My friends Queenie and Beth, at Beth’s Booth

A couple times a year, Beth participates at the Old Summit Country Antique Show in Lees Summit. She and I used to do shows together and I sure miss it sometimes. So, to get my fix of junk stylin', I help her set up her wares.

She always has pretty stuff to work with.  Displays almost create themselves, she has coordinated her inventory so well.  

Unless I start picking through it, that is. The ribbon flowers? I snagged 'em.

While unpacking boxes, we had a visitor.

I did say COUNTRY SHOW, right?

Well, even though that is the name of the event, it doesn't mean that you are guaranteed a chance to snuggle farm animals.

Queenie was only 4 days old, too  little to be left at home while  her adopted family set up their own space at the show.  She was pretty dang adorable and I was tempted to go pig shopping on my way home.

I've heard they are good pets.

But after more than a year and a half, we are still adjusting to owning a large dog. The mix with Honey the golden retriever with three goofy, little dorkies, has not been easy.

After considering just how much a piglet could complicate the already precarious union of those four dogs, I came to my senses.  Plus, my studio already smells bad enough.  Ugh- I think there is a dead mouse in the wall. It has been too awful to go in there to get any work done.

 

Oh, but wasn't Queenie a cutey????