Blog Giveaway

Hello, just wanted to drop in and tell you about The Crafters Nestled Nook having a mothers day giveaway. It looks very neat and the rules are simple so please go to thecraftersnestlednook.blogspot.com. I am on my iPad right now so no picture post for today but I wanted to ask if you saw the My Twinn doll I did a post on a couple of days ago with the American Girl doll? Well she is staying with me and I'm glad because I would love to make her a dress. It's rainy here today but nothing bad, we sure need it to still recover from the drought from last year. Hoping your day is a good one! God Bless..

American Girl Find & Wicked Faerie Queen Blog Giveaway

Kit

My Twinn

Poseable Body

Lavender Eyes

Samantha

My Dolls

This past weekend was a wonderful weekend to garage sale. The weather was really nice and there was endless sales to go to. I love going with my husband, he makes it so much fun. Plus who likes going alone? When he isnt off I have to go alone and im not as motivated.We went to this one sale and this guy had a huge garage full of vintage stuff. It was grossly overpriced and I was scared to even ask the prices of the items that were not tagged. I immediately saw this American Girl doll with the short blonde hair named Kit but I knew something had to be wrong for her to still be there. I asked him how much for the one with the lavender eyes, called a My Twinn doll and he said I could have her and the Kit doll for fifty dollars for both of them. Well I knew it was really a good price but this is a garage sale. He was trying to tell me that the American Girl doll was porcelain and she had glass eyes, lol! I was like, no way she is plastic guy! And she has a couple of bite marks on her hands. I talked him down to 15 dollars a piece and I think I got a good deal of both of them. The My Twinn doll is fully poseable and she is just adorable. She is also just as expensive as an American Girl doll. I kept the Kit doll but my husband says I needed to at least put the My Twinn on Ebay so she is on there but if she doesnt sell she is mine! Lol. He bought me this Samantha doll off Ebay for fifty dollars, she was listed wrong so he got a good deal on her too. I also have in the group photo American Girl doll Nikki and a Gotz doll in braids with the cutest pouty face youve ever seen! The one in the bed is an American Girl doll called a Bitty Baby. I told you about her in my last post, got her at a sale for a quarter. I also found a Lenci doll for twenty five dollars. If you dont know what a Lenci doll is you can look them up on Ebay . They are made in Italy back in the 30's and very very expensive. They do remake them but mine was a vintage one and I listed her on Ebay because this isnt the type of doll I collect plus she is already bringing 90 dollars right now! I wanted to tell you that another blogger Wicked Faerie Queen is having a giveaway so jump over to her blog to see what she has. Here is her link wickedfaeriequeen.blogspot.com Its a very good read with alot of variety on there. Well I have to get busy around here, I hope you have a blessed day and again go look up my friend on her blog, you will like the read I promise!

A Major Award & Dolls Dolls Dolls

My Husbands "major award" Its Fragile!

Very sweet folk art pictures I found at a sale. Paid $5.00 for all three of them!

Some Of My Raggedys, & Boyds With Their Own Raggedys.

This is a real Beloved Belindy. I made the dress through because this one was bought naked. It will do.

This doll in the bed is a Bitty Baby, she is an American Girl Baby doll. Paid .25 cents for her.

I got this for christmas. I will have to take better pics later but my husband went all out to get me a brown eyed Bye Lo with the Bye Lo button that he purchased seperate for sixty dollars!

This is my smaller blue eyed Bye Lo that I got for my anniversary 3 years ago, my mom crochet the dress for it.

This is my Shirley Temple doll dressed as Heidi.

A cottage bear I found at a sale for a dollar. He is an angel, has wings on his back and is fully jointed. In his suitcase he has angel cards, its very cute!

Oh Boy, this guy has made a mess with his honey pot! I couldnt resist him for a quarter.

I got this baby I Love Lucy doll from a local sale this past weekend for a quarter!

Well im still alive in case your wondering, I know its been awhile since my last post. I had a huge garage sale this past weekend and had to get ready for that. You know how running a garage sale can be. Very tiring and can put you out for several days. I didnt even hit a dent in my house. I thought this time I got rid of alot but I came inside to see how "cleared" out it was and it still is cluttered! But then again I keep hitting the sales and Goodwills and such so I think I bring in as much as what goes out lol. My husband got a major award last weekend. I hit a sale here in town and found this funny leg lamp from the movie A Christmas Story. I brought it home and my husband HAD to have it, oh boy.. This one wont break as easily as the one on the movie. The base is heavy and the leg is a very hard plastic lol so that idea is out of the window~ He has this on his side of the bed nightstand. I will share some photos of some finds and some dolls I already have. I uploaded the photos last so you will probably see them first, I hope you enjoyed them! Thanks for coming bye!

