The Marketplace: Etsy and Online Boutique Showcase

Hi Everyone

and welcome to The Marketplace

We're here to do a little browsing and shopping for some great vintage and seasonal goodies. It's time to come join in by linking up to three of your Etsy Shop or Online Boutique items. Please feel free to join the party, I love seeing new shops each week! Here are some great links from last week, that will get you in the mood for Fall.

Halloween Trick-or-Treat Cone

from the Gift Garden Shoppe

Mademoiselle Tresors

Monogrammed French Linen Set

Vintage Yellow Ware Bowl

from Gizmo and Hooha

Original Pumpkin Painting

from the Old Post Road

Handmade Sampler Quilt

from Custom Comforts

Vintage Pewter Owl Thimble

from the Lazy Peacock

This Week's Sponsor for The Marketplace ...

I wanted to share a few things today from Michele's Shop, Glass Bead Treasures. When I was a little girl, one of my favorite things to do was to look through my grandmother's jewelry boxes and drawers of mementos. Each time I visit Michele's Shop that's how I feel, just like I've opened up a box of wonderful "treasures". If you haven't been by recently, she has some precious handmade pieces you'll just love to discover!

thanks so much, Michele!

Hope you'll join in today, just link up to three of your individual Etsy or Online Boutique items. Please remember this linky is for items that are FOR SALE, only. If you have a blog post about your shop or items that's great too, just please have a way for people to purchase your items. This link-up will be open all week, so hope you drop back by to see what new items have been added! thanks a bunch!

Happy Shopping,

Early Fall Changes on the Sunporch

Happy Fall...for reals!

OK, it just hit me that we are coming in to the last full week of September, I can hardly believe it. And if I want to show you any changes that I made for an "Early Fall" sunporch vs. the "Late Summer" Sunporch of August, it had better be now.

Because things will change again in October and I'll bring out a few of my vintage Halloween things. I don't "do" Halloween up big like I did when my kids were little. Now, I just like to have a few little things that remind me of all the fun Halloween was when I was a kid. 

One of the changes was this old straggly suitcase here on my glass nesting tables in place of the Linen Picnic Hamper for Summer. I brought out my big orange Butterscotch Wafers tin and snuggled an ivy inside. I also found the O'Cedar tin awhile back. It's pretty rough, but then I just love the color.

One of my little birdies found a spot to perch.

It's pretty bright out here, you may need to put on your sunglasses.

But that's what I love about my sunporch, I can go color crazy!

I made a few Fall changes out here on the Baker's Rack too. My black kitchen scales are back, I added an old open garden book, there's an orange pottery tea pot and tray, an orange plaid Thermos, and then my "Make Your Own Seedbox" that I made with Fall colors has shown up. I'd been saving it for this month.

Then, one of my little owl friends wanted to come out to play.

He's hanging out with another little friend in the birdcage.

and speaking of owls, did you catch my last post about "owls"?

The settee will get a change up for October too, 

I'm planning it right now...

hmmm...

This may happen this afternoon.

an antique sign I found a few years ago

 gets the "Bittersweet" treatment

on the chippy picket fence gate.

The black tole tray is still here holding some brown transferware, and I had to add a yummy candle to the mix. I have a candle burning most days from here on out. This one is Leaves, but good grief, the one in the kitchen is Pumpkin Pecan Waffle. That smell can make you go nuts...pun intended.

sitting in a cute wire pumpkin

I found a few sunflowers last weekend while I was out , but their little heads are now hanging, and they are dropping their petals. I'll be saving the heads to dry for next year.

Hope you're having a wonderful 1st day of Autumn!

I just put together a link on the sidebar and a new "page" on the header of my past "Autumn Projects and Inspiration". Hope you enjoy a look at some of the fun from the last 4 years.

If you have an Etsy Shop or Online Boutique,

 hope you'll join in tomorrow for 

I also have a new post out on my Spiritual Journey blog about "Being Available". My posts have been few and far between this last year, but I'm hoping to do better. Sometimes "life" gets a little overwhelming...

Joining in on these great parties:

Amaze Me Monday at Dwellings
Tweak it Tuesday at Cozy Little House
The Scoop at Cedar Hill Ranch

Have a wonderful Sunday!

xoxo,