Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas!! My gift to you this year is a Christmas "find it" post!!

I truly hope that each and every one of you has a wonderful Christmas and Happy New Year!

I'm going on a blog vacation and should be back to posting on January 4th.

Happy Holidays!!

 

 

An Angel with wings, a silver snow flak, the beginning of Merry, four Santas, a little bell, 450, a fuzzy outfit and a blue candle. 

 

Boy this one's gonna make you look!

Five white churches and one red, a reindeer, a stool made of spools, two camels, the number twelve, five bottle brush trees, a candy cane, a red truck, a snowy scene and three pine cones.

 

 

Getcha zoom out. 

A lava lamp, MLK, four mirrors and a star, a wooden bowl, a silver bow, children kneeling in prayer, a hand in a cup, a clock with no hands and eight old photos. 

 

Wow... I could just keep going with this one...

Two dolls in blue dresses, a gold star and a key, a kissing angel, the dating game, a bunch of daisies, two horses lying down, a gold Santa, eight suit cases, a silver Christmas tree, wrapping paper and "owl really" three times.

 

 

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!



a halloween find it

Just for you... a find it or two!

 

 

A pair of owls, a black cat, two sisters and a pelvis,  336, a Christmas tree and a cat in a dress, a white pumpkin, a greeting card, croquet clubs and a Happy Halloween.



A feather, an eight ball, a yes and a no, a little witch, a cup of pearls and buckeye, a sun, six books, a lamp and a bat.



Jack Daniels, two candy corns, a witch on a broom, a spool of thread, an orange spider, five orange candles and two cat eyes.




A punch bowl, nine pumpkins, a man in a hat, party cups, black candles and a spider web, a hooter, a ladder and two black masks.



I like this picture but there's not much to find...  A witch, a mad pumpkin, a cardinal and snow goose.

a find it

With craft fair season almost upon us I thought I would get you up to speed in spotting.  I have a few photos from Bellbuckle and a couple from the Nashville flea market last year.  Let's see if you can tune in your keen eye and find the items listed below the pictures.

 

 

Seven peace signs, seven bears, a owl, a tiger, seven skulls, a rainbow, a daisy, an orange ribbon.

Superman, a syrup bottle, a really big smile, a wooden shoe, a football, a scholar, an upside down dish. and a parasol.

A snowflake, two blue birds, a bathtub, a globe, two dancers, a spinning wheel, a wren, a mini bar and a white telephone.

 A baseball, a storm trooper, a deer and four parasols, Santa, Sunbeam Barbie, an eight ball and a baby with no arms.

 

A leaf, smiling faces and a red dinosaur, dancing ladies, a stethoscope, a copper tub and taffy logs, a fish, beaded basket, butter churn and a ball.

A jar of thread, a red hat, Aunt Dea, A wooden whistle, baked goods, a radio, a 5 4, 3 cigar boxes, a water bottle, a spoon and a flask.

 

Awe that's all?? I have so much fun doing these.  I hope you enjoy them too! 



a haunting urge

Here I am again.  Each year, as the seasons begin to change and fall is right around the corner, my mind quickly turns to Halloween (even though I rarely do anything on Halloween.  We live too far out for trick~or~treaters and dress up parties seem a thing of the past).  But my mind wanders to things of fright as daylight grows shorter every day.  It's nothing new for me to begin reading tales of horror and digging to find my scary stuffed cat and old baby doll loose body parts to drag out.  I used to bring out collected bones and such but leave them out all year for my own freakish amusement.  I have owl pellets in jars, feathers galore, a coyote skull and bones and even a crow skull that I can't wait to see as it has been decomposing for some time now under an old plastic chicken waterer behind the shop.  I unknowingly placed the head of the crow in a spot where Shaun had dumped a bit of oil and grease so I am leery as to what I will find.  A science project in the making.  It seems ok, when cool nights and creepy full moons roll around, to feel the morbidness of it all.

The book I am currently reading, which is a compilation of scary short stories, is by H.P. Lovecraft entitled "The best of H.P. Lovecraft... Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and Macabre".  I have finished one story and will soon finish the one named "The Dreams in the Witch-House".    Lovecraft was born in 1890 and died in 1937 in Providence, RI and actually never made fame of his writing until after his death living in poverty.  Stephen King wrote " H.P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale."  I can say that I am enjoying the tales as my eyes dance around big words and strange scenes.  I admit I had to look up the word macabre from the title... more for how to pronounce it... and meaning the quality of having a grim and ghastly atmosphere.  Perfect for this time of year.

I also drift back through photos of crafts fairs, my favorite being Bellbuckle which falls on my birthday (October 18th) this year.  The pictures show drops of Halloween here and there with heads, oddities, potions and spells books, witches and crab apples lying about.  Ah... I cannot wait!  I think Aunt Dea should join us for the day!

Maybe it is because I am a fall seasoned baby and Libra or maybe my curiosity just begs me to give in.  Either way, fall is coming.  Deep down I wish we could skip winter and fall straight to spring and that the cold nights of winter's rest would be short and really they are I guess as the years go floating past.  I have always claimed that fall is my least favorite season because winter is right behind it. This post begs to differ.   But as fall brings the death of one year and spring brings forth anew, winter is just stuck in between.

Here's a couple of Eye Spies Widda Mine Eyes for ya. (as one of my dc kids would say)

 I spy... Homer Simpson, a camera lens, 12 dice, a blue moon, an elephant, a pair of glasses, seven pipes and a pair of google eyes.

I spy a pair of crutches, a photo, an oil lamp and a gourd, three bibles, baby shoes, a scared face and sheet music with chords.  

I spy two starfish, two geese, a pitcher, and a black cat with a tail, two thermoses, a tan suitcase, a black hat, Royal Crown Cola and a red fingernail.

Feeling the season too?  Here's more...

Mr Refrigerator Pumpkin Head

2013 post on BellBuckle, TN, Webb School craft fair HERE.

Can't get enough of I Spy??  Here are two more... HERE and HERE

And a little bit of Creepy Thoughts.

I spy

At the request of a few, here is another I fun spy!  Even though yard sale season has already begun around here, it's never too late to train your eye to find the goods.  Even pros can skip over something they are looking for when there's so much to see.  Good luck!

By the way, the pictures in today's I spy were all taken at Phillip's General Store in Bellbuckle, Tennessee which is our very favorite store possibly in all the world and some of them have my beloved Christmas featured.  I feel it is necessary to include because yard sales have Christmas decor every week but because it's summer and we're not thinking of Christmas decor right now we tend to skip over it when in fact now is when you find the deals... not at Walmart on December 10th!  Come on!  Just look at these bottle brush trees!  They are out there folks... you've just got to train your eye.  Love it!

I spy......

A halo, a stocking, gold trim and gold stars and a tiny white tree.

A silver deer, a lava lamp, two pewter wine cups, MLK, a dough bowl, and a cake stand full of balls.

A make-shift lamp, three silver snowflakes, a shoe iron, and the number 16.

A Bunch of daisies, two finials, a blue bowl with a lid, a lemonade stand, a pretty doll, a bow and a flower in a frame.

A strand of vintage lights, Gallatin Road, a checker board, two log cabins, a holiday wreath, a straw hat, and a picnic tin.

A pitcher, a blue flower, a red horse shoe, a lovely bride, Bobbie Bubbles and Harveys, two little pillows, and one red bird.

An American flag, a big turkey, a stuffed dove, A squirrel, a mad indian, and a white light bulb.

Three pine cones, a poinsettia, a white reindeer, six churches, some candy, a window, golden wings, four bottle brush trees, and a black number twelve. 

Here's a previous flea market version of I spy... yard sale training.