October CupboardScape

Enchantress

Conjurer

Witchery

I found these witch images 

doing a Google search.

I printed them on a tan cardstock.

Added some orange/white 

bakers twine to each

for my primitive corn tree.

Added the witch images,

along with some orange and black candies.

I made these years ago.

If you have not realized it by now,

this CupboardScape is all about

Halloween Femme Fatale Sirens.

View of tree.

Vintage Fortune Teller card,

with sage in a medicine bottle.

An OLM prim doll.

I added the hat to make her into a witch.

One of my witches I made this year.

Side view.

Another side.

Night time views.

I so loved putting this 

Halloween CupboardScape together.

I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.

Tomorrow night Bob and will do our traditional

Halloween of passing candy out 

to the children in town.

This year we will also be providing the first 200

dressed up kiddies along with candy,

a Halloween ticket which will be good

for $1.00 in free candy.

We have been so blessed.

What will you be doing on Halloween?

HAPPY  HALLOWEEN

2018 Halloween Blessings To All!

Janice  

My Halloween Wish

The weekend is here.

A wet cold Autumn day today.

Wind is light, 

however the other morning

we had dangerous fog here by the river.

As soon as I opened the door to go to work....

it was like walking into a dark cave

with no sense of where you were going.

I could not even see our vehicles in the drive

from the porch.

It was a slow cautious drive along the river

for the first 15 minutes of my drive to work.

You could not even see a car coming at you

until it was almost up on you,

It was that bad.

Never seen it that foggy since I have lived here. 

So my Halloween wish finally came true.

I have only been asking for this now

for 3 years.

I shucked 21 ears of field corn.

I marked all of areas

where I needed Bob to drill a hole.

He drilled the ears of corn too.

I put it together with pieces of 1/4 inch dowel,

and gorilla glued to the wood piece.

Each of the last 3 years I have asked Bob

to make me a prim tree.

Finally after weeks of nagging at him,

that I wanted it done this year....

I finally got my wish!

It is prim perfect!

Thank you sweetie for giving me my

H A L L O W E E N

W I S H

Have you ever wanted something so bad...

that you nagged for it?

I am not ashamed to nag about this beauty.

Wait to see what I do with it for my

Halloween CupboardScape!

Hope you enjoy this bewitching

pre Halloween weekend!

Conjure up something you desire!

Halloween Wish Blessings To All!

Janice

Autumn Horse Show

How did I get so lucky.
Lucky to have friends like you!

Happy Wednesday to you all!

While the trees are just starting
to turn color,
the animals begin 
to wear their Winter coats.

Especially the horses.

Right now mine are showing off
 their Autumn hides.

Putting on their own show.

Now for those who have been following 

along on my blog journey-

this was my latest horse purchase.

However when I saw the white one below-

I sold the gray one and kept this one.

Even though the other one 

had the straw saddle intact.

This one looks better in my hall. 

Showing off his Autumn look.

I added a light for awhile.

Before pic of the old horse in the hall.

New horse.

Much lighter now.

Ruth purchased my gray one.

Thank you for giving him a great home!

I did get out of my funk....

not in time to create goodes 

for our upcoming shows,

or even the store,

but I am making a few things for me.

These will be a part of my 

2018 Christmas look.

I am getting exciting for the

 N O E L

season.

Are you looking forward to Christmas?

Hope your Wednesday is a magical one.

Off I fly

{to work}

Autumn Horse Show Blessings To All!

Janice

The Skeletons Got Out

Outside that is.

This year our town did a benefit

for children.

The businesses in town purchased

a straw bale for $15.00

and we were to decorate it how you wanted.   

The monies were to benefit the towns children's

fund to send unfortunate children
 in our county to camp.
A great cause indeed!

We decided to continue our skeleton theme

to the outside of our store.

We took this skeleton fence 

and placed it around our bale.

We added a tombstone and a skeleton.

I painted the pumpkins.

One is the name of our antique store

~Back Porch Antiques~

The other our candy store name

~ The Candy Jar~

Ant the third just a spooky word

~EEK~

Our scary scarecrow sits on our bench.

