Mona's Ghost Originals for Sale + More DARK SHADOWS

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DARK SHADOWS Original Art Cards Set #2

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DARK SHADOWS Original Watercolor Set: Angelique's Room For Sale

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DARK SHADOWS Original Samantha Paper Doll + Three Sets

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Dame Darcy Meat Cake Collection For Sale Signed

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Dana's Dreams Three Revenge of the Dream Hog

   Available as an ebook, soon to be released in all formats, Dana's Dreams Three Revenge of the Dream Hog is the third installment of my vivid dreaming. I found a dream journal that goes back to 2000 that is included in the back as well as photographs of my dream scrawl scribbled in the dark. 

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Himalya Quartz

  A crystal junkie, some of my favorites have come from India. I recently discovered Himalya Quartz on Ebay and ordered the top pink and green one last week. It's already here in the states. I'm used to packages from India taking a month. I could not resist the bottom citrine and just ordered it. I'm sure I'll be getting more crystals from the seller. They are some of the most beautiful crystals I've ever seen. I got three new ones in Gettysburg in April and two from The Crystal Cave a couple of weeks ago. I'm sure my friends will be thrilled because like dolls, I share crystals too. Makes me want another Himstedt, the boy from Nepal. I had friends from Nepal in college that Dame Darcy knows about, Vic and Nick. They were way cooler than Dusty and Rusty the Mormons. 🤣🤣 

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Doc Holliday Original Portrait For Sale

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Dreams 6/28

6/28

  I slept all day and had many dreams. The first starred Kim Richards. We lived together in a dusty ranch house. We had become good friends. We were talking about my Aunt Nancy, and how she and Kim were both Leos. I told her that  I had loved her since I was a kid and watched Nanny & the Professor.

  The second dream starred my friend Laurie, and we were children again, maybe eleven or twelve. I told her that she had always been tall. 

  The third dream was lavish. I was in China, the Wu Dan, with my parents and my ex. We were waiting in line. Mummy and Daddy were probably only in their thirties. Somehow I turned around, and they were all gone. I was left and lost. I walked around looking for them. The rest of the dream might’ve been wonderful if I wasn’t worried about being lost. I walked down a gravel path to a stream. There were watercolors and dolls for sale. They dipped them in the water of the stream. An artist was wading in the stream wearing a straw hat. The dolls were knit with bonnets and long skirts, no legs. The one I had picked up to look at was pale blue, knitted with fine yarn. I walked back up the path and continued on through a fabulous meadow. To the left of the path there were picnickers dressed in colorful old-fashioned silks, big billowy things of blue, gold, red, all colors. Some were reclining on patch work blankets made of silk, checkered black and gold. Others sat at little round tables. As I continued on I reached a forest, and as I entered the trees the light had dimmed considerably. Just beyond the forest entrance lay a natural auditorium. The was an enormously beautiful blue silk backdrop with an Asian dwelling to the left hung as scenery for the assembly, whatever it might’ve been. The people were dressed in the same colorful silks, looking like samurais or opera characters. As I moved through the trees a big American guy came up to me and said, “Better than Barbara Caruso.” As he did his lips touched my forehead. He walked on, up ahead of me. I was thinking about going after him, asking for his help, when I woke up.

Dana's Dreams

Dana's Dreams Two   

The Victoria & Albert Museum Shop

  Oh, I want everything here. Can't believe I missed it for a toy museum when I was in London. At least I can still shop there. It looks fantastic for gifts and stocking stuffers. Most of the souvenirs that I brought home for people did come from the museums or castles. 

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Tank Talk: June

From DOC (Doc Holliday)

 Fourteen

Heading Home

Not marching, 

no.

More of a slink,

say it isn’t so.

But we are tired, 

full of woe, 

So homeward bound,

off we go. 

  1865, the war was over. You’d think it was a happy time. It was, for about a minute, the day we read the paper and all jumped up and down for joy. 

  Then the boys came home. Uncle Robert was the first to get back, which meant that Mattie and the rest of the Holliday clan went back to Jonesboro. The house was eerily quiet again except for the creaking floor and Mama’s coughs. I missed Mattie the most, but I missed them all. 

  Cisco was next. He was a ghost of the fellow who had left us. I almost didn’t recognise him. He knew where to find us from Daddy’s letters. I’ll never forget the morning that he slipped in from the fog. He must’ve lost a hundred pounds. He looked skeletal and coughed worse than Mama. Aunt Fawnie and Wanetta had stuck around, afraid what they’d find at Indian Creek. They put him straight to bed with a warmer and some broth. I sat at his bedside. 

  “Cisco, I missed you so. You missed a lot of shenanigans here with the Hollidays too.” He coughed, it was bloody, and I brought him a clean handkerchief. “Do you want me to read to you?” He shook his head, no. “Alright. Do you want me to stay, or should I let you rest?” He just stared off into oblivion. It seemed very bleak. Poor wretch! 

