Plese visit Fiona and Twig Blog to enter her giveaway with fabulous items she finds at Spring Antique week in Warrenton, TX. I so envy her and I will miss so much being there this spring as I was last year.

Oh, sweet memories of that trip!

Smiles, Cyndi

A new site for DragonflyzDreams, a walk in shop

I made a Flicker Badge of my new little space under the stairs at The Blue House, an old re-done house on Main Street - Alabaster, Alabama. These photos are not great, especially the Needlepoint Sampler which is blurry. I will take more close up's when I go back tomorrow when we take some furniture pieces. I have a white wicker baby changing table I have been using in my front hallway as a display table for photos and staging photos scenes.




I will really miss it for that. It is nice as it has three drawers and two shelves to store items in. I really kind of wish I could keep it after using it for about a year since I closed my other consignment stores 10x10 areas. I have a six drawer dresser I could replace it with or if it doesn't sell I will just keep it and put something else out. I hope to get enough cash to attend my old stomping ground, the auction I use to attend. They have fabulous furniture now and then. Some of the stuff I still have came from there. I painted a harp table a shabby purple with a pearl glaze from there and I will put it out, I need a place to put some lamps I have. I find lamps quite often when I am thrifting at great buys and I have several new lampshades I got from a furniture store that was closing a long time ago and they have just been sitting in my garage.



I need to move this stuff out and reclaim my home, and if it does not sell I will do some box lots at the auction house. I really need to raise some cash and clear our also so this is what I came up with. I have visited this store and inquired several times but they are always full and with a waiting list so I was really surprised last week when the new owner called me with a choice of two sites.



The site under the stairs was open now and the blue booth space next door will be available April 1, 2010 when the girl there is opening her own store. I will have to follow here new shop also as she has altered art also and I love what she makes.



So, here is a visit to what a have open so far with so much more to add.

Thanks for looking!

Smiles, Cyndi

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Come to the On-Line Yard Sale!

Welcome March,

For February being a short month it sure did seem like it took forever to get by. I have a feeling we will get some snow tonight. It just feels like it. I was out filling the bird feeders this afternoon and it was absolutley beautiful outside. I wanted to lie in the hammock and just watch the clouds drift by. Oh, How I love to do that!

But, I have way to many things on the docket to get done today so I can get outside and relax later. Our old bed comforter fits well on the hammock. I hung it out to air since it was not getting dry in the clothes dryer. It said to dry clean and I have put it in the dryer on air cycle just to remove the lint and Emma's dog hair where she sleeps in bed with us. I figured why not?, since we will toss it out or it would sit in the garage for a picnic day. I really think it will replace the one in the car from another bed change. We keep a comforter over the foam cushions for the dogs to ride on, but Emma likes to sit in the front seat. That Emma, she will try anything!

I wanted to invite you to a Craft On-Line Yard Sale, really you can find about anything there. I browsed through the shops alittle as I can't get into the chat room yet. This is my first time to be a vendor so I will just wait for the kinks to be worked out or whatever. It gives me a chance to invite you to come. It lasts 2 weeks till March 14th, so come back in often to see the goods that are sold changed around.

I have duplicates of many of my items. I got in a wholesale shipment and am delighted to share little bird nests and bird eggs with you. I have had trouble finding them, so I just grabbed it when I saw them. Of course, I als have my Rusty Crusty Bed Springs or Nodders as some primatives call them.

My spot in the Yard is DragonflyzDreams in the Altered Art area. I am the only one in that catagory so I have plenty of time to spend with you, get some lemonade, hot cocoa or tea and spend some time browsing among the fun things I have seen.

I also have added some new items to my Craft "DragonflyzDreams" shop at Bonanzle, some are the same as in the yard sale and some will be different.
As always, if you need to get several items I am happy to combine shipping for you with a message to me and your zip code.

I am also adding many new hats and fun items to frstyfrolk's Boutique. Give me a couple of days to get the Krispy Kreame Donuts and Hard Rock Cafe cotton shorts added.

I did not sleep well last night and am about to nod off to maybe I need a nodder! LOL!

Enjoy and browse to your heart's delight. I can't believe Ellen is on TV and I can hear in the background the crowd clapping and laughing. That means it is around 4PM and the school bus just passed by, gosh where has the day gone to?

See ya later,
Smiles, Cyndi

I have been looking for a three column blog template and I found this fabulous header with Itkupilli, She shares wonderful templete and I got this header from Susan at Blessed By Designs . I have just been time short for the templete I am looking for but I will get it. I did get two new templates for my on and off ebay auctions, I love them! They are Ornate Grunge Blue Pearls and a Shabby Chic Pink!

I have so many photos to take of my items to list on ebay today. Since I last blogged we got a new puppy for Emma to play with All seems to be working out beautifully. He ( Bailey) loves the cats and Black wants to be his best friend. Bailey is 8 months and we celebrated Emma's second birthday yesterday with extra Treats and of course toys, Gosh, she and Bailey love to play tug!

