Autumn Goods and Witchly Blackness

I think I am about done with my autumnal creations.  I have a spooky mirror and some witchy brooms to finish and I think I am going to do a few vintage postcard tins as well, then I am heading to the Christmas work room.    I only have a few ideas so far, hoping more fill my brains once I start.

In the meantime, sales are good for me and I have been scouring the flea markets and estate sales here, it is kind of an avalanche of prims all over the house, awaiting cleaning, repair and of course, some blue paint.  I saw a haunted dollhouse on facebook and am also completely obsessed with the thought of doing my own version.  We shall have to see if dreams meet reality.

Fall and Hallow's Eve Primitives

I am officially working hard on fall goods--if they don't sell this year, it certainly isn't that I didn't try.  Here are the latest creations off the assembly line.

Estate Sale Madness

I am a bit overwhelmed with sorting, cleaning and fixing the mountain of antiques I have purchased in the last two weeks.  Here is just a tip of the iceberg:

Last week was the What Cheer flea market, 6 hours of trudging through fields, but I came away with some lovely things.  This weekend I spent an entire day at an estate sale, and bought mountains of truly filthy primitives.  I spent the next day hosing it all off--I was black with dirt by the time I finished.  Here are a few of those goods cleaned and ready for sale:

Hallow's Eve has Arrived

I got a few spooky goods in the store, and more on the way, I think I am on a roll.

Autumn Ideas Turn into Reality

I spent all week tackling the fall line, I got so caught up in it that I painted things with pumpkin milk paint!  I do not enjoy the color orange in general, but the muted antique pumpkin worked out ok.

eBay is finally getting busy again, hoping the autumn goods will do as well.  I have some spooky Halloween prims still in the half-done phase and have a stack of things to get black milk paint.  Busy, busy!

Sampler Madness

Sales are trending up and I have some fall craft ideas.  I still haven't acted upon those ideas, so we will see how that works out.  In the meantime, the girls have been making samplers for me and I have been framing them with my collection of antique frames.  Several are Christmas themed, so I think I'll start adding Christmas goods in early.

It has been a very stressful July, worries about my daughter having surgery to remove wisdom teeth, mother-in-law needing nursing home care and possibly moving in with our family, and my husband's job is always a source of exasperation.  Anna's surgery was successful and she had a bad week of pain, but is better now.  The rest still needs sorting out, so no rest for this very weary soul.

I Used up All My Blue Milk Paint

I should have known to buy the giant bag of milk paint powder--the smaller size was gone in a flash!  I LOVE my newest creations and will work hard to get them out for sale soon.

I know I need to start thinking about fall things, as they only sell in August for some reason.  I'm just now getting in the mood to do red white and blue July 4th stuff, so very behind the times in shop world.  Hopefully, I will get some fall inspiration this year--I totally missed the boat last year, not an original idea in my head.  Pinterest isn't even helping me, all the Halloween stuff is kind of country cutsie, not what I want to do.  I have been listening to Harry Potter books as I work, and that hasn't helped either.  Ah, well, here is where my heart is, back in blue land.

I actually have a few more blue rolling pins besides these.

and how gorgeous is the Laundry Basket Quilts blue calico?

this little girl is an antique Amish doll, warning you, the price is $250

bread board, front and back: