FLEA MARKET FINDS/TEXTURES

I might mess this post up because I selected the NEW BLOGGER EDITING....so bare with me! I don't even know how to get type below my pictures with this setup!!! ARGGGGG!!!

Anyway....on Sunday we went to a flea market and I got  4 place settings of Pewter handled flatware - it's not the very early style but it is Pewter so I bought it - I paid $12 for the set plus a sugar spoon and butter knife.

The man had them in this red caddy and I bought it for $5.00 and I just love it. We have Doug's grandparents caddy from 1908 and they are almost identical...they were used in most home back then.

My brother and his wife know I want to make some Pantry Cakes so they found this tin with the molds in them and some single ones as well and brought them to me....aren't they they the nicest relatives?

We bought this great Pewter creamer and sugar at the flea market for $5.00 - I thought that was a great bargain!

I have been searching for reasonable mache boxes to cover with fabric and found these at different vendors - each for $1.00.

I want to thank JEN from http://taylorsfarmhouseattic.blogspot.com/ 

Over a year ago she started putting TEXTURES on her blog and I was so intrigued with her results and now I see several of our wonderful bloggers have been doing this....WHAT A WONDERFUL IDEA...one just doesn't appreciate the textures, colors and look of the everyday things we have in our homes. Thank you Jen for starting something that is taking off!

I have been taking some close-up  pictures of TEXTURES but not sure if they'll turn out. My close-up on the camera makes things blurry so we'll see what I get here.

I will post more next week but for now I think there are enough photos in this post!

Hope you enjoy....

Out at the Lake

What a busy weekend we had but first the end of the week was working on orders, getting them shipped out and cleaning house plus grocery shopping.

Saturday we went to our youngest son's 40th surprise birthday party put on by his wife and 2 children out at the lake and what a wonderful time we had. There were lots of relatives and friends and our middle son Dan and his wife brought their ski boat out and took the kids for rides and tubing and the little one's also enjoyed wading in the channel.

Isn't this just the prettiest little park? It's a private park just for the residents of the Lake.

Here's Darren with Aidan in the tree

And then a neighbors dog came over to see all the fun and look at the size of this little gal! lol

Isn't this just sweet - all the little boys sitting and planning something....cute!

Joseph our grandson

Picking up rocks to skip across the water

Waiting for uncle Dan to take them out in the boat

Deciding who's going and who's waiting!

someone got lucky to go first!!!

Isn't this huge Willow tree just beautiful...several houses along the lake and channel have these gorgeous trees.

Another view of the lake homes


Bridge across the channel

We had lots of wonderful food and chatting and then came home to relax.

My brother and his wife came to the party and then to our house afterwards for the weekend and so today we headed for Illinois to the flea markets and I got a haul! I'll post pictures of what I got in one of my next posts but thought there were enough pictures this time around.

I found a Pewter creamer and sugar for $5.00 as well as a set of Pewter handle silverware that I got for $12.00 and the adorable silverware caddy for $5.00 - a bargain for sure!!!

I also got 3 different size mache boxes that are going to be covered with fabric...they were $1.00 each. So I think I did some good bargain shopping today.

After the flea market we went for lunch at one of the Golf courses and enjoyed the beautiful scenery and then off to one of our favorite shops that closed just 10 minutes before we got there!

And so we drove up the road to the Apple Orchard and it was closed - not much luck so we headed back home but first to the store for more food for Monday because we have 12 cousins and friends coming over for the day and evening to play cards/dominos and whatever else and then we will have dinner and my brother and wife will be here for that as well.

I'm making 3 different casseroles and the rest are bringing things....it's an End of Summer Get-

Together.

So after going out to dinner tonight we relaxed in the screen room with Brownie Sundaes! And now everyone is in bed and I took this time to play catch up on the computer.

Guess that's it for me tonight....now I'm off to do some blog surfing.

Karen

GLUE OVERKILL????

Maybe some of you read this on the forum I'm on but I just had to share it with the rest....

Okay, now don't laugh...I have been waiting for this wonderful SALE at Walmart all summer long!

I use the Elmer's School Glue Sticks to lightly hold down my design pieces instead of pins that stick me everywhere.

Last year at this time I bought 2 cases at this sale - I believe that was 270 sticks....well, I just ran out like in June.

So yesterday we saw they had the sale...instead of the .55 cents they had for the last month and the 1.19 at regular price all year long.....WE GOT THEM FOR .20 cents PER DOUBLE PACK...that's .10 a tube!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They didn't have any cases available....all packs were on the shelves but the girl did find the boxes thay came in....SOOOOOO Doug and I stood there with all these loose pkgs. of glue and put them in the boxes....there were 69 boxes with 6 double packs in each one....THAT'S 390 pkgs or 780 GLUE STICKS!!!!

I'm in glue heaven!!!!! This should last me 2 years instead of the one!!!! LOL, LOL

SUNFLOWER HUGGER

I'm making a Sunflower Candle Hugger and can't make up my mind if I want to do a raised dimensional grungy one or a stitched flat plain one....have two here that are examples - they aren't stitched or anything...just sitting on fabric. What do you think????

PUMPKIN JAR TOPPERS

And now my adorable littel Pumpkin Jar Toppers!

We are selling the toppers for $8.00 each and they fit all Mason/Ball jars.
We started out with 12 and just in 4 days we sold 10, we now have 2 available.

Here we have them displayed with Halloween candy......cute huh????
You can find them here: http://www.kmprimitives.com/

Have a super wonderful day!

