Spooky Mondays - Garden of Good & Evil

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is a favorite book/movie. 

I have always loved graveyards too.  Sometimes they can be a bit spooky to me, but mostly they are places where I feel at ease, reverent, and there is no question I am in hallowed ground.

"To understand the living, you got to commune with the dead."

- Minerva from Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Beaufort, SC...

New York, NY...

Charleston, SC...

Bleinheim, SC...

Thank you, Wendy for the package of goodies you sent!

Linking with Wendy's Adventures in Wonderland Spooky Mondays!

Please be sure and visit all the Spooky Mondays posts!

3 Spooky Music selections for your listening pleasure!


Bad Luck -  Michael Trent
Baby Did A Bad Bad Thing - Chris Isaak
Witchcraft - Matt Costa

Beaufort, SC

I had quite a few pictures from Beaufort, such a lovely place! I thought this would be the best way to share our trip photos!

-Blanche

Carolina Stampin - Beaufort, SC

Carolina Stampin was a sheer delight! Even hubby got swept up in looking for stamps to add to my collection! They have the most stamps I have ever seen in one place in my life! OMG! Every category of theme was covered. This is a place you have to see in person, as they do not have an on-line store, but well worth the trip if you are ever in the area! And I do highly recommend visiting this beautiful Southern town - in fact we are planning another trip there in a couple of weeks (yeah! more stamps, more beads!)!!



The bead space was vast, given it was only a room and a half and I managed to pick out some cool vintage beads, glass beads, silver weave, and of course many stamps and Distressed(tm) paint.



If you are into scrapbooking, or any kind of altered art, they have supplies galore. I will definately go back again and again (like everytime we go to Beaufort!).

The staff was friendly and helpful - they even had a bubble making machine out front that was way cool!

From the Ocean to the Mountains...

The past few weeks I have either been on vacation or taking a weekend jaunt off to places I love. Not much beading going on, but lots of inspiration for when I do get back to my beadwork! I have just returned form the North Carolina mountains, where I used to live, and was pleasantly surprised to find out I placed second in the Winter Rose Designs Jewelry Contest!

I will wait until they post, but I do love the piece I made and can't wait to see the other entries for the contest.

The week before the 4th of July, my hubby and I took our boat down the Intracoastal waterway to Beaufort, SC. I was writing about this trip last Thursday when the power went out on us...

So picking up the pieces and filling in with photos:

The last few weeks have been busy, busy, busy, and some, not all has been jewelry related.

Hubby and I took a boat trip before the 4th down to beautiful Beaufort, SC by way of the Intracoastal waterway. What fun we had!
Hubby has taken the trip before, so armed with a GPS route, it was quite an enjoyable trip. Beaufort is a - dare I say - a quaint little town, but I mean that in the best way.

We docked at the Downtown Marina (above)

Beaufort's Waterfront park is amazing!




Shopping, dining, and relaxing along the Waterfront was the quintessential getaway for us...

Nippy's was the first stop we made to re-fuel ourselves, and we found our way back there again because the food was soooo good! It's a shrimp-shack kind of place, no-fuss-no-muss, but the food hit the spot!



Will write more late about this excursion, as it merits much more...
(update 7/23/09)
Tabby walls are composed of shells and mix of limestone- read the except if interested. They are so beautiful! Charletson has very few of these, so it was a delight to see this long wall - it's my current desktop photo!