Miniatures for Sale on Etsy

I have a few 1/12 scale Shabby Rose miniatures offered for sale over on Etsy. Straight from Fab Shabby Rose Boutique. If you'd like to take a look just click on the wicker basket of bread in my sidebar and it'll take you right to my Etsy store. I hope to have many more things for sale there soon so please, if you're interested, keep checking back! Don't use the link on the sidebar, for some reason I can't get that to work. So just click right on the picture of the basket of bread itself and it'll take you right there!

Thank you!
Have a wonderful day!

Links in the sidebar

I'm trying to figure out how to add links in my sidebar. I want to be able to show you a link to my etsy and ebay and also whenever I want to showcase or direct someone to a blog for a giveaway or whatever. I've looked and looked and it's just escaping me for some reason. Could someone point me in the right direction please? And thank you!

Halloween Giveaway Winner

I was so excited to open my email a while back to find out that I had won these gorgeous minis from Donna http://www.hagerbears.blogspot.com/. She makes the most beautiful bears and miniatures and is just so talented. Grab a cup of something to drink and be prepared to sit a spell while you browse thru Donna's blog. She is so talented and has so many fine miniatures. I'm so happy to have some of her work. I still can't believe it! I can't afford to purchase miniatures such as these, so I'm just so thrilled to have received them as gifts. I keep picking them up and looking and looking! Everything is so very tiny but yet so full of details. Check out those donuts!

THANK YOU SO MUCH DONNA .....for your generosity!

Have a great day everyone! I hope you have time today to do the fun things you like to do!

A Giveaway

I have to tell you there is an absolutely awesome giveaway over at Low Tide High Style's blog!  Follow the link http://lowtidehighstyle.blogspot.com/ and sign up for your own chance at winning a set of the most beautiful embroidered cotton towels from Lyla at Old Spool Embroidery. They're just wonderful! Snowmen doing all kinds of wintery things!

I absolutely love this towel from Lyla

Isn't it gorgeous? There are so many wonderful designs! I'd be happy with any one of them!

So hurry on over to http://lowtidehighstyle.blogspot.com/ and sign up for a chance to win a set of Christmas towels. Personally I think they'd sew up nicely to make some wonderful Christmas pillows. That's what I'd do with them if I won! They're so sweet I wouldn't want anyone to wipe their hands on them! I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

Have a great day everyone!

Little Girls Roombox

Below are pictures of the Little Girls Roombox I've been working on for the last couple of years. I don't think I can really fit an awful lot more into it except for the wall space at the back, over the bed. I'm looking for the perfect little shelf to hang there that I can fill with little dollies. You know how it is putting these roomboxes together....you're always on a search for something special. Again many of the items in this roombox were made by either myself or the members of my miniature group. And a few things from the online miniature groups I belong to. I haven't swapped on those in a very long time. Just not enough time in the day for everything I'd like to do. I hope you enjoy the pictures.

Don't forget to poke the pictures twice to get to see everything up close and personal!

Have a wonderful day everyone!

Basement Roombox

With the help of some friends from a miniature group I belong to I've been able to put together this awesome utility shelf for my Basement roombox. You'll also see a wonderful rolling laundry cart that Jamie made for me. This roombox was so much fun to create and I'm slowing getting it filled up with some treasures. I have a long way to go! Someday I'd love to have a Marcia Backstrom doll standing at a table folding laundry. One can dream!

Enjoy the photos and don't forget to poke them, and then poke them again to get really big pictures so you can really check them out.

Shabby Rose Boutique

It's been so very long since I've last posted. I sincerely apologize to those that missed me. The summer just got away with me. It's been so busy.

I promised a while ago that I would share some close up shots of the inside of my ladies boutique. There are so many wonderful miniatures in there, many of them are handmade from many friends. I hope you enjoy looking thru them!

And I promise to get back here in a little more timely manner. With the onset of cold weather I'm sure I'll be spending a lot more time inside!

Don't forget to poke the picture to get a super large one so you can really see all the details. And don't forget you need to poke the picture once then again to get it super large.  If you have any questions please don't be afraid to ask! I wish you all a happy weekend!

Another Giveaway you don't want to miss signing up for

Jump on over to Low Tide High Style to join the giveaway for the most darling little throw rug from JellyBean Rugs. They really are just the sweetest little things!

Here's the link.....
http://lowtidehighstyle.blogspot.com/

Wouldn't that little throw rug look adorable at your seaside cottage or in my little camper?

FEEDING THE FISH

Kathi over at http://beautifulminiblessings.blogspot.com/ is having a giveaway in celebration of her first blogging anniversary. While I was reading her blog this morning my 4 year old granddaughter discovered the Feeding the Fish icon on the side of her blog and wanted to do that. So I showed her how and she had a great time! She thought it was the funniest thing to click for food and see the fish swimming around eating it! I was amazed at her amazement! Children just bring so much joy to the littlest things don't they? Can you recognize your page Kathi?

Have a good day everyone!