SPECIAL ORDER

A while back I was asked to do a special order for a dear customer of mine....remember the chair mat and little table mat with the sheep/apple cart and apple trees??? Same lady...I also made here a shower valance awhile back as well....
So she wants a header for her french doors and I am enjoying working on it so much....it was intimidating at first because of the different measurements it's 21 inches deep by 51 inches wide - getting the checkerboard edges equal was the dilly!


She sent me the small original hanging that she wants me to copy only in a larrrrrrg size.
So here's the progress....I'm doing this free hand with no patterns to cut by but it's coming out pretty darned good if I must say so myself...

You can click on pictures to enlarge them

GETTING IT MEASURED FOR BORDER

The backing is Coffee dyed Onsberg cloth and I got the color to match the original quite nicely.

HOUSE PIECES AND SHEEP ALL CUT OUT

CLOSEUP OF HOUSE....pieces are just sitting - not tacked or glued yet

TREES....the original has brown Herringbone wool for the trees and I had black Herringbone so I used a brown shoe polish rub and they turned out perfect! Yes, they look like Palm Trees...but when the leaves and apples get on them they won't.

OKAY....HERE'S A DON'T DO.....Don't walk in front of a blowing window air conditioner with your piecework!!!!! LOL

THIS IS THE ORIGINAL PIECE - Pretty isn't it....now the one I'm making is double this size and will have a rod pocket on the back so she can hang it over her French Doors

Hope you enjoyed my show and tell today!!!!

Karen

SOMEONE WAS MAKING ME SHEEP

Someone is making me some sheep and I can't for the life of me find her e-mails!

It was well over a month ago that we were e-mailing and I have had computer problems and most of my information is gone....so if it's someone here please e-mail me again.

I'm sorry I can't remember who it is or what forum or blog she's from.

Here's the sheep I posted on my blog here and she saw it and contacted me.

She was making some for me just like it so I can make them up with my Penny Rug blankets....HELP

TWEAKING/WINNER

I first have to announce the winner of my 200th post!

KRIS from http://simplyprim.blogspot.com/

Congratulations Kris - please e-mail me with your mailing address.

Here's what you won

A Bird-Make-Do - hand made by me - my design

Fall Pumpkin 5x7 hand stitched by me - my design

And a lovely Willow candle - not made by me...lol

Monday we spent the day bringing out some of our Fall items for the new photo shoot - wow this is early but I'm not putting it all away and bringing out the summer again it's just not worth it and anyway the weather hasn't been very summerish anyway so this feels right

I updated my picturetrail with more photos last night after taking pictures of the changes - you can find it here: http://www.picturetrail.com/kmprimitives

This is in one corner of our kitchen - I know Lavender isn't fall but it works with the blue glass jars

Doug also put a coffee label on an old coffee jar we bought at a rummage sale last week - and then put in a fake center and filled around with coffee beans...great huh?


We bought another coffee jar at the same rummage sale but larger and I thought it made a great pantry cake jar (which is how I will display them for sale at my Home Show!)....and I put on a great label

Here's the gathering with the two jars and a shoo-fly screen with some pantry cakes under it with grungy cheesecloth around them....I love how it all turned out

This is just a pot of drieds by our garage door

I re-draped my Tobacco cloth panels in our dining room and I like them a lot better - it does make the room darker but I am going to keep them that way for awhile

These are the front windows in the dining room

This is on our back porch

Doug's dresser - I never know how to decorate dresser tops - they are my problem spots but I bought some faux sunflowers and black eyed Susan's awhile back as well as the pitcher so thought it would work

I have a special running this month on my website...

BUY 3 CANDLE HUGGERS OR 3 HAND PAINTED GRUNGY HANG TAGS AND GET THE 4TH ONE FREE....

I would also like to ask anyone who wants to be on my Newsletter mailing list to send me an e-mail at I try and get them out at least by the end of the first week of each month.

I also put on a Tips/Technique for making Pantry Cakes

With more new things to come.

Visit me at www.kmprimitives.com

Thanks for visiting my blog....

Karen

WONDERFUL DAY

This afternoon we had our three sons and their families here to celebrate our oldest (45) and youngest (40) sons birthdays which are the 11th and 13th but today was about the only day we could all get together and we had a beautiful afternoon.

CLICK ON PHOTOS TO MAKE LARGER:

Forgot to mention our middle son Dan is on the right with the white shirt and his wife Jamie is in the front in orange with daughter Alex on her lap! Alex takes her actual driving test on Monday so wish her luck!!!!! And their son Jesse is in the back with the baseball cap on backwards - he'll be 20 in Nov.


Darren and Brett - notice the wonderfully decorated cake!!! LOL
I made the cake but couldn't find anything to put on it so I bought some decorating gel and proceded to write their names - yikes...that stuff is crap! No matter how small the hole was it just didn't want to write - it came out in blobs so this is what they got - but it sure tasted great!



Naturally the center of attention was little Aidan who was just a year a few weeks ago...we haven't been together as an entire family since Christmas so this was wonderful.

Darren with his son Aidan


Brett with his wife Heather


I love this picture of Joseph (Brett and Heather son) - he loves to read and he's on his 4th Harry Potter book which he got FREE from his Library reading club - he got a gift card for Border's Books!


Thats all for now - I will be tweaking tomorrow and doing a bit of cleaning for the photo shoot on Tuesday so not sure how quickly I can get back on here.
My next post will have the prize and the winner of my 200th post drawing....so be watching.
Karen