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Take a look at the beautiful earrings I received as a gift from Simply Stacy Jewelry through the Etsy Jewelry Design & Supply Shops' great holiday promotion, "12 Days of Christmas Scavenger Hunt." Guess which day I found?
I love these earrings and they're a color I wear all the time. What a great Christmas treat! Check out Stacy's store when you're ready to pretty up your jewelry box! She has a drawing each month for free jewelry!
Thanks for visiting my blog and thanks for the lovely post about the scavenger hunt. I'm so glad you like the prize you won. I never heard from the person who won mine. I hope she likes the earrings I sent her.
Sometimes Christmas cacti can be a little tricky to get to re-bloom. They need a drop in temperature in order to set new buds. I have mine on a north facing windowsill that gets a little chilly in the fall.
Welcome to my blog, and thank you for visiting! I hope you will enjoy your visit, and save my web address so that you can come back again, often! New followers are always welcome here at Indulge Your Shelf! *****This giveaway will end on Sunday, February 14, 2010 at 11:59 p.m. Mountain Time! Winner will be announced on February 15, 2010! ***** A ll over the world wide web, something special happened as the clock struck midnight. It was January 25, and the air was filled with a kind of energy...tangible to those of us who had been watching, and waiting for this day. I myself awoke to remember a vivid and colorful dream, in which I had b ee n transported by a magic carpet, taken to a lovely home, high on a hill...a kind of castle... P residing over the beautiful home was a lovely lady... S he was a kind and attentive hostess, inviting me to take tea with her, and serving it in a wonderfully appointed room, using the finest china so that I felt like a Queen... W e spoke of beaut...
Hello, world! Welcome to my blog! My name is Laurie, and I call my blog "Indulge Your Shelf" because I often post about the pretty things that catch my eye at antique stores, thrift shops, estate sales, street fairs, flea markets and the like -- and end up on my shelf at home, or in my Etsy shop by the same name ! My maternal grandmother had a great love for pretty old things, and it was she who taught me to rummage for treasures in thrift shops, to collect what I love, to sew, and to embroider. And, that's another thing I write about often on my blog: creating! I love to sew and re-purpose vintage and antique linens into pillows and sachets, plus, I do a little bit of crazy quilting (and sane quilting, too); and, lately I'm big into paper crafting with ephemera. In fact, I probably do paper art more than sewing these days. I also do some regular, special event scrap booking. I love paper -- the older the better! I collect many small...
This past Sunday afternoon I went to my local button club meeting -- and it was fun, hands on, and informative. The topic this month was black glass buttons . Many of the black glass buttons you see in antique stores were made pre-1918; as a result of Queen Victoria's mourning attire, black was very in vogue. Although you might hear black glass buttons referred to as "jet", jet is a different kind of coal glass, and is much rarer. I'm told you can tell the difference between black glass and jet in that jet will float in water. After we went over the different classifications for black glass through the National Button Society , we had a chance to dig through some little tubs of buttons (called "poke boxes" by buttoners) to see if we could find examples of all the types we'd covered. Each poke box was full to the brim of just black glass buttons. We were having a contest -- the one who found the most examples won a button prize. Here's a b...
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I'm so glad you like the prize you won. I never heard from the person who won mine. I hope she likes the earrings I sent her.
Sometimes Christmas cacti can be a little tricky to get to re-bloom. They need a drop in temperature in order to set new buds. I have mine on a north facing windowsill that gets a little chilly in the fall.
I hope you have a nice holiday.
Mary
Take care and have a wonderful Christmas!
Stacy
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