Etsy Goodies – Page 4 – Karla's Cottage

The January Giveaway (finally)- you still have time to enter

antiques/junking, Dorkies (Yorkshire Terrriers), Etsy Goodies, fairies, swaps, vintage paper/collage art, yorkies

By Karla Nathan / January 26, 2009

The babies have moved into their new home and are now my studio buddies during the day.

When I go to work, they will come with me and play in the "Puppy Pond". So far, they are just barely contemplating the idea of running and playing, they still prefer their nest. At least they have the option now! In a few days, they will be glad to attempt to wander out and have some fun.

There is already a difference in their expressions. I can see some recognition when they look at me. And some interest in people, not just in their Mommy.

Fun times are ahead! I'm ready for them to come running to the edge of the Puppy Pond every time they hear me coming. Its such a wonderful feeling!

The movie date with my sweetheart was nice, but the movie should have been a rental instead. It wasn't exactly the best of the "Underworld" series. My husband didn't care for it much, he only goes to see these vampire movies with me because of Kate Beckinsale and she wasn't in this one.

I made time this morning to list this Valentine's Bird on Etsy, and also had a chance to create some thing, even with the distraction of puppies in the studio!

I bought two of these little jewel boxes on my last junking trip, knowing they would be perfect for foofing up as a Valentine piece.

This one is topped with a little Fairy painting I did a while back. The inside is pale pink and I dooded it up too, with old wallpaper, millinery and a glittered crown. I'd show you, but the glue is still wet and if I open it, it would fall apart.

When it dries, I'll get some pictures and list it in my boutique.

While I am on a Valentine's kick, I thought I'd offer this tussy mussy full of treats as my January giveaway.

The image on the front is a gift from one of the Puppy Love Tag Book swappers, Ruth. Thanks for the thoughtful gifts, Ruth, I'm already making use of them!

All comments from the first of the month are entered. All comments, all month long. (that is the easiest way for me to handle it!!)

Curious puppy not included…

Love Birds

Etsy Goodies, vintage paper/collage art

By Karla Nathan / January 25, 2009

Wow, I actually made time to make things yesterday!!!!! It felt so good. Seems like I have been busy with so many other things lately that there has been very little time to be creative.

These love birds were something I had been wanting to do for a while. The had been on my desk since way before Christmas, when I thought they might be a tree decoration. Since I waited so long, I had to tweak my recipe and add a pinch of Valentine's glitz when I finally got around to foofing them up. I like them even better this way, so am glad I waited. sold thanks!

And I REALLY, REALLY needed some time to work on pretties. I've had the fairy grand baby a few extra hours here and there, which is a pleasure, but still…. I have to have my pretty time too. Especially when she decides to pretend her diaper is full of playdoh, not typical diaper goo and tries sculpting with it all over her crib. Yes, that certainly called for some recovery time afterward.

one left, thanks

One thing that I like to do, when I don't have time to actually make something, is to make up kits for others to make something with. There is something about sorting the colors and handing the vintagey pieces that is soothing. It is almost as good as creating the piece myself! Well, not quite the same, but still, its comforting to pull together coordinating packs of pretty things.

Especially after putting in so much time cleaning and rearranging my studio, chasing a fairy baby, and deciphering how to set up a web site!

both sold, thanks!

And I just love to play with the old wallpapers. I made up a few packs for the Boutique at Karla's Cottage and also decided to restock my Etsy page. It has a way to go yet. I like to keep about 50 items for sale in it, and after adding a few and "cleaning it up" I'm not even half way to where it needs to be. There are a lot of sale prices on the Etsy page, as well as new wallpaper packs and the "Love Birds".

The Boutique also got a cleaning up. Thanks to you guys, there were a lot of "SOLD" items to delete! Thanks so much!!!

I added a lot of new things while spiffing around in there too.

Some were kits that I could play with and pull together from my stash, but others were "Flea Market Finds".

Aren't these shell flowers cute? I remember when my Grandma Smith used to make them. She'd paint hers with red nail polish when they were done. I wish I had one of her old shell roses.

sold, thanks!

There is one more item that needs to be listed in the shop, another Valentine Love Bird with a heart and key. But I am out of time, will have to get to it later. My own sweet, love bird of a husband is taking me on a date. We are going to see the new werewolf/vampire movie that is out. He sure knows the key to my heart, doesn't he?

