We've rented a flea market booth!

What were we thinking? I was ready to donate all the rest of the stuff in the basement. As a matter of fact the DAV truck was coming to our street in a few weeks! But Mickey said HE was just going to rent a booth and put the stuff in it!
It was quite a wreck when we rented it. The back wall was brick but painted yellow. The floor is concrete, but painted hunter green and sponge painted with white blobs. So we went to work.
We hung burlap on the back walls and white fabric on the sides (to cover the dusty chicken wire!) Then painted the floor a clean white and I stamped these fleur-de-lis on it! Yesterday I filled it up with HALLOWEEN decorations and dress-up supplies!

Wednesday~Noon...

The painted floor



Hung some shutters


And Voila! Yesterday at about 2:30!




Wish us luck. We chose the STD flea market that's close to the MSU campus~ Hopefully the kids will find some costumes for Halloween!

Peace,
Sheri

Halloween hooking

I've been hooking up a storm. I love Halloween but I just gave away most of our decorations to my great nieces and nephew. We don't have any trick-or-treaters anymore. Even said, I made more stuff this year!!

This witch is 11" tall including the bedspring.

Then I made this pumpkin guy. He's about 10" tall.

I also tried something different. I used a transfer for the middle of this, then hooked around it. I used the t-shirt transfer paper you can buy at the big hobby stores. Then fused it to the linen with "wonder under". I think I'll make some loops on top for hanging. It's pretty small, 9" by 11". I think I'll explore this altered hooking more.

I'm going to work on one more fall project before moving on to Christmas stuff. It's a purse that says Autumn. The pattern is from the Primitive Gathering. I wasn't going to do any more orange stuff, but I dyed wool yesterday and orange was one of the colors I wanted to try from my new dye book. It turned out beautifully. I show you pictures tomorrow.

And in closing, here are some pics of our house decorated for the fall season.

The window box on the front porch. Usually I hate fake flowers, but I did it anyway for outdoors.

These are hand dyed fabric including a chenille bedspread. I used real pumpkin stems on two of them.

I painted this last year on a little piece of plywood.

It's officially fall tomorrow!

Peace...

Sheri

Paint your own pottery

Hi everyone! Last week I went with my niece and her daughter to a "you paint it, they fire it" pottery place called Firehouse Pottery here in Springfield, MO. What a fun place!!! You pick out your bisque piece to paint and they supply the glazes, brushes, etc. Hand them your masterpiece and in a week return to pick it up!! They have stamps and stencils and the place was crawling with kids. We were the first ones there and we stayed for two hours. Here's my niece Angie and her daughter Zoie.

And here's Zoie and Aunt Sheri...

She got to do two pieces because it took me so long to paint my plate! I took the Sept/Oct. '07 edition of Rug Hooking Magazine with me for a pattern. This is an original rug hooked and designed by Jenny Rupp. I love it!!! Maybe someday I'll buy the pattern and hook it. It's pretty big. Anyway... I painted it on a plate. The background color wasn't as dark as I thought it would be but I still like it.

I am trying to make some Halloween hooked dolls~ornies. My creativity has dried up. I have the heads hooked and the bodies made, but there they lay. Still not put together.

I have oficially sold TWO , count 'em two things on ebay that I have hooked. Whoopie!!! I wanted to apply and sell some things on the ebay group PRHG....However I got this message...."This group is not accepting new members at this time. Please try again later"!! I have received their daily emails and newsletters for almost a year and have purchased many things from there. I was quite surprised that they closed the group!?!?! Looks like they would want as many members as possible to spread the news of their store ~~ emails, blogs, links, etc. I guess not.... I'll find another group to join and sell my primitive rugs and things, but I was disappointed and kind of put out!!

Peace, remember those who died on 9/11 and their families.

Sheri

New Halloween mat

I just finished this mat. I crocheted the edge with a funky yarn. I think I will list this on ebay also. It's 8" by 18". It's hard for me to sell anything because I want to keep everything I make. I love this!!!

My Henry the cat sold. My first sale ever!!! It made me feel good that someone would pay for something I made. Like I said, most of my stuff has gone to friends and family. My sister loved her Santa ironing board.

