Frog on the Pumpkin

Lisa!  Woohoo, Merry Christmas....Halloween goodies on their way - just email me your address! chris@davisgraveyard.com Cheers!

I collect stuff during Halloween....cause I have a problem, I love the stuff, no matter how cheesy :) So here is my final Halloween prize pack giveaway....think of it as my Christmas present to you. I have a whole bunch of stuff here...including the pumpkin cat costume that was worn by "Hal" the famous Davis Graveyard mascot....he told me I have to get rid of it or die....I figured the hat was not worth it. I will put this all in priority mail box and send it out on Friday....with any luck you will get it the day before Christmas....if not....well, it is a good after Christmas present. There is pancake mix and cookies, and mirror stickers black and black gloves with orange stitching and scrubber and a backpack with skulls and one of my Etsy hairclips on it and I have thrown in a few frog items....because I am the frog queen. Just put a comment on this post before midnight on Thursday, December 21, and I will draw a winner on Friday am. And because I am in market...

I am going to offer 20% off any of the items in my Etsy store Friday.  Use code MERRYXMAS2012 at checkout! I will do my best to ship things out immediately so they can make it for the holiday.  If you need prioirty mail shipping, just let me know and I will get you the cost - just buy the item and put that in the notes and I will send you a paypal invoice for the difference on the shipping. Small cauldron $20 - $16 after discount Perfect items for your Halloween friends! Concrete Skull $25 - $20 after discount Pink flower with black skull hair clip $5 - $4 after discount Time Statue $200 - $160 after discount Trick or Treater (based on our life sided version) $35 - $28 after discount Halloweenified Vase $40 - $32 after discount Many more items at the store.  Stop on by and take a look!

That is not something that you would normally expect me to say. I was just as surprised as you. Each Christmas I make a special card for my closest and coolest friends.  I have made decorated Christmas trees, fairies, gift boxes, books.....but this year I made spiders to go with this Christmas story: A long, long time ago, a gentle mother was busily cleaning the house for Christmas Day. Not a speck of dust was left anywhere. Even the little spiders had been banished from their cozy corner high up on the ceiling. To avoid the housewife's busy cleaning, they finally fled to the farthest corner of the forgotten attic. Finally, it was Christmas Eve. The tree was decorated and the children delighted. But the poor spiders were frantic, for they could not see the tree, nor be present for the magic of the season. The oldest and wisest spider suggested that perhaps they could wait until everyone had gone to bed and then sneak throug...

My sister in law gave me some fake vines.....I painted them black and put them in on of my perennial pots....they are going to stay there until spring.  I am happy.  Wonder what they would look like if I left them there through the spring and planted sweet peas over the top of them :D And of course the skull that is in a pot by the walk way to the front door is there all year....the pumpkin will stay as long as it can survive.....come on pumpkin. Yes, this is what passes for "normal" at the Davis house :)

That all the Halloween decorations are down by now.....but just in case you were wondering....here is what the yard looked like after take down.....it is still weird to have a normal looking house :D