Sugarwings and the puppy

Dorkies (Yorkshire Terrriers), Etsy Goodies, Sugarwings

By Karla Nathan / January 23, 2009

Sugarwings and the puppy
Originally uploaded by Karla's Cottage

Sugarwings found the tutu that I bought for her from Holly up at Silver Bella Vendor night, and has worn it all day today.
I thought I'd do an experimental video from Flickr. Please let me know if you had any issues with it or if it slowed down my blog? Here is another one, if you want to see the little Fariy grandbaby showing off her tutu. She's pretty pleased with it. http://www.flickr.com/photos/karlascottage/3220199271/

I'm going to try to get some more items added to the Boutique at Karla's Cottage. Like this crackled glaze collage in an old frame. Thanks so much for your shopping trips to see me! sold thanks

Now, I hear Sugarwings stirring over the baby moniter, I don't think she is going to nap after all. Maybe I won't get that picture listed in the shop until later tonight…..

Sunshine??? Honestly??!! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dorkies (Yorkshire Terrriers), Etsy Goodies

By Karla Nathan / January 22, 2009

What a day! It is in the 60's and we are taking full advantage of this gift of sunshine. Sugarwings got to go to the park and the babies got to go outside for the first time in short lives.

Looks like the bright day and the interesting new sights and smells made this princess attempt to play with that tiny spotted creature she stumbled across.

Playing didn't last long. A few moments of looking around, squeaking, and tripping over wood chips, and these guys had enough.

Then, it was time to curl up for a nap in the soft, lamb's ear.

I hope these pups enjoyed their outing, tomorrow, the temps go back down to the 20s. I know I have enjoyed every second of this glimpse of sunshine, and will certainly miss it tomorrow. It has inspired me to do some spring cleaning and right now, I have my studio turned upside down while the fairy grand baby and the passel of pups are napping.

I have also used the sunshine to get some photos taken and got more flowers and brooches listed in my shop. If I can finish cleaning my studio in a decent time, I'll try to take sunshiny photos of wallpaper packs and get them listed too.

Thanks again to everyone who visited my Boutique! I hope you'll be coming back?

doll and large brooch sold, thanks

Here’s looking at you, kid!

antiques/junking, Etsy Goodies, swaps, vintage paper/collage art

By Karla Nathan / January 17, 2009

Hmm, I don't know if you can tell from this photo, but the puppies have opened their eyes! For some reason, I was thinking they weren't due to be looking back at us yet, so I was surprised when Sugarwings held one up and said "he can see me!" She was pretty excited to be the first to notice, but up till now, she had been worried because the puppies wouldn't look at her.

Probably because, in this house, that is all we do is, Look At Sugarwings. Its our favorite pastime.

Although, lately, another regular pastime of mine is cursing at Papashop. That is the web hosting site for my new online store, and my friends have been over-the-top helpful in setting it up, and I can see where it will be really easy to use once I get it fine tuned. But— I keep finding glitches. I thought I was ready to open and discovered that I had NO LIMITS on my inventory. If a shopper wanted to order 1,500 of a one of a kind option, there was no stopping them. Not that I get those kind of sales…. maybe a more reasonable illustration would be that if a shopper wanted to order TWO of a one of a kind item, I couldn't stop them.

This is an item that I have three of, one is listed. Since I can't open my shop yet, I figured I should tell you about it here. So many people have inquired about the swap tags, that I made up a kit with the copies of the ones I made.

The kit includes 6 of the collage/painted tags copied onto card stock and then their backs were covered in vintage wallpaper. Two red flocked, two pink flocked, and two rose patterned.

Snippets of wallpaper scraps, some ephemera, lots of rick rack, ribbons and bows, three sprigs of old millinery blooms, and a scattering of vintage buttons are included too.

Plenty of pretties to deck out the tags and make your own Puppy Love Tag Book if you didn't get into the swap. Or, if you are a swapper, these would be fun to add to your book and double the size of it!

The kits are $25 each (plus postage. Postage is free if the kit goes out in the mail with a completed swap book to a fellow swapper) and as I said, only 3 available. If you are interested, please contact me by email. I can't open my web boutique yet, but hopefully will soon! I have other Valentine's goodies there too!

Like this piece. It has a pink flocked heart on it, so it would be nice to have for sale by Valentines Day! I'm sure I'll be able to get the store figured out. Heather and Beth have been so kind and have taken so much time to give me advice. I'll let you know when I have my GRAND OPENING.

