Spooky

 

Hello friends.

Before I begin my Spooky story,

I want to give a shout out to Jessica.

As soon as I saw that little sheep icon

pop up in the comment section,

I was so happy to see Jessica blogging again.

So many of my blogging friends

over the years have just rode off into the sunset.

So if you can, please follow Jessica over at

Old Crow Homestead and make her

feel welcome again to blog!

{SPOOKY}

Pictured above.

Ok, so this is for Yaya, Carla

and anyone else who wants to hear a ghost story.

Tis the season!

For those who have followed me for

awhile on my blog journey know I also

have an antique store besides our gift shop.

Between September 1st and November 1st

is when the paranormal happenings in our store

start becoming more active.

This year is no exception.

In the back of our store one of our vendors

has a very large portrait hanging on the wall.

This particular wall is cement block.

Over the years, Bob has placed different anchors

in the wall so our vendors can hang items from it.

Well Bob gets a call from this vendor 

who owns said picture and asks

" Did you take down my picture for some reason?"

She asked Bob because our worker said she did

not take it down, and the only way it could come

down is if someone gets the ladder out to take it

off the wall. 

   

Well of course Bob tells her no I did not take it down.

When Bob gets off the phone and tells me,

I immediately say...well we need to look at the camera.

We had to go to the gift shop anyway,

so after dinner we went.

Our parking lot is between both buildings.

Looking at the camera,

we were stunned.

No mortal being took it down.

We could see it first being moved forward a bit...

by someone....

 then gently it floated down to the floor.

We both got the shivers, but knew then

a ghost had taken that picture down.

After watching the footage a few more times, 

Bob called the vendor to tell her what 

had happened.

She herself is one to believe in ghosts,

so when Bob said...

"I think we should leave it on the floor where

it is for now just in case"

and told her what had happened she agreed.

If you love antiques as much as we do,

you are bound to bring one home with you.

Being in the antique business for 14 years,

we know that sometimes a spirit

will attach itself to an antique.

We even have one in our home.

I truly believe our ghost is attached to this picture.

This man resembles my brother if he had a moustache.

Tundra verified this for us.

He was laying in our bedroom and

all of a sudden he flew out of there.

He ran so fast into the living room

and slid under the chair I was sitting in.

He NEVER came out until we all went to bed.

So something scared him.

Our ghost scared him.

Hopefully I did good on my ghost stories for you.

I sort of did a "twofer"

 as my son would say when he was young.

Spooky Blessings To All!

Janice

 

Its Fall Y'All

Hello friends!

Fall is on the calendar now,

and here in Michigan is surely has turned.

We went from 85 to 65 in a day.

Night temps down in the 50's.

Bob even turned on the heat.

Today a cold cold rain all day.

Rain we could have used in the Summer.

 

Today I wanted to show a bit of Fall 

at the store.

More inventory came in today,

so after dinner we headed back to the store

to check it in.

I will post more pics of that later on.

Actually this is just a part of the Fall displays.

Also I was quite surprised to see another

Christmas box come in as well. 

I have to pre-order all of my Christmas

in January, so when it all comes in

it is like opening up Christmas presents to me!

Yesterday I had a customer tell me she loves

to shop quaint little shops because of their

uniqueness.

I also had a rude realtor wanting a gift

to present to her buyer.

It had to be something hunting related,

and they dont have a house.

I politely told her we are a river town,

and I only purchase water themed products.

"Well I have an hour to get something

and they are handing me a $12,000 check."

Again I politely said I am sorry, I dont

have what you are looking for.

She bought three candles and a large

witch sign.

When she left, I did say to myself,

well the witch sign fits her perfectly.

 I also said maybe she should have bought something 

days ago if she knew she had a closing.

I also had a customer tell our worker,

whomever purchases the merchandise

for this store does an amazing job.

That made me feel good.

I have been in the service industry for 46 years.

I have always told myself the customer 

is always right. even though sometimes

I know they are not.

Even at work, I once had a customer

continue to swear at me.

I finally said,

Sir, if you swear at me one more time,

I m going to hang up on you.

He swore. I hung up.

He called me back and apologized.

We worked out his problem.

My dad always told me you can get more

flies with honey than vinegar.

Just be nice to others.

Working the store I know there will be days

where someone will come in and 

not purchase anything.

There will be days when all they 

want is to use the restroom.

I have come to expect it.

Its the rude ones that I dont understand.

Am always polite though.

I love my store and a few bad apples

are not going to spoil my fun.

I love talking to folks.

I even had a customer come in asking

if I had any more ghost stories.

