Just a Update about Giveaway

Well, its Tuesday, the day before my first ending of my giveaway.  I'm excited to be picking a winner and mail this giveaway away from the Gatehouse.  I thank all who have come and signed up for the giveaway and on my blog. 

Now I have to come up with some good ideas.  Pickled Pepper is so informative, I'm hoping to contribute just a little of what she does.  She is a very talented lady.  I just love some of her remakes.  If you get a chance go on over and check her blog out. http://charsethman.blogspot.com/

Also Hazelruth from Primitive and Rustic Forum has a great blog, about sewing.  I have learned so much from some of these blogs.  If your looking for knowledge, please check out the blogs.  On Prim & Rustic Forum,  they have a page that shows alot of blogs.  http://hazelruthesbigbloglist.blogspot.com/

Here is Primitive and Rustic Delpia Forums. 

http://forums.delphiforums.com/primitive2/start

The selling blogs are also starting to take over alot of the websites which is good.  You just need to go to different forums and find them.  Hey that's what we need for someone to start a list of selling blogs.  Okay someone lets get to it.  We need to have this knowlege fast. 

I sure hope everyone has a great and blessed day.  Remember to check back to see who wins my giveaway and remember there will be another one real soon.  Take care.

Cabinet We Made for Shop

Display Cabinet

When the shop in Williamsburg, where I rent a space decided to move, I wanted a new look.  I knew I was going to keep the red walls, but I wanted some different props.  So I told hubby we are going to make a cabinet for the shop, so that I will have plenty of shelf space.  He just looked at me and said duh.  You see we do not make furniture.  But I said how hard can it be, plus I wanted real prim.  So I thought anything I messed up we would claim prim.   Then I told him I wanted to make it out of fence boards and he just looked at me again and said duh.  When he asked where are the plans, I said right here pointing to my head.  He just shook his head and said oh me we're in trouble.  I said no.  I want it so high and so wide.  I went up and bought 30  6 foot weather treated fence boards and we started with no plan just my brain. 

We just measured as we went and thought before we cut or drilled. I love my cabinet.

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We really had a good time making this cabinet, the problem came that I had to paint it. He wouldn't help me plant the cabinet, then he saw where it was going to take me forever and he then decided he would help, and guess what he did. He got a roller and rolled the back of the cabinet and said okay I'm finished. I had to paint all the shelves and the inside back and side with shelves already put in. It seem like it took me forever, but I finally got it finished.

Here it is all finished and in the shop with all my prim wares looking good.  The only problem the rain came and I never got it stained over the white paint.  And we had to be in the shop by a certain date.  The day we moved iin the shop was raining like cats and dogs, so needless to say the cabinet does look real prim like I plan but I still love it.  I thinking about doing the same thing again and improving on the construction and making some smaller versions for my house.  Hubby doesn't know that yet.  We will keep that a secret for a couple months until it warms up.  Well this how I solved my display problem up at the shop.  So if you are ever in Williamsburg, come to the Williamsburg Outlet Mall on Route 60, and look us up.  The store name is Country Treasures.

GIVEWAY

Well, this is my first giveway.  I sure hope you like what I'm giving.  It a  prim raggedy anna doll, a cup lamp; saucer made into a lamp with some smelling good stuff in it, sign that say I love America and last but least a snow man ornment.

The rules are simple.  Please Read!

1.  You must be a "follower" of my Blog.  This means you need "sign up" for following.  There is a place on the right-side column where it says "follow" just sign up there and it will prompt you the rest of the way.

2.  You must have a Blog of your own (or) leave your email address on your post comment, so I can get a hold of you if you win!  I sure can't come looking for you the way the whole world is on the internet, so don't forget to leave that email address to I can contact you.

3.  You must post a comment here and only here!  Please don't send a email for I will be only taking the names and blog from my comment section.

This is my first giveaway so I sure hope you like what I'm presenting for the first one.

Now remember I will be drawing the winner next Wednesday the 13th of January. 
Have a great  and Blessed Day.

Monday Monday Blue Monday

Well its the first Monday of the year. I have always had trouble with Mondays'. Its like so hard to get up and get moving and especially when its so cold. The temperature got down into the teens last night and as I'm writing this post, its just 28 degrees. We usually do not have this cold of weather. So much for the climate warming theory. We even had snow before Christmas, very unusual for this area on the East coast of Virginia.

