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Now is the time for everyone to relax! Hopefully you will all be making goodies and chilling out with friends. (Miles and I will be working and pretending to relax in intervals of 15 minutes) This year, due to our work schedules Miles and I are not traveling. We will be spending the holiday at home with just the three of us. This makes me so happy, although I will miss both our families very much.

I’m making homemade popcorn, brownies and oh, food. Yes, real food. Thanks to good ole’ Trader Joe’s, I’m making cranberry apple stuffed turkey breast. (Directions on the package…hopefully) I am one hell of a baker, but when it comes to real food cooking…I’m a little new to it all. After eating nothing but meat and veggies for 2 years, you get a little rusty. So, for ONE day, we’re pulling out all the stops!

Even the fairy garden is getting a Christmas makeover! I’m adding a boys castle, and another girls cottage. Magic is all around us here at the Teves house.

Bean’s friend went up to a wild sparrow today and said,

“Come here and sit on my finger. Up! Up!” AND IT DID! (The faith of a child, I tell you!) We all petted it and talked to it for about 20 minutes, then it flew off into the bush in the fairy garden. It was quite remarkable, especially since it was NOT a tame pet bird. The kids named the bird Violet Chester Maurice. (?) It let us take turns holding it too. After it flew into the bush it allowed me to go and gently take it out of the bush and hold it…then it pooped on me. WOW! We were so excited. It was a fairy magic moment. Bean’s friend’s nick name is now officially, “The Sparrow Tamer”

There is a full moon out tonight, so make a wish. It’s the end of the year, and time to make lists of what we want to accomplish for 2008. Ask the universe for help and it WILL come, in the most unexpected ways….

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I’ll be popping and baking and boxing up gifts throughout the next few days. Thanks to Kitty’s around the world shopping extravaganza, I have LOTS gifts for you! I’ll be sending them out after the Christmas rush.

Much Love and Sweet Things,

Malena

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Happy Everything, Everyone!!!I hope you all are having a fine time, whatever you are doing. I am going to have a Day Off, with nothing I have to do, and no where I have to go. ( how often does THAT happen?? ) Can you say MovieMarathon????? Me and Freaky Venus Seaweed and Misty-Girl are going tohang out in the Sunroom , with Underworld, Lord of the Rings, and whocan say what else, and a Fire. ( I think the Kitties are more into theFire than the Movies, but it’s hard to tell with Kitties. )I am not much into Xmas Goodies , I am a Pasta and BUTTER girl when itcomes to leaping off the healthy bandwagon, but I did buy a HUGE thingof Fudge today and ate half of it for breakfast.I am now running around in some sort of sugar frenzy. Not sure thiswill be my favorite Holiday Moment. Life is good tho.I send you all the warmest of wishes, and sweetest of dreams, and hopethat you are as happy as a basket of kittens.

Love and Magic, Lorraine

I am thinking of doing a book. I think it should be called ” Disapproving Kitties ” and should be filled with pictures of Freaky Venus Seaweed, with captions, describing her view of the world, and her general disapproval and , overwhelming desire to destroy it. Not sure where I got the idea, just came to me…..

( I slay myself!!! Kudos to Sharon Stiteler and Disapproving Rabbits , still time to order for the Holidays! )

Things are well at the Spooky House on the Hill. I won’t be getting up my driveway until spring, but I have figured out the Evil Parking Rules ( more or less ) and have not had a ticket in DAYS. ( ok, so when you go home in the evening , one parks on the side of the street that is the following days date, even/odd. And only hours between 2:00am and 7:00am count. The rest of the time is a free for all. Hmmph. Don’t know WHY I had trouble…)

I have been feeling a little odd lately, not sure why. Almost as if Death Rays of Doom are beaming into my head. Hopefully it will pass…

Oh, before I forget, yes, yes, you know how I feel about the HOLIDAYS and the shopping and have to do this , have to do that of it all, re-read Malena’s rant if you have forgotten . ( Personally, I like to do the gift thing when the SPIRITS move me, whenever that may be…. ) I am going to wait this year, and do a few gifties for my favorite people in January . Or February. Like I have time right now???? ( and YOU would all be on my list!!!!!!! You might well be MOST of my list! We love you so, Witchy Women and I )

Where the heck was this going????

Oh. Right. Sue…Many thanks for the …Well, I mean I really like what you sent me. It was , uh, perfect. I have never had a one of, uh, THOSE before. Now I do.

( not a clue, but I put it on my fridge and will take a picture of it. )

I saw something last night that had I a video camera in hand, I would soon be a rich women. Picture a Bengal, and a glass of Sprite ( with intriguing bubbles ) . Hours of entertainment I tell you. Who knew these Kitties could levitate ? I am talking straight up, and then DOWN headfirst INTO the glass. Of course the glass does not immediately come OFF the Kitty, tho Sprite will go everywhere….

( ok, so I don’t get out as much as I ought to )

I am for home now. I have finally come to terms with the fact that if I don’t clean the place , it will most likely not get done. Then I am for bed. I am having some trouble sleeping tho…I can’t get over the feeling that someone is WATCHING me…

Love and Whatnots, Lorraine

Lorraine and I both agree Christmas has turned into one big credit card overage fee. Everyone is scurrying around buying things they don’t need for people they are OBLIGATED to buy for. Hmp! Is what we say. Do what you can and they people who really love you won’t care. My Bean said the other day, “Mom, the whole tree thing is such a waste. Let’s just watch a movie together, eat some brownies, open my presents and be together.”

