Tuesday, October 2, 2018

ANASTASIA STROLLS DOWN MEMORY LANE

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:

  1. I think your witch is adorable! Definitely a keeper!!!

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  2. 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?

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