Christmas love...

Here are a few little vignettes around Country Roads...

I love the bowls of ornaments and all the sparkles...

Above is one of Carol's primarily pink booths...I love all the Santa's

 And I think I might need to buy one of these sparkly trees...

Some circus motif ornaments....

And little ornies tied with string.... thanks for wandering with me....

A One Hit Wonder....

That's me...a one hit wonder.... I work during the week, shop for the booth, prepare items for the booth, make goodies for the booth and price and take things to the booth.....

And I LOVE it!!!  Christmas time is the most fun, I can really go to town making things....

Those santa mugs are vintage Japan mugs that had the paint literally falling off of them... my cute hubby cleaned off all the paint and now they have a new life...kinda "Frenchy" Santa's!
I love the french milk jug and egg cups I found....

 This was a very sad Putz house that I spoofed up and gave a little home to...

 And this is my latest ornie wreath... these are so much fun to make... I never know how they will turn out....

Here's a closeup of the santa mugs.... I hope your Thanksgiving weekend was fun and you got to spend time with those you love....
                                                      karen...

Hello Christmas!

 Now that I have my booth, I need to think retail again and the holiday creating and shopping for the booth just snuck up on me!I am happy with my creations so far, an ornie wreath, decorated bottles, trees in containers and a banner...but there is much more on my to-do list and Thanksgiving is just 3 days away!


So I will let the pictures pretty much speak for themselves as I need to go make dinner and create some more...

 



I love little trucks with the trees....

These christmas bottles were fun to make...

And you have to have toys and a wagon.....

I also made tags...

And this sweet girl is my pride and joy, I have another traditional colored wreath that I am taking tomorrow but I am in love with this baby!

Happy Turkey day if I don't get back to the blog!  karen....

A Little Halloween Picture....

Just a picture of some bottles that were a dual effort by my friend Robin and I...she made them for Glitterfest and I added the cupcake picks and some tea dyed cheesecloth and ribbon. They are now in my booth....I kept one for myself. Happy Monday! karen....

Some Junkin' Finds....

We have not been having great luck at finding good junk these last few weeks because of the icky hot heatwave we have had recently but here are a couple of our recent finds....

My hubby found this cool vintage industrial stool on Saturday...it says "Hands off!  Dept. 377 Packout Parts" It also has stenciling on the leather seat and on the back of the chair...I love it...

I found this pretty little white cupboard on friday and just added glass knobs to it...simple and charming!

Here is a closeup of what's inside...

On top of our hutch is a Mayflower milk box...it fits 6 milk bottles and would be great to store things in, in the kitchen....

And also on the hutch is this awesome very old brick mold....

I bought it from a guy who traveled Japan and China and brought back these and some hand carved wooden rice bowls...  I just love the old workmanship on it, the old wood and metal and the old iron nails. You just don't find pieces like this everyday....

Wouldn't this look wonderful on an old farmtable for the holidays? I can see so many uses for it!  Now these beauties are all in my booth...I miss them already!  Hope you have a lovely week, we are finally cooling down in Southern Calif. maybe it will get fallie outside too!  karen....

It's Looking like Fall at Country Roads....

 Warning! This post is very picture-heavy.... but I will keep the words short and sweet....

This is a little sweet end table I just finished, it is actually more grey/blue than this......

 The right side of my booth....

 A 100+ yr. old doctors bag....

The left side of my booth....

Mid Century Modern "Atomic Jacks"....

Old Ironing board with signs and a cool old watering can....

And here are some other views around Country Roads.....

A Mannequin lamp....you gotta see it in person, it is awesome!

I Love this asian statue....

And the front booth all decorated for halloween....

The other side of that booth....

A darling halloween cupboard....

And I have never shared my friend Carol's pink booth... Love it!

Well, that's it for now, we are having a nice weekend here, not exactly fall weather but better than the heatwave they are expecting on Wednesday!   karen....

I am Meeelllllttttiiinnnngggg..........

 The other day when I went to visit my friend, she gifted me with this wonderful jadeite pitcher. She has many collections and has decided to downsize a little and said she knew how much I love jadeite so she shared one of her precious pitchers with me...now that is friendship!  I filled it with my favorite flower- hydrangeas... Just looking at the picture makes my heart smile!

Thank you Bonnie!

The title of this post has nothing to do with anything....It is just sooooo flippin'  HOT in Southern California right now! I just don't like hot, not at all!

I don't have too much to share this post, a few pictures of my friend Yessi's space. Yessi is my neighbor at Country Roads, she also works there and has a tiny little space that she does a wonderful job with.... The pictures don't do it justice because like I said, it is a small, long and narrow space but here goes....

The little dresser is wonderful!

So is this sweet vanity....

She always finds wonderful lighting....

And I love all the toiletries on this darling shelf....

Last but not least....my friend Bonnie has helped me greatly with finding goods for my booth so I put together a little gift for her. She collects children's books and this is a 1920's Louisa May Alcott book and I added a felt pin made by me.... Just thought I would share it with you!  I hope Fall is finding it's way to you (and soon to us!)  Hugs! karen....
Ps.... I would love to do a giveaway soon but nobody has been leaving comments...I would love a little hello if you stop by so I know that I still have readers, I love mail!

A Little Halloweeny

 Sunday we spent a couple hours moving things around and Halloweenifying the booth.  I love Halloween! When I was little we would put on haunted houses for the younger girls in our neighborhood and  our park (at the end of the block) had a costume contest and carnival on halloween,so fun! 

We just got the wood ironing board and the cool 100yr. old + doctor's bag. My daughter and I stenciled the plates, so fun!

Our new mannie, with wings and a crown!

Gourd pumpkins, old silver and skulls, it can't get any better than that in my mind!

And here is my creepy chair! I found it in May and held onto it for halloween...it is decorated with headless people.....

Some more plates above a mirror...

And another little vignette....

Now I just hope Mother Nature will figure out it is fall and cool down. The weather report says we are having another heatwave this weekend... Not funny!

I hope your week is something to crow about!  hee! hee!