The Bewitching Home goes PINK.........

It is my pleasure to be participating in The Bewitching Home hosted by The Witch of Howling Creek on today's post.

I am also pleased to be able to share "Pink for October", a website dedicated to spreading pink for Breast Cancer Awareness. If you are interested in going pink for October and there is certainly time left to do so, please go to: http://pinkforoctober.org/go_pink.html 

Sharon from Plumrose Lane has generously provided blog headers, facebook and twitter pink backgrounds as well as badges for blogs etc for this cause. Stop by Plumrose Lane or the website to learn more.

I was inspired to take a plain witches hat and bring out the pink. This ensemble just needs a broom to make the evening complete.....Go Pink!!!

 

In honor of this Pink for October blog, I'd like to giveaway the Pink Witches Hat and also the gold/pink mask. So just comment and let me know which of these prizes you would like to win. If you would like to become a follower of this blog, you will receive and additional entry. If you are currently a follower you also will get an additional entry. I will be drawing a winner on October 18.

Go Pink for October, remind a friend that you love them and want them to go get a mammogram, donate to help to find a cure for breast cancer, and if you would like an extra entry in this giveaway, go to Plumrose Lane and comment that Practically Magickal sent you on this days posting. Also here is the link to see the other particpants in this fun blog event.

 

Trolls, Hobgoblins and Goblins arrived

Having tried to "ready up" for the Halloween season, I listed these items in my Etsy shop.

The Not Quite Right Halloween Hearts will probably be the last of these little gems that I do. The lovely sound of the embroidery floss going through the paper will be limited because of the growth on my wrists. Holding a needle is getting to be no fun at all. So onward and upward.

These are the shoes that I entered into the Altered Witch Shoe blog party sponsored by Anna at Frosted Petunias. So much fun taking nun shoes and making them into Witchy wear. If you didn't see the other entries for this party follow the link to the fun.

Next week I will have an item featured from a shop in Sweden and then hopefully the week after, I will have the shop itself listed here. You're gonna love it, I promise.

Thanks for stopping by, Oma Linda

This artist is a little hard to understand but worth the effort....

I am trying to be true to my word and bring you art work that is fresh, fun and worth the look see. I have no pictures to show you but you will see why when you make your visit to meet. The Libe ob Don Estorbo de la Bodega Dominicana.

I have been reading Estorbo's blog now for almost 2 years. I have never not had a reaction to what is being offered by the very talented writer and the model of this blog. I hope that you will be enchanted by the way that the endeavors are offered. Most times I laugh until I hurt, but I have also wept copiously. I am as you know a total animal lover and this beeg blag cad is simply loveable to the max.

I'd like to introduce you to Don Estorbo. I'd like to suggest that going back to view past posts will give you some idea just how talented this writer/photog is and why the New York Times has come to their apartment to interview, The Woooman, The Smoothman and Estorbo.

Let me know what you theeenk, think.

It's been awhile............

I feel like I have neglected this blog for far too long. My intention was to keep an artist of the week on here and did okay for awhile and then............pffffffft. We partied here, thanks Ms. April and the Angry Gnome and then.............nada pinata.

I have some slowed down, as in better timing,  plans for spotlighting talented people here. Some Etsy buddies, some witchy friends from across the pond and a shop in Sweden that you will not be able to resist.

So I hope those of you who are still out there in bloggyland will come back to this blog to see what we're cooking up here.

Ta for now, OmaLinda

The Angry Gnome Celebrates Oz

The Angry Gnome Welcomes One and ALL to Oma Linda’s Wizard of Oz party!!! In honor of this Special, Annual Event, the Angry Gnome and his friends decided to make an Ozzie Wand for a Give Away!!

They began with some Oz Scrapbook paper they’ve been hoarding for just this Occasion! They also had a glass bowl shape and a wood piece and a dowel.  Everything was at their disposal so they began their work!

The first thing done was the painting of the wood base:

Once this was painted, two more Gnomes drilled the hole for the Wand handle.  Hmmmmmm....there was a bit of a delay, due to a bottle of wine...but work was eventually resumed and the hole successfully drilled!

Some Extras were being chosen...Stars were very important!!!

  And the Angry Gnome, himself, worked on the famous OZ Symbol!!!! 

                                        

Next came the OZ figures on the green base and Glitter!!!  One of the Gnomes spilled quite a bit of glitter but managed to also get some around the Witch figure, where it was needed!

After working ALL DAY, the Angry Gnome and friends had created a wonderful, BIG, Magical Witch of the West OZ WAND!!!! And here it is!!!!

Now, would you like to know HOW this Oz Wand could be yours?????!!!  I’m not going to TELL!!! HAHHAHAHHA, JUST KIDDING!!! Had you going for a second!!! Okay..in order to win this Fabulous OZZIE WAND, sweated over by MANY hard-working Gnomes, you must successfully answer the following OZ questions:

1)  What is the Tin Woodman’s REAL NAME?

