Somerset Lane - Etsy store opens

After many delays I have finally opened my Etsy store

Somerset Lane 

I hope you enjoy Somerset Lane and save it as one of your favorite Etsy shops.

Here are a few items currently available in Somerset Lane:

 

Snow Girls

Happy Holidays!

I missed wishing everyone a Happy Thanksgiving - I hope your Thanksgiving was filled with many BLESSINGS.

We held our local Evening Star Button Club holiday party at my home on November 19th.  I was a lousy photographer that day, so I need to see if anyone else has any photos I can share.  

Our holiday party was wonderfully filled with dear friends, good food and a few hours of thankful time spent together. 

I recently set up my Etsy shop Somerset Lane, but it is currently 'Closed' as my energies are now focused on preparing for major foundation repairs to our home.  Packing & boxing up fragile items, etc.

 I mentioned in a prior post about my interest in glass & silver vintage salt & pepper shakers for my Snow Girls.  So, I thought I would share some of my Snow Girls...

My Snow Girls are created using porcelain clay for their heads and vintage silver, silver plate or glass salt & pepper shakers for their bodies which are adorned with jewelry, buttons, lace, etc.

They just seem to fill my heart with a whimsical smile - I hope they bring a smile to you as well!

My recent Girls Road Trip 'Pickin' Treasures

Recently I blog about my Girls Road Trip.  Here are some of the treasures that found their way home with me...

1940s Glass buttons on original card, Vintage plastic Elephant buckle, Sterling Silver flower pin ($1.00!) and a broken strand of creamy pearls

 Large crock bowl with pennant edge design

 Crystal S&P Shakers for making my 'Snow Girls' and some great orphaned lids for another project!

 Vintage 2-tiered Office stamp holder

 Vintage tins - the SOOVAIN tin is a medicine tin that once held Acetphenetidin with aspirin and caffeine & sold for 25 cents

 And

several vintage postcards for 25 cents each

 

 The wonderfully worn vintage handmade
wooden tool caddy worked well as a base for a Christmas centerpiece

I love pickin for treasures!

Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween

Our sons are now 24 and 22 years old...

Remembering past Halloweens....

with Grandma Clarita - 1992

 1993

1994

Fun childhood memories!

GIRLS ROAD TRIP

I was blessed this week to take a GIRLS ROAD TRIP with my dear friends Julie & Cindy

We stayed in an awesome log cabin in the woods at The Big Cedar Lodge. 

We were on GIRL TIME - no husbands, cooking, jobs, chores, etc.

We junked/picked at every possible antique store, flea market and garage sale along our route

Poor Cindy... we crammed our treasures around her in the backseat.  I think she only got hit once with sliding debris - OK not hit, but definitely bumped.

We are known as the original CHICKER PICKERS.

 

My motto is "there is always room for more"

At our last garage sale we had to unpack the car and repack it so we could squeeze in three large wooden flower boxes.  These were a great find as they were cheap! and they make great bases for Autumn & Holiday table centerpieces.

 

Aah, but that was just the last garage sale.  We hit a handful more antique stores and one flea market and managed to squeeze in even more treasures... just small ones.

We also enjoyed retail shopping, tea room lunches and the gorgeous Autumn trees of southern Missouri

There was a beautiful waterfall at Big Cedar Lodge

This was our last morning and we stopped by the marina to see the morning fog lifting off the lake.  A man fishing in his boat in the midst of the fog offered this great photo

Autumn is my favorite season...  

"Winter is an etching, Spring a watercolor, Summer an oil painting and Autumn a mosaic of them all." ~ Stanley Horowitz