More Christmas Decorating....and Cleaning!

This is kitchen/eat-in area.
My very sweet DH made most of the pieces in here.
I'd love to have a table made by him.....but this one is sentimental...
It belonged to my DH's grandparents....although it isn't that old it still means
something to us.....It came with ladder back chairs that we have put in storage because
the seat bottoms were coming undone.....our son wants this set when he gets his own place
so we're going to just pass it on to him.....then one day maybe DH could make a table using
some planed oak or poplar barnwood planks from off the farm for us a new table!!


Sorry this is not a good picture of this piece.
It's a one door pantry with a beadboard inset in the door.
I store my cookbooks and extra whatever in there.....
I've also started a food grater collection....I would love to find another round one.
This one is not in the best of shape, but I like it.
I use it to put over my candles for a pretty luminary look.


My DH made this cabinet too....it's one of the first pieces he ever did.....

I'd have to say this is one of my favorites he's made so far: (Below)

It was for my birthday about 3 years ago.......

The old butter paddle hanging on the door belonged to DH's grandad.

His dad told him when his parents (DH's Grandparents that is) married the only two things they started "setting up house"with was his grandad's old mule and this butter paddle!!

It's hard to pick out in this photo....but there's an old blue enamel dish pan back in the left corner behind the flour sifter.......my FIL said that belonged to DH's great-grandmother and that he had

eaten many a blackberry cobbler from that pan! It's been mended several times as there

are little tiny metal things placed to stop up the holes!!

Another thing I enjoy collecting is the old crock type mixing bowls.

DH bought me one of the white ones on top at a yard sale he stopped in it

on his way home from working on a semi truck.....BTW......he hardly ever will stop

at yard sales! The other white one was from a dear elderly neighbor lady.....she gave it to me years ago and I treasure it very much.....She and her husband have since passed on.....

Their home was one of the oldest if not the oldest in our county.

Part of the walls were huge log beams....

Sadly it was struck by lighting and burned to the ground last fall....

It was still complete with all their things just like they had left them.....

I truly miss them both.

One of his favorite songs was "Go Rest High"......they had lost both of their adult children to cancer and I know their days here were bittersweet without them....

Now they are all together again.....

Thank you for looking!

I just want to say thank you once more to each of you that take the time to come by

and look at my blog.....I really appreciate the kind comments that you leave behind...

I hope more of you will drop a line or two as you can..... :)
I'll post more pics as I get more cleaning and decorating finished up!

Bye for now!

Christmas Decorating

Found the clothespins.......

Decorating For Christmas

Good morning blogger friends!!
It's a bit chilly......naw it's just plain cold here this morning.....
I've actually heard the word "SNOW" in the forecast for Sunday night into Monday!!
Bring it on!!
We have the "Hanging of the Greens" service at church Sunday night with a time of
Fellowship afterwards.....a little snow in the air would make it so much nicer!!!.....and make me want to pull out my black boots and my red wool coat!!

Hope this finds you all doing well after Thanksgiving........
I'm sorry it takes me so long to get very many pictures posted.....seems like there's always alot going on here. :)
This is a little corner in my dining room that I have decorated with my Aunt's old ironing board.
The basket in the floor I paid about $20.00 for about a year ago.
It's in very, very good condition and is really old.
Although I don't have the one he showed me.....my husband's grandfather told me what the plunger looking things were used for......when I go to flea markets....people often ask me if I know what they are and are quite surprised when they find out that I do!!
I bought both of these this summer and as I was leaving the flea market with one in hand.....this young Amish teen boy asked me if I were going to use that or if I had used one before.
I said "No, and I hope I never have too" "I just like old laundry items"
He told me he had used one and they still did to wash their clothes.....
I just thought it funny, because HE said that HE used one to wash clothes with!
You go girls!!! How many of our fellas......as wonderful as they..... are don't even dare turn a dial
or push a button for the washer to start?!! Hee hee

I love anything old laundry related....
I am waiting for the day when we can build on the large utility area that I've been dreaming of!!
I have accumulated quite a few "laundry" finds to decorate it with.
Part of them are in the small bathroom because of a lack of a better place to display them right
now.....
Thought I'd add some of the old timey clothes pins all over the little tree.....if I could just remember where I put them!! Bought a gallon storage bag FULL this summer and paid $1.00
for the entire bag!!!
Well, I need to get to work on some shutters and a step stool.....so I better say bye for now!
Have a great day!

Need Craft Opinion...PLEASE!!

