Giveaway Winners & Treasures I Received...

Thank you for so many wonderful comments!

Our giveaway winner...

Ellen (Netherlands)

Ellen will receive the signed pocket calendar...

I searched through my sample boxes and

found 12 more little treasures to share!

Please click on the tree to see if your name is there~

I will try to leave a note on your blogs...

Please email me your address and your

treasures will be on their way to you!

While I was having a giveaway...

Look at these wonderful treasures that I received

from a VERY generous, fun, playful, vintage giveaway!

Little Grey Gardens

Nita Jo
Opening this box was as fun as the little

candy shop I went to as a child!

Each surprise more beautiful...

I hope you will visit her sweet, sweet blog!

Thank you, Nita Jo!

Click for a closer peek...

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The linens so soft, so loved...

BUTTONS!

You know these beauties will be packaged

with some of my pen and ink illustrations!

The colors are beautiful~

I was able to take a few pictures of new baby

dresses... Do hope to have them listed soon!

Hope your evening is perfect!

Winter Visits...

Peek a boo!

A quick hello to thank you for your comments

on my pocket calendar giveaway!

I wish I had one for everyone...

...but I do have other samples!

So I will share 12 gifts on December 21st!

I will post the names & gifts on Tuesday!

You can leave comments on this post, too~

A few vintage baby dresses to share in my

Etsy Store later today...

I have put everything in the store on sale!

Must make room for more!

So many goodies... so little time...

I hope each of you are enjoying this

beautiful, blessed~ Holiday Season!

Special Giveaway!

A New Giveaway!

One of my Pocket Calendars

Just in time for 2011!

I signed the front and inside~

Sweet friends we have reached 900+ sales!

Thank you for all of your comments, purchases,

special orders... encouragement... praises...

A little peek inside...

For a chance to win this calendar please leave
a little hello in the comment area of this post.
I will have Sweet 17 select the name
December 21st!
The first day of winter
We have been enjoying the winter weather~
Over 42" of snow since Dec. 1st brrrrrr...



I just listed more treasures in my Etsy store...

Little vintage dresses & journals coming soon~
I am trying to finish my Christmas cards... How I love to play!

Wishing you joy!

Christmas Birds & More...

I hope all of you are staying warm and cozy...

Such blustery weather!

Our children have a snow day today~

Yummy chicken soup for lunch...

Fresh baked cookies...

I just listed oodles of new treasures in my

Etsy store...

Each piece comes with a little bag of

vintage buttons...
Any excuse to play with buttons & share!

Love these little bird pieces...

Oh the fun our feathered friends would

have if they were indoors...

Oh the fun our kitty dears would have if songbirds

were flying about our house!

Wishing you joy!

Not even a mouse...

Thank you for your sweet comments about our

feathered friends... I have been sketching them!

Some are dressed in scarves, others have their hats

or snow boots on...

I am finishing up some special orders~

As soon as I have those treasures completed I

will begin listing the birds and more mice!

Hope you're staying cozy warm...

... and having a wonderful Friday afternoon!

Feathered Models...

It has not stopped snowing...

Perfect time for new reference material!

This little friend sat perched like this for so long

I thought it was frozen in place...

Snow began sticking to its little head and shoulders...


Mr. & Mrs. were hanging out together...


Chickadee-dee-dee...

Tufted Titmouse...

New positions to add to my Titmouse files...

Very primitive photos... but perfect for layouts!

Triple the fun!

Wishing you smile-filled days!

Little Journals...

Took a break from shoveling...

The perfect winter sport...

To list new little journals!

Snowfriends...


Featheredfriends...

Both wink at me as I shovel to left...

...shovel to the right!

We have close to two feet...

My pup LOVES to dash through the snow...

My vehicle~ on the other hand, does not!

Back out to shovel some more...

Smiles and Best Wishes!

Pen and Ink Tote Bags...

With Christmas movies rolling...

Hot cocoa steaming...

Christmas lights glowing...

I'm playing!

Fifteen new canvas bags are almost ready to list!

Several are packaged with fun buttons...

Photographed...

Ready to list...

The ones pictured here are just waiting for me to

pull out a different tin and find the perfect extras!

Through all of my need-to-do's today

I get to play in buttons at some point...

Buttons... no matter how many times I look

through my bins and tins~ seem fresh and new!

Please sign up in my past post for a chance to win

the little mouse journal!

Hope your day is filled with joys of the season~

Flow Blue...

I love all colors...

By far~ blue on white is my favorite!

Flow blue and watercolors...

Close relatives...

Best friends...

We find plate pieces buried in our gardens...

Hubby will be digging and I'll toss myself down

to rescue a chip! Perhaps that is why I enjoy gardening!

It's one big treasure hunt~

We found a new little tea cup at a local antique shop.

Chipped, cracked and stained~

It cost less than a candy bar...

Much fewer calories, too!

Hope you find some fun finds~

Creative Monday Listings!

Hope you had a wonderful weekend!

Today is the famed Cyber Monday...

Today is just another excuse to search

my favorite artist pages~

My Etsy shop will have oodles of new pieces

added throughout the day!

I've been playing dress up!

Found these handmade, rare... vintage doll clothes.

They fit my little teddy friends...

I'll give measurements... hope they'll fit your friends!

... some of the vintage baby dresses...


... all this and more!

Hope you have a wonderful day!

Thanks so much for stopping by~

Happy Thanksgiving & New Art Pieces...

Wishing all of you a wonderful Thanksgiving~

Hope your weekend is filled with laughter,

love, fond memories and yummy food!

The turkey chases the hunters!

As a kid I would wash the turkey for mom...

Stand it up in the sink and have it share where it lived...

The poor, bare bird would talk about the

roads around our house that it had roamed,

where the skunks live and other local facts!

Then I would sing and have it dance into the roaster.

I always played with my food...

Drew roads in my mountain of mashed potatoes.

Set up walls of squash and ham squares...

Beet juice makes great ink lines on Melamine plates.

It all was cold by the time it made it to my mouth

but it tasted better with a little sprucing up!

A few photos to share of new Etsy listings!

I have several large linens that I have made into

small tree skirts or table dresses~

Feathered friends...

Critters and teddy loves...

Meadow art!

Many of you have had the "white stuff"

I have mixed feelings this year...

The beauty and fun of snow has been delayed.

We're enjoying a warm, extended fall!

Nice walks, sunshine & winds to clear the leaves!

It's nice that our furnace isn't running continually...

our Christmas tree will last longer~

We all load into the truck and drive to our favorite

evergreen farm this weekend...

The kids want to bring home the little tree,

so it isn't all alone... or the half brown one because

they know that nobody else will choose it...

I choose the 12' tall ones that will take up

our entire livingroom...

Hubby is a saint.

He walks for hours... stands next to them as a

6' measuring stick explaining why we can't

fit "the perfect one" with a smile~

Wishing you relaxation and fun~