I love hippos

Hi,
I'm eating breakfast right now, checking out my daily blogs and messageboards. I promise I will get to work soon. I love to check out Cute Overload for cute animal photos, just a fun break in the day. They had the cutest picture of a hippo, I had to grab him and make him the wallpaper on my desktop. Just in case you were wondering what my wallpaper was in the first place -
http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2006/06/meimi_hartmanyo.html
I've got the rest of my furniture moved into my room. Now I have to hang pictures (man, I have way too many pictures) and place out my little pretty stuff. I am making myself purge some things from my collection. If I don't have a place to put it, then I'm going to let go of it, rather than pack it back up again. I can't keep all of the pretty things for myself. So far I have some linens, hats, purses and chenille that you will be seeing on my website soon. Should I mention in their descriptions that they come from my stash, would potential buyers be interested in knowing that an item came from my personal collection, or am I having ideas of grandeur?
Moving furniture means that I had to rearrange other rooms too. So I moved things around in my computer room and in my stock room, which needs to be cleaned out at least once a year anyway. I'm feeling good about the rooms now, they seem much more organized and less cluttered.
I'm going to the shore for the 4th of July weekend. Leaving Friday and I think that I'll be back Wednesday morning. There won't be an update this coming Monday, so the update will return on 7/10.

Bye for now, Carol

Books for sale

Hi!
I am putting up many books for sale through Amazon.com. You purchase them through Amazon, but they are coming from me. We're going through my Mom's old books and selling them, because she doesn't use them anymore. There are some great books about making and collecting dolls, dollhouse miniatures, vintage teddy bears and toys and vintage Christmas stuff. Most of the books are either out of print or older versions of current books.

My books for sale


Bye for now, Carol

Setting up my room

Here are some quick photos of my stuff as I move into my new room. To the left is a photo taken right inside the door. Right now just the bed and my craft area are semi-set up. I have all my little stuff moved over and setting in boxes still. I just have to get my furniture moved, and then I can set up the rest of the room. When you walk in, the livingroom area will be to the right, then the bedroom in the back, and the craft area to the left in the back. It's just a big open room, so I'll divide the areas with furniture.
First below, is a closer view of my bed, loaded up with too many pretty pillows that I have to take off and put back on the bed everyday. I have a shelf over the window with pink and green stuff, flowers and fairies. The 2nd photo is the livingroom area which right now consists of a chair, a table from my grandmom and a rug (couch to be moved in at a later date) The shelf over those windows have black and gold stuff, mostly Oriental figures and pierrots.

The photo on the right will be my craft and sewing area. I put down tile floor there, so it will be easier to clean up (hopefully) The big thing in the left side of the photo, and shown again below is a large Victorian drying rack for laundry. I'm using it as a room divider by draping some of my favorite fabrics and linens over it. I'll take better photos of some of the items after I get it more organized.

The room divider is meant to break up the large room, and to possibly camoflauge any messy projects that I might be working on. On the other side of the divider is my work table - right now just a cheap folding table with barkcloth on it to look pretty. I'm hoping to get a nice worktable with a work surface (I won't actually be doing any work on that fab fabric, it's just for show) The white bureau was picked from the Strathmere trash and painted white. It holds alot of junk, paints and craft supplies.


These two humpback trunks hold my laces and fabrics for my own use. The trunk below holds scraps of fabrics, laces and damaged vintage clothing for projects. Yep, there's that teddy making a return appearance in my blog. When I was carrying him to the new room, I thought this would be the perfect place for him. The trunk was in our house in Strathmere when we bought it. It's an oldie, it is dated 1850 inside. The lady that we bought our house from, Bertha, and her brother Harlan drew pictures of each other inside of the lid of this trunk when they were kids. It's a special piece.

That's it for now. I'll take some more photos when the furniture is moved and everything is in place and hung on the walls.