Bob posted on our Facebook page

for everyone to come sit next 

to him and take a selfie.

We had lots of folks do just that! 

Yesterday my friends all got together.

Te 5 of us went shopping in our small river town.

Had lunch and then came back to my house.

We decided next month to have a sleepover

at of my friends Summer home at the tip

of the Thumb in Michigan.

We are so excited to do this!

At the restaurant there was 

a severe thunderstorm warning.

It was hailing pretty bad.

Very unusual for Michigan.

But then again it was in the high 50's.

So weird for Autumn around here. 

Well off to finish my hooked rug, and work 

on my October CupboardScape.

Hope you are enjoying your weekend!

Did you have unseasonably warm weather

for your Autumn weekend thus far?

Skeletons Escape Blessings To All!

Janice

Autumn Bench

Salutations ~Greetings~ Hello
to all my friends!

Yesterday we had our first hard frost.
It was a windy and chilly day.
I expect the same today.
However the weekend is almost here.
WOOHOO!

We all have a story to tell 
of why we like prims or how 
we like to decorate our homes.

To non prim folks,
I am often asked what Primitives are.
I always respond by saying it is a style.
The same as Victorian, Colonial, 
Mid Century Modern or even Farmhouse.

To me my Primitive style story was an easy one. 

Both sets of grandparents owned farms.
I grew up surrounded by prims.
Unlike decor as I have in my home now,
primitives were a way of life for my grandparents.
Yellowware, grain measures, stoneware,
even cupboards were used daily.

For me when I married in 1981,
my style became the kitchy country.
The country blues and roses were all the rage. 
I am sure many of you remember that style.

It was not until the late 1990's that my heart

called me back to primitives.

 I missed the chippy wood & original painted cabinets.

I missed my grandma's yellowware,

 graniteware and ironstone.

I missed wood, coverlets, quilts, crocks & baskets

that were associated with my grandparents farms.

I WANTED IT BACK

So for the last 20 years I have been

collecting my childhood back.

I wanted to go back to the simpler times

of being a kid on those farms.

Back then I had no worries.

No listening to the nightly news

telling of violence or murder.

Nothing FARCIAL 

as Jacky said in one of her posts.

(Dicky Bird blog)

FARCIAL

~of or resembling a farce~ 

My home is now exactly 

where I want to be in my life.

Even though the world around me 

is spinning out of control,

I can relax in my home and look around

while being reminded of the 

primitive simple life I had as a kid.

~HOME IS WHERE I WANT TO BE~

You now know my prim style story.

What is your style story?

Autumn Bench Blessings To All!

Janice

Cornered For Fall

Happy Monday friends!

Hope you all had a fantastic weekend.

It was a typical Fall weekend her in Michigan.

I have been in a funk lately.

Our show is in a month,

and I have not made one Christmas goodie yet.

Just don't feel like it.

So in between loads of laundry,

and cleaning the house, I just decided to

lay low and just hooked on my rug all weekend.

Saturday I prepared stuffed cabbage in the crock pot,

and my FIL came over for dinner.

We like to have him over as he lives alone,

and since he lives in town, he is close by.

Yesterday I had fun watching a chipmunk 

scampering about our backyard. 

I have not seen one of these in the yard in years.

It brought joy seeing it!

I also watched my favorite Halloween movie.

Hocus Pocus.

Today is the reveal of the final corner

of my back room Autumn theme.

I have always loved this quilted kitty.

Gold Indian Corn on our blue corner cabinet.

Blue and Gold at its finest.

Pumpkin Pine cabinet,

with gold child's chairs.

My grands use to sit in these.

Moved my bucket bench to this side of the room.

Blue and gold flowers inside this crock.

Love my wood piggin.

Our drysink holds our lamp and clock.

The full corner.

So since I moved the bucket bench over here,

the bench had to go somewhere else.

Will show you what I did in another post.

Hope everyone enjoyed their weekend!

Off to work I go....

Cornered For Fall Blessings To All!

Janice