sheppard girls

Cool

   

Thanks to the fun folks over at Minneapolis Picks, who wrote up sheppard girls in their most recent newsletter.

My stuff is babylicious.  Who knew?!

Never quite satisifed

I had one set of fall decorations on our new family cabinets, but it looked too messy.  So I used blue paint left over from when I repainted the front door

to paint two old metal baskets I had in the basement.   There is new door hardware on the front door too.  We went on the local remodelers home tour last weekend and saw a very similar house to ours.  Their new trim was nearly exactly the same as our new trim.  It must be the standard make-the-1984-house-look-nicer trim at the lumberyard.  It was pretty funny to see how far that family had gotten too.  They still had on old metal door with scratched up brass hardward leading to their garage as well.  So a new back door has been added to my list.

 

I use vintage baskets like this in my booth at craft shows, but these two had a few broken wires, so I didn't want them to damage any of my stuff, or poke a potential customer!  I got impatient waiting for the paint to dry, so a few of the pumpkins may end up a little blue.  There are some glitter pumkins in there, and I've also been tucking all the weird squash and gourds we have been getting from the CSA in there too.  I have one of those really great black glitter Wendy Addison "boo" garlands

and I am trying to figure out how to hang it without actually putting nails into my beautiful new mantle?

 

 

 

Crafted Together

 

Craft show season has begun.  The first of my three (or four) of the fall comes this Saturday, October 11, the 11th, right?  Whatever.  Saturday.  In White Bear Lake.  Which for us southern suburb girls is about the other side of the earth.  See that cute poster by Adam Turmann?  My house is on the other side of those big buildings.   Crafted Together is put on by the folks who own Truly which is a super cute shop where you can buy my stuff.  If you attend the show, please stop by and say hi.

Seriously?!

   

My children have never seen the Flintstones!  I will remedy that over lunch.

Winter boots

It may be that I have this discussion EVERY SINGLE YEAR, but why oh why are kids boots so hard to find?  I realize that it is only October 1st.  But I also realize that one day we are going to wake up to a walk to the bus stop that requires boots.  I have had to buy children's winter boots for ten winters and I never get it quite right.  One year I got ones that were too puffy and the recess ladies told her they remember wearing boots like that when they were young.  (thanks for that, by the way)  Last year I got cute boots, but they had a shiny surface that scratched and didn't work at all for snow shoes.  This year, one of my usual resources, Kohl's online, only had four pairs of boots and they were all pink.  Zappos has hundreds, but none very practical.  I finally found these at Target.  I also bought  

these

and these for myself, because I am easily influenced by others.