Due to my boycotting of American Commercialism, we are limiting our gifts to 3 each. All you parents know how hard that is. I LOVE babies and wee folk. I could care less about myself, but I do LOOOOOVE to buy for little people. So, we’re not putting up tons of decorations this year, thanks to the brilliant Bean. As you know, my friends house burned down the other day. Buying fancy pants gifts for my family doesn’t seem right when so many people are going without.

A kind note, or a handmade card, or a toy for a impoverished child says Happy Holidays just as well. This Christmas, I put an Amazon wish list together of toys for the fairy garden (which has now become what Miles calls, “A city within itself”) That way, the kids can take some of the toys home if they wish.

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There ARE lots of people I do love to buy for. My family, friends, Bean’s teachers, YOU YOU YOU! But this year I want to emphasize it’s the THOUGHT that counts. I’m sending out small things, ecards, phone calls and of COURSE lots and lots of home made MALENA Brownies.

YOU people are who I wish I could send real gifts to. I have a whole plan you see. When I get an assistant and a few blockbusters under my corset, I am going wild at Toys R Us and The Fashion District. EVERYONE and their dog will get Malena presents. I do hope we can clone Lorraine, otherwise my brilliant plan won’t work. (The post office in LA is a zoo of epic proportions with it’s bullet proof glass and workers who REFUSE to speak english you can understand. Lorraine’s post office is still inhabited by people who smile and acknowledge your presence. Amazing!)

My holiday wish is that everyone have a blessed day where no one argues, no one is hungry, no one has to fight with pay pal , and so on and so forth. PEACE people! That is what I want. That and for our country to grow enough food to feed our own people, and less shopping malls and Wal-marts. Ok, I understand the last few wishes are a little over the top, but I do LOVE to think big.

“Shoot for the moon, and if you don’t get there, you’ll be amongst the stars!”
I love you everyone. I’ll try and send out a few things to you, but with my schedule I can’t promise anythingby ACTUAL Christmas. PAUL SCORE! Get on that Lorraine cloning will ya! I’m dyin ova heaa!

Love to all!

Santa Malena

I got this from Turegblue today and had to post it…..Wonderful!!!!

Hey! Our website is down. We are not sure why. Thank goodness for Dan, who is going to help us, despite being in Disneyland with his family. Some people are just the best friends ever! We’ll be sending you something fabulous very soon Dan. Dan is the only web dude I’ve ever known who is on time and reliable. We are so lucky to have him. So, we’ll keep you posted. Our blog is still up and running, so we’ll hold camp here for a few days.

Lots of cyber love
LaM

Being now snowed in for the winter, my poor car but a memory , except for the No Parking This Side of the Street tickets sticking out all over ( no, I will never figure out the system, me and my neighbours kind of play ” Parking Roulette ” whichever side of the street has more cars…) I thought tonight I might stay in and take some pictures with my new camera, just to see if it could be done.

Seems to be working! I knew the one with the least amount of buttons and features would be the ONE!

I have put up my Holiday Tree, and done some decorating….

( Like you thought there was more than ONE holiday here??? )

I recently acquired , thru a difficult series of negotiations, a couple of new pieces of art. You may recognise it from ” The Vampire Hunters Handbook ” and I tell you, the artist was one tough Dude !!! He said the model would only accept top $$$ for it tho, and so perhaps it was not his fault…..

And here is the second, that’s the Stardust Dress, in front of it , on it’s Dressmakers Mannequin, in the Romance Room…( the Strange thing on the right is Creature-Creature, she may get her own post one day…. ) If you want a closer look at the picture, well, go , you and buy the Vampire Hunters Handbook, what says Xmas more than Vampires?????

Our own Miss Kitty gave me a Fairy last time I was out in the land of Sun. She said ” I found her, she’s YOU, she’s just like you. ” Hmmph. Well, I know THAT sort all to well, I put her in a cage with Spiders and Fake Ivy, and now she is happy and creating no more mischief!!! ( our psychic Diva Malena, bought me the cage KNOWING it would come in handy at some point….. )

( and no jumping on the Cruelty to Faires Bandwagon, until you have had these Darlings flying around, you can’t know, and it’s a LOT bigger inside than out! )

Freaky Venus Seaweed , speaking of nuisances flying around, has been more devious than usual these days, just LOOK at her…..Here she is on the Coffee Table Fish tank looking like a House Cat…

And here is her own true self….

A little song about her came into my head last night. It’s to the chorus of ” Playground in my Mind. If you don’t know the song, read it as a poem. If you do know it, I am sorry it will now be there forever….

I am a Bengal, and I destroy things,
Can I destroy, something for you?
Shred paper towels, jump on your table,
That’s what I’m going to do…

I’m from the jungle , I am not tame
I will attack every thing that I see
You think you are safe , but look all around you,
Oh where, can I be?

My name is Venus, and now that we’re married
You are my prey, and I’m after you
Chew off your legs or maybe your fingers
That’s what I’m going to do…

There you have it, my New Camera. And a new song. ( again, forgive me if you know the tune, feel for me, I walk around my house singing it. All The Time. )

Love, Cameras and Kitties,
Lorraine