sun and shadow....

wishing you much peace this

holiday season.

joan@anythinggoeshere.

my snowmen

for about 3 years when i was still doing shows

i made these little bottle snowmen

to sell at christmas.

i made and sold hundreds of them.

when i stopped doing shows

i had a few left and now they

are listed in my etsy shop.

these particular snowmen

were made using wisconsin

cream testing bottles.

i am adding additional christmas items

all week.

anythinggoeshere.etsy.com.

getting it sorted.

the beaded picks in the last post

haven't moved very far.

out of the vase and into a bowl.

my job this week is to get them

out of the bowl,

into groups,

take their glamour shots,

and get them listed.

things are speeding up with the approaching

holiday and i am

slowing down.

today i will be spending the day

packing orders.

but i love every moment of it!

i do have other nice things for sale in my

vintage christmas section.

anythinggoeshere.etsy.com.

take your pick. beaded, of course.

over the years whenever i found any 

mercury glass picks

at estate sales

i just added them to this "arrangement".

you can see how random looking

it has become.

last night i started talking it apart

and over the next couple of days i will

be listing everything for sale 

in my etsy shop,

anythinggoeshere.

another long time christmas collection

goes up for sale.

things are selling briskly.

come by for a visit.

more vintage ornaments!

continuing to add ornaments from my

collection today

to the vintage christmas section

of my etsy shop.

i will be celebrating the holiday later this afternoon.

happy thanksgiving, everyone!

here is a sampling

of my small christmas ornaments in their

original boxes.

all of them are now listed in my shop.

i will be working on the larger boxed ornaments

and groups of ornaments 

without boxes next.

hope you find something that you

would love to add to your christmas collection.

anythinggoeshere.etsy.com.

just a quick hello!

just a quick hello.

i can't believe how busy i have been on etsy.

i have just a handful of vintage beaded garlands

i posted about a couple of weeks ago.

when i finally counted them there were 80+ garlands.

that's what a lifetime of collecting gets you.

i am selling all of my vintage christmas collections

and adding lots of new items every day.

so stop on by my shop

and see what is new.

here is a link to my christmas section 

and one to my etsy shop.

there are less than 10 bunches of

vintage red mercury glass pinecones left.

i had a hundred bunches a year ago

when i found these at an estate sale.

you know what they say,

"when they are gone, they are gone forever."

vintage beaded garlands, bring on the bling.

i have my work cut out for me.

i am selling my collection of vintage

beaded christmas garland.

i didn't realize how many there were

until i started pulling them out of storage.

 there are 15 strands of pink beaded garland

just in this pile.

i'll be busy for awhile.

come by and take a look as i get them listed.

at

anythinggoeshere.etsy.com.

a lucky hunch.

the sun is shining!

i have to admit that i don't buy much for myself anymore.

i have more than enough "stuff".

but something about a recent estate sale ad caught my attention so 

i decided to take a look.

so my first step was to google map the address.

but there was no such street.

then i had to get creative.  i found an address that looked similar

and off i went.

my tenacity paid off and i found the sale, but because of the address error

a lot of others didn't.  lucky for me.  not so good for the sellers.

and i love what i found.

these are my favorite things.  a lovely old wooden bowl and

pretty old primitive cutlery.

have you ever had a lucky hunch that has gotten you a wonderful find?

boo! it's not too late

i have one last set of halloween "boo" sign letters.

available here at anythinggoeshere.etsy.

halloween, here we come!

only one month to my favorite holiday.

i am not much of an "orange" girl

EXCEPT this time of year.

lots of orange and black

in my shop right now.

anythinggoeshere.etsy.

and coming next week..... some fun

halloween jewelry made by me.

letting go.

for a couple of years i have had 10cent orange and black tickets

available for your halloween projects

but this year

i am really letting go

and adding these bold and wonderful

25cent orange/black vintage tickets.

there are only a limited number of

these available so if you want some don't wait.

once these are gone they will be gone forever.

now i have both 10cent and 25cent orange tickets in my shop.

anythinggoeshere.etsy.com.

clock faces and other parts.

i thought i would come back and

show you the other clock faces

i listed from the recent clock restorer's estate sale.

and i also listed these fun "clock guts."

all available at

 anythinggoeshere.etsy.com.

do you like my face? my clock face, that is.

boy, it seems like a long time since i have

posted.

i have been very busy.

i added several hundred vintage faucet handles

to my shop over the last couple of weeks.

and i've been to some very interesting estate sales

lately.

SOLD

last weekend i found a nice group of

vintage clock faces.

this morning i listed the first of them for sale

at anythinggoeshere.etsy.

and i better list some more.  this one sold while

i was here posting about it.

and here is a little vintage quiz.

what do you think those things are behind the clock face?

wonderful, colorful artist brushes.

i know it may be hard for my regular readers

to believe....

but i really do have more brushes to sell

from my personal collection.

these are especially nice with those

colorful handles.

available at

anythinggoeshere.etsycom.

many more faucet handles

i recently made a purchase of 300 vintage faucet handles

and i am listing them in my etsy shop.

they are selling quickly so come by

and see what is available 

at anythinggoeshere.etsy.

halloween jewelry. something new for me.

i have been itching to do something creative

and i love halloween.

so this year i am going to make a line of

halloween jewelry.

this is my first piece.

a wee bit scary, but still understated.

available at anythinggoeshere.etsy.com.

centsational girl and my faucet handles.

i was thrilled to discover that the very talented

  centsational girl


 added a link to my faucet handles 
in her post about making a fun new potting table.


click on the links above to read all about her
very creative project.

and see all of my new listings at
anythinggoeshere.etsy.com.

new this week.

all now available at

anythinggoeshere.etsy.com.

new blog header.

i finally figured out how to make a new banner

 for my etsy shop this morning.

i am so inept at computer stuff.

and i liked it so much that i decided to

use it as my blog header for awhile.

what do you think?

do you like it?