My Grandma is the storyteller of the family. Every time we would visit, we would ask to hear about the green shovel or the story of my uncle dancing on the table, unable to stop because the record had gotten scratched and the song wouldn’t end … So pardon me, as I tell my story, no where as well as she would. When I was younger(under age 10) we would get to help my Grandma at the store. She ran a miniature store named Wee Things. It was so much fun to have alone time with Grandma in the store. After the week of «work» she would take me to the bookstore for the book that I earned. We got to work with her and Granddad to create our own houses. I remember picking out my house(a Tudor) and deciding the color scheme(blue and brown). I remember working with Granddad, watching him build it from the kit. My Granddad was very handy with the tools. Wee Things had a beautiful stained glass window in the door. It was a rainbow with a leprechaun and pot of gold(at the end of the rainbow, of course). After the store closed, they installed the window at the house on the Lake. I wish I had a picture of the window to post, but so far I haven’t been able to find one. Wee Things was under the umbrella of the Cottage on Hill, my Grandma’s first store(that I know of). It was a gift shop. She expanded the property to have spaces for several stores. There was another store, Next Door, that her aunt ran that sold cooking items. The other one I remember is my uncle’s Creative Carat. He was a jeweler. Other than his tools and materials, I remember that the Coke machine was in his space. It was an old-fashioned machine with bottles that you would slide out of the row after you purchased it. My Grandma loves drinking Coke from a bottle. And after we finished our Cokes we would play the«Coke Game» where we would see who would guess where it had been bottled(which was found at the bottom of the bottle). There are so many great memories of my Grandma and Granddad, I could go on forever, but I thought for my 100th review, I would share the special store and times I spent there with my incredible, amazing Grandma.
