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they get here so quickly !    Sharing some beautiful hand painted porcelain half dolls that I just put in the shop this morning... this is what I used to make my pin for the Asheville Once Upon a Dream event.                                                                                          …

Now you know that even tho we are NOT cat people there would be a cat somewhere... Happy happy Pink Saturday ... hope your new year is going well ! I am excited to be preparing for the Queen of Arts event next month and making a few things to take with me, stocking my Etsy shop, so I am keeping…

my New Year is starting slow. With lots of good will and great intention started off with usual convention had lots of grit and determination but before I could board, the train left the station...so here I sit all I can do is to think,  at least I can go with a little pink. If it wasn't for Be…

We've started counting down to the New Year !  and I want to wish you all a very blessed and prosperous year. Going to  hook up with    Beverly and her wonderful Pink Saturday    .. and I'm 250 at  My Romantic Home , could not resist being 250 , hope you will join everyone there.  The hol…

Willie on stand-by in case one of Santa's reindeer can't make it This has been a very Fran-tic month or two in our household, one thing after another but I have not forgotten any of you and want to take this moment to wish each and every one a very blessed and Merry Christmas and a prosp…

We will be having our children home for the holidays and that's all I really need or want. Of course, if a pair of these show up under the tree I won't send them back...... and, while I used to dream of Chuck Norris under my tree, since buying an old, old house THIS is the man …

Outside Front Door This is a busy and wonderful time of the year for all of us.  Decorating, cooking, family visits ... a lot crammed into a little space of time.  I want to take some of that time to wish you all the most blessed of Thanksgivings. The mall where I have a space puts on an ope…

Meeting Sonia at the Once Upon A Dream Event was one of the highlights for me.   I have "known" Sonia for some time and was happy to learn that she is from Malta.   I was very lucky to have visited Malta years ago and am delighted that we got this fantastic export ! Sonia is so talent…

One of my Sweeties colleagues has a habitat where she keeps throw away cats.  I have a link to her blog on my side bar ... Brierpatch Cats Sadly there are too many cats and dogs that are neglected, abused and just tossed out.   Our Willie and Wynona were left in a shoe box before their eyes were …

Just days left until Asheville and Jenn Hayslips Once Upon A Dream event and feathers, glitter and glue is flyin'!    One of the swaps is for a fairy broach and we are supposed to "package it pretty".   I decided to paint and decoupage a papier mache book box. Here it is painted,…