2) What is the name of THIS MULE in the book, “Tik-Tok of Oz”, by L. Frank Baum (This question is in honor of Oma Linda!)

3)  Which TWO Characters are the only TWO allowed to practice MAGIC in the land of Oz??

4)  Which character is The Angry Gnome’s Favorite (Hint- it is NOT a Witch!!)

Answer these 4 Questions correctly and your name will be put in a Drawing.  The Drawing will take place July 20th, the DAY AFTER the OZ PARTY!!! 

And there will also be a Second Drawing for a Wonderful OZ Shopping Bag, as well, on July 20th.

 Here is the Bag that will be Given away. To Enter, you must leave a Comment on The Angry Gnome on July 19th (Oz Party Day)-

On Facebook :      https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Angry-Gnome/216468791803429  

and mention something you have seen on Oma Linda’s Blog: http://lindaomasoldebaggsnstuftshirts.blogspot.com/

having to do with the OZ PARTY!!! Your name will then be put into a Drawing and the Winner chosen July 20th!! SO, you have an OZportunity to win the Oz Wand OR the Oz Bag on July 20th!!!  GOOD LUCK and Remember, There’s No Place Like Home!!!

I don't normally do awards but....Karen has won my heart

Not that the rest of you who have tried on my other blogs to bestow awards on me and I am always flattered beyond measure and have turned them down. But I do thank you all from the bottom of my heart.

Karen of IrelandBrady along with Stacy of Magic Love Crow have been so generous and loving to our inside, outside, upside down darling Ry. So because of their amazing outpourings, I will with accept this Kreativ Blogger Award.

When you receive this honor, here are the rules or not depending on your mood or bent.
1.Post a link to the person who awarded you the award.
2. Share 7 well thought out random things about yourself
3. Bestow this award on 10 other deserving bloggers and then let them know.

1. I have never been scuba diving but I love the ocean

2. My favorite food is Thanksgiving dinner, turkey, dressing, the whole sheebang. And I saw yesterday on the Food Network a Thanksgiving Po' Boy that has it all and is now offically my new favorite sandwich.

3. I once went on a starvation diet while working at a bakery and passed out. When I awoke I had the tray of chocolate donuts I had been carrying all over me.

4. I just recently found out that I can do without things I thought I had to have in order to be me. Good stuff.

5. When I was a little girl, I met and had my pictures taken with Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Rin Tin Tin, and Hopalong Cassidy. I also was on TV with Glen Campbell at K circle B in Albuquerque.
"Riding down the trail to Albuquerque, saddlebags all filled with beans and jerky, heading for K circle B, the TV ranch for you and me, K circle B in Albuquerque, yodel detay, yodel detay, yodel dee". And that's the real song.

6. In the past three years, I have learned more about life from my grands than the preceding decades. This blessing that I have had in my life has not gone unnoticed or unrecognized. My daughter and grands living with us has enriched all of our lives and we will forever be Casa de Cuckoos and proud of it.

7. I have begun to paint again after years away because of some wonderful friends who are so talented in so many different area and make me want to have the joy they have in what they do so well. Thanks my arting buddies.

And so because I am the rule breaker I was born to be.....if there are those of you who would like to tell us some great stuff about yourself, please feel free to join in and post the Kreativ Blogger Award on your blog too.

Oberon's Wood

This old elf is such a darling soul. Not just because she is a friend but because she has such a giving personality. She hides sometimes in the wood and plays hide and seek with us mortals and always makes me giggle.

Her painting of fairies are extraordinary and are only surpasses by her talent at miniature sculpture. And her computer creations using old photos never ceases to make me happy. She has a wicked sense of humor.

I have shared with you in the past the wonders of her hands on my other blogs but I am going to share with you where you can find her hiding. Her facebook page is called "forgotten corner of Oberon's Wood" "https://www.facebook.com/ArtofOberonsWood  and also Oberon's Wood as is her shop on Etsy, oberonswood. At this point in time, like all of us who do "arting" encouragement would be a wonderful thing. Most especially because she has such mega talent, not only as an artist but a kind, caring human as well. Ms. Cee is contemplating removing her facebook selling page because of little activity......thus my sending you there to encourage the darling girl.

This multi talented lady moderates a lovely page for Pagan Artists Network and also Society of Spellweavers on facebook  and is such an encourager of others. Friends to so many and special old elf to all of us. XXXX Ms. Cee.

She also can be found on blogger at: http://oberonswood.blogspot.com/2012/06/my-bleeding-heart.html

So my lovelies....off with you now. Go see my friend the elf of Oberon's Wood.