Here is Emma with her 2nd Birthday Bone. She is going to hide it from Bailey, He does not quite know what to do with one. So she took his also and I gave him another small rawhide piece that Jordan likes. He never liked the ends until Megan and then Emma had chewed one down some and got it soggy, of course he had older teeth.
Here is Bailey,

 

all three of them,  Bleu on top, Blck and Bailey in crate

 

  

Our snow we had for one day!

I also found a Valentine Day collar for the cats, but I just found one so they had to share it. Maybe I can make one. I need to sew the bells back on the Christmas collars for Emma and Barkley, my grandog.

Have you been watching the Olympics on Television. Isn't Vancouver and Whistler Mountain just the Best !  The Today Show is in Victoria this AM and I have been there too! We did not have Afternoon Tea at the Empress Hotel opened in 1908 as they did today, darn, missed the opening! ( grins)

But, Victoria is just as beautiful as Vancouver and I believe they are the best in the world, Like I have seen the world, yeh! But, they are really eye-inspiring sigtshts to see. We went by car ferry to Victoria and then the Doube decker Bus ride was fabulous. You could over-see the gardener's in their backyards working at the awesome  flowersd and veggies in their Backyards! You could overlook the tree hedges as I called them. No one had wood fences like we have, they had Christmas Tree hedges! Really Cedar trees but too Kool!  I want one! Seriously the trees go to the sky in the Northwest and Canada. Nothing like the pine trees here; and fragrant! Oh so good!

We stayed at Whistler at a time share my husband's uncle had and it was April/May in 2000. I shall find some photos to show you.  The slopes were only open to snowboards and an event from SOL beer so I helped with that event, the beer I mean, it was on a Beautiful sunny day we could sit outside the mountain outside the chalet at the top and seee forever!  A cold beer with my coat taken off reaked of happiness. We just sat there. even got a Leather Jacket at the Hard Rock Cafe Whistler, Canada. Those are wonderful memories I cherish. We both could hike them and we did alot of it.

Bob is his thinking Spot 

 

mE IN mY faiRLyLaNd

Then when we moved to Seattle we went to Vancouver quite often to Stanley Park. We said when we pass for our daughter to leave a park bench around Elliott Bay in our memory, only way we could afford one is Dead! Oh well, someone will enjoy it like we did.

Seriously, my husband pulled a good one on me the first time we visited. I wanted a hog dog at the souvineer booth form the walk around the bay and he insisted we wait abit and then he surprised me with lunch at the Tea Garden Teahouse. Oh My, I even saved the menu! Do you do that?

What a memorable lunch and feeling on being on the top of the world. The northwest calms me. I feel serene there. Well, the Olympics are being well watched in our home.

 Bob has really been enjoying them even when he works if it is calm he can watch TV as a police/fire/911 dispatcher. I have trouble sitting down and watching TV when he is at work, all is never done around here. But, the skaters were beautiful last night. I  love ice skating! And skiing! Well watching both! I never tried ice skating, no reason why, I kind of wish I had, I used to roller skate as a kid. All the time; I had birthday roller skating parties and swim parties growing up with my friends. I invited 8-10 girls and we had a ball on my birthdays. And speaking of Birthdays. I want to wish my friend Dani, at Eagle Wings a very Happy Birthday today.

I also took my first three hour beading class yesterday and I am making a netted weave bracelet. Here is what I got done yesterday.

Now, I wonder how far I get get with it on my own, the size changers in the pattern are the hardest for me also being the clumsy one  I am, just threading a needle is a joke! She also had some"Thread Heaven" to run the Fireline thread through as it got tangeled on me. I did get that too!

The button will be sewn on as I am far enough now, it will be down on the gold color end. I wanted natural like colors, the next are a pearl look. Oh me, will I get that pattern okey?

I saw a lady working this at the bead show I went to a few weeks ago and it was awesome, very much like crochet.

 

Also while I am thinking of it, Have you seen the new Mary Jane bedding? The chenille one? Oh, I got it! and here is a photo, it was so pretty on the twinbbed at Belk, now ill it look as good on A king bed. I have not yet put it one, I really hate to break it in with theanimals on it. I had a chenille bedspread when I was a kid. And this is a bedspread also, the lined chenille tabs go down the sides and a floral motiff on the top. At first I got the blue one, then I changed my mind for the cream after consulting with Bob also. I even had to go to another store for the King Spread  at the Galleria Mall here, I rarely go to the mall anymore and I just went in Belk and back out. That is about all I can walk and they have two store spaces where Pizitz had closed and Parisian before that.

I even saw this very same cast iron bed at the Thrift Store a while back, if only I had a shop somewhere, I know I could have made a buck or two. But, I don't, so it will be for someone else to have found.

Do you detect a sigh here? I do! Oh well!

I better get on with today, I have photos to take and uploading to do on Bonanzle and Ebay,and Etsy so ta ta for now, Happy Birthday Dani!

Later,

Smiles,Cyndi