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"When can we bring out the Christmas tree?"

That's what I've been hearing a lot lately from this little girl......

Well, if it were up to me and there was no Thanksgiving, I'd be putting it up now.

I'm as antsy as she is!

But, I can't quite bring myself to break with tradition just yet. So I thought we'd do a small taste of the Christmas tree decorating!

Which leads me to this sweet, but rather unhappy little tree that my mom sent for Sabrina to have.

It came with a set of mini ornies, and it looks pretty good decorated that way, but unfortunately the base broke when I was trying to assemble it! Then, I got an epiphany and decided to make a new base for it (because no amount of glue was going to fix it!).

So, I grabbed a little bucket I had in my studio that has a styrofoam ball in it. I used it to prop paper mache pieces to dry. I painted it red and covered the ball with snow tex.

While the snow tex was still wet, I added some vintage glitter and stars.

After that I stuck the little tree in the base and we started decorating with the ornies that came with it. And I finished off with a little red bow around the base of the tree.



I think it turned out pretty good, and I plan to use it in Sabrina's room. Will take pix when I get that figured out.

Next, I want to show you two items I have on Ebay up for auction.

There's this cute little Cody Foster Eiffel tower box.

And, this sweet little Debbee Thibault angel.

Bye for now!

My Place and Yours

This weeks theme for "My place and Yours" is "a view of your secret weapon" chosen by

My Bricole.

We are supposed to show the thing that always brings out my creativity, no matter what. Well for me that is my colored markers! Just looking at all those colors makes my fingers itch! I also love my colored pencils as well. Paints are great, but the makers and pencils are quick and easy to use, and portable!

I like to stick a black ultra fine tip Sharpie in my purse with a small sketch pad, so I can doodle when the mood strikes me. Thanks for visiting! And if you want to see all the other participants for this weeks theme, check out the list at Pip's blog!

Bye for now!

Estate of Mind!

What a wonderful estate sale I found last weekend! Lots of great linens! Like this beautiful afghan below, in shades of pink, blue, green and cream. And only $2!

Then I found to pillowcases at 25 cents each, so pretty!

And, I couldn't pass up the mushroom kitchen towels in great colors of blue and green!

And, only 25 cents each!

Next are a groovy set of oven mitt and pot holder in a mod floral!

Love those colors!


Lastly I found two really wonderful linen tea towels in earth tones. Check out the sweet cat towel below!

And, this Pennsylvania dutch motif with the roosters!

Love it!! Bye for now!

WAYBACK Wednesday!

Sorry I missed last week's Wayback Wednesday. It seems like the week flies by and before I know it, it's Friday! But this week I remembered! And I wanted to show some more artwork from a book I showed that I featured back in August.
It's called "Story Carnival" and here are some more of my favs!

This is the back cover, below. Hope you enjoyed these pix! Bye for now!

Pumpkin carving!

Just realized that I forgot about the pix I took of the annual pumpkin carving.

There is a lot of work involved, but the end product was pretty cool!

Sabrina used her artistic talents to design the face, and she made sure to get lots of pumpkins seeds for roasting. Bye for now!

I Want to Eat Your Candy!

Happy Halloween to one and all from the scary little vampire of the family. We are all a little strange around here, I love to cackle a witch laugh now and then, and the hubby has been known to partake of "brew" and "spirits" too. But our little vampire has really outdone us!

This is really her time of year, and frankly, she goes a little crazy when she hears the word "candy"!

But, with Daddy to accompany her, she was able to make the rounds and not get too wild!

Still, while she was away, strange things happened! Like this message mysteriously left on her etch a sketch!
Bye for now and hope you had a frighteningly wonderful Halloween!

Autumn Color Finally!

We finally got a sunny day the other day, so I made sure to get some shots of the trees in our front and back yard.

Below is the maple tree in our front yard, that is my favorite!

The next two pics are trees in the back on our neighbors lawn, just behind our fence.

This tree is on the other side of the back lawn.

Bye for now!