Happy Thanksgiving!

I feel so blessed to spend this Thanksgiving with both our sons in beautiful (warm) South Carolina...and be surprised with this wonderful bouquet from my Mom!
I am counting my blessings today for health, happiness and family.
My wish is that everyone has a great Thanksgiving!

Need a Thanksgiving centerpiece?

This is something I love to do as a centerpiece~take my candlesticks and put ornaments on them in place of candles. I have brass candlesticks and glass/crystal candlesticks that look gorgeous with glass bulbs,fancy or plain Christmas ornaments sitting on them.
I bought this set for my son and his girlfriend last Thanksgiving. It will look terrific on our table for Thanksgiving!
Enjoy your Thanksgiving with loved ones! Count your blessings!

Urban Fairy Doors of Ann Arbor

I spent a wonderful day last week with my wonderful sister. We shared breakfast, lunch and dinner and even got some shopping in. Most of the day was spent in Ann Arbor where we visited some lovely shops. I had a list of gifts to pick up for Christmas and was eager to get started. While browsing in the first shop, Peaceable Kingdom, I happened to see someone sitting on the floor by the front window. Curious, I went over and discovered two miniature windows. I gingerly knelt down, looked inside and found a fairy store! My curiousity led me outside the store to find the door to this tiny store and there it was~but my camera battery went dead. I did get some pictures of inside the fairy store but had to take a picture of a postcard to get a picture of the door.
Now I need to return Ann Arbor to seek out other fairy doors~Small Enchantments are found when you least expect them.

Pumpkin Carving

I found these pictures from last year and thought I would share them. We went wine tasting a year ago on Old Mission Peninsula (Traverse City) and stopped at the Jolly Pumpkin behind Bowers Harbor on the west bay side of the peninsula. They had a pumpkin carver there earlier in the day, Most of his pumpkins were gone but I did get these pictures. I haven't attempted this kind of carving but think it looks great!

BTW, the homemade potato chips are tasty there-as well as the white fish! Yum~now I am hungry!

Don't eat too many treats today!

Boogedy Boo!

HaPPy HaLLoWeEn!

Enjoy the weekend~but don't lose your head!

May all your spooks be small and your enjoyment large!

I will miss Halloween but there is Christmas looming in the future...

Halloween Lamps Continued....

I did say I love lamps and this time of the year I find I have several Halloweenie lamps.

I found the Harry Potter lamp in Petosky a few years ago and knew it would be great with a colored bulb during this season!

One of my personal favorites has to be the witch hat lamp I made myself. I saw what I thought was a witch hat lamp in a store but the price was high. I was perusing Target and found a toddlers witch hat so decided to make my own lamp. I bought a cheap black lamp at Hobby Lobby (half price) and changed the lamp shade by making a cone shape out of parchment paper, adding bat shapes to the parchment which show when lit. This wasn't quite stable enough so I searched for something heavier and found a clear plastic cone (and I cannot remember where I found this-maybe in the floral section of a hobby store?). I added black netting over this. I dressed up the witch hat with fancy netting and bead trim (glued on) and Voila!

Hope you can tell how cute this is from the pictures! And BTW, the witch lamp I thought was so expensive turned out to be just a hat on a stand~not a lamp! So my idea came from misinformation. So glad I took initiative and made it myself!

New Halloween Lamp

I have a weakness for lamps~don't know why but I do enjoy buying them!

It all started with an expensive agate lamp I bought years ago-which took the place of a vacation out east that summer (my husband was relieved-he hates to leave Michigan in the summer).

I found this new Halloween lamp two weeks ago when I stole time away from the miniature show I was working on to shop (with coupon in hand). I immediately knew I wanted it, but have started questioning whether I have a place for it. Of course I found a place and I love it!

I thought I would share pictures for those of you crafty bloggers (Kim-this is for you!). It doesn't look very hard to make-good luck!