Been here just busy!! Back to business though!

Hi all!! Well... things have been crazy busy here with Halloween at my retail store, and some major home/life decisions as well.

I reopened my retail gift store, Carroll Creek, on August 26th, and it's going SO WELL! I truly missed having my own store and especially decorating. I'm closing down on Nov. 1 & 2 to transform the store into a winter wonderland! Very excited and I'm ready for my Christmas music!!

Happy Holidays!!!!!

Lots of Treasuries!

I'm thrilled to be included in these fabulous Etsy Treasuries!! Do check them out... so much talent out there :)

Have not been home...

We've been doing the "family" thing the last few days... helping out at my parents house, TRYING to get ready for a garage sale.  First it's been raining on the possible days to have it... and now on the news tonight they said next week we should be in the 90's for temps!  My mom said she's NOT having a garage sale in that heat.  :)  I think we should just donate everything and call it good lol!  Today was "Clean their Shed" day, and most everything in there was left from the previous owners.  The mice had too much fun with all of it though... otherwise there would've been some neat finds in there!  I did bring home a few things.. old wood barrel and 2 round tin carriers that would be great flower planters.. an old watering can and an old wood wheel chair!  Yes, a wheel chair!  WHY on Earth I like them... I don't know.  I already have one in our old log cabin.  This one is not as old, but it's OLDER.  See.. here's mine now... (taken last year at Halloween, hence the dead tree branches, which was part of a 10' dead tree I dragged into the log cabin room from outside)

So no crafting these last 3 days.. but I did buy some embroidery floss to start stitching again!  Sooooooo many plans... my parents need to get their house in order so mom & I can start crafting full-time.  I truly want and need to get back to selling places again, besides Etsy!  I was featured in these 2 treasuries this past weekend, fun stuff for sure!!! :)

Blessings!

My date was off! I edited a draft :)

Okay I'm a DORK!  lol :P  I was going to do my first "new" blog post the other night, then just saved it... not realizing that when I went back to edit it, it would use that date.  So technically I'm not behind on my quest to post daily on my blog.. the date just made me appear I was.  :)

I've been featured in yet another wonderful treasury!  All these apples are making me wish it was apple orchard time.  The beautiful cool Summer we're having so far is making it FEEL like it's that time!

 

http://www.etsy.com/treasury_list.php?room_id=134260

I'm watching two little chipmunks in the driveway eating almost in unison.  They are adorable, I could watch them for hours.  The best is to give them a french fry and watch them eat it!  Seriously, it's the cutest thing EVER!

Time to take some pictures for new Etsy stuff!  Hope you love it all :)

Blessings for a happy weekend.....

Okay, I'll admit it...

I truly want to be a "blogger", yet whenever I make the attempt, I FAIL miserably. And I'm so so sorry! But they say that it takes 28 days to form a habit, so I am going to do a post here every single day and see if I can finally GET IT! :) I sure hope so. I know myself, there are blogs I go and read daily, so I feel like I've let anyone down who had enjoyed mine in the past. I hope I can make up for it.

After an Etsy break due to some personal family issues, I AM BACK there as well! I've been fortunate to be included in two treasuries already this week. Sales have been very slow (only one set of tombstone tags sold), this is giving me time to create new designs. I'm all in the mood for Halloween!

If you know of anyone looking for fun ornaments, tags or signs for their retail stores, I would love more wholesale accounts. I'll even reward with some freebies for referrals if they place an order! Thank you in advance :)

Hope life has been treating you all well!

Bekka Boo Is Famous... kinda ;)

I am happy to say that my sweet little kitty that I so dearly refer to as Bekka Boo (her real name is Rebecca), made it to the front page of Etsy last night... yet I missed it because I was sleeping!

Boo is one of my real cats, who is now 18 years old.. still alive and kicking! Everyone loves her sweet round face, so I decided to make a line of my chenille ornaments using her picture. She now has 'family' all across the WORLD that love her :) It's one of my favorite things I've ever done, sharing my Boo with everyone.

Here she is all decked out for Christmas. I also sell these on Etsy. Yesterday I made up some Halloween Boo's for a custom order, she is wearing a green tulle tutu skirt and oh my! She's super sweet :)