Well I have bought the Valentine Doll pattern from Old Country Cupboard and am waiting to get that sucker in so I can start working on it. I love to make dolls but I end up doing more prim wood stuff then dolls and sewing.

I'm going to have a give away starting on Wednesday. So be sure to check back then. It will be a surprise. I would like to tell people there is a good show here in Newport News, Va. Its called the Fall Festival, on the first weekend in October, if anyone is interested I would be glad to give you the information, just
email me.

Well here is wishing you a great Monday. God Bless

Wishing I was sitting on the Beach in Blue Chairs

Happy New Year

I sure hope everyone had a great New Years, mine was quite, which I really do like. We were home this year. We have been in Colorado for the last two Christmas's and New Years. My daughter from Florida came up for Christmas Day and then headed for the mountains of Virginia to take her girls, 17 & 19 skiing, they had never seen snow and they wanted to play in it before they were grown, lol. Then they came back bye here and spent a couple more days with us and then had to go to his mothers house for a couple of days.

Well, I'm going to try to do better about posting and writing. I do have alot of things I want to share, I enjoy The Olde Country Cupboard and the Pickled Patch, I have learned so much from these two sites plus many more. I want my blog to become more interesting and I want to make it more informative. So, I'm really going to give it my best. So stick with me.

Its really cold here in the Hampton Roads area, the temperature last night was down in the low twenties and today its not suppose to be above 30. So can't get out and work on my crafts projects.

Hubby is enjoying the ball games and I'm trying to figure out more about blogging and changing the blog to make it more interesting. The desire is there to improve. So, lets hope the desire wins out and not just giving up again. Well have a great day. Enjoy your family and friends and remember God Love You.

Merry Christmas From My House to Your House

Hi Everyone, Sure hope everyone is having a Merry Christmas and a Blessed Holiday. I wanted to share this with everyone, I get Glenn Beck's newsletter everyday and this touched me so much I wanted to share it with others who might not get Glenn Becks newsletter.

December 25, 2009
Everyone,
First of all, I pray you're having a very Merry Christmas, I truly love this time of year, with all the traditions and the lights and the cookies and the brightly wrapped packages and the cookies and being surrounded by friends and family and... the cookies. Regardless of what kind of year it's been piolitically, economically or any other kind of "ally," as long as we remember what this time of year is really about, then each of us has a great deal to feel "Merry" about.

I've always considered Christmas to be a kind of "phase two" of the big holiday trilogy - Thanksgiveing, christmas and New Year's Day. Once November rolls around, Thanksgiving is a time to look forward to spending with family, a wonderful "excuse" to gather together and remind ourselves that our families are the foundation upon which we build our lives. Our families are what enable us to be the very best version of ourselves, and for that we should give thanks.

Then comes Christmas with its transformative gift of redemption - a wonderful present we've all been given and once we open it, we finally understand how fulfilling and rich our lives can truly be.

And then comes New Year's, picking up on the idea of Christmas, redemption's opportunight for a fresh start. Maybe it's just a date on a calendar, but News Year's Day is a clean page, a fresh start and a new beginning filled with endless possibilities, and a bit of a pre-game show for the renewal of Easter. But I'm getting ahead of myself(as I have the tendency to do....maybe this year soeone will give me the gift of patience). Yes, once again it's Christmas with the divine gift of redemption! It's the ultimate "do over," and with the New Year ahead we get the chance to start "doing." As for me, I cound't be more excited.

So take today and breathe in the smell of that Christmas tree, forget about what those lights are doing to your electric bill, and soak in the joy of being surrounded by your loved ones and the spirit of what this day is truly about. And remember, while Christmas may one come once a year, you can carry its feeling with you each and every day.

May God bless you, and I wish you a very Merry Christmas.
Glenn Beck

Please remember to hug your families everyday and that they are special no matter what comes in life.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday
Pat

America is Speaking Out

Good Morning all,
Well, it looks like America is speaking out. We do not want government run health care nor do we want more debt. YES, health care does need to be reformed but there are other ways. Our government does not need to take over 20% of our government GPD. So we must keep letting our voices be heard. America lets all meet in Washington DC on September 12 for the 912 Project. Its away to let your voice be heard loud and clear. Keep up the letters going to Washington so we can change the way our Country is heading. Speak up America, its the only way our voice can be heard. I challenge everyone that is dissatisfied with the way Congress is running our Country to speak out, we do have that right. Here's wishing everyone a great day.
REMEMBER SPEAK UP AMERICA, UNITED WE STAND. We are " WE THE PEOPLE" .