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Michele, Did you see this: https://thehungryjpeg.com/freebie/3524403-free-gnomes-clipart?sscid=a1k7_3wec9&aff_marketing=shareasale

Great minds must think alike. The second image was a freebee from Tiny Turtle Designs and the green sunglass wearing scarecrow is from a screenshot of a VRML model I made.

I watched a couple seasons of Survivor only because it was originally filmed by a guy who did these race shows that were actually real. Reality shows are anything but real. I got tired of it very quickly. I dont like these shows because there is too much conflict and drama and seems to bring out the worst in people. I'd rather see people at their best, it's more inspiring. I like competition shows that are serious like The Crossfit Games. Elite athletes at their best, now that's a motivator for me. I realize I am in a minority for this subject.

Totally Right and the more fun the happier I be.

In October, our monthly theme is HALLOWEEN. This might not be a very "original" theme for this time of year but it is still all around us. Pumpkins, skeletons, ghosts, and more are all over at this time. Let's see how many words we can find that relate to Halloween. Let's go!

Spooky 2 masterclass is my favourite Halloween masterclass.

Halloween is something I don't celebrate. It's not new to the British. All hallow's Eve comes from many Pagan traditions. Introduced in to America by the Scots and and the Irish, who then commercialized. I used a photo of a Welsh Church and churchyard, used effects photo effects time machine, added the cats and lady, added glow to them. Bats and a moon.

I do, too, Chris. I subscribe to BritBox for that reason and have been a long-standing fan of Downton Abbey. I even used it as the theme of a workshop here with a calendar.

It's raining outside:( It is probably a first fall day so we have to say 'Bye bye summer':( My recent work "Rain". I used Carole's template but aspect ratio has been changed. btw, tell me why we use 3600x3600 (square) mostly?

Q ran as quick as I could after school to home to watch Dark Shadows my mom said why do you want to watch such queer stuff.... lol different time.

I just found the very first image I ever made as a card for family who could not be at the table that year so long ago. So to ya'lll who live in both great nations. I am thankful to know ya'll here on Campus.

I'm grateful for you being you! Dont ever stop.?

Today I was visiting a garden center, a very big one and they had already opened their yearly Christmas show. There are always many displays of different winter scenes with little villages, snow scenes etc. Among them were a couple of Halloween scenes that I took photos of. So the background of my layout is my photo with a cobweb overlay, some ghost tubes, the freebie for this theme, and 2 skulls. I didn't change the colors of my photo because I think it came out nicely; the cobweb was white and that was a bit too white so I made it a bit darker with the saturation and lightness.

That's what I love about Halloween. It's all about fun! ?

F = FOOD with a Halloween theme

Fun with clip art! The background is from years ago so I don't know where it came from, but I'm sure it was free. The gnomes are from CF (I love gnomes and d/l them all). The bee is by AnnieC from a Scrap Designers blog train a few years ago. The fonts are a duo called Bee Kind, also from CF.

Another one.

A = Apples - bobbing for Apples is a fun game for a Halloween party

Happy October! I love Halloween, and wild cats. Here's my October Wild Cat Calendar featuring Sushi, the Fishing Cat. There's a full-size version on our Facebook page that you can print @ 11" x 8.5". I do one for my refrigerator door. LAYOUT DETAILS: Info from: SMITHSONIAN'S NATIONAL ZOO Fishing cat | Smithsonian's National Zoo 2023 Calendar Template from Cassel Fish and Halloween Witch illustration - Pngtree Title font under photo and journaling- Agency Fishing Cat photo of the recent rescue, Sushi, from The Wild Cat Sanctuary in Sandstone, MN I find it hard to read the journaling on the reduced-size version here so I'm posting it separately: "The Fishing Cat is one of the largest of the small cats. This robust, deep‐chested cat has a body length up to 45 inches and stands over 16 inches at shoulder height. The adult male weighs up to 31 pounds. As their name suggests, they swim, dive and fish for food. Their body is ideally designed for under water movement and their toes are partially webbed. These cats "fish" at the edge of bodies of water. They appear to scoop their prey from the depths of the water and have also been observed playing with fish in shallow water. Fishing cats are native to southern Asia. Their conservation status is listed as VULNERABLE, mainly because of habitat loss due to encroaching civilization."

