It's That Time of Year....

I've been busy getting things ready for my booth and to tell the truth it seemed a little strange to be decorating sleds...But then...today we got snow, not feeling so strange now.

 So I put a bow and some greens on the small sled it looked pretty good but seemed a little skimpy

 same thing with the larger sled..looked pretty good but something was missing.

 So, I had this pair of girls ice skates and had intended on selling them as singles to put in a wreath or sit on a shelf, whatever...

 This is where they ended up, I added a clothes pin snowman to the red country sled and now it looks complete.

 The Victorian- ish sled got a white ice skate and a pearl necklace

 It, too, now looks more complete...with me, more is better,  I  hardly have one of anything, well, I only have one fridge and one range, but that really is all I need. But when it comes to collecting, yep, more is better. But that is a blog all by its self..maybe at a later date.

That's all I have for this time I'm painting a toy stove and fridge for my granddaughter, and had better get bact to it before my paint brushes dry up on me, yuk.

So, till next time...

From my porch to yours...

Have a blessed week.

Sometimes things just go wrong...

Like this...

 from a distance not so bad...but when you take a closer look...not so good. Well, stuff like this happens and even though it is a little discouraging it is not the end of the world. So, switch gears and rev up the old paint roller and start on a new project. Will come back to this mess at a later date.

 New project...this bed frame is really,really old and if it were in pristine condition would be worth a lot of $$$, however it is not in great condition and a lot of the small pieces are missing and it is an odd size...3/4 is what they call it today. They do not make mattresses in this size, you can have them custom made and that too is a lot of $$$. So this is my plan..

 The foot board is going to be made into a child size bench...I've painted it white and distressed it just a tad...this kind of distressing is not distressing to me...

These two pictures are the before...

 and close ups of the detail on the foot board/bench back ...

Well that is as far as I can go right now, Tim has to enter the picture, so to speak, and perform his magic. I will post pictures of the finished project. Oh! by the way , the head board is also going to be turned into a bench and I will post pictures when that happens.


Well that's all for this time...

 So, from my porch to yours...

Have a blessed week.