A fun local contest to win a photo shoot!! . . .

Hello local friends!  Just wanted to give you a quick heads up that my friend Melanie G. is giving away a couple's photo shoot this week!  The contest ends on Feb. 4th.  Here's the link to her website with the details!

Here's a little inspiration taken in October by my favorite budding photographer, Noah!

Headed to CHA!!!

We are headed to CHA tomorrow, but before I left I wanted to share some photos with you of new projects I have been working on (which also happen to be two of my 2012 classes:  The Chalkboard Easel Album Holder and the Pocket and Tag Album).

And. . .I just posted a fun video on Youtube of a quick view of these projects and more, highlighting all of our new CHA products (and some sneaks not yet seen of our 2nd Spring ship date)!  Here's the link .  Enjoy!!

I have a playdate scheduled. . .

for just me and all of my new CHA products  . . . I already told everyone not to expect dinner tomorrow!

I hope all of you are scheduling a playdate as well!

A sneek peek you haven't seen. . .

So I've had something up my sleeve for awhile . . .

Remember when I got my antique hotel key holder and posted this photo??? . . .

Well I decided that someone really needed to reproduce these, at least a smaller version, and I decided that someone should be me!  So, as part of our Spring release (our second show ship date - end of April/early May) we are offering a reproduction hotel key holder complete with number and hooks.  Ready for hanging or simply to "lean" - your choice!  There are so many things you can do with it project wise (and I have an on-line class up my sleeve already that is "Project Life" -ish), but it is lovely as a simple jewelry or studio supply holder, don't you think?  I wanted to show you guys first!

My sidebar is looking a little bare over there!  I have some exciting travel destinations scheduled for the Spring that I need to let you know about.  Look for the details to show up later this week!

Happy Tuesday!

New Vintage Treasures - up for grabs tomorrow morning!

We have more than 40 new items going up tomorrow in the This Month's Finds and One Of A Kind sections of the Flea Market!  Below is just a small peek at what you will find!

Please note:  Because tomorrow is the 15th, but also happens to be a Sunday, we will be setting everything live by 7:00 a.m. central time, not 10:00 a.m. as usual.  Just a heads up!

Available under This Month's Finds, I have some more thread spools, this time in a beautiful robin's egg blue (perfect as a pin board) . . .

I have these lovely reproduction silk flower pins with silver German glass glitter edging . . .

Also these great vintage matchboxes that were turned into little drawers for holding nuts and bolts by an ingenious someone.  Great graphics!  . . .

In the One Of A Kind section you will find several antique wooden cigar boxes (early or pre -1900's) like this one. . .

A super cool and rare double heavy metal stamp holder . . .

Several lots of vintage and antique Valentines. . .

and other Victorian treasures such as this unique small notebook set (the one of the right actually has chalkboard pages). . .

I also have a limited number of these Vintage 2012 Valentine Crafting Kits . . .

I hope you enjoy!  Now I am off to watch the Denver game.  Been cooking appetizers all day - spinach and artichoke dip, homemade corn dogs, bang bang chicken and potato skins.  So yummy!!!  Might have to challenge Christian to an extra match at Just Dance so I can burn off the calories!