Looky here!
I bought these things over TWO YEARS ago at a Goodwill Store!!!
They are ceramic.....
I paid all of .99 cents each for the small ones and I think 1.99 for the big one....
Thought they were ugly as could be but maybe had some potential.....???

Well, recently I had ordered some of those brown wax covered LED battery flickering flame tealight things for the shop and this weekend the wheels of creativity slowly began to turn!!
V-E-R-Y S-L-O-W-L-Y.........
I think they've been stuck for a while now! LOL!!!
Anyhooo.....I painted them with a flat brown spray paint and I love how that looks on the already grubby texture they came in......now I'm wondering what to do next......
Thought about taking some mod-podge and doing the cinnamon thing or trying to do
a type of sugary glaze drizzled down them.....Now, if I were that talented crafty lady over
on the Pickled Pepper Patch Blog
(which I thoroughly enjoy :))...... I'd know just what to do and how......... But....that's not me and I sure could use the help from all you prim pals out there!!!
I have heard so many great ideas of your's by reading your Blogs......so surely y'all can help me come up with somethin' !!!
What do ya think pals? Huh???????


I just love the textured look!!!!

Lil' Prim Vignettes From Our Lil' Shop

Hope y'all enjoy these!
I'll try to have more tomorrow!
Wished I had the Dec./Jan. Country Sampler to look at while sipping my hot cider this evening......It looks like it's gonna be an awesome one......(look at it on the website)
Anyone have their copy yet?

Come On In.....It's Warm and Toasty and The Cider is Ready!

Welcome to our lil' shop prim friends.........

This red dry sink turned out better than I thought it would.....
Wasn't sure about it at first....it's a good sized piece.....

This is one of my favorite pieces (below) that my DH has made yet!

It's a Cannery.....It has a lid that lifts (where the crock print and star are sitting)

with real old leather pieces for hinges......

More to follow........soon!

I've Been Tagged!

Well.....my goodness! I've been tagged!
It was by Paige at: Mommy To A Charli Girl Blog http://mommy2charli.blogspot.com/
Thanks for stopping by Paige and to everyone else that has stopped in and left such kind words
about my son's truck.

O.K. Here are the rules:
Rule #1 ~ Link to the person that tagged you.
Rule #2 ~ Post the rules on your Blog.
Rule #3 ~ Write 6 random things about yourself.
Rule #4 ~ Tag 6 people at the end of your post.
Rule #5 ~ Let each person know that they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their Blog. Rule #6 ~ Let the tagger know your entry is up.


Six Random things about me.......
#1. I'm very thankful and grateful each and every day for what the Lord has done for me.

#2. I'm a very Faith and Family oriented person.

#3. My husband is my best friend.......we'll soon be married 20 years!
We have two of the most awesome teens ever!!

#4. I love primitive and antique things!!
Not fancy antiques.......farmhouse antiques.
My DH builds primitive furniture (when he has time) for our little primitive shop.
I do most of the painting and finishing. My DD helps me decorate the shop and does
so much to help me!

#5. I love Mexican food and could eat it every day!!!

#6. Cannot stand to watch violent or scary movies.
I like comedies and family oriented movies.

Cold Enough To Snow?

Afternoon Prims!

Hey, it's cold here in the South!!! Brrrrrrrr!!!

There isn't any snow here now, like in the pictures...but it sure feels as though it could!!!

I love it though.....puts me more in the Holiday mood as our Christmas Open House approaches.

Thank you all that left such nice words on my last post!!

Much appreciated indeed!!!

I believe it's going to be a great time! Sure hope so!!

I will be posting several pictures of the shop and other pieces of furniture as we get the rest of things decorated......

Stay tuned.... o.k?? :)

We've Been Busy!!

Hi Blog pals!
I am so sorry I have not been on here with a new post lately!
I truly am!
We've been so incredibly busy these last couple of weeks.
My DH and I have been making furniture left and right to
fill our shop up for our Christmas Open House.
We also took three pieces to a new shop in town and put them in on consignment.
She was so thrilled with what we brought.......she said we could bring more!!
This is one of the pieces we took......honestly the picture doesn't show all the details I
wished it would have....
We mailed out over 85 post cards and sent around 25-30 emails to people that had signed our
guest register at the past shows we've done.......
After much consideration and prayer we also did a radio ad on our local station this week.
It gives a very good description of what we carry and is set to dulcimer music playing in the background.
I'm going to run it until the open house and then see what we'll do from there.

Bye for now!