Heather and Beth aren't my only generous friends! Two Puppy Love Swapper's packages have arrived and Samantha Miranda sent coloring cards for Sugarwings and Dove chocolates! Ruth Flowers sent marvelous ephemera die cuts. Thanks, ladies!! And by the way, both of you both are so lucky to have those names. Don't they just roll off the tongue? Samantha Miranda…Ruth Flowers…. how pretty.

This photo should make you wish that you were one of the 65 people in the swap! Aren't these tags that Samantha sent in just beautiful!? (Ruth's are too, but my photo didn't turn out. Ruth, I know you wanted photos I'll get some to you when the light is better)

Hopefully, the swappers will be adding their photos to the flickr site so we can all see their creations…

I'll leave you with a couple photos from an antique show today. I met Carol there, and Beth had a booth, so I took her some treats. I have pictures of Donny and Sandy's booths, but they don't have blogs, although Carol and I tried to tell the Fabulous Donny that he needs one!!

I’m loving my pretty little Christmas!

Dorkies (Yorkshire Terrriers), Etsy Goodies, fairies, holiday decor, We're having a party

By Karla Nathan / December 15, 2008

Have yourself a pretty little Christmas!

Heather is having a holiday gathering for us to show our pretties. I had a "What do you LOVE about your Holiday Home?" party last year and am so sorry that there is no time for me to squeeze that in this year. So, I am so glad that Heather is doing this, I love parties, and any party Heather throws, has to be an extra pretty one!

Since time is short with shows I've had, and trips I'm taking and a two year old that I am running after, my decor is about as "edited" as I've ever seen here at my cottage.

Sugarwings has her own little pink tree in the living room, right at her level, so she can foof and refoof it all she wants to. I've kept my hands OFF of her tree, trying to teach her that I won't mess with her stuff if she won't mess with mine. She has been in complete charge of her tree, but does still tend to want to get into my things when she thinks no one will notice.

So, this year, there is no big tree in the living room. A few small, white trees are set out, and kept pretty simple too.

Using what I have and adding some embellishments really appeals to me. For the top of this armoire, I plopped some white trees into urns, and draped them simply with ropes of beads (the beads don't show up as well in the photos, sorry). Then I set out a wintry branch, with a single white ball next to it.

Fast and easy!

Another little tree with beads and no ornaments sits by the sofa. If tiny little fingers decide to explore this one, there is nothing breakable to worry about.

But I was missing the pretty lights that would have gone onto a big tree, so I filled an urn with white lights and topped it with clear, plastic balls. Its not the same, but does have a nice glow.

All of the rest of my pretties went up high, like on this cabinet in the kitchen.

The vintage tree is a music box that plays Jingle Bells. Sugarwings likes for me to wind it up while we visit the reindeer. The deer represent Pop Pop, Grammy and Sugarwings. Hmm, I should add some rhinestone jewelry to the Grammy deer. Or at least a millinery bloom.

Now, I do love snowmen, and Santas, and angels, of course. But my favorite at the holidays is the deer. Oh, and the elves! Santa's little friends and helpers!

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And I am big on using my regular decor and just spiffing it up with a few little additions.

Like filling my kitchen window with pink roses and sweet pixies.

Yes, there were dirty dishes in the sink in the last picture I showed. But look at how pretty they are! Beth got dishes she didn't want in a box at an auction and passed them along to me. Of course, I wanted them!

There are many more pixie pals lurking in the boxes under my stairway. Lots of well loved ornaments and beautiful things, that I just didn't unpack this year. I do miss all the elaborate displays, but on the other hand, I am really enjoying my "Pretty Little Christmas". Heather's title for her party really touched on my feelings for my house this year.

Normally, I am all about being Over the Top. (yes, with capitals)

But this year, my compromise with the fairy grand baby with the the time constraints has made me happy.

There is a little something in every room. Just enough to make me smile and know that Christmas is just around the corner. Not enough to have taken up much time or to have been any trouble at all.

2008's decking of the halls probably took less time to finish the whole house than I usually spend on one tree.

Well, that right there is enough to make me smile!! Is there ever enough time? I might make this year's streamlined Christmas a new tradition!

Remember I was saying how lucky I was to meet so many wonderful friends through blogging? One of them sent this dainty fairy pin to me. Later, she'll go on a jacket, but for now, she perches in the dining room centerpiece. Thanks, Hannah!

