Tolentreasures

Some of these may be slight repeats from the last post, but we did manage to pull it all together and the show was a success! By Sunday AM, our three room display had shrunk to one room and everything was well picked over. We learned a lot and plan to do it bigger and better next year. It was a great experience, but tired? I was in bed at 7:40 last night and I think that I might have slipped into a bit of a coma! Highlights: 1. I was able to meet two blogging friends face to face, Lois and Nina, it was great to meet both of you. Nina, your grandsons are adorable, I can only imagine how fun it would be to have them together with my grandsons, a little exhausting, but fun! Lois, hope that you had a great bike ride home, it was such a beautiful day. 2. The girls now have the crafting "bug" and are planning for next year and what fun to have a family project to work on. 3. The nice comments from everyone about how they were happy to buy handcrafted items and not Made in Chi...

If anyone is looking for a road trip this weekend...or thinking of one, here is a suggestion. Our Open House is not the only event in the area. Check out these websites. The Christmas Open House is in Smicksburg, Pa this weekend, and Bev from Tymes Past will have her shop open. She is cleaning out a house filled with antiques and goodies. I will have directions to her place at my house. I would love to meet some of you from Blogland! All of these events/places are about 60 miles north of Pittsburgh. A great place to spend the day and the weather should be perfect! http://www.smicksburg.net/ http://www.smicksburg.com/ http://www.tymes-past.com/ http://tymespast.blogspot.com/2009/10/antiques-liquidation-sale-spread-word.html

Sunday evening was spent "helping" Gracelyn carve her pumpkins. Her favorite words of the evening were" ooey -gooey" and "happy day" SHE did not mind sticking her hands in the pumpkins. Bath and five more readings of Put Me In The Zoo, after arguing for The Cat in The Hat and losing that argument, she was off to bed. Yesterday morning, I took the morning off from work to take Tyler and Logan to get their pumpkins. Loading them both in the car, when they INSIST on fastening themselves in takes forever! Where do they get the independent streak so early? Six pumpkins, two mini pumpkins, a bag of apples, two candy necklaces, chocolate candy, a gallon of milk, two stops, Logan telling everyone he is going to be Mario (no one else really understands him) and an argument with Tyler over how I was not going to buy him lottery tickets as he tries to grab just one little dollar for a ticket, we got home, brought all six pumpkins in to the basement and Tyler...

We are planning to have an open house at my home in November. My daughter and I are making things and stashing them in my attic for the event. I thought that I would show these before I made the trek to the attic with them. I think that she does a great job on them! Thought that I would show off her talent!