White Wednesday.....French Books

So LOVE these shabby "white" books...

Cannot speak a word of French, 

but they are so perfectly aged......

Here are some pics from one.....

love the graphics ....

isn't it great????

Made a little tea bag rose sample for a gal who

 wants to do 250 little boxes as gifts at her wedding...

with my tea bag roses on them!!!! So fun!!

We are having a 'tea bag rose making party' this week at the shop.

Not sure how she will choose to do them,

so stay tuned......

 ....I so want one of these cubby thingies...

not so fancy, or big....and does not have to have removable drawers...

I'm easy to please......My sweet fella was with me when I saw it.

Hoping he will 'surprise' me with one.....

(not....but he is great and I love him anyway.) =)

I actually have old fence boards....and the ability and tools to make one...

just not the time. =(

I did have the time to take a quick pic of some 

of the ironstone creamers and gravy boats we have at the shop. 

Bits of this and that.....=)

Blessings all.

Joining Kathleen for White Wednesday..

Makin' Shelves, the easy way, and a question

This is an upside down hose hanger.
Add a board, and you have....

a shelf.
Sometimes you just have to think out of the box.
(click to see it better)

And here is a wall sconce.
Use two of them...
add a board.....

another shelf!!
How quick and simple is that?

nothing on it yet. ran out of time.
Here is my fave find for this weekend.

I bought a cute vintage doll bed, and this sweet little guy.
The doll was separate.
(like you could not tell. no pink beds for my little guy).

His clothes were hand made by the little girl who owned the doll,
when she was 8.
So fun to talk to her and her Mom.
Sad, I thought, to be selling him, and her other dolls,
but they had to size down to move.
She has kept it all in wonderful condition.
(he even has little brown socks.
I'll need to find shoes for him.)


Look at the detail on his little hand
(he lost the pinky on his other hand. I did not ask how.)

And don't you just love that sweet face?

He is my first boy doll.
And here is his new home at the shop.
Don't expect he'll last long.

Joining these great hostesses today.
Hope you will go check them out.

blessings

barbara jean

OH. My question.
How would you make a pair of new
white metal shelf brackets look old?
thanks