ANNABELLE and M - NEW ETSY SHOP NAME

 A New Etsy Shop Name:

ETSY SHOP > Annabelle and M 

ANOTHER GHOST OF A CAT - GENTLEMAN X 👀🐾🐾🐾🐾🖤

ANOTHER GHOST OF A CAT - GENTLEMAN X 👀🐾🐾🐾🐾🖤

He felt someone's eyes on his face. He looked up, across the room, on the top of the picture shelf; the portrait of a gentleman cat in a smoking jacket, wearing an Ascot around his neck, looked back at him. Immediately, Florence didn't waste time and headed straight for the cat. Another painting for his collection he wanted: that's what an art collector does and doesn't worry about where it will hang. When a cat dressed in human clothing, especially when wearing an ascot, becomes available, you don't let it escape you, very rare indeed! It's what you call Anthropomorphism, animals wearing people's clothes, and in Victorian times, it was very much in fashion. Florence grabbed the painting and checked the artist's mark: as he'd suspected, a Neuville, a Mitsou Neuville.

The gentleman cat had no name, for now. There was something mysterious and captivating about the tabby cat with the pronounced M on its forehead, and the more Florence looked at him, the more he couldn't look away. It's his eyes he thought. They want to speak to me. 







Another little share from the book - FLORENCE BLUME👀🖤 




*ALL OUR VISITORS BRING HAPPINESS

SOME BY COMING AND OTHERS BY GOING *




"Believe nothing you hear and half of what you see." 




A mother/daughter Ghostly Adventure, writing together for the first time about their favorite subject, the supernatural.

♥️ Annabelle & M ♥️ FLORENCE BLUME -MERRICKVILLE

© 2023

STAYIN' ALIVE -- SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER DISCO CATS

STAYIN' ALIVE

CATS ARE THE BEST THERAPISTS !🐾🐾🐾🐾❤️

STAYIN' ALIVE - SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER DISCO CATS MAGGIE MAY & BATMAN ARE ALL SET FOR SATURDAY NIGHT DISCO DANCING

FOR THE HAPPY CATURDAY THEME" a quite subjective photo of your cat or cats that reminds you of either a popular song, a poem, or a TV show?"

With all consideration to what is happening in our home city of Ottawa our cats keep us focused on happier thoughts.

The Bee Gees were a big part of my life in the '70s and I remember well going to their concert in Ottawa. Happy Days♥️




❤️🐾🐾🐾🐾❤️♥️ Happy Caturday, everyone!


"Whether you're a brother or whether you're a mother

You're stayin' alive, stayin' alive

Feel the city breakin' and everybody shakin'

And we're stayin' alive, stayin' alive

Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive, stayin' alive

Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive (ohh)

Life goin' nowhere, somebody help me

Somebody help me, yeah

Life goin' nowhere, somebody help me, yeah

I'm stayin' alive"


Saturday Night Fever - John Travolta - Bee Gees

THE HALLOWEEN TREE

THE HALLOWEEN TREE

   A Song I discovered this morning

I love it!

Cemetery Trees - Valley of The Bears

and A Poem 

Teeny Tiny Ghost

A teeny, tiny ghost
no bigger than a mouse
at most,
lived in a great big house

It's hard to haunt
a great big house
when you're a teeny, tiny ghost
no bigger than a mouse
at most.

He did what he could do.

So every dark and stormy night
the kind that shakes the house with fright -
if you stood still and listened right,
you'd hear a
teen tiny

Boo!

Lilian Moore

: )

 I finally got around to making a Christmas Tulle Tree, well not exactly, I made a Halloween Tulle Tree. Since I didn't have the supplies for the Christmas Tulle Tree I decided to make one for Halloween. There are many tutorials for Tulle Christmas Trees online and I decided on using THE HALLMARK CHANNEL - TULLE TREES tutorial.

I used a vintage metal pot I found at the Manse garage sale in Kemptville, a woodblock for the inside, drilled a hole for the tree trunk recycled from a paintbrush. To make the trunk straight I used coffee stir sticks jammed in the edges of the woodblock, no glue was needed except for the top of the tree to cover the top with tulle. The bat top is made of two bat stickers and of course, the sparkly tulle I used was from an old Halloween costume I cut up into 12 x 3 strips and decreased their length by an inch when I was halfway up the tree trunk. 

Maybe my next tree I will try making rosettes of varying sizes and see what that will look like. I do like this one with its very own little tree skirt. Too adorable!

