Santa Claus Is Coming To Town

 Good morning friends!

I should have been a decorator.

I so love changing up our Gift Shop.

My Santa tree has red and white lights,

red mittens, Santa images and other items.  

We have a huge front window,

and decided to have Santa

 in the window this year.

So sorry these pics are a bit dark.

Unfortunately I cannot redo, as items have sold.

(a good thing)

The large pillows on the left read

"Merry Christmas Ya Filthy Animal"

This saying comes from a movie

that I am sure most have seen.

Home Alone.

Another pillow and stockings.

Fun Santa's!

Pewter Santa's on the shelf.

Belsnickle ones on the bottom shelf.

More Belsnickle Santa's

and a sleigh.

Again so sorry for the dark pic.

Fun bottlebrush trees on a wood spool

wrapped in red & white baker's twine.

I actually kept one of these.

Metal Merry Little Christmas sign.

Another shop owner in town told Bob

she does not purchase signs anymore 

because they dont sell.

Bob was mad I still kept purchasing signs.

I tease him every time one sells now...

which has been a lot. LOL

Now I hope I did not jinx myself.

The pillows on the right are reversible.

One side saying Naughty, the other Nice.

A small display on the table Bob created.

He took the frame of a school desk and added

a live edge wood top and made a drawer.

He is such a good woodworker.

                                  The full tree decked out.

                               This is a 5ft tree so it tells you 

                                     how big the window is.

More thoughts and prayers.

I am sure many have heard

about the school shooting here in Michigan.

Oxford is a small town just an hour 

Northeast of us.

My heart goes out to the parents of the

children murdered.

Plus the seriously injured.

My two grandchildren are both in high school.

I could not bear it if something like that

happened to them.

Such a senseless loss.

Yesterday I turned 63 yrs young.

My dear sweet FIL took me out for breakfast.

Bob and I then went out for dinner with a friend.

Tundra wished me Happy Birthday

with wet kisses all over my face.

(to be fair he does this every morning) LOL

Santa Claus is coming to town.

Tomorrow that is in our small town.

We have our Christmas Open House

at both stores.

I will be making some cookies for each,

and we will be having a storewide sale

at Back Porch Antiques.

(our vendors agreed to this)

Also with every purchase enter to win 

a $50 gift certificate.

Same goes for Blue Water Gift Shop.

With any purchase enter to win a 

$50 gift certificate.

We cannot do sales at the gift shop,

because when we opened this store

our philosophy was 

why raise the price to sell something.

We price to sell already there.

Gotta Love Santa Blessings To All!

Janice