Sneak Peek

Good morning sweet dear blogging buddies.
Happy Friday. Hello Weekend!

Thought I would share a few of the goodies
we will be offering at our first show in Holly, MI.

Yarn winder in an awesome blue paint.

Brass carriage lantern

Pewter lamp, travel tin light, ink well, candle hook and chicken feeder.

Ironstone pitcher, candle mold and turkey candy mold.

Close up of the turkey mold.

Brown crock bowl, collar box and corn mold.

A very large sugar mold.

The show is March 22nd.
Hope to see some of you there.

Sneak Peek Blessings To All
Janice

March CupboardScape

Good evening sweet friends.

Sorry for the lapse in posts.

Been a busy week.

Getting ready for three shows in a row this month.

Lots of goodies.

Here is my latest CupboardScape titled.

"Here a Chick, There a Chick"

Its all about the chickens.

Bob made this tin lil cubby out of an old pierced tin and barn wood.

I made the chick.

A wood egg carton.

A side view.

A green painted bowl for St Patty's Day and a vintage paper egg carton.

Does anyone remember these?

Salt glaze crock with greens.

Wishing for green grass..not holding my breath though.

My wire egg baskets.

Another one.

A farm fresh egg crate...complete with feathers.

Egg scale.

This was my gramma B's from the farm.

It still works and is quite accurate!

This wonderful treadle stitch quilt.

I might sell this one.

It is a beautiful wedding ring design.

That wraps up this month's CupboardScape.

Chick Blessings To All!

Janice

Colors Galore

Good morning sweet friends.
Hope everyone enjoys their weekend.

I never knew there were so many color shades of white.
Wow...these are just a few of what I picked out.
I am trying to match the color of our door.
Can you believe I picked over 45 samples,
and not one matches the door. 
Really?

I only picked a few shades of grey and tan.
I am leaning more on a tan.
We think if we choose a darker brown,
it will be too dark in the room.

Then there were the hardwood choices.

I narrowed this down to two samples.

Distressed Oak and Hickory.

Bob likes the Oak because it already has small dings and gouges in it.
These samples were from Home Depot and Lowes.
We also went to Lumber Liquidators, but the wood floors we liked there
were more expensive.
Really?

Any thoughts on our color choices?

Hopefully our shows will be good in the upcoming weeks,
so we can finish the room now.
The store has been very slow as the ferry from Canada has been shut down
since Christmas because of the ice.
Being a seasonal town, our Winter customers are from Canada.

Furnace guy comes this morning to replace our hot water tank,
and then starting on the furnace.

Color Choice Blessings To All!
Janice

Pennies From Heaven

Happy Thursday my friends!

In my last post I took a picture of my neighbors home.

Unfortunately my dear sweet neighbor Shirley 

passed away at 84 after my last post.

Please say a little prayer for the love of her life Paul.

They were married for 63 years and I could tell he is lost

without her now.

She is in heaven now watching over him.

This brings me to the other part of my post.

PENNIES

I drew out three circles for patterns.
1 inch, 2 inch and 3 inch in size.

Started with some blues, browns, cream and tan wools.
Some plain and some over dyed.

Two pennies made.
116 more to go.
Whew, this is going to take me awhile.
I saw this penny rug hanging on the wall
in an antique store.
The price was $425.00.
I drew out the entire pattern on a piece of paper
an decided to make one myself,
changing the colors up a bit.
(Would have loved the original..but cannot afford it)

The final project will hang on the wall in the new bedroom.
It will have 6 sides,
with each side being 27 inches.
I am going to try and add all of the wonderful
colors everyone suggested for our wall color.
Hopefully it will work out.
Will keep you posted on my progress.

Pennies From Heaven Blessings To All!
Janice

Frozen Foggy Morning

Good morning sweet dear blogging buddies.

I want to thank everyone for your sweet comments
on Flopsy's fashion statement.
I decided to go without the egg,
so you will be able to see more of her dress.
After all it is about the dress, right? <smile>

Have you ever seen what frozen fog can do?

This is a picture of my neighbors house across the street from me.
After the fog lifted, the sky pattern was so beautiful against 
the glistening of the trees which was caused by the fog.

This was the calm before the storm picture.
An acquantaince of mine who worked on the freighters
told me once that when you see this cloud pattern...
 snow or rain is coming in.
He called these clouds "Fish Clouds"
 because they sort of look like the scales of a fish.
Bob still won't beleive me about these fish clouds,
 but after these clouds passed,
the snow came.  

However the trees were so beautiful before the snow came in.

Fish Cloud Blessings To All!
Janice

Flopsy The Bunny

Happy Saturday
sweet friends.
Sure was a windy one yesterday.
Almost blew my co-workers and I into the river as we walked
from our parking lot back to work after lunch.

Today I want to introduce yoou to Flopsy.

She has a bit of faux lavender in her pocket.

She wants to say 

HELLO

To everyone.

Do you prefer with her holding the prim egg.

Or without?

She wants to make sure she does not go out
on the town creating a fashon
faux pas....
so she requests your advise.

Weekend Blessings To All!
Janice

Demolition Man

Good morning sweet friends...
What am I saying?
Its not a good morning here.
We are on track to get snow, freezing rain, changing to rain,
back to colder temps with freezing fog by the time I head back home from work.

Well the only thing we purchased on Monday was the drywall.
Do you see my sad face now?

Unfortunately now we have to replace our furnace.
The furnace guy said that our current one 
is emitting low amounts of carbon dioxide.
So now we have folks coming in to give us bids.
I see a detour in our bedroom redo here...

For now though, here is demolition man at work.

Popping off these ugly ceiling tiles.


Bob has finished drywalling the walls.
My son is coming over this morning to help him with the ceiling.

Hopefully this brown linoleum will find its way to the garbage too...
Our home was originally just a Summer home.
The owners wanted the linoleum in every room
to be able to clean up the sand from the river.
I would rather have wood...

We were so glad to see the insulation in these walls.
We were not sure because it was rather cold in here.

Another shot of the insulation in the interior wall.
Not sure why they did this?

Then Bob found this when he opened the interior wall.
This little slot is the back view of our bathroom medicine cabinet.
I never knew what this slot was for.
Does anyone know what this might have been used for?

Well, right below the slot (pic not very good)
but this is a pile of razor blades.
Can you believe it?
The previous owner just slipped his old razors through this slot
into the wall.
Guess he figured it was a good place to get rid of them.

Demo Blessings To All!
Janice