Every so often I get the de-cluttering bug. Such was
the case a few weeks ago when I realized I had way too much stuff filling up every nook and cranny
in my house. So I held a yard sale last week to find new homes for all that
stuff.
Afterward, I decided to tackle several years’ worth
of paperwork that filled four large filing cabinets. When I was finished, my
curb was lined with multiple cartons of paper for recycling. I’m sure I wasn’t
the recycling guys’ favorite customer that pick-up day!
While going through all those files, I came across a
Halloween Door Witch I created way back in...well, let’s just say quite a few
years ago. Unlike today with Halloween having become such a huge decorating
holiday, back then stores didn’t carry the plethora of Halloween décor they do
today. People who wanted to decorate their homes had either a limited number of
items they could purchase or had to create their own. Today you can walk into
any big box store or shop that sells seasonal home dec items and find something
very similar to my Door Witch.
In the mood for a Halloween mystery? The Kindle
version of A Stitch to Die For is on
sale for only $0.99 until the end of the month.
A Stitch to
Die For
An Anastasia
Pollack Crafting Mystery, Book 5
Ever since her husband died
and left her in debt equal to the gross national product of Uzbekistan,
magazine crafts editor and reluctant amateur sleuth Anastasia Pollack has
stumbled across one dead body after another—but always in work-related
settings. When a killer targets the elderly nasty neighbor who lives across the
street from her, murder strikes too close to home. Couple that with a series of
unsettling events days before Halloween, and Anastasia begins to wonder if
someone is sending her a deadly message.
5 comments:
I think your witch is adorable! Definitely a keeper!!!
Thanks, Angela!
LOL! I've been decluttering for a few weeks now. Boxes and boxes to charities, recycle to the town recycling center. I finally agreed that one of those artificial trees I thought was the sharpest piece of decorating I'd ever come across, 40 years ago, was nearly bald and needed to go. It made it to the front hall. The leaves kept falling off. Then one day I looked at the leaves falling off the trees in the front woods. Looked at the pitiful artificial tree. Looked at the artificial fall flowers I'd gathered together. Starred at the little tree. Then I did it. I threaded two fall garlands and a number of fall flower picks in its branches. Tada! A Fall/Halloween tree. Yes, stuffed the bat ornament I found in another purge pile on a branch. Now where is that raven?
Kath, what a great way to repurpose!
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