And thanks, Heather, for hosting this get together. I look forward to having time to follow the links and visit all the homes participating.

Also, thanks to all of you for your overwhelming shopping spree for my Christmas special on Etsy! The shop is half gone, but there are still some goodies left. Please check for details in the previous post if you'd like a chance to win a present from me, while you are visiting my Etsy store during my "thanks to my readers" sale-a-thon!

Please remember to ASK FOR AN INVOICE FROM ME.

A special thank you

Etsy Goodies

By Karla Nathan / December 13, 2008

Here is a little fairy in progress. She is a collaboration of items from various friends. Jennifer Hayslip gave me the little doll, the beautiful bronze/brown glitter is fromShawn, and the box I am redoing to make a house for her is from my Silver Bella pal, Julie Baxley.

Some of the wallpaper is from a shared roll Beth and I went in on to purchase (flocked stuff can be expensive, sometimes you need a partner to afford it!!)

All of the gifts from friends has once again made me think how lucky I am to have made such great buddies in the blogworld. And that makes me think about how lucky I am over all, and what a great year I have had. I try to give lots of gifts to my readers, with a minimum of at least one drawing a month, but I wanted to offer a big special thank you for the holidays.

So, from now (Saturday, Dec. 13th) till Monday, Dec. 15th- EVERYTHING in my Etsy shop is HALF OFF. And random shoppers will get extra suprise gifts in their packages.

This is only for my Reader Pals- so these prices will not show up on the Etsy site. What you need to do, is purchase what you want on the site, BUT DO NOT PAY right then. Ask me to sent you an invoice for the sale price.

After Monday, my shop will be closed for the holiday, so this is for a limited time only. I just want you to know that I have appreciated your businessand I am so happy with the great sales I have had all year in Etsy, Silver Bella and Miss Frenchies! All of it, thanks to you.

(please remember to REQUEST and wait for an invoice, or I won't be able to give you the sale price!)

A second sneak peek at the December Giveaway and some tussie mussies to unload. (I mean offer to you at a special price.)

Books, Etsy Goodies, Food and Drink, holiday decor, I do tend to run on, don't I?, Sugarwings, vintage paper/collage art

By Karla Nathan / December 13, 2008

This is sneak peek number 2 of the December Giveaway– it will stay a surprise until it is sent off in the mail to it's new home on Jan. 1. If you want to enter the drawing, every comment counts, all month long.

Louisa is hosting a Home Sweet Home blog party today, please go to her site and see some of the linked blogs and thier holiday decor!

I've been extremely good about returning comments this month (I hope Santa is watching!) but they are not all going through!! I get about 20% of them bounced back to me as non-deliverable. ( I just made up that percentage, I don't really do math much, this is a guess).

Sugarwings got the sweetest gift in the mail from our pal, Robin in VA. If you'd like to see a couple second video of her hanging it on the tree, click HERE.

The present itself was the cutest Glinda the Good Witch ornament, she is inside the clear ball like it is the bubble she rides down into Munchkindland. And of course, since Sugarwings loves to make things, we saved the box and cut out Glinda's picture to make another ornament from that.

I did the cutting, she did the glue and glitter, then we tied a ribbon and bell to the piece so that the fairy grand baby could hang it on her little pink tree.

You know how kids always loved playing with the box a gift comes in? We have discovered that the boxes always make good project materials. If I cut out the logos, or characters, Sugarwings is happy to get out the glue stick and glitter to turn the packaging into one of her smeary, yet sparkly creations. We even cut the pictures out of cute paper plates we use to eat snacks off of in the studio. Nothing goes to waste around here. (and peanut butter does hold glitter) And as prolific as she is, creating one thing after another and flinging the finished pieces over her head, then calling out "more", we need all the supplies we can get!

Her Grammy tends to be prolific too. Of course, getting the items I make photographed and listed on Etsy, I am maybe NOT so good at. I can crank out the goods, but I can't seem to get them uploaded to sell. You should see the backlog in my studio.

Yesterday, when maybe I should have been trying to clear out some of the junk, I mean trying to sell some things, I took a day off for a fun crafting afternoon with some blog friends. We all worked on books like the project Teresa McFayden had in one of her classes at Silver Bella.

For this, we decorated the covers of old books in pretty papers, then hollowed out the book with an exacto knife, clamped and glued the pages together and filled the scooped out portion with a pretty scene.