Another Giveaway

Head on over to Cynthia's blog. Here's the link......http://cynmini.blogspot.com/
She's having a wonderful giveaway!

Have a great day everyone!

Hope You're having a wonderful Memorial Day Weekend

Don't forget to say Thank you to a Veteran. Where would we be as a country without them? I can't even begin to imagine.



And I’m proud to be an American where as least I know I’m free.

And I won’t forget the men who died, who gave that right to me.

And I’d gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today.

‘Cause there ain’t no doubt I love this land God bless the U.S.A.



~Lee Greenwood

Auntie's Sewing Machine

I finally had the chance to open the machine and really get a look at it. It's amazing! As you can see in the pictures the way you change the stitches to fancy stitches is by changing the dics in the top of the machine. Under that flip lid on the top. There are many different discs for all types of fancy stitches. Perfect to use in making the Crazy Quilts. It's going to be such fun to experiment with these different discs.

Aunties Sewing Machine

We're having a party for my husbands birthday today so I'm leaving you with a picture of what I did yesterday. Altho I knew how to sew and had made many things for my girls when they were small, I had never made a quilt before. My aunt is a wonderfully talented quilt maker and I asked her to help me make one. I wanted to eventually make one for each of my 3 girls and my grandchildren. So she did so graciously. And I am forever indebted for her teaching me some tricks of the trade. I absolutely love quilting and have taken right off with it! And my aunt knows this. So one day last week she called and told me that she's downsizing in the house, comtemplating moving to something smaller and said she had a sewing machine for me if I'd like it. Well come to find out it's one she bought when she first graduated from nursing school. I didn't ask exactly but I'm guessing around 45 - 46 years ago. She bought it with her first paycheck from the nursing job she had gotten at the hospital here. I am so honored to have this. And I'm going to use it to make my 3rd grandchilds quilt on it. And he's almost a year old so I really need to get a move on! As soon as I read the book and figure this baby out....ANNNNNDDDDDD HERE SHE IS>>>>>>>>>

Tomorrow I'll take a picture of her opened and set up! She's an old gal but quite the beauty!

On the right you'll see a stack and whack quilt I've made but I'm still handquilting it. Paying to have someone machine quilt my quilts  really doesn't fit into my budget, but maybe someday I'll have one done that way. The designs you can have quilted on them are simply gorgeous. But in the meantime I just do mine by hand. Sometimes it takes me a whole winter to finish quilting one, but I enjoy sewing in the evenings with the quilt draped across my lap. A nice way to stay warm at the same time!

And if you're wondering what that furry thing on the left is....that's a lamb footstool. My BIL and SIL raise sheep as a little side venture along with their cattle. She brought that down at Christmastime for the grandchildren to use. It's so sweet!

Have a wonderful day everyone!

Mothers Day Flowers

Below is a picture of a hanging petunia plant that my middle daughter gave me for Mothers Day. It looks so nice hanging on the front porch. I also recieved a kit for hanging strawberries and tomatoes from oldest daughter which I've started and we're now waiting to see some growth in those. And youngest daughter gave me some Blue Fragrant Lavender to put in the lawn garden behind the garage. I can't wait to be smelling that and hope that we'll see sufficient growth this year! Guess they all know I like flowers!

Have a wonderful weekend everyone!

Wicker Hats

I'm on a busy run today with a list of things I need to do. So I'm just leaving you a quick picture of some wicker hats I made for the ladies in my miniature group a couple of months ago. Don't forget to poke the picture twice to get a real close-up. HA...better than you can see them in real life considering they're really only about 2" wide and on my computer each one blows up to be about 6" wide! They look huge when I poke them twice! HA!

And keep watch for a little drawing perhaps. Just because I'm so excited about this nice weather we're having. 79 degrees yesterday...the same today. I might actually be able to start thinking about planting some annuals in the gardens!

Have a wonderful day everyone!

Planters completely finished

I just thought I'd share a picture. These are finally finished they're wrapped in bubble wrap and will soon be off to their new homes. Plants are always a challenge to me so for the sake of saving a bit of time I only made one of the plants in the planter....the leafy plant on the left in most of the planters. I used wire and masking tape to make those. If anyone is interested in a tutorial for those let me know and I'll post a quick one here to show how I did those.

Don't forget to poke the picture once or twice to make it larger so you can see the pictures better.

So check these off the list.....now I 'm going to try my hand at making woven wicker picture frames as a special request from a friend. She's making a beach cottage and has some pictures she's been looking to frame in wicker.  I've never done those before either so those should be a fun challenge. I'll be putting the chaise on hold for just a bit while I work on the frames.....or maybe do both at the same tiime. Aren't miniaturists suppose to have half a dozen projects going at the same time? I mean we have to work on something while the glue or paint is drying....right? Which, if you could see my workroom you'd know I have at LEAST a half dozen projects going already.....And yes I will have that picture for you soon too.....it's so embarressing!

Have a lovely day all!

JOIN ALICIA'S GIVE AWAY

Isn't this gorgous?

