Vintage Market

This past weekend I went to the Vintage Market at Viva La Cottage. This is the 5th year of the sale and I have missed going to it every year - until this year. It is a small sale, but oh so worth going to.

The weather was perfect and lots of people in attendance.

I bought the shabby chic white tool box pictured above from Janine at Chippy Shabby. I did get a few other goodies and wished I had bought more. I missed out on an adorable green shelf that would have been perfect in my guest room. Oh well - finders keepers, losers weepers - I should have been quicker and more decisive!

Beautiful picnic tables ready for you to sit down and enjoy some refreshments.

The pictures below were taken inside the Viva La Cottage shop. Angie does such a lovely job at merchandising her treasures.

Don't you just love this bed swing?

White ironstone - I've bought my share from this shop.

Vintage mix-masters - Love them!

You can see more pictures from the Vintage Market here and here.

Sale!

For those of you who have decided to stay home today instead of fighting all the crowds at the stores and shopping malls, there is a sale going on in my shop TODAY ONLY! Save 15% on everything in my shop until Midnight (cst) tonight (11/26/10). Just enter the Coupon Code: BLACKFRIDAY15 when you get to the checkout to receive your savings!

The Morning After

Did you all have a fun Halloween? We didn't have one single trick-or-treater come to our door! Can you believe that? Well, that's ok - there's more candy for my DH and I - not that we need all those extra calories. We didn't buy that much candy to begin with because it seems like there are fewer and fewer goblins coming around each year. It's kind of sad :(

But we did have these two cuties stop by wearing their Halloween attire. Hank was a hot dog this year.
And Shooter was a big orange pumpkin. They were so disappointed that no kids came by to see them in their costumes. But they went home with Busy Bones, so they forgot about the lack of visitors real quick!

Now it's time to take down the Halloween decor and start crafting and decorating for Thanksgiving. By the way, all Halloween items in my Etsy Shop have been marked down - be sure to check the sale out by clicking here.

Need Some Creative Inspiration?

I did a little bookshelf detashing over the weekend. And I've decided to part with the books shown below. If you are interested in any of these, they are $5.00 each + shipping via media mail. Just leave your email address in the comments section below, along with whichever title(s) you are interested in and I will send you a Paypal invoice. For a closer look and a brief description of each book, just click on the highlighted titles at the bottom of this post. All books are soft-covered, in excellent condition and regular prices range from $12.95 to $35.00.1. Celebrate Your Stories, 2. Making Greeting Cards with Rubber Stamps, 3. Making the Most of Your Scrapbook Supplies, 4. Creative Embellishments, 5. The Watercolourist's Garden, 6. Painting Flowers from A to Z, 7. Water Color Basics, 8. Unique Handmade Books, 9. Creative Collage for Crafters, 10. The Big Book of Decorative Painting, 11. The New Photo Crafts, 12. Beyond Metal, 13. Making Gifts with Rubber Stamps, 14. Stamp Art

Tuesday Tidbits

Here's a few of the things I've been working on lately. The little collages above are available now in my Etsy Shop. I'll be adding more of them to the shop as I complete them.
And this is a little peek at something else that I am working on - I can't show the whole thing right now...it's a surprise!!!

Finally, I've got a SALE going on right now in my Etsy Shop. All Halloween items are marked down 50%.