I tinted this old sepia toned photo with some pink to go along with my vintage pink wallpaper and this perfectly aged, old Christmas sheet music that is printed with BROWN ink! how pretty is that? I had been using some of this paper as the packaging for the mini dyed trees I was selling on Etsy, then realized it was way too cool to not keep and use a couple pages for myself. I'm glad I did, I think that it was just what I needed for this book.

If you are interested in purchasing this book it is $35 includes shipping (in the US). sold, thanks!

The guests brought goodies and we ate fresh baked Christmas treats all afternoon.(Sugarwing's Daddy was a bit irritated at me for letting her have a chocolate and candy cane free for all in the treat cabinet)

By the way, my treat cabinet is featured in the latest edition of Romantic Country magazine, I'll let you know when I see some copies on the stands. A friend told me she has received hers in the mail already.

Of course, here is just one more thing I didn't get listed on Etsy for this season. Tussie Mussies are so pretty on the tree, or can be filled with treats or small presents and given as gifts.

They are made with vintage materials and decked out with loads of pretties. Maybe I should sell them from the blog instead, because who knows if I will get them onto Etsy?? So, here they are, if you'd like one, I can send you a pay pal invoice for $8 each (half price from what I usually sell Tussie Mussies for) plus postage. They aren't heavy, but require a box. I will ship them Priority Mail for $4.80, as many as you'd like to fit into one box.

Also, thanks so much to those of you who asked about the bird ornament from yesterday, it has been sold and was one of a kind, I can't make another. I appreciate your inquiries, though.

Sugarwing’s Christmas Tree

Etsy Goodies, family, holiday decor, Sugarwings

By Karla Nathan / December 10, 2008

Things have been busy here at the cottage. I've finally unpacked all my wares from Silver Bella and Miss Frenchie's sales and cleaned up my studio! Wow, it feels good to have the space reclaimed from the piles of junk and boxes and back to usable work space!

Tomorrow, I have a group of blog friends coming over to do Christmas crafts, so got the whole room rearranged and ready to go. But, sadly, half of the group had to cancel for various reasons. Well, we should have plenty of space to spread out at least, but the rest of the group will be missed.

I've gathered bits and pieces of trims and baubles and set them out to use for our projects. Everyone is bringing goodies to share, and I have a feeling there will be lots of glittering and chatting. I can't wait!

Did you notice that I found a spot for the table I bought from Elizabeth? It now sits next to my buffet garden of old hats.

After cleaning the studio today, Sugarwings and I solved the Christmas tree dilemma. We just decided that it was all HERS. Because no matter what else I had tried to do, this is how it would have ended up anyway. I gave her a box of (unbreakable) decorations and let her go. After settting out a selection of small trees, and giving her a choice of which one would become her masterpiece, she immediately went for the pink one. Durn, I wanted that one!!

Of course, holiday decorating is a pretty serious job. Miss Sugarwings put her heart into the work.

Some how, I think the tree decor will be going through a few transformations in the next couple of weeks. It has already been done and redone a few times tonight.

I wonder who she gets that from??

I did manage to get a few things listed on Etsy this week.

And I want to thank all of you who purchased little dyed bottle brush trees. I have a few left, but all are listed, once they are gone, I'm out of the tree game, at least for this season. I think I'll miss them tho. Dying trees reminds me of dipping Easter eggs, so I am considering some little pastel trees covered in eggs this spring….

There is only one putz house left ( out of the 30 or so that I had! That was lucky!). I use the original old houses, then foof and refoof them up. This one has a flocked wallpaper roof.

A couple of boxes got added to the shop, and I hope to add a couple more before I have to close down again. I shut the Etsy shop (there is a handy "vacation mode" you can switch on and off as needed) for Silver Bella, and now I will close next week when I go out of town. My husband says he has a special surprise planned for me, and I have no idea where he is taking me. I was told that I needed a swim suit and a nice dress.

I don't know any more details than that! We'll be in Virginia at the apartment, then down to Richmond for a business trip he has to take. From there, I have not a clue about what or where the surprise is. I was hoping that the surprise present was someone to do my end of the year taxes or to clean my house while I am out of town. But it sounds like he has a romantic getaway planned. So, I'll enjoy being whisked away and will have some fun memories to get me through those horrid tax and housework chores when I get back.

