You may have noticed a new link in my sidebar; it's for my second Etsy shop, opened in January and selling only buttons. That (maybe?) s...

I've been struggling about whether to say anything about my recent experience with selling in a local shop again. It didn't work so ...

A vintage Valentine's Day card from my collection. And one with a cat - how cute is that?

These are easily the cutest thing I've ever purchased on Ebay. And can you believe that I was the only person bidding? It's a set of...

A delicious, melt-in-your-mouth novel featuring the sweet pleasures of French pastries and the exotic scents and sights of China, The Color ...

A new year, a fresh start. I seriously neglected blogging last year and I paid the price for it with less comments to the posts I did publis...

Well, the show I did this past Saturday was not a good one for me. After an hour of no one stopping into my booth I had a bad feeling that t...

Don't you just love this fabric? I spotted it on eBay and thought it would be perfect for the pot holders I seem to be making a lot of...

There's a scene at the end of the pilot episode of the new ABC show Pan Am with a little girl watching the stewardesses walking down the...

You might ask where I've been all this time, but I've just discovered treasuries on Etsy. I mean, I knew what they were and I've...

You know it's fall when your thoughts turn to soup when planning dinner. It's been very cold here—38 degrees yesterday morning—so so...

Although I haven't had very good luck this summer with flea markets, I am still finding great stuff on Ebay and in local shops. Like th...

Who doesn't love puppies, or any small animals for that matter? I especially love the cute embroidered kind that you find on vintage li...

You're probably wondering why I haven't reported back about my flea market trip last month. It's because the day was a huge disa...

...against the woodchucks who've taken up residence in my yard. First they ate the last picking of peas, then they munched the tops of m...

I realize this isn't the best photo. It was starting to get dark and he'd just knocked over our bird feeders. We were more concern...

I've been searching forever (OK, at least a year) for a small bookcase that's 16-18 inches wide that I can use upstairs, either next...

I spent yesterday treasure hunting in Quakertown, Pennsylvania and it was a whirlwind trip because I went to four different antique malls an...

I knew someone in college who had no sense of smell (the condition is called anosmia), and hence no sense of taste either, since the two are...

When I heard that Pantone's choice for color of the year was Honeysuckle , I immediately thought of the honeysuckle vine that climbed th...