Good Witch Bad Witch

Good evening dear friends.

Here is a sneak pic of my giveaway.

She is not completely done, but she wanted to be a show off. LOL

 

Soon I will give the details of this witchy giveaway.

 

On another note.

Bob and I left last week Thursday on another buying trip.

We stopped at the Toledo Zoo first.

Spent four hours there.

Had fun!

 

Then we headed for our buying trip.

Bought lots of goodies for our upcoming shows and for the store.

 

One item is this Civil War field desk.

Circa 1861 to 1865.

 

Pic of the inside.

Wonderful patina!

 

Gotta go.

 

Witchy Blessings To All!

Janice

 

 

 

All In A Days Work

Good afternoon dear sweet friends.

Well this week I did not work much at my real job.

My computer crashed, and my boss paid me to stay home.

It pays to be the in the top 14 of my field for the country.
I love my job!

I also love my second job...tending and buying for the store.

Well Bob and I decided to take a day last week to go on a buying trip.
 

We packed our van with goodies...
literally it was a puzzle to put it all in our van.

We scored big time!

Most of the items are packed away in our garage,
except for the few items we kept for ourselves.

 

This drop leaf desk was one of those items.
Red dry paint on the bottom half.

 

 

Gorgeous patina.

 

Just enough cubbies to place these school books wrapped in a leather belt.

 

Then I added this herb rack next to the desk.

 

Only now it will be a coverlet rack.

Bought both the other day.

Added my three legged milk stool in front.

Added a few crocks and a feather basket to complete the setting.

 Now I have to figure out how to hide the cable wire. LOL

Prim Furniture Blessings To All!
Janice

 

 

 

 

 

 

Harvest At The Mill Pics

 

Good afternoon sweet friends.

I hope you did not forget about me.

 

Life at our homestead has changed up a bit.

My daughter has rented a house in the next county over and moved out.

Now my son has moved in. He lost his job and just cannot live with father.

Just call our homestead the one with the revolving door. LOL

 

Bob and I had so much fun at the show.

Met many blogger friends.

 

Karen from My Colonial Home

 

Earlene from Primitive Passion Decorating

 

Janet from Olde Crow Primitives

 

Lori from Homespun Prims

 

A great big shout out to all of these ladies!

 

Also a great big shout out and thank you to our hostess Dawn

who put on the best prim show!

Dawn is the proud owner of Holly Hills Primitives in Holly, Michigan.

I just love her new shop...and I brought some goodies home.

(will have to show you later)

 

So glad Bob took pics of our booth before the show started,

or I would not have anything to show you all.

Never did get the chance to show off my prim goodies I was making just for this show.

Oh well...

Here are those pics.

 

 

 

I am working on a Halloween giveaway.

Already drawn out...sewn and stuffed.

Just giving it some personality!

Stay tuned.

 

Pre Harvest Blessings To All!

Janice













 

Our New Little Bundle of Joy

Good evening Sweet friends.

So about two weeks ago,

I picked up our new little bundle of joy.

 

6 week old gray lil kitty.

My co-worker was feeding a stray cat over the Winter,

and well momma kitty...who she thought was a male,

had 4 kittens.

 

Mikayla named him for us as we could not think of a proper one.

Shadow is a perfect name!

Mikayla believes this is her kitty now.

 

Plus we joke now that he is now Ace's little shadow.

Shadow is on the right ready to pounce on Ace.

Peepers still has not quite warmed up to him yet.

 

Don't you just love this cute face?

He is a little terror though too.

Biting at everyone's toes. LOL

 

But when he tuckers out,

we just have to say

AWW.....

 

Kitten Blessings To All!

Janice

 

 

 

You Made Curtains From What

Happy Happy Thursday

to all of my dear sweet blogging friends.

Almost the weekend. LOL

As you know, we were suppose to finish our kitchen,

and well that money went towards my car

to help my son.

It was the right thing to do.

Anyways, now that meant postponing

finishing our kitchen.

Oh well, life happens.

I still decided to redo the one window.

Bob bought these drop cloth paint floor step runners.

Two for $20.00 at the Big Lot store in the city.

Woohoo!!

Yep, if anyone guessed, I made curtains from these.

They are an off white and feel wonderful.

Really, I wish you could feel them right now.

This was my before pic.

A hodge podge for sure.

My mom had made me the bottom curtains for my other house.

I just stuck them there and added some store bought valances,

when I bought this house.

I placed the tin sign for some privacy.

Our houses are close here by the river.

Fortunately I get along with the majority of the 50 neighbors.

We have the best neighborhood!

So here I am going off on a little tangent. Sorry about that.

Back to the window.

All I did was sew a pocket at the top for the rod to go through. 

Then I bought this vintage screen print sign.

 Honey Krust was a bread company.
This was hand painted right onto the screen. 

I added muslin to the back for privacy.

Now for the after picture.



Moved our settle bench and table from the living room.

Switched out the red dry sink to the hall and moved the blue one in. 

How just a little change can make a big difference.

What do you all think?

Curtain Blessings To All!

Janice

Morning Sunshine

Good Evening Sweet Friends.

Yes I am still alive.

Yes I am still very busy.

Yes I still owe everyone some pics of goodies I am working on.

Right now, just a couple pictures

of the sunlight shining in our kitchen the other morning.

 





 

Then there was our little Ace who covered up his face

when I went to take his picture.

His way of telling me

"Geez mom, can I sleep?"

 

Sunlight Blessings To All!

Janice

Pumpkin Pie Anyone

Good evening sweet friends.

Hopefully all is well with each of you,

and you are enjoying your Summer as much as I am.
I have been a very bad blogger this Summer.
Been reading your blogs but not able to comment as I would like to.
Just too busy.
 

Pumpkin Pie anyone?

 

Fabric pie pumpkins that is.
With woolie stems!
(makes me think of you Trace)

Some of the goodies I am bringing to the
Harvest at the Mill
Prim show in Holly, Michigan
September 7th, 2013
10am-4pm~ Admission $5

Hope to see many of you there!

 

Pumpkin Pie Blessing To All!

Janice