Round Top/Warrenton Antique Show 2nd Installment

Leftovers Antiques http://leftoversantiques.net/  is a great place for vignette ideas. They have some beautiful items in the store and really know how to display them.

 

These glass globe bottles were just huge on this table. A dramatic setting.  

An apple on top of a derby.





Cool mirrors and bath rub.

 These stars were made from some kind of wood and it reminded me of the beach.



Glass eggs and a velvet bird.



Need a trophy?



Real birds.

Ice cream scoops in a case.

Bath items in great little bags.





Lavender in sachets made from vintage linens.

This soothing lavender bed would be wonderful to sleep in.

Brenham is the little town where we stayed during our trip. There were some great shops downtown to visit. One of them was Beadboard Upcountry beadboardupcountry.com. This shop had home decor items as well as clothing and linens. The clothing and bed linens are imported from Italy if I remember right. They were beautiful!

Love to sit here and have a long chat with a friend.

This chair was at near their front door and I have never seen a chair cover that is scrunched like this. Wonderful material!

Perched on a high shelf this pillow with fabric flowers was peeking down on the store.

Love this bed!

This pillow was a scrumptious blue color and had swarovski crystals near the trim and buttons.

These flowers were sitting along this staircase outside a building downtown and I thought they were really pretty.




 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Melody and I ate lunch here and they have the best pie I have ever eaten! I had chocolate and she had kilime. My stuffed avocado was great too and so was her quiche.




Round Top/Warrenton Antique Show 1st Installment

Well we had a blast at the show! I highly recommend going. It's a huge one and you will need several days to look around. Lots of walking and the ground is not even all the time. You might be on gravel one minute and grass or sand the next. Check out this link for more info to plan your trip down South. http://www.antiqueweekend.com/indexmain.html The Fall show is Sept.29th thru Oct. 2nd.

We shopped almost all day of the three days we were there. From like 9:30am to 6:00pm. It was hot and we bought hats the first day to keep the sun off our faces. They helped a bunch. There are tents set up on the land off the Hwy and some buildings. Down in Warrenton it's pretty crowed with booths. One right next to the other. Right next to Hwy 237 and then out in the fields. Round Top has some areas with farms or land separating the areas to shop.

We shopped mostly in Warrenton but did attend another show on Hwy 237 before Round Top (La Bahia). Marburger Farms is one of the shows you pay to go into but really worth it to see the displays in the booths. We did not go into Fayetteville, Shelby or Carmine but there are places there also to shop. Where we were we still did not see it all.

You will find so much stuff it is unreal! If you need furniture and I mean antique pieces, this show is the one to go to. Some items were expensive but there were plenty that were just the right price. I saw some wonderful drawer units that would be great for my studio but I just do not have the room. They would store lots of stuff though! I noticed too that some items (not furniture) were plentiful there but are hard to find here locally. Like small vintage Christmas balls  just to name one. Did not find a baby bed springs, or thick yard sticks. I was looking for both of those items. But I found plenty of stuff. Below are some photos of my stash then some of the things we saw on our adventure. I will post more photos in another post later.

metal tags, metal tape measure

child's costume patterns, spoons, crochet ball, beaded trim, buttons, corks, rhinestone jewelry, wood block stamp, poodle statue (like my baby Duke!), Diane Cook charms check out her blog http://rosa-josies.blogspot.com/

doorknobs, scarf, belt with rhinestone crown buckle, hot sauce, pumpkin jelly, cucumber melon loofah soap, bird house for the birds to eat off of, Christmas ornaments, foreign money, metal numbers

paper boy bag with cool linen sack sewn on top, scarf, flower

 t-shirt

Round Top Here I Come!

I am off to Round Top on Wednesday of this week with some friends. We are soooo excited because none of us has been before! I am sure we will be so overwhelmed. I hope to take pictures of lots of stuff and post them when I get back.

This antique extravaganza happens in the Spring and then again in the Fall. It is suppose to be well worth the trip. People come from all over the country. I  happen to just have been on a blog http://mydesertcottage.blogspot.com/ by a lady from Scottsdale Arizona. She is coming.  You can check out this blog http://www.antiqueweekend.com/indexmain.html if your interested in coming in the Fall. They have listed lots of great info for you.

Also, check out http://gardenantqs.blogspot.com/ Garden Vintage Antiques blog. She will have a booth at Zapp Hall. She also is having a blog party tonight there. Wish I was already there and could attend that. I found out about her when she had a booth at a shop down in Malakoff, TX.  Her blog is very interesting. She travels all over Texas and visits antique shops and all kinds of other great places. So check her out.

We will have three fun days to shop til we drop! See ya when I get back!

House Mouse Card For April

Here is what I was doing several weekends ago. Mass production of House Mouse cards for April. 95 of these little babies shipped off last Friday to Oklahoma to be sent out to various stamping  and scrapbooking stores.Here is a close-up of the finished card. I added Diamond Stickles to the lemons. It turned out very cute!

Paper Cowgirl Class Registration

Paper Cowgirl registration for classes is in full swing. Be sure to go check out the list and sign up for your favorites. A few are already sold out! Here is the link http://pcregistration.blogspot.com/ Don't forget the vendor night is on Saturday evening June 11th.

Brayer Class Cards

I went to Spring Texas this past weekend to take a few brayer classes from Michelle Zindorf http://zindorf.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/ . I must say she is a wiz with the brayer! If you ever have a chance to take a class from her DO NOT hesitate! It is fun and you will learn some great techniques using this tool that a lot of us do not pick up anymore. I hope to develop some classes to teach at

Stamp Asylum later this year using the things I learned.

Valentine Swap & Steampunk Heart

These painted tin cans were for a Valentine swap in one of my art groups. Using the paper rosette die by Tim Holtz to accent the front of the can and fringed tulle behind it gave a fun dimensional look.    

This beauty is made from clay in the Steampunk style of art. I made it at another one of my art group meetings. Two ladies taught us the how to. I decided to frame it at the suggestion of another friend.