It is starting to look a lot like Christmas

       Ok, for retail standards I'm so behind is not even funny.  Have been working non stop on that and everything else that needs to be done. We are building a big storage building beside the shop and that took a lot of running around for a week, thank God it is supposed to get done in a week and that will allow me to get out of renting a storage space which I hated doing. It is scary too since I have hoarding tendencies but my husband assured me he will keep me in check. I need that, I don't trust myself. I'm actually thinking I want  to later in the Spring host a  soiree and having that space will be fantastic so I don't want to fill it to where it will become an issue to use it in a different way aside from storing. Well, now to the stuff you like, pictures of the progress.

I still have a lot of tweaking to do. Friday I will be doing the window and my booth Downtown Belton. So much to do, so little time, and that is with me waking up at 6:00 AM everyday. I kind of like my new schedule because by 12:00 noon I have done so much. Blessings to you all, till next time, Marta.

Very late White Wednesday post.

It is more like White Friday. Sitting here for two seconds after being able to sleep for two hours last night. Got a very busy day ahead of me, goal is to totally decorate the shop inside for Christmas at the same time I craft and put about 10 new vignettes together. We will see how much I will actually get done. I thought I will show you what I made last night during my insomnia spell. You might as well stay busy. Hope you like!.

                                AHH... I so want to hoard her. I will be making a lot of one of the kind creations using vintage materials I have accumulated thru the years. Time to let go and make some money.

                                                  Love the lace on her dress.

                                        The crown is going on a dressform  that I'm putting together.

                                                            Of course I want her too.

                                            The laces on this little dresses is just exquisite.

   I think she turn out pretty cool. On to work now. I will take pictures of the shop and show you more creations as I get them done. Blessings, Marta.

What is wrong with me?

Ok, after doing some serious cleaning on Monday and Tuesday, spending all day painting yesterday, doing some rearranging in the shop, etc, etc, I find myself unable to sleep at night. This would be ok if I wasn't so exhausted. So, 2:00 AM I find myself in the craft room creating. I would say not a totally bad situation if it wasn't because of the fact that I went to sleep so late and I awoke at 6:00 this morning unable to sleep again. That makes it exactly 4 hours of sleep all together, yikes!. All is not lost, I''show you why.

 I found the little basket last week, loved the shape and new it will make a good vessel for a floral.

 Now, this is just a mock, nothing is glued, just and initial gathering of stuff, still tweaking. I will be making this kind of things for my Christmas @ the shops. They are large items and I'm really splurging on this. I have collected so much stuff, time to create with it. I hope my costumers will understand this will truly be one of the kind items. This is my soul, I was an artist and crafter before I became a shop owner and dealer. If I can only get more sleep...that is the reason why we creative people are all a little loony, hah,hah. Please don't take offense, I have just noticed we all have very interesting personalities.

I will post pictures of my finished cone whenever that happens. Blessings, Marta.

Forever decorating.

          I spend today on my knees, for 2 hours, not praying, just cleaning. I shampooed my carpet in my husband's office and my masters with a little green machine. I think it is intended for upholstery cleaning, but sometimes you just have to make do. A Rainbow vacuum would have been nice, though.

                 I decided to go simple for fall in my kitchen table. Love the white creamish sunflowers. They look so real and they were cheap for the quality.

 I decided to redo my hallway and to keep it simple there too, just mirrors and empty frames in the same patina that I have collected for a while now.

    I like how my little bears are looking this days in a super shabby piece in the entryway.

 I just love the shabbiness of this piece and I'm glad I added the glass pulls to it.

 More shots of my entryway. I just bought the spinning wheel last week for 3.00. LOVE it.

        This is my formal living. You have seen it before, I just added the french baskets with dried hydrangeas and the awesome frames I found in Cleburne.

 My friends Mark and Laurie let me have a set of 4 shutters with the most awesome patina. I like the way they frame the door.

Ready to go visit with the White Wednesday girls. Blessings to you all, Marta.

This is the reason.

                                    In case you wonder where have I been I have an answer. HERE!

I have been dreaming of a working space for a while, just dreaming since I spend all my money last year building my retail shop and moving my home to a new place. So, the studio money went bye-bye. I organized a space in my shop (8x8) thinking that was going to sufficed...Ja! I could not even move. So I kept brainstorming. My husband suggested I turn my formal living into my studio since we never sit there. NO WAY!. So that was the end of it until two weeks ago. I have a guest room which we refer to as the "princess room". It looks like the room belonging to a little girl, all pink and girlie. It was full of massive furniture that made the space look so little. It is not a huge room but is an ok size 14x16. Well, I decided to give up my guest room/princess room. Nobody had stay there since we moved and i realized that is such a waste of space when I needed the square footage. So we took the furniture to the shop for sale and I kept the armoire that came with it for storage. In came a new secretary, a small sideboard and an awesome locker with 72 little drawers that my husband got for me. I have been moving, finding, sorting, labeling, organizing, going up and down a stool, etc, etc. It is not done since I have to interrupt my work for real life matters. I can't wait to get all done, I have been writing down projects, bookmarking, dreaming of sitting there and start creating. I better crank it up since I am planning a lot of pretties for Christmas. Let me leave you with some pictures of the mess, lots of pretties buried there though.