WOYWW 387

Morning!  Another week with Ms Julia and the WOYWW'ers who visit her each week.  Hope to see you over on her blog shortly.

There is nothing on my desk but this is to the right of my desk and might prove a bit interesting.  At the top are a couple of pictures made on workshops, then a Finnabair one which has the Australian Flag hanging from it which was a gift from Shaz when she was over in Manchester.  Below that is a horse picture I did myself similar to the kind of work Finn does.  You will see the clock registers 4.20 and below that there is a picture of Henry Cavill, a bit of fun with a friend of mine.

The orange box top right is a box I decorated with things that remind me of my mum. and to the right of that there is a pencil pot that I made once with Liz Welch on one of our weeks away.  On the cubby holes are my Dylusion Sprays, silk flowers and all manner of jars of stuff that I cannot remember what they are for (sounds familiar?) You can also see several Stampin' Up casssettes that my friend Mary has given me over the years.  At the bottom are some books I have bought over the years - only a few of many.

Well, since last week we have celebrated Halloween, not quite on the same scale as in America if you live in the UK but it is certainly catching on.  Did any of you see "Strictly" when they had their Halloween Theme this last weekend.  Really enjoyed it and I loved the make up on some of the faces especially the Professional Dancer who partners Judge Rinder - her butterfly hair and face makeup was spectacular!  As Brucie would have said "She was my favourite".

I feel as if I haven't been out in ages so on Monday we went for a drive in the country, I just wanted to see the beautiful Autumnal colours before it was too late and all the leaves dropped.  One of the obvious places was to go to The Ribble Valley and so we set off and it was lovely driving along with the sun shining and all the glorious colours on the trees.  We drove up through Sabden, around the back of Pendle Hill and on to Barley and Roughlee.  Imagine my surprise as we drove down this long country lane and saw a witch, yes I said witch, bowling along merrily with two black balloons tied to her waist.  We actually saw more of them as we carried on, afterall it was Halloween and we were in Pendle.

Here are some of the scare-bobs we saw

I was especially delighted to see, for my first time, the statue of Alice Nutter especially as she had been unveiled by non other than Bob Elliott of The Hollies four years ago - and I had no idea!  I knew him in my teenage days when he played in a local Jazz Club.

Hope you saw some witches or had a trick or treat or two!