For her birthday I made a banana cake. The recipe is sooo weird, but sooo moist and good!!

A boxed cake mix, 1 can of diet Sprite or whatever flavor soda you choose. Blend cake mix and Sprite with mixer and bake as directed. That's all!! No eggs, oil, milk. Just Sprite. Then top it with Cool Whip and serve it cold. YUM!! I had a friend who used chocolate cake mix and Dr. Pepper. She said it was great. Oh yeah, use the soda room temp. I added it cold and the cake didn't rise in the middle. I filled it up with Cool Whip and leveled it off! No one noticed.

I'm ready to decorate for fall. I pulled out this pillow and wall hanging I made.

I bought some fall leaves and fake pumpkins and gourds to decorate my window box in front of the house. I haven't decided how to keep the stuff inside the box yet. If I use floral foam I am afraid it will blow out. I guess I could tape it in like you do a floral arrangment. Any suggestions?

We have had hurricane rain all the way up here in Missouri. It's been raining for three days. It's supposed to stop today. I hope. Tomorrow my hubby and I are going to Eureka Springs, Arkansas to celebrate our anniversary. We got married there 9-1-00. All I remember was the lady performing the ceremony got wide eyed and started staring at my legs. A huge bee was flying by my legs and about to go up the leg of my shorts!!! I don't remember a word I said, yeah, yeah, I do..... I do.. Yes we got married in shorts. We had "wedding clothes" but we had reserved a place to get married that was supposed to be at a scenic lookout. How beautiful we thought in the AR mountains. When we got there it was a little place in the road where you can pull over to the side to see the view. Just a little crook in the road!!! I said I'm not getting married here. We went to the hotel to register and told the front desk lady our story. She said, "I can marry you! We have a beautiful gazebo down by the pool. " We said meet you there in five minutes!!! It was about 105 degrees that day and we said what the hell, lets wear our shorts. (We did put on our "good clohes" and went out to dinner that night.) Before we checked out of the hotel I asked the lady if she could print out the vows that we had said because I honestly had no idea what was said!!! She printed it out and we said it to each other again when we got home. Awww... how sweet. We had a great time and are hoping to have a great time this weekend. The weather is supposed to be good this weekend.

The cure for boredom is curiosity; there is no cure for curiosity...

Peace,

Sheri

Henry is on Ebay!

I have added Henry the primitive black cat on ebay. Click on "my ebay stuff" to the right to go there to bid....bid.. bid..! He's a very jolly cat. He would look great hanging on the front door all autumn long. Maybe put him in a wreath!
I will be listing more fall/autumn and halloween pieces soon. Check back often, please.
Have a good hump day!
Sheri

Halloween cat

Meet Henry-The Primitive Black Cat by Maria Barton. This made up so quickly!! I started last night and finished the hooking. Today I put him together. I think the sewing part took longer than the hooking. I am not a seamstress. I have a new sewing maching, but that doesn't mean I know how to use it very well.

The pattern was in last years Sept/Oct issue of Rug Hooking magazine. I have had it drawn on linen since then, but just now got around to hooking it.

I got fantastic news on the phone today. After a four month wait, I have been approved for my long term disability for fibromyalgia and migraine headaches. I had two of my doctors tell them I could not work, but they still wanted me to go to one of "their" doctors. Well he agreed. It has been a very stressful time for me. Knowing I don't feel like working eight hours a day, but also knowing that the mortgage is going on whether or not I can work. I started sobbing after the news. Relief....the pain has made me depressed anyway, but not knowing if I could do my part in paying the bills has been very stressful. You know today it seems like there have to be two incomes to just survive. I don't know how single people or people on minimum wage do it.

Also, I have finished my Wool Snippets geometric challenge rug. I think I will make it into a pillow. Can't show a picture of it though. Not until after Sept. 30th.

I hope now I can relax and hopefully hook some items for sale on ebay or etsy. I just read Tammy's switching to ecrater because of ebay's continuing changes and charges. I will check that out before I list anything for sale.

Hope you have a great week....

Sheri