Sweet Joys of May

Hi there! Happy Monday!

How are you? Mom and I went to get some pretty flowers last week to this beautiful greenhouse. Everything there is always so gorgeous! And very reasonably priced too! I'll have to show a few pictures later in the week of my flowers. I've been pretty busy playing outside, planting, and building a couple fairy gardens too! Luke and I got the cars washed and some good yard work in over the weekend! The horses are enjoying the weather too! Mom and I bathed them all two weeks ago, and they are shedding like crazy right now....so lots of brushing, getting that winter hair off! :) 

Here's one of the flowers I got....pretty pink!

I picked some lilacs on my way up the drive way one morning from feeding the horses. They are one of my favorites, love the way they smell!!! I put them in a little vintage teapot in the kitchen. 

 Our apple trees are all blooming, so pretty.....

 A couple close ups of the apple tree blooms :) 

Jerry wanted to say HI to everyone!! 

(( He's so funny, this toy around his neck is actually a pool toy and somehow he got a hold of it and loves, loves it!! It throws like a frisbee, which he loves those too, but this one is super light and there's a whole in the middle. So we'll throw it and he'll run after it and scoop it up around his neck and bring it back!! So silly! haha. 

 We love him <3 

Wishing everyone a beautiful week full of some crafty goodness 

and happy thrifting too!! 

xox Holly

Vintage Box Swap

A Vintage Swap hosted by Elizabeth over at Creative Breathing

My lovely partner was Kim over at A Vintage Fairy 

She sent me some wonderful vintage goodies! Take a peak....

 I loved the light colored teal runner underneath everything, so pretty!

She sent some jewelry making magazines, a couple vintage books, vintage; hankies, flowers, lace, & beads!

Even a couple little Christmas things too! Do you see the cute crocheted egg!! 

 She made me this adorable box with my name on it :) 

  

And then, not to mention

 I had won her giveaway for a huge lot of vintage laces!! I've already been using some of these! I love them all, so very pretty! It's so nice to have a stash of these around! And she send a generous bundle my way!!

Thank you sooo much Kim for being a wonderful partner and thank you again for all my wonderful thing you sent me!! 

Thanks for stopping by, Have a great day! 

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xo Holly

Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day to all you wonderful moms out there!!! 

Wishing you a special and lovely day!! 

Hugs, Holly

Nest Swap

Hi there, Happy sweet day!

I participated in a very sweet nest swap, hosted by Vivian over at Viv Out on a Wim.

And my partner was Shirley over at Zetta's Aprons. If you don't know either of these fantastic ladies you should go visit them and their cute blogs!

 Vivian's rule was only send it when it's too cute to giveaway....Oh my goodness Shirley I think you did the most wonderful job! I absolutely love my little bunting flag....SO STINKIN CUTE!! She even put a little nest at the bottom with eggs in it. :) It's just gorgeous for spring/summer! I have it hanging in my craft room, so pretty!

And for this marvelous clutch she made, I fell in love with it soon as I spotted it in the box! 

Gorgeous, gorgeous!! 

Aren't all the details sooo lovely!?! I've seen a couple other crafters make these, and I was amazed by them and wanted one so badly.......and now I have a beautiful one!! I was thinking about trying one for myself and now I have a perfect example for it! Even the bottom is so pretty!! :)

OH and I forgot to mention....she sent yummy chocolates too!! My hubby thought both things were cute when I showed him and I even shared a couple of the chocolates with him :) 

Thank you so much Shirley!! 

You were such a wonderful Nest Swap partner! 

I just adore my things you made for me!

Happy weekend!! 

&

Happy Mother's Day!

*****

xox Holly

Vintage Romantic Necklaces

Already another week.....

those weekends seem to just fly by! But I feel like Luke and I got a lot done over the weekend, which is always a nice feeling! We did a lot of yard work.

I made these vintage romantic style necklaces a couple weeks ago 

and wanted to share them.

You might have seen I added one to my Etsy Shop earlier last week

I added the one all the way on the right side with the vintage picture of a lady, here.

I think these are so neat and fun to wear!

