Playing around...

I know ! Every time you get on my blog I have changed something.
I can't help it , I am always looking for something better.
I hope someone out there can help me figure out how to change the background to something that is not on the blogs tinplate. I want something that is cottagey. Like a floral print or poka-dot or some such thing.
I know, never satisfied ...

Last Weekend's Crafts Fair

These pictures were taken early in the morning before the show opened.

Just a few pictures of the things we were selling.

It was a great show with big crowds , there was entertainment and lots of food, the people were having a good time but they were not buying a lot of stuff , I guess the economy is still holding them back from buying things that are not needed. Most of the crafters we talked to were way down in sales from last year . Hopefully things will start picking up soon.

We have three more weekends of sales, two more in Arkansas and one more in Missouri, hope they come with money in their pockets !

We had a lot of return customers who came and bought from us, God bless them !

Loaded to the gills

This is my car all loaded for our first craft fair which starts tomorrow in

Fair Grove, Mo.
My car carries most of the stuff that we display on.

The bins are product to sell , and then when we don't have any more room for bins we bag soft unbreakable stuff , like teddy bears , and shove it in wherever it will fit.

Pam's car has 8 large bins , the tent , and miscellaneous bags stuffed in around, ready to take off this afternoon to set up for the fair tomorrow.


Tomorrw morning we will take 15 windows like the ones below being shown off by Bubba the wonder dog.

I will take some pictures this weekend to post Mon.

Have a great Weekend !

Sunroom , Help !

This is my sun room . It is a small room , only 12 x 14.Imagine all the furniture gone , except for the built-in cabinet to the left of the pocket french doors. The table is too big and impossible to put the leaf in by oneself.
I use this room as a dinning room when I have guests, only when I have guests .
I also use it as a studio when I'm painting , because the light is so good , and an extra work station when I am getting ready for a craft show , which is why it is in such a mess right now.

How would you go about decorating it on a budget to serve all those purposes and still look Shabby Chic' ?

Now you have taken a tour all the way around the room , let me hear your ideas, I have a few in my head , but I really could use some new ones !

Help !

Your friend in need,

Sharon

Trompe-l'oeil

This is part of my living room entryway, as you can see there really isn't enough room to put a grandfather clock on that wall , it would stick out into the hall doorway, so I decided to try Trompe-l'oeil ( fool the eye ).

The clock face is a real clock.When I originally painted the clock , the wall was yellow , since then I decided to change the color so the glass vase with berry twigs in it that was on top bit the dust . I will have to figure out something else to go up there. It looks bare to me .

Next is the back door out of the sun room , since there are 8 windows in that room I didn't want to add a door with a window, so we put a solid door in. I didn't like that either , so I painted it to look like a book cabinet .Then next to the door was a blank wall with no room to put anything because of the door opening , I decided I needed a shelf there, only 5 inches deep , my husband decided to make it look like a fire place, and then told me to make a fire in it, so I did !

So what do you think , do you like my Tromp-l'oeil ?

Precious Boy Baby

I just had to share !

This is my youngest grandson Reed . He is 8 months old.These are 2 of the pictures they took of him at his daycare. ( School Pictures )
Maybe it's because I'm his grandmother , but I think he is the cutest little guy !
And a true blessing to our family.
He has us all wrapped around his little finger...

Rainy Day

Another rainy day in the Ozarks , I say another because I took these pictures last week and never got a chance to post them , and now it is raining again so...You can see the rock beds my son has built for me . I have to get some good soil delivered to fill them in , it's hard to find good soil around here because we have so much rock , but I want to get it soon so I can plant some bulbs to come up next spring.
I think it will be real pretty when it's done.
My rose bush needs to be trimmed , it's going wild !

But it is raining again and I just want to take a nap.

Does rain affect you that way ?