Yo Yo Quilting & Sewing

Feed Sack Yo Yo's Fun To Make!

My circles Ive got cut out so far.

Very handy plastic "yo yo makers". They help you to make different sizes, even hearts!

Yards and yards of Easter fabric that I found at a sale.

Daisy Kingdom patterns, about 15 of them!

Your doll even gets a dress:)

Easter basket made from cloth, .50 cent at a sale this past weekend.

Sweet Easter chick vase from a benefit sale this weekend.

Very simple table runner found for a dollar this weekend. I put it on my stained up piano bench :)

Tin sign paid a dollar for it at a sale this past weekend.

Goodwill find $2.00

These are made by Boyd Bears, Raggedy Ann & Andy. Ordered off of Ebay 4.99. plus shipping.

Its been a overdue post I know. Ive been trying to do something crafty. I decided to start a yo yo quilt. I know I can do this because I have plenty of feed sack fabric. I do not want to use all of my feed sack fabrics cause I intend on making doll clothes and stuff out of some of it. I am going to get on ebay and buy some feed sacks or scraps to have a variety of yo yo's. I purchased these yo yo makers from Hobby Lobby. I have a jumbo yo yo, a heart yo yo, a large yo yo, and a mini yo yo maker. I had a medium sized one but my daughter lost it. I have been cutting out the circles. I did do a few samples just to show you what they look like. I went to alot of sales this past weekend and I racked up on some nice items. One thing I found was yards and yards of this Easter fabric. There are 3 different patterns of this fabric. This sale was for a young man that has a rare brain tumor. The items at the sale did not have prices on them so you just donated what you thought you needed to. I also found 15 of these uncut patterns of these beautiful young girl dresses. You also get a doll dress pattern that looks just like the dress you do for your little girl. I will probably sell these because my kids are teens. I also found this large cute white chick vase. It looks like Easter to me and vintage. My husband loves Donald Duck as I mentioned before and ducks. He really liked this vase so its staying here. I donated twenty dollars for all of this and I really thought considering the yards of fabric I got a great deal. The ladies conducting the sale was very happy but I wished I could of given more. The young mans last name I remember was King so if you could please pray for this young man he is about 25 years old. My daughter and I went to the fabric store last weekend and I spent about fifty dollars on way less fabric than this and it was on sale! I will do a full post with pics on some of the neat items I found this past weekend. I did find another fabric basket and it looks like a Easter basket, soo cute! I just put some Yankee Candle melts in it for now. See in the photo, it matches my cute basket I found a few weeks ago. My daughter and I will be doing some sewing soon so pray that I can remember how to work my machine! LOL God bless!

I Won I Won!

Hello all. I just wanted to share a cute little valentine goth bat ornie that I won last week here. He was made by Mary Helen from A Midsummer Night's Dreamer. Go check out her blog, she is talented and makes some of the cutest things. Thank you Mary Helen for your kindness!

He is hanging out with my Snowbaby shelf right above my sewing machine. I think he is adorable!

I found this saltbox a few months ago at a garage sale here in town for $10.00

This weekend I found another saltbox at a local garage sale and this very cute birds nest with eggs for a dollar.

I found the boat shelf at the local Goodwill for 3.99 and these cute stackable wooden boxes with cards painted on them. The shelf has a little clown bank that is cast iron, only .59 cents at the local Goodwill. It is a reproduction though.

I love to collect old feed sacks and I do plan on making things out of some of them one day. These are just a few sacks that I have saved up. I want to make Raggedy Ann dolls vintage looking with maybe these old feed sacks as their dresses.

I went to a sale this weekend that said it was a hoarders yard sale. The lady said her in laws was hoarders and they was cleaning the home out so grab a plastic sack and fill it up for $3.00. Well I dug so much that my back was hurting because this sale was huge! The table cloth was still sealed in plastic and isnt it beautiful? There is crochet and embroidering cross stitches on it. It also came with the placemats.

