Sunday Shopping

Today we headed down to Mystic Seaport to check out another of my favorite prim stores.
No pictures, but I can tell you, it was a prim lovers dream. Unfortunately, most of the items were real antiques and items that were above my budget, so I left with two black grubby candles.

It is a village set up, so you can walk to different types of stores and they have a mill pond where you can see the ducks who have made their home there.



We made a few more stops, but nothing great today. We went for a nice walk at one of the sanctuaries to enjoy the beautiful day.
We could hear the surf pound at the ocean, but of course the photos I got at the beach were too dark, by the time I took those.

So, we ended up at the home store and I found a wooden house in the sale rack, so that made me happy. I want to make a display with it for the holidays and then I can change it out with the seasons. It was dark and I was tired when I got home, so tomorrow I will stain my new peg rack and when I get it on the wall, you can see how it looks.

Primitive Shopping Day

Today I got to go to my favorite store; Things Made Wonderful Country Store. The first thing I saw on the porch was a halloween sale. Now for those who know me, I am a cat nut and halloween means cats. So, I found two fun cats to add to my collection and at half price!

This guy is so fun and he will go into my hooking room. That is where I display my halloween items, rugs and some fun cats, all year round. That is the room I will be moving my office into and using as a creative space this winter.



Then I found a black kitty, that I can redo to fit the seasons since he is simple. Also, more ornaments to add to my collection. I will be doing smaller table top trees this year, so adding to my light and small cat ornaments. I also got some small goods that will go into gift boxes, so you can't see those;)



I had to get permission to take these next shots, so I hope you enjoy seeing how they decorate some of the rooms for the holidays. I wish I could have gotten better shots, each room is filled with prim furniture and goodies and it is just so warm and inviting. I want to make all my rooms look like these.

I love the deacons bench and coffee table in this room, on my wish list.



The living room is so warm and inviting, it is filled with wonderful goodies and a great way to envision how things look in a home.


For those of you who love farm tables, this is a dream room. Behind that is a bedroom with a four poster bed and then there are rooms with linens, candles, smalls, and the list goes on. At the end of the tour, there is a large room with a fireplace and more furniture and smalls. Mixed in with the newer wares are antique items that are also for sale. They also carry a nice selection of prim trees, for those of you who are looking for them. And if that is not enough, upstairs is filled with booths from different vendors, carrying antiques and handmade primitive items. If you are in the Rhode Island area, it is a must see store and if you visit their Online Site, you can check out their events, which has an upcoming holiday weekend.

New Primitive Shelf

I saw a shelf I liked, so I asked my husband to make me one and being the sweetheart that he is, he made me one.
Today I finally aged it and got it up on the wall. The problem is, he put hang hooks on the back, so it is tilted, will have to fix that problem and he will put the antique nails in tomorrow. Those will go on the bottom piece, so I can hang things on that too.

I grunged up my old candle holders too, but not sure if I like the shape of them, maybe some cast iron long candle holders instead? It is a pain with that wall, as you can see they made a hole in it to get light into the kitchen, I hate the hole, so we will either fill it in or redo the whole kitchen when I win the lottery, haha. I think a nice sign would be a good backdrop in that area, guess I need to make one of those too. I even cleaned off the dining table for the picture;)



Here is a closer look, he used some of our wainscoting to make the backing. Once it sits straight, I can put some of my red glass bottles on it.



And for the cute of the day, here is Dora. I was vacuuming and she likes to watch. She has such pretty eyes, but she must see the blink on my flash and gets those eyes closed before I hit the button, lol.



I took this shot looking up, so it cast a shadow on the ceiling with the flash.

Thrifting Goodies

After being stuck in the house so long with the flu, it was so nice to get out again. Yesterday I went wild and hit four stores in our area, of course, today I am resting;) I thought you might like to see some of the goodies I got.

I found the wire basket at the home store, love using them around the house and filling them with prims. Then I hit a consignment store and found a fun sewing firkin with my favorite subject, a kitty. And they also had a cast iron cat door stop to add to my collection.



This was my lucky store of the day, I also found the prim candle keep with 4 grubby candles.



At the salvation army I found a candle board, needs sanding and stain, but a nice find.



And I had to get this, because it was cute and only 50 cents.



In another consignment, I found a nice wall basket, this is a larger one and it has a painted frame on the front, I took that off.
It will be perfect with a nice punched piece on it. So, I had a good day thrifting and now I need to paint my hallway and start redecorating that area with some of my new goodies.

New Goodies and Contest prize

I finally got around to getting some pictures of the wonderful prize I won from Basketsnprims. I was expecting a basket and not only did I get a beautifully made prim basket but other goodies, as well. It was like Christmas, opening up her package.

The basket is absolutely wonderful and the picture is horrid, flask and baskets do not mix. I put it on the wall and added a bit of dried twigs and a wonderful pin keep bird, a friend made me. It will do for now, but I have a wall that needs to be painted and filled with prim goodies. My husband decided to put the wainscoting up first, then paint, ugh. So, the upper half has half of my mural still on it. Once I paint over it, I plan on putting the basket there with other items I need to sand and paint.



Here are the rest of the goodies, Pam was so generous. I put the grubby flicker candle on a shelf I found in an antique consignment store and the jar on a higher shelf, away from my kitties. I just love all of the items she sent me, things I will use and treasure. I do love grubby tapers, like the one laying on the table, but they are hard to find around here and always cost so much for one. If you know of someone who sells them at a good price in volume, I would love to know. I love candles and need more to fill the holders I have.

Cat baths and contest

First of all, I want to tell you about a wonderful contest hosted by Amanda Atkins. She is the daughter of Donna Atkins who had a great contest of her wonderful folk art prints and I won! I will show you the pictures as soon as I decide how to frame them and some are going to be gifted, but you can visit her site and see all the wonderful art she has and epatterns if you like to paint your own.

Amanda has her own style, but is a very gifted artist herself. I love her fun and unique style. She is giving one lucky winner, a painting of the winner. I would love to have one done in character style, what a neat prize.

Now onto Dora. Dora has two modes, non stop action or out like a light. She spends her waking hours patrolling the house looking for trouble and always checking to see if I am watching. I assume she does it just to annoy me and then I get that big grin of hers. Taking a bath is no different. The minute she hears the water running, she is there to help. Making sure the bubbles are just right.



And making sure the water temperature is not too hot or cold. I keep waiting for the day when she jumps in with me;)

Another rug and new books

After finishing my locker hooked rug, I thought about what to do next and could not get motivated to do anything and I still had the pile of scraps I used. So, I thought, what if I use burlap and hook strips. You know the saying, me and my brilliant idea;)
I figured if I made the strips wide enough, they would stay, but I ended up making them a bit under an inch, since they were hard to pull through. The nice thing about hooking instead of locker hooking, is I didn't need the string and I could make a shape.

It was a practice and shows you that you can hook with jo anns cheap burlap and fabric. I think if I had made the strips wider and folded them, I would have gotten a better puffed loop on top, but rag is good too. It was quick and fairly easy and will make a great mat for dirty shoes. I also think that if you use a nice soft homespun, it would make a great table mat.



We have a thrift store called savers, and one of my favorite place to look for goodies. This week I lucked out and found some quilt magazines and two quilting books. I got the purse one for templates to make items as gifts. I was thrilled to find the quilt book, that was a great bargain at 3 dollars. So, for 10 dollars, I got a few good books and some magazines to look at, can't beat that for cheap entertainment.