31 Days of Halloween – Costume 
Tourmaline .’s Halloween Challenge – Costume
This is the final post for the Halloween Challenge. It’s been so much fun! Thank you, Jennifer, for hosting again this year. 🙂
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My yellow painted rock with little costumes
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Paolo (RIP) in his purple King costume (crown & cape)
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Thanks for visiting! Peace ☮️
© 2020 BS
31 Days of Halloween – Spider
Tourmaline .’s Halloween Challenge – Spider
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My painted rock spider (yellow rock/black spider)
A large spider that was in the house.
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“SPOOKY SPECTERS”
Flowing shroud
Moaning loud
Misty fog
Swampy bog
Haunting night
Lantern light
Scary scene
Halloween
Spooky specters roam around
Corpses rise from underground
Spiders crawl to fuel your fears
Rest in peace for years and years
Come Halloween, ghosts converge
Fantasy and real will surely merge
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© 2016 (2020) BS
3 Days of Halloween – Grave
Tourmaline .’s Halloween Challenge – Grave
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My painted rocks R I P
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GRAVEYARD
Graveyard stark
Lonely park
Make your mark
In the dark
Listen…hark…
From deep holes
Shrieking ghouls
Ancient scrolls
Speak of trolls
Come all Souls…
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© 2015 BS
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Fenced in Graveyard
Cemetery Angel
Grave Decoration Angel & flowers
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© 2020 BS
31 Days of Halloween – Trick
Tourmaline .’s Halloween Challenge – Trick
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Painted rock (brown with yellow ‘trick’ word)
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WARM OR COLD?
Trick or treat through the snow
Shivering ghosts, and goblins, you know
Since all they get is frozen feet
Makes more sense to conserve the heat
Stay cozy and warm by the fire
Just go buy all the treats you desire
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© 2016 (2020) BS
31 Days of Halloween – Bat 
Tourmaline .’s Halloween Challenge – Bat
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My 2 painted rocks with bats and the word bat in black & orange
The Mister’s everyday coffee mug “Bats Need Friends Too!
Little stuffed bat toy (used to play music), my 2 bat rings & hair clips
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© 2020 BS
31 Days of Halloween – Party
Tourmaline .’s Halloween Challenge – Party
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My painted rock (black) with yellow Party and orange dots
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These are some kid’s Halloween parties where they were wearing costumes.
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© 2020 BS
31 Days of Halloween – Forest
Tourmaline .’s Halloween Challenge – Forest
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My painted rock of the haunted forest
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IF WE LIVED IN THE WOODS
If we lived in the woods,
What would we do?
Watch out for wolves,
And practice “Hoo-Doo”.
If we lived in the woods,
It would never be dull.
We would pick mushrooms and
Light up the Skull.
If we lived in the woods,
We would not have a phone.
We could bake a cake, and
Visit the Crone.
If we lived in the woods,
We would have to be focused.
We’d have to watch out for
Bats and the Locusts.
If we lived in the woods,
We’d light a candle.
It would never be too much
To Handle.
If we lived in the woods,
We’d sit and converse,
With the flora and fauna, and
Things of the Earth.
If we lived in the woods,
We’d chant and invoke,
Spirits of those of whom
Time Never Spoke.
If we lived in the woods,
We’d never be sad.
The rest of the world will
Call us Mad.
If we lived in the woods,
We’d play ‘neath the pines.
We’d make our peace with the
Spooks and the Signs.
If we lived in the woods,
We would howl at the Moon,
And dance in it’s light
From August till June.
If we lived in the woods…
If we lived in the woods…
A large tree trunk with some green plant leaves beside it
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© 2006 (2020) BS
31 Days of Halloween – Leaves
Tourmaline .’s Halloween Challenge – Leaves
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My painted rocks for leaves (with faces) in brown, red, yellow, & orange.
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REVIVAL
A nagging pain, like cotton wool, muffles my thoughts
My head hurts, just need to close my eyes
Maybe a breath of fresh, fall air will ease my senses
Sunny, mid-morning yellow, surrounded by cool, blue skies
Listening to the silence of the falling leaves
One, two, three, then more
They touch me like soft butterflies
Raining down in golden drops of autumn
A crispy carpet at my feet, I smile as I hear my cat
Pouncing and leaping to catch the falling curiosities
My tree laughs and smiles, as a soft breeze tickles her branches
She shakes herself, releasing her finery for us to enjoy
We have nothing to fear, as winter comes near…
Her words are felt in my soul
As I open my eyes, looking upward,
I am thankful for this gorgeous fall day,
And find my pain gone away
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Thanks for visiting! Peace ☮️
© 2020 BS
31 Days of Halloween – Slime
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Tourmaline .’s Halloween Challenge – Slime
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HERE’S TO YA
His arms are green and slimy,
As up from the brine they rise.
His words are gurgled and rhyme-y,
And he looks to be a fairly big size.
I don’t know what to think,
While I’m frozen to the spot where I stand,
But I offer the creature a drink,
Given by my shaking hand.
As higher and higher he rose,
Up from the water so deep,
I saw two holes for his nose, and
His eyes began to weep.
He said ’twas the first time ever
Anyone tried to be nice to him.
You could have knocked me down with a feather, when
He said his name was Jim.
So, if ever you meet a stranger, an ogre of some reputation,
Don’t look at him in anger,
Just flow with the situation.
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~ funny photo from Pixabay~
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© 2016 (2020) BS
31 Days of Halloween – Spooky Spirit Candle
Tourmaline .’s Halloween Challenge – Candles
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Spooky SPIRIT CANDLE
I have this candle. It sits on the shelf in my living room, in a square, glass jar. It is red, smells good, like spice, and is named “Christmas Spirit”. I’ve had it awhile, but have never lit it. My sister gave it to me because she was scared of it.
You may think that’s a strange reason to gift me with the candle, but I don’t. She knows I love all weird and paranormal things, and this candle had been acting ‘weird’ over at her house. I think she’d bought it at a yard sale, along with some others, a long time ago. She had this one and the others sitting out on her kitchen table, as she was thinking of getting rid of them, now.
She gave me the candle, and told me this spooky story about it. … She was sitting at her table, early one morning, while the house was quiet. She was sipping her coffee, when all of a sudden, the glass lid on the ‘Spirit’ candle popped off with a loud noise, and flew off across the room. It landed quite a distance away, but didn’t break. She was lucky it did not hit her, as it went flying by. There was no rational reason for the lid to come off the glass jar. The table was not jiggled, the room was an even temperature, and the lid had been securely fastened down on top of the jar. She had never burned the candle, either.
So, that’s why she was scared of it…maybe it was possessed, or would do it again at any given moment. Anyway, now I have it. I’ve been waiting for it to do something else…hoping it would flip it’s lid again…anything. I thought that being over here, at my house, with the resident spirits and ghosts, would trigger an incident, but so far it hasn’t. I wish it would.
Could it be that the ‘spirits’ in the Christmas candle are happier now, being around others of it’s kind? I don’t know, but if it does do anything else strange, I’ll let you know.
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Thanks for visiting! Peace ☮️
© 2014 (2020) BS