 You need to run right over to Alicia's blog  http://aliciaminiaturas.blogspot.com/   and congratulate her for reaching her 1st year anniversary and sign up for her give away! NOW  HURRY ALONG!!!!

HELP ME PLEASE, I CAN'T STOP

Thanks to Casey I've gotten nothing done the last week or two. I started making these planters and I'll admit, it took me a bit to get everything right. I had to buy a new "chuck" for my little darling dremel so I could drill the holes in the wood properly....I had to buy some new wire that was a little thicker, for the legs. I did find some at Walmart. And since that's about as close as I can get to a craft dept without driving over an hour I thought I was pretty darn lucky they had what I needed. They usually don't! And I'll tell you once I got on a roll I couldn't stop. It was that addicting. I was having so much fun I decided to make one for each of the ladies in my miniature group. Shhhhh don't tell them......it's a surprise! I've been working on them feverishly for 2 weeks now.

A picture next of my little work station. I picked up a bunch of these little trays at the Dollar Store. They remind me of the trays we used in school. They're so handy to use when I'm working on a project and want to keep it all together and move it from room to room. Depending on where I'm going to sit and work at something. I have 6 or 7 of them and I'll bet in my work room I have at least 4 of them filled with stuff I'm working on.

Maybe tomorrow I'll show you pictures of my workroom. It is an ABSOLUTE DISASTER right now. And I mean DISASTER. I don't know how it gets that way. But if I'm feeling brave I'll show you tomorrow what I mean. It's so embarressing!



Thanks Casey! Now I think I have enough weaving under my belt to try a chair.....wait..........I think I'm going to skip the chair and go straight to a chaise lounge.....wish me luck!


DON'T FORGET TO POKE THE PICTURES TO MAKE THEM LARGER. AND SOMETHING ELSE I LEARNED...IF YOU POKE THE PICTURE ONCE RIGHT HERE ON MY BLOG AND THENAFTER IT COMES UP POKE IT AGAIN IT'LL BE EVEN LARGER. TRY IT!

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY

I'm wishing that everyone had a wonderful Mothers Day today. If you weren't able to be with your children or your own mothers I hope you still were able to make something wonderful today or were able to get out and enjoy nice weather. We actually had snow if you can believe it. My poor lilacs were quite shocked I think. But I was able to spend the day with my grown children. 3 daughters. Unfortunately my mother and my mother-in-law have both passed away, but they were close to my heart today as they are every day.

Oh my poor bleeding heart below doesn't know what hit it. It's so dang cold. She says "what happened to the 80 degree weather we had a week or so ago that made me grow like crazy and produce all these beautiful flowers?"

All that white on the leaves of the lilac is snow. Isn't this a shame? I do think it's going to survive tho. It's the really hard frosts that deepfreeze the blossoms. This snow just makes her shiver!

I hope your  Mothers Day was a site warmer than mine! But it was oh so warm in my home and my heart!

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Miniature Show

I had a great time at the Syracuse Miniature Show and Sale this weekend. I purchased a few awesome miniatures, a couple from a fun seller that I've bought from each time I go. And a few treasures from some of the other sellers.

The above items were all from the same seller. Doesn't she create the most wonderful things?

Ha I put new batteries in my camera and didn't even notice that the date is stamped on them from 2006. I'll have to remember to go back in and change that.

The two little dolls went into my Little Girls Roombox. The decorated quilting chair is going into my quilt/craft room roombox. All the other items went into my Shabby Rose Boutique. You can see a picture of that roombox on this blog and also at the top of this page on the right hand side.

I purchased these 15 pairs of scissors in a little plastic case for $8. I think I'll have plenty of these to use in many little workbaskets! Aren't they wonderful?I just love these little dolls.

I was looking to purchase the Marcia Backstrom resin doll from Falcon, the old lady with her hair in curlers....I want to put her at a table in my basement roombox folding laundry. But the seller that planned to bring her for me said she didn't come in. So I'll have to wait and see what happens. If anyone has a picture of that doll to share with me I'd love to see it. I really need a doll for that roombox. For some reason it just screams out to have a doll in there doing something.

I forgot to take my camera with me so I didn't get any pictures of the exhibits at the show. There were some really nice ones this year.

So that was my haul from this years show. I also bought some supplies for making little scenes. I got some bargain basement furniture to fix up and create some scenes with to sell on ebay. A good haul I have to say!

Later I'll show you what I have been busy working on using my dremel. I did get the chuck that I needed so I could use all those tiny little drill bits. I'm so excited to be able to finally use my dremel for what I've always wanted to use it for! Jeez! I don't know why I took so long to get myself in gear and take care of this issue. Guess it was Casey's tute on the wicker plant stands and having to use my husbands huge black and decker drill to make the holes in the wooden forms. That was a disaster! Now I can drill those tiny holes nice and neat and quick! And holes I have been drilling! Woohoo! Update on all that later!

Have a great day everyone. It's dreary and rainy here in New York today. I hope you're all having sunshine!