July, 5th, 1865

Dear John, 

  Thank God, thanks to Julie and June the house was spared from Sherman. There had been a bloody battle right here last year. Lucky we did not stick around for it. We lost Granny Bea. She was very old, you know. Has Cisco made it home? We are all praying for him and hoping Indian Creek fared better than here and Fayetteville. Uncle John is home. Amazingly his house is still standing although it has been raided and wiped clean. He mourns his books, but counts his blessings as do we all. He says he will be dropping in there on you as soon as he can. I hope you are doing well, and not missing us too much. We miss you. 

Love,

Mattie

 Mama, too, like Cisco, kept to her bed. She was very weak and tired. Unlike Cisco she liked me to read to her. Keats was our favorite. She liked “Ode to a Nightingale” and “To Autumn”, but I preferred “La Belle Dame sans Merci” and “Lamia”. 

  Nobody saw a doctor during the war, they were reserved for the boys and amputees. Uncle John did drop in soon enough for his house call. He had quite a beard and looked like he had aged a hundred years. I thought him, Merlin. He brought good news from Indian Creek to my aunts. It had miraculously escaped the war and stood still. Uncle Tom had returned to an empty house. Even Ole’ Berner, the overseer, was gone. Nobody knew where. That was something. Then he looked in on Mama first, then Cisco, and confirmed what we already dreaded. They had consumption. 

Consumption

How long?

Bloody

White Plague?

Dreadful

Cough.

Cold

Sweats.

Shining

Brow.

We All

Know.

Not

When we go. 

Gray Day.

Chill Wind.

Dark Pall.

  Fearing that Mama could never make it to Indian Creek, my dear aunts stayed on with us. How a few years had changed their spinster lives into cooks, housekeepers, and nurse maids. God love them, they did their best. It was decided that Mama and Cisco would be moved to the sunporch where they could get some sunshine and fresh air while swaddled in blankets like caterpillars. I read them Journey to the Center of the Earth and Uncle Silas. Everybody was in awe of these stories although my aunts tried to act shocked about Uncle Silas. I heard them laughing about it later.

  “Ttt…” Aunt Fawnie would shake her head but I could tell she was amused. 

  “You see what drinking will get you?” Aunt Wanetta warned. 

  To hell with Reconstruction. I’d make the most of it and try to keep out the gloom. 

Doc Holliday Portrait Wooden Print

 

Doc Holliday Portrait Wood Wall Art
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Shuggie Otis - Strawberry Letter 23 (Audio)

  I think I've only just realized that I've always loved Doc Holliday. On chapter 14. The portrait is nearly done. Can't wait for the doll. Stay tuned. 💕

Originals SALE: Art Dolls, Watercolors, & More

  Also slowly but surely drastically reducing prices in my Ebay shop to kick off a Summer SALE. You will find one-of-a-kind art dolls, original watercolors, my personal collection, rare books, and more. 

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Mod Black Girls (Dana's Dreams Two Cover Art) Original for Sale + Beetlejuice...

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  I found these when I went to my watercolor pad for my portrait of Doc Holliday for DOC which I have officially began, although I'm only up to chapter twenty-nine in my notes: Doc working for the Santa Fe Railroad. They are the cover art for Dana's Dreams Two. They came to me in a dream. Dana's Dreams Three Revenge of the Dream Hog is in the works. Think I've made it to page sixty-five, although I've not been dreaming so much the past month. It might be due to my many projects or the fact that I've replaced wine with coffee. 

  I got my Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice Monster Highs today. We'll see if Amazon accepts my review. They threaten me keeping it real. I have so many fond memories of the first eighties film. I saw it twice in the theater, once with my boyfriend and again with my three girlfriends. I loved the second film even if I watched it alone on Netflix. I'll watch it again. I love the dolls. I prefer Lydia's short skirt, so cute. Wish Beetlejuice was more masculine. He looks like Honey Swamp to me who I love, but she's no Beetlejuice. Anyway, what I could not say in my Amazon review without getting booted was that I hope that the toy hacks that are ruining Mattel and Monster High are livid and get stuck with the tons of dolls they've gobbled up to try to rip us all off. Planet Scam! I thanked Amazon in my review asking them please to have more exclusive Skullector Monster Highs. I got the Grady Twins there for ninety dollars. I was stuck at the Mattel site for hours waiting for Elvira to be told they sold out in minutes. Ron did backflips to get her for me for Valentine's Day. I told Amazon we want Jack and Sally, Morticia, and the Hocus Pocus witches. 

  Down with the toy hacks! ☠

Beautiful Betta Book on Amazon

   Beautiful Betta on Amazon

Available for Kindle soon to be released in all formats Beautiful Betta is more than a memory picture book. It features poetry, fish stories, forty years of fish keeping and tips. 

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