Smarts and Crafts blogged about this Friday and I think it’s really perfect. So simple, clean and handmade. Yum. At $28 it’s a great gift…or gift vessel. By Eleen…available at the always fabulous Curiosity Shoppe.
Category: Shoppin’ and Junkin’
Soap
This will seem weird and random…but it seemed appropriate for a time when guests may be coming and going. More often than not, when my guests wash their hands, they comment on my hand soap. It smells great..and little expensive.  I’m REALLY finicky about smells…especially in body products. Don’t even get near me with a Vanilla candle.
Last year, I finally found a scent I really like…and it’s dirt cheap. The Motif line at Target has a handful of nice choices…but the winner for me is their “Cypress and Pear”. Today I saw that they are now offering a bar soap line in the same scents. I don’t use bar soap anymore, but I picked some up for the guest caddy in the upstairs bath-some people can’t give up the bar. It’s a fresh, yet earthy smell without being musky…and not too sweet to put men off. For $3.49 a bottle…you can’t beat it.
Avian Obsession
It’s that time of year….the Titmice and the Carolina Chickadees will eat an entire feeder of black sunflower seed in a single day. It’s crazy. Because I’m not content to just gaze out the window at them while they gorge, I picked up a little sumtin’ on Black Friday. While everyone else hit the mall…I hit the junk stores and they were refreshingly quiet. I even found another pair of birdies for $6.
Everyone in my neighborhood already has their holiday decorations up…sheesh. Not ready for that yet, but I guess I’d better start decking the halls before time gets away from me.
Lottery Pick
On e-bay…..Buy It Now for only $3,999.99 plus $50 shipping. 1950 Gaetano Sciolari for Stilnovo. My file of light fixtures is crazy heavy on the Sciolaris. I will be repeating myself with another divine Sciolari creation at some point. It’s just inevitable.
Open for Business
It’s been a long week! Monday and Tuesday were dedicated to cleaning and whitewashing the booth, I love the red floor and the light, so white will show off the stuff the best..especially since so many other booths are painted dark colors in a dark place. As I was moving stuff in on Wednesday, I went home to get another load …and returned to my first sale…yipee!! The chair had only been in the booth for an hour!
It’s still a bit sparse, but I’d rather hold stuff back than to let it get cluttered. It needs more…but not too much more. I have to give Morgan at the Brick House a shout out since I copied her furry bench job. I wanted to use Icelandic sheepskin, you know, the really long hairy kind, sometimes referred to as “troll hair”? Well, it’s too pricey for this project, so I went to TJ Maxx and bought a throw of faux fur for $40 and took a seam ripper and scissors to it. I covered 2 stools, with some left over for another project. I really love the touch of color on the tips of the fur. I’m only putting one furry stool in the booth at a time…don’t want to look like the “fur booth”.
Today I went to add some more items and someone bought the Charlie Brown Christmas Tree I had as decoration! I debated whether to put a price on it, but I know how much I hate it when things aren’t marked, so I did…figures! I’ll go get another one this weekend.
For those wondering how this shakes out…My little wedge of 71″ x 82″ x 31.5″ costs me $95 a month. They showed me another booth that was big and nice, but it was $200…too much pressure. The mall takes 10% and pays all sales tax for me. They’ll take my rent out of my sales (when there are enough sales). I’m keeping a spreadsheet of inventory to help me keep up with things. Phew…the goal was to be open by the weekend and I made it. Tired.
Foiled
Maybe you’ve seen these already, but I REALLY love the new Bailey Doesn’t Bark Holiday cards. That gold foil on top of the black ink….so nice.
Set of 8 for $20…a bit pricey for froogs…but it is nice eye candy… or perhaps inspiration for your own crafty project. I came home from Michael’s a few weeks ago schlepping some metallic embossing powder…can’t wait to give it a spin.