More Autumn Hints

Good evening sweet friends!
Happy Monday to you all.
This will be my last post until next week
as I need to finish up things for our
show this weekend in Holly, Michigan.
Looking forward to meeting with old
and new friends!!!
See you all soon.

A few little touches of Autumn

that I have managed to put together.

This will be it for a few weeks.

Holly primitive show this weekend.

Next weekend we are off on our bi-annual
buying trip.
Its a good thing too...
cause we are running out of inventory
for our store.

Which is a good thing....
store is doing really good,
and we get to buy more stuff!
Buying is my favorite part of owning an antique store;
other than putting the displays together.

Are you getting out your Autumn decor yet?

Have a great week my friends!

Autumn Hint Blessings To All!
Janice

The Final Two

Good afternoon friends.

Hope everyone is enjoying their

Labor Day and Labour Day

weekend on both sides of the border.

How are you celebrating this last weekend of Summer?

I finally finished the last two goodies

that will be joining the others

over at Holly this Saturday.

This character decided to get into the parade...

and will be partaking by waving

his pinwheel.

Shouting MEOW

as his favorite floats go by.

For the last piece of my final two,

I finally finished my second go round

at rug hooking.

I created this festive design...

just the right size for your favorite 

Autumn scented candle.

Do you like my latest creations?

Final Two Blessings To All!

Janice

Autumn In The Hall

Good evening all!
Well tomorrow marks the last quarter of the year.
September 1st.

I must admit though,
I do love Autumn...
almost as much as Christmas.

So much so that I started to decorate
for this festive season in our hall first.

I so love the colors this time of year.

Something about the yellows, reds, oranges
and even browns....that delight me.
Its the time of the year where I start getting out the candles
and enjoy the scents of the evening.
Where I start to curl up with my favorite throw
and read a bit...or finish a cross stitch project
that I start months ago...er maybe even longer.

This is one of those projects that I did back in the 80's.
Do you remember when plastic canvas was all the rage?
I use to get every Leisure Art book on this.
Even started drawing up my own designs.
I would make tissue box holders for friends and family.
Magnets and Christmas ornaments,
Halloween Trick or Treat bags for my grands...
and yes even pillows like this one.
If you did not know better it almost looks like needlepoint,
but this pillow was indeed made from plastic canvas.
I found it in an old stash and decided to display it
in my hall for Fall.

Did you know if you click on my pictures,
it will enlarge them?
Give it a try if you did not know.

Autumn In The Hall Blessings To All!
Janice

Shades Of Autumn

Good evening sweet friends.
This is my most special time of the year
to play with my favorite shades of Autumn. 

I purchased this black wool kitty
at an estate sale...
to be used in my own special way.

I sooooo love the autumn colors in
orange, mustard gray and black.
It gives me an excuse to buy more fabric and wool.
Do you see the wool in mustard and grays?
Do you love fabric and wool as much as I do?
Are you out of space for all of that fabric & wool?
I actually have one prim cabinet dedicated to Christmas hues,
and another larger one for my autumn colors.
With wool in another one.....
so why do I need more????
For those of you with the same addiction...
well you know how it is  :-)

Purchasing fabric is so much easier
than choosing a paint chip though.
I must have 30 or more gray and beige paint swatches
for changing the color in our back room.
Decisions ~ Decisions ~ Decisions
It was easier to sketch out my latest witch
than pick a paint color.

But then again its seems I change my mind even
on my own design....LOL
(you will notice I changed the nose and eyes)
Also made her mouth a bit bigger....
I do love how wonky her nose looks though.
She now is waiting for her spa treatment
(spice bath)...
and then off to her dress maker for her stylish
outfit and accessories.

Stay tuned friends and folk as she makes her debut.

Shades Of Autumn Blessings To All!
Janice

Textiles That I Love

Howdy folks and happy Weekend to you all!
For those who have been following me for awhile
know that I love quilts.
Whenever I come across any, I try to buy them.
Early textiles such as quilts and pillows were made out 
of necessity... while I buy them primarily for their looks,
I still do use them for throws and place them on the bed.
My kitties do enjoy sleeping on them as well.

This time I found both this blue tick pillowcase
and a precious quilt pillow.

What I especially loved about this pillow;
it is reversible with the same pattern...
so I get two looks for one.

This blue and white quilt

 just had to come home with me too!

I even love the reverse of this beauty.

Bob says I am getting to be a hoarder of quilts.

I say one can NEVER have enough. LOL

What do you think my friends?

Textile Blessings To All!

Janice

Antique Millinery

Happy Hump Day everyone!
Hope you week is going good for you.
Below are a few more items I found
on my antique trail excursion.

My guest bedroom has sewing,
millinery themed items in it.
Ever since I stepped into the 
Cohen Millinery
over at Greenfield Village,
I have been fascinated with items related to this.

Does anyone know what this item would
have been used for?  

Ladies would definitely have used this contraption.

It looks a bit dangerous, right?
Ladies would heat this up in a wood stove 
or warm over a lit kerosene lamp.

This is an early hair iron or crimper as they were called.
It would make your hair wavy.
It was all the rage in the late 1800 to early 1900's.

The next item that caught my eye

was this sprig of violets.

These flowers would have been used to make

ladies hats.

They were all made by hand using nylon and velvet.

Then I spotted these hat pins.

A few more to add to my collection.

I am still on the hunt for a Suffragette hat pin.

For those not familiar with the Suffragette movement,

these ladies marched to gain the right for woman to vote.

They used the colors of gold, green and purple to

distinguish themselves for their cause.

Please exercise your right to vote, so that their

efforts were not done in vain.  

Finally I could not pass up on this Ochre salt glaze pitcher.
The color is amazing and will go with my new color scheme
that I have planned for our back room.
The detail on this is just incredible!
The elderly lady I purchased this from
knew I was an antique dealer.
She asked me what I was going to sell it for in my store.
When I told her I was keeping this beauty,
the look on her face was priceless....
she was so happy it was going to a nice home
where it would be appreciated.

I hope when our children sell our antiques,
that they will be passed down to those who
cherish them as much as we do....

Do you have cherished antiques in your home?

Cherished Antique Blessings To All!
Janice

August CupboardScape

Good afternoon sweet friends.

Hope everyone is enjoying their weekend.

Last night driving home was a bit nervous

as we were travelling in the dark in a very

bad down pouring thunderstorm.

It took us a bit longer to get home,

but we arrived safe and sound.

This month's CupboardScape features

a bit of treen and Autumn.

I love to collect breadboards and pie peels.

Just love the marks on them made by homemakers past.

The corn in the fields will soon be harvested

and the hydrangeas are in full bloom.

This eclectic mix is a pre fall sampler pack.

When customers ask me what I collect;

most often I tell them I am an eclectic prim collector.

I love all styles

 primitive ~ colonial ~ farmhouse

and each room has a bit of each in them.

Do you have a particular style that beckons

your decor?

Autumn CupboardScape Blessings To All!

Janice