Welcome to The Marketplace

Hello Everyone!

We're heading in to the busiest shopping days of the year, so I hope you all are ready. I'm ordering Christmas Gifts full on right now and I know you're doing the same. So I hope you'll check out all the great links here at The Marketplace. If you're an Etsy Shop or Online Boutique owner come link up some of your shop favorite items. 

We had such a great turnout last week! It was wonderful seeing all the new "faces" over here. There's lots of shopping going on, 'cause I found lot's of sold items linked. YAY! Here are a few fun links from last week.

StellabyStar Vintage Turkey Gravy Boat

Follow Your Heart Woodworking Wedding Signs

These are wonderful. If you're planning a wedding be sure and check out this great shop owner who customizes wedding party signs.

Vintage Floral Hanky from GirlMakesGood

I just love these colorful hankies;

what a tradition that was to always have one in your purse.

So pretty for Christmas, this 

Mother and Child Heart Charm Necklace

by BrendaLeesJewelry

Do you need these for Thanksgiving and Christmas?

Set of 5 monogrammed silverplate teaspoons

from The Lazy Peacock

And this wonderful

Victorian Santa Original Die Cut

from Rosekraft

My gal Dee from French Bleu Vintage
has this beautiful instant collection of

3 Flow Blue Dishes

I'm hosting a Give Away with Dee
for a $40 Gift Certificate to her shop.
Also a 20% discount code to my readers.
So Click HERE to enter!

Just wanted to share a couple of the new pieces I have in my shop

The Petite Boutique.

This design has been floating around Pinterest

 and I've had several inquiries,

so I put a few together and just have them listed.

OK, so time to link up, Remember this party link is for items that are FOR SALE or your shop. Please have a link within your post to your shop or individual item. Link up to three of your individual items, and you don't have to have a blog to participate. If you do have a blog it would be so nice to have the Link button on your sidebar, and be sure and let people know about this selling venue. The more people who come to link and shop, the more fun we have!

Have a great week, remember this link is live all week, so check back to see the new items being listed.

Happy Shopping!

A little tweaking makes it Thanksgiving...

Drum roll please...

"The Late Fall Mantel"

da ta da da!!

OK, hope you know I'm kidding.

Just a matter of bringing out the turkeys 

in exchange for the snowy owls.

I've kept everything else that I started with back in September. My mantel has been through a few change outs, but now that it's Thanksgiving, most of it will be swapped out for Christmas in just a little over a week.

Here's the Mid Fall Mantel

and the "Super Early Fall Mantel"...

you can see I tweaked the flowers a little too.

Now my Johnson Bros. Turkey Platter gets center stage.

A few small changes in the Entry

 with a white turkey covered vegetable...

same for the hallway sideboard;

you guessed it...

more turkeys.

another turkey platter...

(I got more folks)

Salt and Pepper turkeys

big fat turkey painted white...

(He used to be multi colored but was obnoxiously loud,
so he was slapped with the paintbrush)

I'm not done with the turkeys.

You have to suffer through at least one more post of them.

maybe more...

Be sure and come by tomorrow and visit

for some Etsy and Online Boutique Shopping Fun!

And if you haven't entered Dee's Give Away from 

French Bleu Vintage

 then click HERE

joining in with these parties this week:

Met Monday at Between Naps on the Porch

Make it Pretty Monday at The Dedicated House

Nifty Thrifty Tuesday at Coastal Charm

TTT at A Stroll Thru Life

Tweak it Tuesday at Cozy Little House

Knick of Time Tuesday

Wow Us Wednesday at Savvy Southern Style
Mod Mix Monday at Mod Vintage Life
Cowgirl Up at Cedar Hill Ranch
Blissful Whites at Timewashed
From My Front Porch to Yours
Stone Gable
French Country Cottage
Shabby Art Boutique
Rooted in Thyme
At the Picket Fence
My Romantic Home
Jennifer Rizzo

Thanks for putting up with all my craziness,
Have you seen the chipmunk video?
it's a must see!!

xoxo,

Some chipmunk fun...

I have to say "sorry" for the blurry photos up front. This post is sort of an experiment, hope you all don't mind being the "guinea pigs" for my lackluster techy skills. Actually this is close to "guinea pigs", since I'm showing you one of my little visitors on the deck the last few days.

These pics were taken through my kitchen window above the sink,

 that's why they're so blurry.

Early in the week I put out this old enamel wash pan filled with seeds for the birds. The cats and I need our entertainment from the sunporch you know. So besides the birdies, we've had our regular squirrels and then my favorite little buddies, the chips.

This one is having a great time filling his pouches with all the yummies, but what's been the real laugh, is seeing him bob up and down making sure no one is going to grab him. He's on the alert, but really wants to take advantage of his good fortune in finding the mother load of seed.

My camera has a video option, so this is my first time using it. I'm hoping it works. If it doesn't, then just look at the blurry pictures and imagine you see him doing his thing. He had me in stitches, but then it doesn't take a lot to amuse me now-days.

It's a minute of up and down, up and down. But like I said, this was my first time inserting a video into a blog post. Stay tuned later today for the cliff hanger on my "Late Fall Mantle". I know you all are on the edge of your seats waiting for it. Oh and the racket in the background is my dryer. I have a load of rocks in it evidently...

Thanks for indulging me, 

hope you have a chuckle from this,

xoxo,