Why didnt your drive through the corner of Wyoming, through Montana, into Canada, through Calgary (ugh, shutter at the thought of the traffic there....maybe skirt around Calgary) and up to Edmonton...on the upper North west side you'll find St. Albert. I'll wait for you, good excuse not to go to work when it dinner time for normal folks, with normal jobs. Why do I have to be abnormal? Love the page and find your journalling interesting to read.

Pages 19 and 20. The map of the loop road and the 2 lower right pictures on page 20 are from the website for Custer State Park. The rest of the pictures were taken by Laurie and Joe.

Genealogy Speaking we can go back to John Donne (1571 or 1572 – 31 March 1631) who was an English poet, scholar, soldier and secretary born into a recusant family, who later became a cleric in the Church of England.[2] Under royal patronage, he was made Dean of St Paul's Cathedral in London (1621–1631).[1] He is considered the preeminent representative of the metaphysical poets. His poetical works are noted for their metaphorical and sensual style and include sonnets, love poems, religious poems, Latin translations, epigrams, elegies, songs and satires. He is also known for his sermons. My favorite quote of his is ""No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent." We dropped the e off our last name when arriving in the new world seeking religious freedom before the American revolution.

Sorry, but reality to me is the world today. These shows do not interest me at all. I cannot say a lot about them due to the fact I have never really watched them but just the ads about them make me think they are fake. But it is not good for everyone to like the same thing...so enjoy!

My TV list is rather short; I don't turn it on until after 5 pm and off by 10. I watch The Good Wife, Billions, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Fire Country, Broadchurch and I pick a movie for my Saturday night viewing. This week it'll be Fast X, the auto racing film with Vin Diesel. I'm looking forward to the original Moonlighting series with Candace Bergen and Bruce Willis which is being re-released on Hulu. I never saw the originals. Also, a new Frasier series with Kelsey Grammer. Both start Oct 10 here. There are two new series on Netflix I'll try: Reptile, a detective show and The Recruit, a spy comedy. That's it for me. Most of the time I'm here on my desktop computer, playing with PSP.

I don't watch much tv nowadays. So many series are copies of older ones or imitations, but like Chris and Jannette we watch a lot BBC television. The series from Richard Attenborough, Fake or Fortune, Who do you think you are, The Antiques Roadshow (which has a Dutch counterpart that we also watch). My husband likes all kinds of sports and I don't and there is a lot of sport on the telly, so I go to the computer. Besides that I have seen a lot of the programs above like the ones Sue mentioned.

I see there is a canadian site of bbc first. The best were Unforgotten and Bluelights. https://bbcfirst.ca/

OMG! My favorite "superhero" that I have followed in the comics since I was very young. I see him on the internet every day now; wouldn't miss it! The Ghost Who Walks...The Phantom

P= Phantom Young Kit Walker finds himself recruited by a secret organization, unveiling a heritage he never could have dreamed possible. Revered as the twenty-second "ghost who walks," he must now uphold and honor his ancestors' creed - to fight crime and injustice throughout the world.

O = October

I'm glad that both Canadian and American Thanksgiving are coming. I need that double dose of gratitude! ??

N = Night time

M = Mummy (as in Egyptian style)

L = lantern

Our (Canadian) Thanksgiving is coming next Monday. To keep things easy but to satisfy the urge to "make" something, I did a card for friends/family I won't see. Just really simple.

I have wanted to make a button for a long time and today I finally succeeded. It's not a very big one. And not too sharp either. But I enjoyed making it. I used the Eye Candy 5 impact glass plugin for this. The scrap kit is new. I got it this week. And is from Susan. It is named 'leaves of autumn".

