Do you think Chaos might’ve suspected something was up when I was packing?
“If I sit on her bag, she can’t pack and leave. Ha! I foiled her but good.” -Chaos
Poor Chaos.
While I was up north over the weekend, we went to Goods from the Woods in Grand Rapids.
It turned out to be a great place to find holiday presents for certain hard-to-shop-for family members. None of said presents will be pictured for obvious reasons, but here were a few things that intrigued and amused. (I did pick up one or two things for myself and I’ll post about them later in the week!)
Yes – but di you get anything for me??
mmmmm… honey & beeswax candles.
Is that you wearing the honey queen sash? Something you aren’t telling your readers?
Weird but cool stuff! Corn candle…. mmmno.
Lots of woody goodness, huh?
My Shih Tzu usually goes with us on trips to visit family and such and whenever we go somewhere she pretty much sleeps on our suitcase (or in it depending on whether we left it open) until we leave. She doesn’t want to risk getting left behind!
Hee hee, I love those signs (Wipe yer hooves!).
You know, Atticus just runs and sulks whenever I bring out my suitcase. Gandalf hasn’t quite figured it out yet, and Mae won’t let me forget the nearly 3 weeks I spent in Morocco 4 years ago. She just sits there and WHINES.
And what did you get the kitties? The dogs have the husband trained! He always brings home a “doggy bag” when he goes away, which is like 45 weeks in a year.
Next time, *you* stay home with an ailing Neatnik and *I’ll* go adventuring…
ohhhh i think i would LOVE that store! All the moosey things 🙂
They just don’t have things like that down here. They did when I lived in Indiana though. One of their big fairs was built around maple. They showed you how to tap the trees and make maple candy. They had maple candles, maple teas, and even carved maple tree furniture. It was awesome.
There are stores like that up in the north of my province, where a lot of people have cottages. Your pics kind of take me back to my childhood…
Chris- Looks like my kind of place- just this side of hokey.
Did you bring anything back for the kitty babies?
Another worth while contest that Sarah is having here-
http://momsknitting.blogspot.com/2007/09/preemie-knit-thon-contest.html
I had to do a double-take with that corn cob candle myself…
Mmmmmmooses. SO cool. I don’t know which I liked more, the moose or the beeswax pinecone candles.
The corn candle pleases me for some strange reason.
LOL at the moose signs! Honey and beeswax candles are a good combination. I like the candles with the leaves on them. Katie does the same thing whenever I go out of town.
I love funky shops like that. You’ll have to put out a decoy bag next time, for Chaos.
At least Chaos wasn’t IN the backpack when you left.
looks like it was a lot of fun. i love seeing all the creative things people come up with at shops like those.
poor chaos – hopefully may kept him entertainied while you were gone.
Was the bear holding up the glass top coffeetable $395 or was there a thousands number in there? Because if it were the former, I might have to forego the current state of austerity here at Chez Kat and snap up that bear for mine own. (Bears are popular around here.)
Wonderful, I’ve never seen that event before! If you went to the Civic center you were less than a block away (seriously) from the house I grew up in 😉 Glad you had fun!
Poor Chaos indeed! Doesn’t look like it worked, dear boy…
Those are neat things – I’m particularly fond of the bear coffee table.
🙂
*sigh* How I miss the patently “northern” stores. Not that much ever came home with me, but it was always fun. I guess if I went up to Estes regularly I could get a fairly similar fix, huh?
The honey and candles look really nice. Glad you had a good weekend!
Poor Chaos! He may be large, but he’s still portable.
That pool table kicks ass.
I’m going to call my co-worker buddy Bill that recommended that horrible movie Disturbia, Honey Queen today. I might make him a sash too.
Glad you had a good weekend.
Excellent tactics Chaos.
What a fun place to shop!
Poor, poor Chaos…
Now I’m going to have to make a trip to GrandRapids….
Hope you had a good weekend
corn on the cob candle!! you know you’re in the midwest when…
That looks like fun! 🙂
I think Chaos was trying to pack himself so that he could go along.
Ah yes, shopping “Up Nort” – gotta love it! Heh – my little Hooter Bear never met a suitcase she didn’t want to be zipped up into. Little smarties…
Looks like Estes to me!
Mmmmmm I can smell that beeswax!
took me a second to register what the bear coffee table actually WAS. My brain needed a brief pause to decode.
Looks like a fabulous place for pressi hunting.
Such lovely, woodsy things!
I love furniture like that.
Poor Chaos. The only thing worse would have been to take him along. For some reason, I don’t think he’d like traveling much.
The bear table is to die for!!
Yeah, that’s an AWESOME pool table.
p.s. Boston Okkervil show sold out over two weeks in advance. Thankfully I got my ticket in time!
Actually Chaos was planting hairs over your clothing so you wouldn’t miss ‘im so much! I keep finding the stray kitty we have been letting inside sleeping in hubby’s backpack and suitcase.
Isn’t that the way of it? Mister C–next time, take a risk and stay IN the bag for the weekend. Your dish will continue to be full and you WILL survive a QUIET car ride. We promise. Our favorite spots? Laps, footwells and the back window. Really, it’s ok. Once “we” get to something called “35”–it’s smooth sailing from there. We double mouse dare you…..
Looks like a fun shop! Glad you had a good trip.
hee… Carmie does the same thing. We pile all our bags by the front door and she parks her fat cat body on top of them!