Top Ten of 2011 number 9 & 10

We are at the final two favorites of 2011.  Numbers 9 & 10.

November 2011

I needed to make a tree skirt for my booth display so I grabbed some old drop cloth and did this.  You can see more here.

December 2011

 

And I closed out 2011 with a sheet music wreath welcoming in 2012.  You can see it and another one here. 

Well 2011 was a very creative year.  Lots of things accomplished.  There is more to do in 2012. 

What did you do in 2011?  Do you have favorites?

tammy

Top Ten of 2011 number 7 & 8

We are over half way done.  Onto number 7 & 8.

September 2011

My favorite this month definitely was the opening of my new booth space.  It has been a wonderful things to have.  Read more about it and see so many more gorgeous pictures here.

October 2011

I started to make pins - they were originally made to be on my bags but so many people were asking for them separately that I made a bunch for fall and Halloween.  You can see them here.

Well we only have 9 & 10 to go.  

See you tomorrow.

tammy

Top Ten of 2011 number 5 & 6

We are already up to 5&6.  At the half way mark.  Here goes:

July 2011

July marked the time to get on the ball to get ready for the Fall Cameron Show.  And something else was in the works.. a new booth space for September. 

My burlap table runners are always a hit so started those in July.

You can read all the itchy details here.

August 2011

Another big hit at the fall show is the pumpkins.  I have to say they are popular but seriously you can make too many pumpkins.  I had them everywhere.  You can see more pictures here. 

See you tomorrow for number 7&8

tammy

Top Ten of 2011 number 3 & 4

Onto number three and four of my 2011 favorites.

April 2011

These were when I started creating a soft line to go with the furniture I sell.  I adore sewing just not all the time.  And I made many of these tote bags and loved them all.

I guess everyone else did as they sold out at my Cameron Spring Show.

You can read about them here.

May 2011

 My favorite in May is always the spring show in Cameron.  I adore the show. It is a lot of work but just like having a baby - you forget about that once it is over and start planning the next one.  Read about it and see more pictures here.

see you tomorrow for number 5&6.

tammy

Top Ten of 2011 number 1 & 2

Well since we only have 5 days left of 2011, I thought why not share the projects that I enjoyed the most over the past year.

We will cover 2 each day to see 2011 out and bring 2012 in.

January 2011

 I was featured at the Graphics's Fairy for this journal I created. I feel being featured by such an awesome lady was such a great honor.

You can read about it here.

March 2011 

Doing ladder back chairs are always a favorite of mine.  I adore doing them.

You can see these here.  

That's one and two.  See you later for the next two.

Enjoy,

tammy

Merry Christmas.

Have a wonderful Christmas and enjoy all your family time.  

Please remember all the military members who aren't home this season so that we can all have the time with our families. 

Won't be posting again until after the 27th..

Going to be spending time with the family.

I can say the blog will go back to full posts as this page break is not working for me.  I thought I'd like it and it does make the page load faster but I just don't like it.

Until then- 

peace.

tammy

Olde Tyme Marketplace part two

At the end of the previous post I had shown you basically most of the front room.  But not all there was so much to take in.  Now I'll share the back/side room with you- still more eye candy to behold. You can see part one of this tour here.

Is this not just timeless?

 Look at all that is going on in this display?  I told you layers upon layers.

 Burlap coffee bags, ticking, ahhh just gorgeous.

 We both loved this laundry cart though neither of us left with it :(

This was Ashley's love.  She wanted it and zoned in on it only to see the tag:

"not for sale at this time".

Funny Ashley said, "wonder if it is for sale at 2?"

Beth told us it is for her office but if it doesn't work then it goes up for sale. 

 This is the cabinet I measured to see if it will work in that spot in my bathroom that I can't find anything to fit in and I bought something out of this photo.  Can you guess?

 Beautiful Angels.

And this sled, I am still wondering if it was a bad move to leave it there.  I LOVE IT.

That was our fun for Sunday.  We have decided that we need to go out again- Ashley has not been to Sleepy Poet, Gibson Mills, Cline's or even to an Ikea.  The Charlotte area is beckoning her to come explore so we will plan more trips in the future. 

Until then we can look at our pics from Olde Tyme Marketplace and remember the good stuff. 

Where have you shopped lately? 

tammy

linking up to White Wednesday at Faded Charm

a trip to Olde Tyme Marketplace

I finally had the pleasure of making it down to Olde Tyme Marketplace owned by Beth.  I had been a follower of her blog for a long time and I even tried to visit the store when my bestie Liz was here in October but we arrived right after closing time.  This time I took a friend from the neighborhood, Ashely, who loves chippy, white, peely, vintage stuff just like I do.  It is a bit of a drive from our little town to Marshville- about 2 hours.  But we chatted the whole time.

Then we walked in and saw this:

 First the basket is enough right?  But how cool to have almost neutral candy canes..I am so going to incorporate this into my house next year. 

All of the displays were amazing.  Ashley said it best:  "this is the kind of store you have to wander around in many times so you can take it all in"  Very true.  

 She had street signs that all had Christmas evergreen tree names.  Loved that little touch.

Lots of chippy, rusty treasures to want to buy.

Amazing cabinets and things hanging from the ceilings.  It was a sensory overload but in a good way.  We wandered and looked all over the place.

 Her displays were layer upon layer of wonderful items.  Beth certainly has the talent for displays..they were beautiful and unexpected all at the same time.

Do you see that white wagon?  I love that.  Need to find an old wagon and paint it white.

