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Halloween Pendants

Every Halloween I like to offer the kids a little extra something along with their candy. I had intended to knit some little critters, but I was busy with other things and I never got started, so I decided to whip up a few pendants instead. I got a little carried away... Anyway, I promised a friend I'd post pictures, so here they are.

Glass

Fish

Hematite

Charms

I think I have about 80 altogether. I've had so much fun going through all my beads and seeing what I can do with them.

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I have so many beads too, lol! But at least I can use some of mine. Shame you get no trick or treaters =(

We don't have any kids on this street and haven't had any for at least...ten years?

That's the trouble with kids, they have a bad habit of growing up =(

Yeaaah. :D

Although, the only time I really LIKE kids is at Halloween, lol!

I volunteer with kids a couple of times a month. They're okay. But these are decent kids, for the most part.

Our local ones are pretty decent, I just lack the maternal gene...

My maternal gene is only available to critters.

Same here, although I also lavish affection on my stuffed toys and my action figures. I don't have any pets at present...

I have a lot of stuffed animals (and tons of Breyer horses) and some action figures...

I understand lavishing attention on them, too.

I'm not familiar with Breyer horses, I'll have to look those up, but I hove oodles of stuffed animals and lots of Torchwood action figures, mostly Jacks and Iantos. They have beds, and a lounge where they spend their days. They're more comfortable than I am!

Aww!

My action figures are (mostly) put away. I want to buy a few more (the Monkees' Davy Jones is the perfect size to ride my Breyer horses - and as he was a jockey once and loved horses, it seems appropriate).

I keep acquiring more stuffed animals. I have more Schnauzers, foxes, and wolves than I know what to do with!

As a Monkees fan, I knew that about Davy but I didn't know there were Monkees action figures. How cool! I looked up the Breyer horses and I'm seriously in love, and wishing I were rich because I'd start collecting them myself. My action figures have a small stuffed pony I bought them a few weeks ago. They like it but their legs aren't jointed right for riding so they have to sit side-saddle.

I very much approve of your stuffed animal collection. I have only a one small wolf, sadly. You don't get a lot of wolves in Britain.

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Oh, you can find Breyers inexpensively...used ones. :D Slightly banged up ones. eBay has some good ones!

I have about 300+ model horses. My bff and I usually get each other some each year for birthdays and/or Yule.

Aww! I always wanted a wolf puppet; one of my friends had one and he was glorious.

I'll have to take a look on ebay, although honesty I don't know where I'd put a load of new horses! Most of those I have are in boxes.

The wolf puppet sounds gorgeous. Wolves are among my favourite animals.

I only have about 45 of my horses out right now (in the living room - and 2-3 in my bedroom). At my own house, I had all of them out but...

Wolves are some of my favorite animals. I have some fur from an actual wolf I met once (he was 99% wolf). My crazy-ex-boss also had a 75% wolf who had to be euthanized (she had him in downtown and he needed room to run and a lot more time than she ever gave him. I hated hearing that he'd been euthanized because she should've never gotten him).

That's always the problem when you don't have the space to display your collection, but that's still a lot to dust!

How cool! An almost purebred wolf! They're such beautiful, noble creatures. Desperately sad about the one that was euthanized. Se definitely shouldn't have gotten him, it's irresponsible and unfair to the animal. =(

Yes! But I do like the ones I have out - my two favorite Halloween horses and a lot of the active and/or colorful ones.

Yes, he was part of a pack of about twenty. I was kind of round-about offered one of the puppies but I said "Absolutely not" to the person offering one to me because I knew I didn't have the patience for a wolf - nor the place to keep one. I don't ever see that happening in real life. I'll stick with my evil terriers. I know what they're gonna do on a general day. :D

Yeah, that she got that wolf-dog and had him for three years and he was mentally abused for almost the entire time killed me. He was such a handsome, smart animal. I considered stealing him when I left her employ but see the previous paragraph and me owning a wolf. (As an aside, when the crazy attorney drove 18 hours one way to get said animal, she offered to pick one up for me too. I laughed in her face.)

