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Tuesday, September 17, 2013

The Marketplace: Etsy and Online Boutique Showcase

Hello Everyone,

it's a new week and time to check out some fun new items

that are being listed on Etsy and in some great Online Boutiques.

If you have an Etsy Shop, Online Store, or if you just love to shop,

then you've come to the right place.

Consider this your invitation to join in the party.

Here are a few of the great listings from last week:

Set of Two Vintage Wood Drawers

Must Love Junk

Large Vintage Ironstone Wash Bowl

Vintage Goodness 1

Halloween Cats Image Download

Vintage Images on Etsy

Embellished Vintage Perfume Bottle

Mission Jewels

Vintage Cookie Jar

NanNas Things

Today's Sponsor Spotlight is on Kathleen from
Shabby Cottage Chic
where you'll find great home accents for shabby and eclectic decor.

thanks Kathleen!

Come join in by linking up to three of your individual items that are currently FOR SALE in your shop. If you have a blog and have a post about your shop or items for sale that's great too, please just list items that are for sale. You don't have to have a blog to join in, but if you do, it would be great if you grabbed the image below for somewhere on your sidebar. (not mandatory, but nice. This just lets your readers know about this selling venue that brings more people to shop.)
And remember, this link up is open all week, so stop back by throughout the week to see new items being listed.

Thank you, everyone, who comes by to link up your great items each week!

Happy Shopping!

Sunday, September 15, 2013

Pumpkin Filled Goat Cart

Yesterday I made it over to Billings Missouri, for Pheona's Vintage Market; a once a month sale in an adorable Victorian house turned shop. The weather was beautiful; a real feel of Fall was in the air and when I left home in the morning it was 62... perfect! While I was out I stopped to buy my first load of pumpkins for the season. Normally they would have already been arranged on the front porch and deck, happily hanging out with some mums that I found last weekend. But this week we are scheduled for our new roof to be put on, and because we have wood shake to take off, decking to be put down, then the new composition roof, it might take a whole week or longer. (oooohhhh, I'm praying not) Soooo....the pumpkins had to come inside until the roof and new gutters are on.

I love this reproduction black goat cart that I found several years ago, and it's perfect for my load of pumpkins. At Christmas this little cart holds one of my smaller Christmas trees for the Living Room.

Look at this wonderful pinky-blush pumpkin,

how perfectly "shabby".

Just right for all you "no orange" Fall gals.

Some preserved leaves and real bittersweet,

which costs it's weight in gold.

The little cart is here in the Living Room in front of the old screen I mod podged a couple of years ago. I had wanted to do a project in antique book pages and this was the perfect ~~victim~~ piece.