 

HEART AND SOUL ♥️

                              Heart & Soul ♥️

HEART AND SOUL ♥️

The treasures that I keep, a Peltoceras, and a deep, dark, red heart; behind their secret walls enclosed series of chambers are hidden but necessitous to their existence. Perhaps, you might say, they had, at one time, a heart and a soul.

Heart and Soul ♥️

Heart and soul, I fell in love with you
Heart and soul, the way a fool would do, madly
Because you held me tight
And stole a kiss in the night
Heart and soul, I begged to be adored
Lost control, and tumbled overboard, gladly
That magic night we kissed
There in the moon mist
Oh! but your lips were thrilling, much too thrilling
Never before were mine so strangely willing
But now I see, what one embrace can do
Look at me, it's got me loving you madly
That little kiss you stole
Held all my heart and soul

♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
Heart And Soul - Hoagy Carmichael - 'Big' Theme Tune

The Secret of the Old Book 📖

The smell of old books. There's a word for that, Catsbibliosmia, 😹 but seriously, it's called Bibliosmia. I love the smell of old books and  Maggie loves it too. 

I love collecting old books, not because of their distinctive odor although it is one of their capturing attributes but because I love the stories, the illustrations and of course their covers that draw me into their worlds. 

The smell of old books derives from the Lignin content, the fibers, and chemicals used in the bookmaking of that particular book. Through time, the Lignin content breaks down to form compounds like vanillin and furfural, which are the elements that produce a smell much like vanilla and almond. Combine these scents with their environment they originated from, maybe from a house whose occupant loved coffee, loved plants and flowers, cats and dogs, all these components' odors play a part inoculating the book with its own beautiful and rare perfume.

So, I love sweets, especially ones made with vanilla, and almond and because I'm a diabetic the next best thing to the real sugar is the scent of an old book.

To be surrounded by volumes of old books, all keeping secrets. What a wonderful obsession!

Have you come to the scary part of Nancy Drew's The Secret Of The Old Clock, Mags? 😂

Here's a link to an oldie ~ Nancy Drew ... Reporter (1939 )  comedy/crime 

Photos by M

Christmas Teddy Bears 🎄🧸🧸🧸🎄

 Christmas Teddy Bears   🎄🧸🧸🧸🎄

So, have you ever wondered how the Teddy Bear got its name? I always wondered if Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States had anything to do with the toy bear's name and of course, it turns out he did. I asked my husband and of course, he knew the story but I never knew. Here is the link to

A Short Story — “How The Teddy Bear Got Its Name”

 A beautiful little story to read to a little one at Christmas time.  

Who doesn't love a cute little Teddy Bear to sit somewhere in the house at Christmas time, if not all year through?

These two lovable Bearington Teddy Bears I bought today at Sally Ann in Kemptville and now join my little Angel Teddy Bear collection.

Dead People's Stuff , Psychometry and a New Painting "Mom & Me on Halloween "🎃🐱🐱🎃

I love hunting for treasures and coming home with a souvenir someone long ago had loved. Something old just makes a home I think. I have always believed these tokens of the heart I find on my vintage hunts hold hidden secrets and sometimes I get a picture of its old keeper especially if I bring home a group of collectibles most likely that came from the same household. I think it is easy to establish an image of the old spirit and get some inkling to their unique character. 

"Psychometry is the art of holding an object and identifying what information you receive from that object. All material things pick up psychic impressions of the people or animals that have either held or touched the object." Silver Ravenwolf

Looking at my large collection of vintage finds I'm quite sure this house is haunted...in a good way : )


Halloween is done for another year but not for me. The spooky season never stops inspiring me so I decided to paint a tiny portrait of a mom and baby ghost cats, that sadly never made it one cold winter's night. The real story was told to me by a foster and of course, I love ghost stories and Halloween.
We have had over ten feral cats and now we are down to one who lately has been coming for 1st, breakfast, second breakfast, 3rd breakfast all before noon : )I think she is a bit confused with the cold Fall weather and time.


So with the old florentine gold gilded frame and a sad kitty cat story, I painted "Mom & Me on Halloween" 

Acrylic, Gold Leaf on wood Minature Painting 2.5 x 3.5

*** A Summer Afternoon ***

A Summer afternoon is pure bliss and a perfect time to become creative. I adore owls and this little pewter owl gave me a wonderful amazing idea in how I would benefit in using these lovelies in another way other than as sun catchers in a window.My crystal prisms would play not one but two roles in their new altered life.





