The BrocanteHome Puttery Treats Challenge

Alison is having an challenge on her blog. It is to list one of her puttery treats and show how you used it in your home. This was hard to choose just one! But this is the one I chose....


Move one item from every surface in the house. Now. Frame things. Casually lean a pretty empty frame over a favorite ornament. Create vignette of like objects. Add a natural element to every display in the house (A perfect fig, a shell, a bundle of ribbon tied twigs?). Remember to vary the heights of items in any given vignette.




These are a view into my home and some of my vignettes. We live in Canada in the north woods, so it is easy to bring a natural element in - it's right outside the door!


Some leaves and twigs from the yard...



Fresh apples in my vintage butter bowl on my new old table.....


A wooden dream, a pink flowered sugar bowl in the background and some candles...
A vintage printers drawer on the wall with a wood carving done by my Dad...
My front entry way, pine cones from the yard...
Love and Peace all year round on the wood walls...
Cat and Mouse.....
An abandoned birds nest on my bookshelf....
Another birds nest on top....
More pine cones on some vintage ledgers....

I love all my vignettes and I am always adding new ones!

Hope you enjoy and you can join in the fun too - just go to Brocante Home.

Keepin Busy

Here is an Anne Taintor like cards I did for a swap. Use a vintage photo and add funny remarks to them.



The snow disappeared friday afternoon and haven't seen any since. It was even warm yesterday! Weird for November.

Busy week, I have to work this afternoon, I was gone all day yesterday and now gone again all weekend leaving tomorrow morning. See ya Monday!

Woke up this morning....

To this.




Nice.

No, that is not a GOOD nice.

Envelope Book

Here is another envelope book I did for a swap. This was a little different in that the envelopes were supposed to be put on paper and things added into them.

So I got some vintage pages from a novel I had here - books? here? No-o-o-o.

I added different envelopes to these pages and did a woodsy theme. She likes all kinds of things -scrapbooking, postcards, photos, and books so I stuffed the envelopes with them.

Here are some of the pages...






I like my new track stamps!

And some more...

Okay... these first set are of our old living room windows and wall. We took out 2 old cottage windows that you could feel air come in and put in a new patio door! I love it - it gives so much more light and a way into the back yard which we didnt have.


Before- Sarah's hand in there! Lovely 70's paneling as well.







Good thing this whole operation only took a couple hours - nice big hole in my wall! I had to move some wiring and then we put the new door in!




Then we put on some pine siding. So much better!

Next, the kitchen...





Again, 2 old windows came out and we put in one bigger one - that I can open!



There is no after pic of this cause its still this way! We are doing the kitchen next, so not sure where all the cupboards are going yet and what I want to put on that wall?

Then there was another window in the living room on the opposite wall and replaced with a bigger one.




The pine is on this wall as well and the other 2 walls are painted. This is where I sit everyday to blog and read blogs and ebay and email and ..... I sit here alot! It is a nice view now anyways!

Well, today I am off and not sitting here(!) Going to the library and groceries -always fun!

I have some more pics but we are almost caught up with where we are now, I am working on the bathroom and I will post them when we are done. Sarah and I went away for the weekend and we came home to a nice cedar panelled bath! Love it! I have to do the floor and lighting and it will almost be done!

Talk soon.

More house pics

Another update on the house- this is the pics of the addition.



This was before and then some trees came down,



Then the framing



Walls roof and windows went in.


Inside with the insulation. We lived in a bit like this and over last winter did the floor, ceiling and trim.




All that's left now is around the fireplace and that room is done!

Tomorrow I will show you what we did with the rest of the house.

Day 7!

The last one! It looked and felt like a magazine.


And it was! YAy! I haven't seen this one before either. So cool!




And these are my 7 packages before I sent them - now on their way to Australia! She didnt really like vintage and she likes pink so I packaged them this way.



Have a good weekend! I have to go pack now for a weekend away with my girl!

Happy Halloween!

Well the day is here! There is a blog party goin on and welcome! To join the party go to ghoulsjustwannahavefun.blogspot.com.

My halloween post is about some chocolates Sarah and I made. Different colors made up some sticks and ghouly figures!




These are the sticks Sarah did with painted chocolate faces.



These are mine with painted chocolate colors. Very time consuming but they turned out neat!




I took one figure and 2 sticks and made up some halloween bags for our friends. Each tag was stamped with a spooky image and their names written on them and tied with some orange halloween ribbon.


For those of you following my gifts, it is day 6! For those who dont have a clue what I am talking about see my previous posts to see my other gifts.

I wasn't sure what this was?



Nice! Pretty green earrings in a silver star bag.



Last day tomorrow - this was fun!

Have a good halloween everyone!!

Day 5

I just got home awhile ago - today was my first day alone at the library!(It's a small library)It went great - I love it! Books and getting paid for it? Is that not perfect for me?

Something else that is perfect for me are these presents! I love everything. Today was a flat pack.



I opened it to a bunch of scrapbooking supplies - great! Stickers, cardstock and a booklet with ideas. Do you see the MOOSE? I'm always looking for moose stickers and never see them. Also pine cones and trees? Did I say perfect?



Off to look at my books - fringe benefits!

Day 4 and a spooooky party!

I thought this one was some kind of metal cause I could hear it moving.




It was a case full of goodies!Sequins, ribbon, feathers and embellishments.



I also heard about a party yesterday! It's for ghouls and gals for Halloween posts.

The details are here

See ya there!