Thursday, October 25, 2007

Reinvent-tage Retreat Day 26

Today's Intention...be fanciful...

In honor of Miss Fanciful herself...who seems to be as deep in the throes of creativity as I am this month...I find myself somewhere between the revenge seeking/broom riding/whacked out wicked witch and the uber nervous/clock watching White Rabbit..."Oh Dear, Oh Dear...what shall I do...so much to do...not enough time...Oh Dear, Oh Dear"...having violent mood swings...necessitating much chocolate...

If one wishes to be fanciful...imaginative it is....and inventive...and courageous...and, at times, laughing raucously at yourself...even if you, by choice, fall down the rabbit hole...2 or 7 times...

Not altogether fanciful am I...and though the physical appearance and attributes of such imaginary beings may have been, well um, overemphasized or just plain silly...the witch is in...for the time being...as the sign indicates...
You can see from the first photo that I have gone all out with Halloween decor this year...an upgrade from my usual bowl o' candy corn pumpkins...the shenanigans of miss fancy pants has rubbed off on me and caused me to go over the top...spending nearly 12 bucks...the teeny, tiny witch was $7...

above is the teeny, tiny paper witch I found in an antique store in Chicago...carried home in my carry on so as not to squish her skirt...but squished her nose instead...below is my usual h-ween decor...


So what pray tell does this have to do with the Reinvention Retreat Rebecca???...I have reinvented myself for h-ween...the witch is in...tee hee...but she is determined to be a happy/positive being...cause I would hate for redneck nerdboy to stop reading my blog because I am emitting too much negative energy for him with his morning cuppa...
BTW...if you google fanciful...a fanciful twist comes in 3rd after fanciful.org and before roux fanciful hair rinse...not bad placement my dear...

17 comments:

Nunnie's Attic said...

You're never depressed in your posts. Busy, hectic, stressed maybe... But never depressing!!

Love,
Julie

ShabbyInTheCity said...

"the shenanigans of miss fancy pants" Oh how she has rubbed off on me too!!! What on earth did we ever do without Vanessa????
I'll take that bowl of punkins off of your hands...you are busy with chocolate anyway...and I would be if any were in this house!

Barbara said...

sometimes its the same like me ....but that's life....

Pam Aries said...

Your post gave me giggles this morning! I love it! I love Vanessa too! She crazeeee,that one! Your tiny witch is cutie wootie! It's a good thing thosepumpkins aren'e CHOCOLATE!!!

Anonymous said...

Wonderful post! Gotta say that it's that way with me too alot! "Have I done this, have I don that?" Stress, stress, stress... Those pumpkins look really good. They make me hungry...lolololol :)
*HUGS*

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KaiBlue said...

your witch is groovy..Pamelala is having a witch challenge, you should enter that spooky little miss. :)
peace, Kai xx

Linda O'Neill said...

Welcome to the world of Witchy Women! We are a proud people.:)

Gill said...

I adore a Fanciful Twist!!! And you!!! Seems as you've channelled your inner witchy poo...and that's a good thing! You'll be in fine form for Wednesday's party!
xo
Gillian

tlchang said...

Ha! I need to write that on my hallway mirror too! (she says with the dark, organic chocolate bar opened next to her on her desk).

Anonymous said...

Like you I gat great fanciful twist ideas from Valencia :-)

Happy Halloween.

Anonymous said...

Oh ms Cre8tiva,
You set a beautiful stage for all the Halloween magic. Are you set with your costume?

So cool about Ms. Fanciful T.;-)

Sandra Evertson said...

Love that you wrote right on your window!
Sandra Evertson

somepinkflowers said...

i ate an entire bag
of those sugar pumpkins
and
i don't even like the taste!

:-)

i think they contain
some addicting drug!

watch out!
be warned!

PS--love your little paper witch!

Sweet Cottage Dreams said...

Hey - you are who you are and you are just expressing yourself! I find that creative people have so much going on inside of their head sometimes and it is difficult to not go every which direction. I know cause I can get myself in a tizzy if I don't focus. Love ya like you are! Becky

Anonymous said...

OHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! How to make a girl witch happy. Well, talk about her in the nicest way on the planet and make her feel so special she is squealing in girl gushing delightment.... Then throw in a little witch, the witch being in on a mirror, and some little candy corn pumpkins, and voila. You get one very happy happy happy witch. ME!!!!!! xoxoxoxooxoxoooxoxoxoxox
I am like a zombie art making weirdo morphing creature. I feel so out of the loop, where is the loop??? One more week til the show... Today I painted all the walls in the gallery by me-self (white)....Holey Moley.... I am sore... xoxooxoxo sorry I am kissing and hugging you like mad.. I have been known to do that.. xoxooxoxo

Anonymous said...

That Miss Vanessa is just inspiring isn't she? And when I found her I was sure I'd uncovered a jewel I wanted to keep all to myself. Clearly I wasn't the only one feeding off of her inspiring creativity! And I am not even crafty.

Love her, and you!

Melissa