(  For the big soldered ones $17.50 )

*would make a lovely gift! And very unique! :) 

 Here's the backsides of the two....vintage book pages.

 For these two smaller ones $15.99 each

"A little something blue"

It's a cute little key chain or trinket with some vintage blue lace

I think it would be darling to give to a bride :) 

$8.99

Thanks for visiting me!! I love reading all your comments, you all are so sweet! 

I just had this pointed out to me, that when I reply to most of your comments you aren't getting them unless you come back to my page and look, I'm sorry for that. I hope I can figure out how to make it so you can see my replys on your comments, all along I thought you were!! Lol. 

Up next:

I will be sharing what I got from my wonderful Nest Swap partner!! :) 

Have a great day! 

xo Holly

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The Cottage Market 

Awesome Auction Finds/Treasures & a Custom Order

Hello friends! Happy Tuesday! 

I hope you're having some nice weather like we are! We've been enjoying some warmer sunny days in the past few days, and it's been super wonderful! We've already grilled out a handful of times and are enjoying working in the yard. I can't wait to start planting some flowers and make another fairy garden!! Here's last years if you'd like to take a peak *FAIRY GARDEN*.

I had a custom order to make this cute little Elephant softie. I just love how he turned out! In fact one of the girls at work, loved him so much she wants me to make her a pink giraffe for her bed.  :) 

I made this hoop for my booth at the shop, 

{you might have seen it in a picture in my last post about my booths} :) 

~Now~

onto some awesome finds and treasures I brought back with me from the auction last week!

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I think I must admit to myself that I'm addicted when it comes to going to the Shipshewana Auction!

You never know what kind of goodies you might come home with! 

A lovely rug (that has been washed and laying on the floor) Jerry thinks it's another bed for him, he loves it! 

I got a lot of vintage cigar boxes, some aren't in the best shape, but I might find something to do with them still, and for the others I have a couple ideas in mind. 

um...yes I bid on these lockers, and then was hoping they weren't the super heavy ones, considering this time we went it was only me and the hubby. But they weren't too bad, we got them loaded! Lol.

I only paid $15 for them....how could I pass that up! :)  I want to clean them up, and do something neat with them. ~Maybe in our back door/mudroom area. 

 Ohhh yes I spotted some dishes! I think I might have got just the box of dishes for like $5 

I can't pass up pretty vintage dishes for that! 

If you look up a couple pictures, where you can see the box of dishes sitting on the bench, you can see I got two black hands. I've been wanting some of those so bad to sit around or display jewelry on! 

I got this rusty headboard (left side) I'm excited to put it in a flower bed. That's another project coming up soon and i'm excited for, we're going to put a couple up in the front yard, kind of by the Arborvitaes trees. 

Speaking of those, here's some that we planted up in our front yard.

Hope you enjoyed looking at some of the pictures, I always enjoy and "swoon" at looking at all your pretties!!! There's always so much inspiration on your blogs! Thank you for that!!

Wishing you a lovely and creative day! 

xox Holly

My two booths at "Uptowne Shoppes"

Hi there! Happy Saturday!

Since I finally took my good camera to the shop and got a few decent pictures, I thought I would share with you my booths :) 

So here is the building, on the corner of State Street and Monroe 

Last week I took this old wooden barn door and a lovely vintage garland/banner that I made up to my second booth. 

 There's some handmade jewelry//Earrings on the white fence

 Cute vintage highchair, in really good condition and very sturdy too! 

I just love the sweet picture on it.

This pretty vintage yellow banner/garland is 5 foot, 4 inches end to end.

Some of my warmer tarts and candles :) 

~Cute Pom Poms~ 

*make a lovely bouquet for a birthday party or for any other celebration

And a couple vintage cuff bracelets that I made sitting on a red vintage tray :) 

 Love doing custom orders, or if you see something let me know:: I can grab it out of my booth or make another....I will gladly ship!! (:

We are having some lovely weather this weekend! I hope you are too!

I'm going out to enjoy some sunshine! Have a great weekend!! 

xo Holly