Halloween Potion Bottles

Other than increasing mental ability, overcoming fatigue, alleviating stomach aches, quenching thirst and being incredibly  pleasant to the palate, Coca-Cola has yet another benefit. It's called My Coke Rewards.


What does My Coke Rewards have to do with Halloween? Allow me to explain.


Underneath the bottle caps or inside the cardboard cartons of Coca-Cola products is a code that can be entered for points on My Coke Rewards. The points accumulated may be spent in a variety of ways and I chose to spend a few of mine on a subscription to Country Living Magazine.

The October issue of Country Living Magazine has some great ideas for Halloween decor.

This is the photograph that inspired me to make decorative bottles of my own...

I asked my son Chase to bring over some empty liquor bottles from his collection...

then I spray painted a few of them...

and printed Halloween graphics onto sticky labels that I picked up at OfficeMax.

Lastly, I adhered them to the bottles, creating these little works of art...

Wicked Witch Halloween Decor

If you love decorating your home for Halloween and want to see a clever idea, click on this link... Just Drink a Coke.: The Wicked Witch of the Midwest! You will be glad you did. :)

Las Vegas Bellagio at Christmas

Don and I went to Las Vegas over Christmas break. While we were there, we went to the Bellagio Conservatory and Botanical Gardens. The Bellagio creates garden exhibits around holidays and seasons. Everything is created with plants, flowers, trees and other items from nature. The attention to detail is incredible. I've never seen so many Poinsettias in one place. It was magical and I loved every minute of it.

One penguin is holding and reading a set of igloo plans while another puts an ice block in place. Adorable.

Water sprayed from the tops of these huge, shiny ornaments.

Santa's reindeer wrapped up and around the Christmas tree. You can see in the following pictures...



Don thought the reindeer were made out of seashells. I thought they looked like some kind of nuts. It  really doesn't matter what they were made of; they were remarkable regardless!



Check out the ginormous ornaments hanging from the ceiling.

Poinsettias were everywhere.

Don and (what I like to think is) the Coca-Cola Polar Bear.