Some time ago I had seen this beautiful idea and although I had collected quite a lot of Depression Glass for the home I never came up with this ingenious way in using it. One of my hobbies is Stain Glass so I was more than qualified and prepared with the tools needed and steps in taking to making it work. After a while I gathered up the courage to take a chance with one of my gorgeous button and daisy platters that I had collected and finally drilled the holes into it....it worked like a charm!



Small Button and Daisy Avon Platter



Large Button and Daisy Depression Glass Platter




Karson wondered what I was up to and soon found out.....




Music rose on the breeze and danced with the flowers and trees and with Karson's white whiskers.




The pure white crystals caught the sun's brilliant rays; twinkling and dancing with the leaves to their chandelier music in the summer wind.



This Depression Glass Wind chime - Sun catcher is both magical in its twinkle and captivating in its amazing soft and delicate song!




Hope I have inspired you.....


A Summer Afternoon

Bathed in the
Honey and Almond
Of a Mary Rose

The Heavenly fragrance and sight
Of a country pasture
Covered in mustard
Humming sweetly of honeybees

Brilliant and warm
Lulled in the music
Of trilling birds
And chimes on the wind

A summer afternoon

Annabelle

*** MoonFlower ~ Catching a Falling Star ***

Well, I suppose whoever is dropping in for a look and see shouldn't be too surprise what my post is about….Digital Graphics…Collage….Altered Art….The Works!!!
I am still very much playing with my program {one of the two I own } and still far from understanding all the tools and rules....lots to read and learn yet! But this is what I have been able to accomplish so far and I must say I am hooked and feel like I am making some progress; so many ideas when I go to create and each and every time I take a complete turn around. It just doesn’t come together as I first imagine but in the end I have something that I am truly happy with and if after taking numerous looks at the finished art and feel something is wrong or is missing an element there is no need to fret for the program allows you to go back and make the necessary tweaks.
Digital Graphics is my kind of art, that is one of my passions in art…..luv it!
“MoonFlower” and “Catching a Falling Star”…..Hope you like them.


*** MoonFlower ***




*** Catching a Falling Star ***

~ A Christmas Rose ~

After taking this picture of course I had to alter it again. While I was cleaning my studio I cam across tiny marquisette butterfly earrings belonging to my daughter and added them to the rose. I'll post the new picture later.

First saw this rose on "Miz Smoochie Lips" a few years back, then saw Lynn 's from "Sea Angels" all done in paper,and once again from "Calamity Kim" made with paper,fabric and tulle and of course "Mommy Makes Roses" as seen on Martha Stewart. I made a few roses to adorn my Christmas gifts.

This is an altered rose made out of an old paper rose,then I added German glass glitter, old lace, a poem on a vintage music sheet. They are beautiful and so romantic placed on the Christmas tree or adorning wreaths,garlands,as a brooch,on gifts like I have done or just pinning it to something you like and enjoying it year round.

At the moment I am cleaning house since I was ill for the past week with the flew and feeling quite blue with the passing of our dear Elly. Very hard at times to get into the spirit of things when some things seem so much more important to one's life. Slowly,very slowly we are coming back to feeling the cheerful Spirit of Christmas.

~ Spooks ~

SPOOKS

Oh, I went down to Framingham
To site on a graveyard wall;
"If there be spooks," I said to myself,
"I shall see them, on and all."

I hugged the knee to still the heart,
My gaze on a tomb 'neath a tree.
Down in the village the clock struck nine
But never a ghost did I see.

A boy passed by and his hair was red,
He paused by a sunken mound.
"How goes it with all the ghosts," said he,
have you heard any walking around?"

Now the taunt was the sign of the boy's disdain
For the study I did pursue.
So I took the hour to teach that lad
Of the things unseen but true.

I talked of howler, banshee, ghoul
The gristly and the lean.
I sat on that graveyard wall and told
of all the things I had never seen.

And suddenly a bat swung by
Two cats began to bawl,
And that red-haired boy walked off in haste
When I needed him most of all.

I lost a slipper as I fled―
I bumped against a post,
But nevertheless I knew I'd won
The secret of raising a ghost.

And the method is this―at least for a miss,
You must sit on a graveyard wall,
And talk of the things you never have seen
And you'll see them, one and all.

The Singing Crow and Other Poems, by Nathalia Crane.
Illustrated by Mac Harshberger.
New York, Albert & Charles Boni, 1926.

Happy Halloween !