@Sue Thomas @Julie Magerka I understand that this topic is very relevant to you and you would like to talk about it. We started this with a question from me about an English expression and now we are into the most difficult thing on our minds, The purpose of our lives. Maybe it will depress some people to read this. For that reason, I will not discuss it further here. Not because you're wrong. Receive my love.

J = Jack-o-lantern

I had a great deal of difficulty understanding the Canadians when I first moved here. Especially when they spoke, as they leave out letters. They don't' say Toronto, but Torono. Under the bonnet is the engine of the car. I'd often say, he's tinkering under the bonnet. In other words working on the engine. When the settlers arrived in Johnson in 1621, they came from all over Europe, with the intentions of starting a fresh. They wanted to leave behind the turbulent history, of inter country fighting dating back hundred and hundreds of years. Border wars etc. They adopted the English Language, as their primary language, but Greek and Latin makes up a great deal of the English Language. So, they decided to change many of the words. Changing a letter or omitting a letter in a word. Such as Tyre (tire) Colour (color). It didn’t stop there, they would change words like bonnet and boot, to hood and trunk. That is why we have (old) English and American English. North America has done it’s best to eradicate everything related to the settlers native countries. They believed that a continent like North America would be untouchable by invading countries. It was true. North Americans have led sheltered lives. Since WW2, the US has instigated over 200 wars in European and Asian Countries. Including dropping 2 atomic bombs. Russia has been involved in a total of 4 wars by invitation of the respective invaded countries. How the US has changed since those first settlers, they wanted a peaceful new life. My mother lost 2 of her eldest brothers to WW2, and a cousin, my dad lost an uncle. Today I say to myself, what did they die for. Hollywood has portrayed the US as the heroes of WW2. Not true, Russia was the primary army that defeated Hitler and the Nazi. With the highest mortality numbers. I can remember to this day, how my gran spoke kindly and fondly about the Russians. As they were allies of GB and the US. I knew the second the house speaker of the Canadian parliament, introduced a Ukrainian Canadian officer who fought against the Russians in WW2, that he was a SS Nazi of the worst kind. It worries me, that if the neocons of the US government, and governments around the collective western countries aren’t reined in, I fear for what is in store for the future of generations to come. I've gone off on a tangent here. It can be deleted if inappropriate.

This all started with me wanting to show that moon and branches photo of mine through a window. It grabbed me and took me along for the ride for the rest of it. The room, ghost, pumpkin, cups, and bird were modified from Creative Fabrica downloads. The sprites or whatever they are were made with various paint brushed such as smoke etc. I have been playing with this off and on all day and had a blast..

A couple of projects from the Grunge Class - good, fun class, thanks Carole!

H = Haunted

G = Goblins

C = Candy Corn ~ I know a lot of people don't like it, but I love it.

If anybody has Filter Forge, see a couple of my filters. They are still there 10-15 years later! (This idea is from today’s Filter Forge Masterclass - I bought it and was surprised to see my old account was still viable!) https://www.filterforge.com/filters/9010.html And https://www.filterforge.com/filters/9012.html They each have over two thousand downloads and work with FF 2.0 and higher.

So clever the way you combine your photos with clipart. Impressive and creative.

Here is another one. The sign post was ideal to be placed in the small snow drift., rabbits in close proximity to the white tailed hares prints, same for the deer, as Antelope had passed through the yard earlier that day. With the right photos, they work well with clip art to create a page.

Carefully choosing one of my photos for the background, I then added some clipart to create a card. The prints in the snow are either from the white tailed hares or other resident four legged creatures. Placing the dog where some print are visible. No one would be any the wiser who made those prints.

We spent a great deal of time at the beaches, and National Trust (houses, buildings, gardens coastlines and countryside). I certainly had my money's worth from that membership.

This year my little girls requested their very own calendar. Using photos I took when I was home last year, here are a few pages for the calendar.