New Merchandise

My friend Melissa and I just moved into the Rose Too Flea Market this past weekend.

Here are a few pictures of what we have there.

The Rose Too is located on Walnut street in Rogers, just before Braums.

Have a very blessed day!

Big squishy hugs to you!!!

Shawn

ramblings

I'd hoped to do a quick recap of the summer and past few months.  My camera was out of order over the summer, and I've not taken the time to figure out how to get my phone pictures uploaded unless emailing them, so you are left with what is on my sd card currently.  Okay here is just a few....Maybe I'll stay in the blogging mood awhile and post several more times before I take a few months off again!!!ha!

This is a 192 page sketch book that I will be listing in the etsy shop very soon.  The pages are acid free.  It is a hard cover. 

I can imagine sketching my thoughts here!

This is one of my favorite scores found most recently at True Treasures.  It's a humongeous spool of thread!!!  Don't you just love using things in other ways than they were intended!

I have gathered up so many nests the last few months!  I think I actually found this one in the middle of the road!!!

Goose feathers gathered together and tied with vintage lace.  These were picked up at the lake this summer.

I am fascinated by vintage photos.

 I don't even know who these people are!  But aren't they beautiful?

and more nest!  This is probably my favorite one thus far.  I have lots more to show if I can spare the time.  Just wanted to through a quick post in here. 

I'm off to grate some soap....making my own laundry soap!  I'll post about that next.  Total money saver!!!! 

Have a wonderful day friends!!!

Count your many blessings! We've so so much to be thankful for...

It's a great day to be alive;-)

Love,

Shawn

decorating on a dime

When we moved into this home, the kitchen ceiling was low.  It was

even with the tops of these cabinets.  The lighting was a huge box

 that held long fleurescent bulbs.

Brian tore out the ceiling and, with the help of a friend, put in a taller one.

At the time, we put in 2 generic light fixtures that we picked up at Lowes.

I tried to get you a picture from my phone, but didn't have any luck. 

That is one of my blogging goals....to show you more progressive

pictures so that you can see the before and after.

I knew that I wanted chandeliers in here.  It's something that not everyone would do, and it would catch attention.  I found a gold chandelier at a garage sale for $20 and shortly after that, one of my wonderful neighbors spotted another that I grabbed up for $10. 

Whitney, Hannah and I hung them from the trees and took the black

spray paint to them.  I love how they look.  I think they add lots of

character to our little kitchen and they are just my style. 

Big, squishy hugs to you all,

Shawn

rusty buckets

 I love planting in old rusty buckets.  It makes me all warm and fuzzy inside.

The last couple of years, I have started planting herbs in containers.

They bring me just as much joy as the flowers do!

I guess one of the beauties of old things is the memories they hold.

My  Pa used to root roses in this old crock that sits on an old pot belly stove

base that belonged to Brian's Great Grandfather.

The crock reminds me of how we had a milk cow growing up.

We would take turns churning the milk into butter

in a crock similiar to this one.

Our sweet neighbors know my love of old things,

so they keep an eye out  for me.  A

couple of the old buckets above were gifts from them.

It seems like we are getting a slow start into summer this year.

It was just 57 degrees yesterday.  Seems like it should be scorching hot

already.  However, the cooler temperature is nice too.

I love having all of the windows and doors open.

I am really, really hoping to use my time very wisely this summer.

I have already stopped looking at facebook

(a huge time sucker).

I hope to blog more,

and make more art....

(just saying that gets me all jittery inside with joy).

For some reason, I always have all of these expectations that

I don't meet and  summer slips through our fingers like sand.

I am trying not to have to many expectations this

time.  I just want to do all of

the things that I don't normally get to do....

like taking long walks,

riding bikes,

fishing,

reading together,

or just sitting on the porch and chatting.

Whitney just turned 17 and will be a senior next year.

I hope that we can capture lots of memories

camping, at the lake, and at the river together. 

Before we know it she'll be off at college.

I try to block that out of my mind.

I can't hardly grasp that kind of change

right now.

So for now, we will just enjoy loving on each other and being together.

What do you plan to do with your time this summer?

Enjoy this 3 day weekend!

Big, squishy hugs

to you all,

Shawn

why we enjoy snow days

Sledding

Fun with friends

cozy fires

4 wheelin'

being pulled by big sisters foot

(notice the cast on Whit's nose)

there's nuthin' much sexier than a daddy playing in the floor with his babes

( she's not Bullseye, but better )

hot tub

ditto

playing in the snow with your sister

ditto

shoveling the sidewalk

making a snowman with your sisters

that's alot of snow!

we like to feed the birdies

beauty

not so fun for Shelby, but this is what we've been doing this morning

ditto

so much white stuff

being bundled up

we just cannot get enough

where's the hot cocoa

this is more snow than we have ever seen

lovely

seems like we are feeding most of the birds in the neighborhood

fun with our 4 legged pals

playdough lunch

what more does a teenager need:

cell phone and food

I have not taken the time to blog lately because....it is basketball

season. Hannah plays 8th and 9th grade ball on Monday and Thursday nights. Whitney plays varsity on Tuesday and Friday nights.

 

Wednesday nights we host a bible study in our home.  Shelby is a first grader, so that means lots of studies for her with the help of Mommy and Daddy.  During the day, on school days, I keep 4 extra little ones whose Mommies are teachers.  With a family of 6... we are very busy right now.

  However, this season is almost over, and we will sigh and say that we have made it through with smiles on our faces.....mostly. Whitney has had stitches  (a tooth went through just under her bottom lip).  She took an elbow.  During another game, two weeks later, she took another elbow which broke her nose.......nose surgery.  She is doing fine, but playing with a mask now:-(  .I am so very proud of all 4 of our girls.  Whitney and Hannah put in lots of hours playing basketball.  Whit is already being pursued for the next level.  I'm a proud Mamma no matter what.  I hope that this makes them out to be hard workers in the real world.  

So those are my excuses and I'm stickin' too it:-)  I have missed blogging.  Funny how I think about things often that I would like to post. 

 I've been creating new things on these locked in snow days in hopes of listing several in the Etsy shop soon.

I hope you are making the most of the cold!

We'll be barefooted before we know it!

XO

Shawn