Fellow Bloggers

Well several customers have been starting up blogs!! Here are a couple of of them:

* http://millanisantiquecottagecom.blogspot.com/

* www.rosebudcottageshopkeeper.blogspot.com/

* http://roses-and-teacups.com/Teacup-Talk/

To name a few!! You have a blog!? send it to us. We will subscribe & then list special events. The more the merrier!!
http://www.gallerygraphics.com/
1-800-367-4370

Trinkets and service from a different era...

Come visit the past!!

Victorian Trading Company was founded in 1987 by Melissa and Randy Rolston in Dallas, Texas. With modest origins as a home based business marketing nostalgic birth announcements, the company has averaged growth of over 30% annually with a posting of 14 consecutive years or profits, currently operates a distribution and order fulfillment center in Lenexa, Kansas (Kansas City) with a staff of over 60 employees in three divisions.

Our primary business is our mail order catalog, Victorian Trading Company. We send out nearly 10 million catalogs each year. Visit our website at http://www.victoriantradingco.com/ to request your catalogue or shop online.

Should your travels find you in Kansas City, a delightful hodge podge of the fascinating, the beautiful and the irresistible await you in our fanciful marketplace. Encounter a woman's boutique with cabbage rose chintz upon the walls amidst red velvet drapes and tinkling music box melodies. An obliging costumed staff will offer a spot of snickerdoodle tea while you revel in rooms of intriguing antiquity.

Corinth Square
83rd & Mission Road
Prairie Village, Kansas
Ph: 913-381-3995

Warehouse Store
15614 W 99th St..
Lenexa, Kansas
(2 blocks north of Lackman exit)
Ph: 913-310-0333

Just in Time for Halloween!!

Gallery shows up everywhere.

There I was, sitting in the living room watching "Scary... But True" (this is a show from 2001) and they are showcasing the Willard Library in Evansville, Indiana.

There are reports of the library being haunted by the "Grey Lady". The Grey Lady is said to be the ghost of Louise Carpenter, daughter of the founder Willard Carpenter. The ghost story is told that she haunts this halls, stairs, books & cases due to the fact that her father left almost all of his estate to the library.

On this particular episode 2 teenagers are in search of the Grey Lady. While searching, the Children's Reading Room, the female encounters an entity. A book flys off the shelf. Screams and sobbing ensues, and then as a close up of the girl's tear stained face flashes on the screen, there it is... The Fairy Tale by Walther Firle!! Not once but several times. The longest view of the print, is used as a backdrop during a long sob-filled monologue (that in my excitement of this discovery, tune out). Viewing this print in full color and it is enduring and heartwarming. But view it in night vision (because that is how all shows about ghosts & things that "go bump in the night" are filmed) and your hackles will raise, a lump will stifle your screams and the girl's eyes will raise from the book to stare straight into your soul...

Sorry, I just love Halloween and a good ghost story.

I found several sights with links to ghostcams, here are a couple:

http://www.willardghost.com/index.php?content=ghostcams

http://www.libraryghost.com/

If there are more, please feel free to leave here. IF YOU DARE!!!

Featured Print: The Fairy Tale by Walther Firle ~ This version is a framed giclee on canvas 3376-3067 www.galleygraphics.com