My Blue Heaven

I found this rather amazing spice tin set, the tins look like little tea canisters and the spice names are embossed on the lids. Trust me, they used to be painted a not good brown and are now gorgeous in blue and white. They were so pretty, I did up a set of sugar and coffee tins to match.

We went to Muscatine on a lark Saturday and so glad I did. Manley's Antiques, one of the nicest shops in the area is closing as the owners are retiring and just sold their building. Really sad to see it go, their shop is so beautiful, they have all this old gingerbread molding and posts as displays, beautiful old doors and windows and shutters put together to make walls, then all the great antiques. I was able to get a few things, love the old tin pieces.

From a Prim Cupboard

I love this newest pantry group, it is cheering up my very grouchy week. Every little thing has been getting on my last nerve lately, and it seems I really needed an escape to my fantasy pantry cupboard, just calms you right down, doesn't it?

Long May She Wave

I always spend 9/11 with some tears, before I pull myself together. Seemed a good time to wave the flag.

Hallow's Eve Redux

Last year, I could not keep up with sales of Halloween goods, this year, not so much, even though I think it is my spookiest and best collection ever, just redid their photos with some added cobwebs, love it! Ah, well, I guess I could actually decorate my own house for once!

The Latest in My Prim World

Fun with rolling pins this week, all primmity prim. I have 3 rather enormous pins on the way too, one really long and skinny, 2 big old fat ones, all with a little fabric and stencils.

Early Doll Dresses

These are off to ebay tonight, ranging from small money to very large money! The little blue check is $24, indigo calico $85 and the red white and blue for $148, they are so gorgeous. I really wanted a red doll dress to put a bit of greenery on for a Christmas display, and they are so hard to find, but I just took some antique white baby gowns and dyed them red, along with some antique stockings, they turned out just right and I won't even have to charge the proverbial arm and leg for them. I have some in a cupboard blue dye bath right now that I had better go stir, hoping they are pretty too!

The Iowa State Fair

That old 1940s movie State Fair is all about our own Iowa fair, and it is still just about the same, just a lot more food on a stick these days. I didn't actually eat any of said stick food, but we walked for over 3 hours to see only part of the sights. Grace met every horse in the horse barn and Anna dreamed of owning 100 bunnies as we stopped to pet bunny noses in the bunny barn. I could not find the quilt display, but did love the garden produce displays, from giant pumpkins to heads of cabbage

. The cow sculpted from butter had a line a mile long to get to see, but I did get her picture! Weather was gorgeous, an all around lovely day at the fair.