We do have ghosts in our antique store,

and this is the time of year they tend to get

more active.

Any hoot,

sorry for my long rant.

Am loving all of the Halloween shows

on Food Network now.

So many talented folks out there.

Well off to find a snack 

and watch some tv.

Have a wonderful week friends!

Monday Evening Blessings To All!

Janice

Bones Buzz and a Candy Corn

Cannot believe it is Thursday already.

Where has the week gone?

My mom stayed two nights.

We went out to dinner each night.

The first thing she said to me after going

to the guest room was,

"I see you cleaned the room up."

Now for those who loved the room,

my mom does not like primitives.

Her parents moved her and her siblings

from the city to start a dairy farm.

She lived in a log cabin for years

until they built the farmhouse.

However even with a new farmhouse,

they still had no heat or running water.

I was a teen when gramma B finally added

onto the farmhouse and added a bathroom

and running water in her kitchen.

She still used the cook stove for heat in the Winter.

So you see my mom lived with primitives

until she married my dad.

She cannot understand why I would want 

to decorate my house with them.

When I spent my Summer days at grammas,

I did have to use the outhouse and bring in water.

I did learn to live with it though.

Plus I still love the pieces I have.

I do understand where my mom is coming from too.

She had a hard life on the farm.

I did not do half the things she did daily.

For those curious to know,

Bob told me the room is 10 x 10 ft.

The bed is an antique 3/4 one.

A bit bigger than a twin.

Ok onto today's post.

I created more cookies.

Named this one 

"Bones"

Packaged up for sale.

Also made candy corn ones.

Finally created this buzzard.

Naturally I called him "Buzz".

Well have to take Bob to the ophthalmologist

this afternoon.

Hopefully he can help him with his vision issue.

(maybe he can wear glasses)

Will see.

He still is tired in the afternoon.

Will be working the gift shop this weekend.

More Christmas inventory has arrived,

so you know what I will ne doing.

Finally worked out my Christmas mantel display.

I told Bob that I had no idea what I was going to do.

He says..."I know you will figure it out"

Well I did with the help of Pinterest.

You can always follow me on there 

to see what I am up too at

Prims By The Water.

;-)

Well gotta go to work for a bit.

What will you be doing this first Autumn weekend?

Happy Autumn Blessings To All!

Janice 

 

As The Story Goes

Hello friends.

Hope all is well with each and every one of you.

I mentioned before that my guest room

was a chaotic mess.

Well I finally cleaned it up just in time

for my mom's visit on Monday.

As the story goes....

my design teacher drilled it in us students

that to make a statement you must add

either the color green or black.

You all know I am not a fan of green.

Green is an important color however.

So before the green in nature goes away,

I decided to add green and white

throughout this bedroom for now.

Without further ado

here are the pics

***WARNING***

MANY PICTURES 

See if you can pick out the green and white in each.

 

I warned you there were many pics.

This is mainly my sewing themed room.

The room is packed full of antiques and vintage items.

The cabinets are full with my craft items.

The new pine sugar chest now holds

all of my buttons, glue gun/ sticks

and precious Halloween items stored inside.

Hoping my mom enjoys her stay now....

the last time she was here, the room was still

a disheveled mess.

Just enough room for her to be on the 

one side of the bed.

I am sure she was grumbling inside,

but did not say anything to me.

I did warn her it was a chaotic mess.

It will stay like this now until I decorate 

for Christmas.

At least this is clean now....

table still a mess.

We will be eating out when she comes. LOL

Well off to the store.

Will be crocheting more baubles

in between customers.

I now have pink, gray & red, gray/white/green

dark gray/red & white and am working on blue ones now.

Am also crocheting Christmas trees.

Glad my gramma B was able to teach me how

to crochet with me being a leftie and she a righty.

What did you do this weekend?

As The Story Goes Blessings To All!

Janice

 

 

Lady In Waiting

 

Hello Friends!

More of my Halloween in the store.

Just a bit more.

This is a close up of the lady in the corner.

She is animated.

I created the ghostly man picture.

Dont you love this spooky record player.

This skull head has real eyes.

But I could not capture them in a pic.

A handmade wood EEK sign.

Halloween portraits and my spiderweb candle mats.

This light is a vintage one.

These signs will also change to No Vacancy.

Well Bob had another MRI done yesterday.

Hopefully all is well.

We wont know for a few weeks.

Nothing else going on,

except for the squirrels being more active.

The Blackbirds coming in masses now.

The Bluejays squawking more.

Sure signs that Fall is near.

How is Fall arriving by you?

Lady In Waiting Blessings To All!

Janice