Well, my hex used to say the only difference between me and a seven-year-old is that you can beat the seven-year-old and send it to bed. There were so many gorgeous dolls there, but Ron got Red Witch a tiny handmade wooden doll from Marjorie that I've been eyeing up at The Lancaster Doll Show for years for my stocking. The centerpieces were precious, and wouldn't you know, Ron won one. He deserves it: full of handmade wonders and a Ginny doll from the fifties. The food was fabulous. You have your choice, and I was the only vegetarian of the table and so happy for it: a mushroom quiche and a sweet fruit salad. We had a waldorf salad first witch' was so special as Ron had wanted his mother to make him one after watching My Dinner with Andre as a kid. She would not. Think I'll be making them from now on. The triple dessert was too much, and I brought two-thirds of it home. Frankie loves the cheesecake. He was good only pulled Miss Hickory out of The Collins Port Inn while we were gone. He also upset Bob, the cactus. Anyways, Ron did not only win the darling centerpiece, but I also won a loaf of nut bread from The William Penn Inn. It means more than you know as my mother always made nut bread. The favors, the catalogs and adorable wooden Schoenhut alphabet dolls are enough to make any antendee feel fortunate whether or not you scored one of the fabulous prizes. The maker of the precious alphabet blocks was wearing a groovy seventies Christmas blazer. I have one in orange that I wore as a child that somehow came back to me that a Himstedt is wanting. What a charming way to celebrate the holidays! 

Video Part 1: Prizes

Part Two

 

Fanging with Frankie

   Frankie enjoys the simple things: a bag, a rug, and a ball of yarn. He likes watching the juvenile robins taking a bird bath. We wakes up early and attacks my restless leg syndrome. This morning he checked into The Collins Port Inn quite literally. My cat proofing continues. He's clawsome. 

The Three Witches Magic Shoppe Adventures in Doll Land

 Now available in all formats The Three Witches Magic Shoppe Adventures in Doll Land is my best work. Follow the three witches throughout Collinsport Quarter from The Magic Shoppe where they practice doll therapy to The Collins Port Inn and Marie's Chateau. 

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Dreams 7/27

 Dreamt I was in the kitchen, here, cooking dinner for our friend Heather, who was no longer with Kevin, but Hal, the elder, from Catherine Cookson's A Dinner of Herbs, a British series. Ron was here, too. They were all sitting round the table waiting for me to finish their suppers which consisted of some sort of burger conglomerate, that is, chicken, and I don't know what else. Anyways, they were too thick, so weren't cooking. I was attempting to appease them with chili, but only had one can. Only two of the burners on the stove were working, and the oven door was falling off.