Etsy Supplies Sale

BUY 3 GET 1 FREE SALE! APRIL 1-3

Here's what you do:

Buy three items for $3.00 each and checkout through paypal.

Go back and pick a FREE item ($3.00 value) and checkout using "OTHER" as the form of payment. I will mark the item paid once your three items are paid for.

All four items will be shipped together, saving even more with combined shipping!

What can you get for $3.00? Check out these three neat items:

12 vintage clothespins!

6 dozen blank pink tickets

three fun birthday card tags!

36 paper squares with scalloped edges!

All four items for less than 10 bucks! Now that's a great deal!

Happy Easter All

Easter countdown is on! By this time tomorrow we will be holding hands with Brianna and Chelsea, listening to little girls laughter, and resisting Girl Scout Cookies for which we ordered 10 boxes! We are visiting the grandkids in Dallas! I should also say we are visiting the twins and husbands, and we love them so, but honestly, this trip is gonna be all about grandkids. It's been too long since we hugged them and I need some giggles and grins from toddler nation.

Also, I wanted to share the most awesome swap celebrating spring and the Easter holiday with this supply swap I participated in over at Christine's blog, A Work in Progress.

My partner's box arrived today and I haven't snapped photos yet but it was fun opening the eggs and eating the chocolate inside! She packed fun trims and pompoms, stamps, and other neat little crafty supplies into plastic eggs with a decorated basket to hold it all. So sweet and fun!

Here's a few pics from the swap I sent her. This is my first attempt at decorating anything this year! Don't laugh! Try decorating an egg carton and let me know how that goes... LOL!

I stuffed it with all things prim, and spring, and old. I added a few extras like a bar of my favorite handmade soap from etsy shop dirty sanchez. Also I stuffed a fun prim rabbit in the shipping box. It was swapped to me last year during an Old Farmhouse Supplies Spring Swap. I had to share! It wasn't required but I wanted to share a handmade item also so i tucked a necklace and pr of earings in an egg for Tammy. I need a test dummy for my newest hobby jewelry making. Hopefully it wont break the first time she wears it!

Decorated egg carton filled with vintage sewing supplies, pompoms,rusty and prim bells and keys, lock, and some fun old blue glitter. Enjoy your stash Tammy! May your Easter be filled with fun and surprises!

Easter Tidings To All

This is Easter Week and my favorite time of year. The spring flowers are blooming and the showers have come and gone. The sun is out and everything is turning so green. The Carolina Wrens have come back to nest in my front window. They've been very quiet the past few days. I hope nothing scared them away.

We will be traveling this week to Dallas, Texas to visit the girls and families. It will be fun to hang out with the grandkids and listen to all their interesting stories of school and new things in their lives. Dallas is a neat place to visit. I've been searching for organic farms and farmer's markets in the area of Irving. It turns out there are lots of opportunities to find good healthy meats, eggs, fruits and vegetables.
My Etsy shops have had slow and steady sales. It's nice to have new paper products to offer and see the old stuff still sell just as well. Still i need to continue stocking the shops. new stuff will be added after Easter. For now I'd love to share some handmade goodies from a constant buyer of mine. Patti has a shop on Etsy called Rock Paper and Scissors. She makes sweet paper tags and I just have to share them with you too!

the fronts are adorned with vintage scraps of lace, fabric and assorted embellishments.

the backs have laser cut paper doilies and small easter images.

And this lovely Easter decoration was made by Vintage Scraps, another one of my favorite sellers on Etsy. She makes the most wonderful journals ever.