This was another item I put into the $3.00 bag. It is from 1961 Walt Disney. It also has Mickey mouse on the other side of it but my husband is a Donald Duck lover so I took the picture of him instead.

This hippie sign is very nice. There are little pieces of cut glass pieced together in all different colors. I got alot of nice items from this lady but my living room is very packed with stuff I purchased this past weekend. A elderly guy sold me 2 very nice sewing machines with the user guides for a dollar. One was a Husqvarna and the other was a Singer. Only problem was the reason they was a dollar cause he lost the cords to them in the garage he had packed down like a hoarder lol. But I found them on websites you can buy them. The Husqvarna one is like fifty dollars though! He also sold me a tub full of fabric for twenty dollars. It was very nice, I will have to show you some of the material it had in it. I am still giddy over it all because the Lord sure did bless me this weekend. When I find these items they help me financially for my booth and to sell online. If I can remember I will have to take a photo of my booth to show you, its not as cute as the other booths but I do make money out of it lol. TTFN

It's been awhile since I posted I know. I am still new to this and it's kinda discouraging not knowing how to pretty up my blog and only having a mere 14 followers. Sometimes I wonder if anyone out there is even reading this? I hope so! The pictures on the post is really what's getting me. I want the pictures added in the middle of my describing them but I don't know how to do this. I signed up for a free drawing and won something. I will show you in my next post , it's very cute! I am not in the mood today to deal with the photos, sorry, for the reason mentioned above. I have been finding all kinds of goodies out there and in the process getting rid of things to go into my booth or to sell on eBay or in my garage sale I plan on having soon! Well just wanted to let my 14 followers know that I am alive and haven't given up on the blogging yet. Although I don't know how to attract more followers because I would love to do some giveaways myself! God Bless you all ad have a good evening.

Raggedy Oil Painting & More!

Fabric Hearts and Red Candle Holders

Amish Cloth Rag Dolls

Prim Wooden Cow

Glass Blue Swirl Perfumed Lamp

Raggedy Ann Oil Painting On Canvas

Hello all I hope you arent disappointed in my lack of post but I have been cleaning my home and rearranging some things around here but fear not! I will do a post at least once a week. I would love to do one every other day but I cannot find the time sometimes and thats how it goes for some of us you know? I am on my way to Wed evening childrens church, I mentioned before me and my 17 year old daughter do this every Wed. My husband was off Sat and Sun so he went to garage sales with me Sat and we ended up with a carload! I am sure I wont be able to fit everything we found in this post but here is a teaser to get you started. Oh and by the way I attended another church Sunday and boy did we get fed! It was so wonderful and I am starting to get my joy back again. You guys must have been praying for me and I really ty for doing that it means alot to me really... We attended a sale here in town before we headed out to the bigger city because we only had 2 sales here in town and we were ready to shop! I found these cute fabric hearts for a quarter, the red metal heart candle holders I found for $3.00 as well. I love hearts lately and I think its because of Valentines day. At the same sale I found these Amish couple and the boy lost his hat on the way to the car :( but its ok I will live or make him a new one someday. They was only a dollar. This lady was giving me stuff I swear she gave me a nice ceramic crock pot and I got some Gooseberry recipe books she gave me too! She was a real sweetheart. She also had this prim looking wood cow that was only fifty cents I could not pass him up. That car was so packed when we got done shopping at her sale and I think I only spent like 12.00 or so. The next sale we hit was across the street from hers and I found this lamp with a glass bottom for fifty cents. You put some kind of scented oil into it and light the wick then blow it out and put this metal topper on it and its supposed to scent up your house really well. i was talking to a lady I know and she told me she had one and her husband paid like seventy dollars for it! She is going to give me her scents and things because she doesnt use it anymore and I am giving her a cute candle warmer to swap. We went to an estate sale and my husband grabbed my hand and dragged me into the living area and I saw the sweetest Raggedy Ann oil painting on canvas. This painting is really large and whoever did this done a wonderful job. I was always told to buy oil paintings because they fetch a good price now days. My husband does like to talk people down on prices though and I never stop him! Thats what I love about him he isnt scared to do it but I sure am lol. He doesnt do it with everything but they was asking twenty dollars for the painting and he got it for me for fifteen so good for him right? Well I gotta run and go teach the little ones and I have lots more to show you guys and ty for visiting me. Please leave comments or questions I will answer them all. God Bless!