So, the shop will be open until Sunday, all packages sent out on Monday. Be watching for new things added each day until then!

putzing around the neighborhood

Etsy Goodies, fairies, give away, holiday decor, vintage paper/collage art

By Karla Nathan / December 3, 2008

Happy December! Time to deck the halls! Well at least it should be for me- I usually go all out by Thanksgiving weekend, but this year a combination of things is slowing down my tinsel flinging. Guests, parties, shows, more parties, another show, and biggest of them all, a 2 year old fairy grand baby. I'm wondering if I even will decorate much at all this year.

We might not be decorating the house much yet, but Sugarwings and I have been dying bottle brush trees. She unwraps them and tosses them in the sink to soak, while we sing Christmas songs. With her help, I have colored about 120 some trees. It almost seems more like Easter than Christmas, with all the dipping and dying going on!

I've re listed a few on Etsy today,(5 minis for $11) and will have more to add soon.

There is a little bit of Christmas foof around the cottage. We had a dinner party on Saturday night, so I did a quickie holiday centerpiece for company.

When Beth and I used to share an antique mall booth, I noticed that any odd object she put under her "magic cloche" would sell right away. Our theory was that ANYTHING looks more important under glass. Put something under a dome, cake cover, or a cloche and you have an instant display! So, I put one of my decorated bottle brush trees, a $4 blue deer from a friends's shop (wearing some old rhinestone jewels, of course), and some ornaments under this one and then surrounded it with old ornaments.

More old ornaments are nested in glittery faux branches on the old chandelier I use as a candelabra (there are tea light candles in the sockets where the light bulbs should go). A few more Shiny Brites spill over onto the runner, and next to them is a cast iron fairy that Sugarwings brought in from the garden. There has to be a fairy somewhere in all my table scapes, of course!

After our party, I started feeling a bit "iffy" and went to bed early. I stayed there from Saturday night till late Monday morning, ugh. Some nasty bug got a hold of me, and I hear that our dinner party guest didn't go to work today, I think the same bug bit him too. Yeah, he'll really have fond memories of coming to visit us in Kansas and eating dinner at Typhoid Karla's.

While I had the box of vintage balls out (and before I realized I was coming down with Typhoid) I stuck some in a few cabinets.

It almost seems like cheating to just stick a few old Shiny Brites around for holiday decorating, but I like the simplicity of it. After going whole hog last year and having a few hundred people over for an open house, it might be nice to scale back a bit. Or a lot.

Plus Sugarwings has been in a redecorating mood lately. She loves to rearrange all of my stuff. The other day, an old mermaid figurine was missing and in its place was a potato masher. The figurine turned up in the bathroom, and the soap dish from the bathroom was in the living room on the coffee table. Then, I found my alarm clock (it doesn't really work, it just runs on "pretty time") on the kitchen counter. I can just see what fun she'd have with my heirloom holiday treasures.

She and I will have to figure out something. Maybe she can have her own little tree that is mess-with-able?

When I was a kid, I fell in love with little putz houses, and sitting elf dolls. Maybe this year, I can unpack all the elves and let Sugarwings deck the halls with those. In the meantime, I am having a blast of my own with a big box of putzes that I bought!

They seem to go so well with all my little Easter Egg colored trees!

There must have been about 15 or so houses in the box I bought, and most were pretty cute as is. But, it isn't like me to let well enough alone….

So I created a whole village of these houses on decorated boxes.

On most of the boxes, I covered the insides with coordinating wallpaper. All the bottoms are covered in pretty papers. And I have added extra trinkets and sweet little ornaments, and extra glitter to the scenes, even repainting some of the garish colors on a few of the houses. Yes, I know they are vintage and probably worth more before I messed with them. But I HAVE TO.

I just have to.

All of these little houses will come with me to Miss Frenchie's sale. As soon as the glitter and glue dry, I'm taggin and packin them up. I know I have too many for the sale, so will most likely be listing on Etsy when I get home this weekend.

If you are interested in coming to the sale, there will be some amazing vendors there! I'm impressed with the line up and have been pinching myself about being a part of the whole thing! Here is the info, please go by and take a look.

And before I forget- did you want to know the winner of the November gift that I made as a Silver Bella souvenier? It goes to Vicki.

Thanks to all of you who left a comment and entered the drawing. Don't forget, a new one has ALREADY started. Every comment all month counts towards the present I give out. I don't know what it will be for December, but I have a feeling it will be something glittery….