 That large scale is a must have but where to put it? hmmm

I adore this bucket..wouldn't it look good with a bucket full of hollyhocks?

 And these sure made me wish for spring.  I love to garden.

These windows with the words on them were wonderful.  I wish I had a place to put them.  And all of her greenery had bells on them.  Not just plain old bells, but white glittered bells.  Yes glittery whiteness - ahh heaven.

Check out that cabinet- see all that chippy peely whiteness?

That's about half of what we saw..I will show the other room later on. 

And I'll show you what I brought home too. 

Now don't you want to go hang out here?  

Beth was wonderful.  She was warm, friendly and funny on top of it all. 

She spent time explaining her Sunday at the market events she holds April - October and she even had me agreeing to do them.

Now I have more stuff to work on but it is all good. 

tammy

{pumpkin time for Miss Mustard Seed}

I was fortunate to get to meet up with Marion- Miss Mustard Seed  over the Thanksgiving holiday.

We met with a bunch of other Raleigh area bloggers and hit the flea market and other shopping places.  

You can see a post about that on my blog Tattered & Timeless .

Marion asked us if we had any left over pumpkins that she could have as she waited too long to get any and she needed them for some photo shoots for HGTV.  

We had some and I texted her a pic to see if they were what she wanted.  Of course, Sophie had to be in the picture:

That girl is a ham for a camera.

{boys- enough said}

Thanksgiving.

The time for family and being together.

Josh came home from college to spend it with us.

And what did his younger brother want to do to welcome him home?

yeah that's right

Go out in the backyard and wrestle.

Boys are such dorks.

{place cards by sophie}

For the past couple of years we have tried to make place cards for the big family dinners.  

One year I made them for Thanksgiving and my sister said- thanks set the bar high.

She then made adorable ones for that Christmas.

This year Sophie made them.  They had done some at school and she asked her teacher for a copy of the pattern.  She did them all for our meal.

She is very serious when concentrating. And can't do a thing without that tongue out.

So THANKFUL for that little stinker.

{cookie time}

Well we had to bake cookies for that Holiday open house so I got the kids involved.

You know - why not make it messier and more fun?

Yes, Jack is a future tv host. 

She has the method of one on the cookie- one in my mouth.

do you bake with the kids?

{ my helper }

The Carolina Artists' Colony had a Christmas Open house and of course I volunteered to do too much.  

It was the evening of the day Liz went home - so I was a bit bummed but we had to get it all there and set up.

My little helper and partner in crime- Sophie came to help.

She got bored once it was all set up so one of the artists - Taylar painted her face for her.

She wanted a butterfly. 

I think she likes it.  Don't you?

{eat in area Christmas decor}

I had big plans on getting a lot decorated this year but then with the booth and kids - well that all changed. 

I decided to do "less is more".  

And I have to say I am enjoying the small displays that just shine on their own without any over the top, elaborate scheme.

Our small eat-in area off the kitchen has so much light that I just wanted something small and simple.

I thought just a stick in my champagne bucket and put something on it...hmmm what?

Then I received the most amazing gift in the mail from my Canadian friend Heather from Inspire Me Heather. We met on the Cottage Living boards that then switched over to Cottages and Bungalows boards. We have sent gifts and surprises to each other for a couple of years.  This year she sent me a bag of miniature vintage mercury glass ornaments.  

LOVE THEM.  

And they are just what my little stick needed.

 Aren't they just adorable? 

Thanks Heather so much- I love them.

Now the stick, limb, twig whatever you call it- was from a dead dogwood.  

I just sprayed it with some white paint to lighten it up.  

Stuffed it in a piece of Styrofoam and covered it with some burlap.

All and all - simple.

Just what I was going for.

Are you decorating simple this year?

tammy

{hmmm...}

Just wonder what she is thinking.

Kind of scares me a bit.

all Christmas Crafted out....

Well I have been crafting for Christmas since August.  

Yes, when you have a booth space, business, etsy shop etc you are on the retail calendar and sometimes that basically sucks.  

When everyone else is getting into the swing of "the spirit of the season"  we are tired of it.

I declared myself done today.  I took in my last Christmas items to my booth and informed them that it is all I am doing.  

I will not be accepting any more special orders nor making any more Christmas items. 

I am cleaning up the studio- packing away all the holiday fabric, papers, etc.  Boxing them up till next summer.  I am clearing it to get a nice clean slate.  

Then I am going to get some projects cut out and ready to go for Valentines Day.  

But the studio will close down for all business as of end of day on the 21st.  

I want to just hang with the kids, bake cookies, watch Christmas movies and just be "mom".  

These are the last items I took in today:

One Christmas sheet music wreath.

And then I took in two sheet music wreaths for the New Years.

 So I might be a bit scarce on here till after Christmas but then I'll be showing some fun Valentine crafts that I am making for the space.

Until then - enjoy 

tammy

sharing with Faded Charm's White Wednesday

{visit with Liz}

Every year since we have moved to North Carolina we have been so fortunate that my best friend Liz from Texas- God's Country, has been able to come out and visit.  

She usually has come twice a year- spring and fall. 

She has been here right after Sophie was born and a couple of times with her hubby. 

 Most times she has planned them around my Cameron Day shows but this time her baby got married then so she came out around Halloween- beginning of November.  It is always a great time but is usually so short and believe me I cry every time we take her back to the airport.  

We are always so busy and forget to take pictures- well and she and I hate having our pictures taken- haha

But I got this one before we left to take her to the airport..

 gosh I miss her terribly