Always good to have your favourites where you can see them.

That's a lot of almost wolves! At least you were responsible, knowing you couldn't care for one the way it needed to be cared for.

Too bad the crazy attorney didn't have the same common sense. Sounds like she wanted the wolf dog as a status symbol rather than as a cherished and cared for companion. People need to be vetted for suitability to own something that needs so much care and exercise.

Alas, I have far more favorites of these horses than I have places to put them. I have duplicates of some molds just for the incredible paint jobs...

The only wild animal(s) I would even consider having for pets would be foxes and/or birds of prey. (Or maybe a Mustang because horses...sigh...horses.)

Crazy Attorney was all about animals as status symbols. She had another dog she claimed was half-wolf (he was a blond Chow and was recognized as that by a breeder as well as me), a pair of Highland Lynx cats, and a very large cichlid fish. None of which she took care of personally, either her housekeeper(s), nannies, or aquarium care guy did the caretaking. (It was the same with her kids, too - I was roped into babysitting and doing the kids' homework more time than I really wanted.)

I can imagine! I've been looking at pictures and there re some beauties.

When I was a kid, a friend of my sisters had a pet fox, lovely animal. I've been lucky enough to hold several birds of prey (a rescue centre sometimes brings some to various fetes so people can learn more about them). There's a picture of e somewhere on my journal with a great grey owl on my arm. Her name's Galadriel and she's gorgeous.

I adore horses, but I'm severely allergic to the dust in their coats. Can't breathe around them. =(

I hate people like that. Living creatures need to be treated with respect and cared for properly. Kids too.

There are. I have some very lovely ones that my BFF has given me over the years.

Oooo, you knew someone with a pet fox? You can own them locally with a license and there's a family that sells them (cheaper than the dogs I love) semi-locally (like, within about 3 hours-drive). They have some incredible colorations, too - not just red, grey, white, or blue - they have marbles and other funky colorations.

I often think I wo uld love to learn how to hawk but there's also a part of me that knows I don't like killing animals. I am not a hunter!

I had a pony when I was a kid. I loved her so much. My parents told me they'd buy me a horse but I've never gotten it. :\

Yeah, that was the Crazy Attorney. Sigh.

I think I only met the fox once or twice, he brought it to our house on its leash. I remember it very well though. Not sure about the legality of ownership here in Britain but I've not heard of people breeding foxes as pets here.

I used to think that, but I couldn't be complicit in killing small animals and birds. I adore birds of prey though. Had a sparrowhawk crash land on top on my greenhouse once trying and failing to get a sparrow. She ended up in a bit if an undignified heap, not her best try, lol!

A girl up the road had several ponies over the years and used to sometimes bring her pony down to my house and take me for short rides. On holidays I'd go for an hour pony trek then barely be able to breathe for the rest of the day. It was pretty bad but I endured it just so I could ride.

That's still pretty cool. I always wanted foxes to come around my place in Florida. I had tortoises (endangered tortoises), buzzards, and possums, as well as poisonous snakes. We often could hear foxes but we never saw them.

A few friends of mine have owned parrots. I'm always nervous around them. I always figure they're gonna take a chunk out of my ear.

I haven't ridden regularly in about 30 years, if not more.

We used to have a lot of foxes around here, but I haven't seen or heard one in seven or eight years. They vanished when work was being done on the tram system nobody wanted. =(

We had pet tortoises growing up. Mine lived with us for 25 years before she got very ill and had to be put out of hr misery. We also acquired two strays, but only one is still alive now and lives with my sister.

Cockatiels aren't much bigger than budgies (which we've also had a lot of - my late brother-in-law had an aviary in out back yard where he bred show birds. I showed and tried to breed zebra finches). They do have sharp beaks though, and I was on the receiving end every time tee were claws or beaks to be trimmed. Worst of all though was a tiny stray lovebird I caught in the back yard one day. Vicious little beast!

I haven't ridden for at least that long either.

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