New Items in the Etsy shop

A sachet doll.....her body is stuffed with lavender flowers!

Pretty dress...antique lace.....red shoes......

delicate rambling hair...

so pretty!

A mermaid ornament made out of ceramic.....

ready to hang.....

and finally, a whale ornament....

swimming merrily past a row of Christmas Trees.....Happy Holidays Everyone! xo

Festival of Wreaths

Every year, The Nantucket Historical Association has people from the Island make wreaths to auction off and raise money for their Children's activities that they have all summer. Here is my wreath this year.....I had to whip it up as I just got back from my travels on Wednesday, and it had to be done by Saturday....Here is the Pirate......


The Mermaid......


The Ship.......

The Whale.............

The Fisherman.......


And The Lightship Basket.....Let the bidding begin!!!!

More New York New York...

Ok...here we go! The first place I visited is Left Bank Books
It's right around the corner from where we stay in the Village. I found a treasure, as I usually do in a bookstore....Saul Steinberg..."The Art Of Living"....

Here's the cover without the dust jacket.....I got a copy with the dust jacket but it's too big to scan on my computer....I got these images from Austin Kleon's sites...Thanks, Austin!

Awsome....The inside price says $3.50...that was in 1947....I won't tell you what I paid for it, but I think I got a good deal no matter how much it cost! Go and check out Left Bank Books at 304 West 4th Street (near Bank Street) in NYC....212-924-5638.....

Then off to Kinokuniya Bookstore on 1073 Ave. of Americas, between 40 and 41 street. I walked my buns off in NYC....luckily we had great weather!

I wanted to buy all of the embroidery, knitting and Zakka books, but there will be another time....like when I learn to knit maybe...Instead, I bought these two Japanese fabric design books....designs from 1946 to 1959.....just picture after picture....yum....

Here are some scans....(My computer crashed before I left for Cape Breton, so I am still backing it up and I'm using a site that I'm not too familiar with.)

I will post more beautiful designs after Thanksgiving as Marty- nerd- boy will fix my laptop....so stay tuned for that......

Here's the inside of the Bookstore.....photos by http://www.cartoonbrew.com/ and http://www.yelp.com/ via Tiffany T....Thanks, all!

Do you see all of the books over yonder? Those are all Japanese craft books....

magazines,origami paper, craft supplies, stickers.....I spent 1 1/2 hours here (2 floors)

Then off to Books of Wonder on 18 west 18th Street...next to Friedman's and Paper Presentation....

Books of Wonder is all about Children's books.......

and mosey over to the left of the store.....a wee cafe...

with ladybug covered chairs.....and....

YUMMY NESS!!!! At the Cupcake Cafe

Talk about a captive audience......

What shall I choose?

How about this nice cake......

Too bad....somebody's special Birthday cake......

I'll settle for a rose cupcake...see how they package it to go? In an upside down coffee cup!

I snuck it out at Paper Icon and took a picture on their pretty paper.....

That was fun!

I took my cupcake over a few blocks (still on 18th street)....and ate it here at Old Town Bar

I always stop here when I'm in the city on 18th street.....and I washed it down with a pint of Guinness....

Ahhhh....another great day! :)

Then we went to NY City...

Even though I must have packed a billion boxes of glassware and pottery and books from my newly sold house,what did I buy when we went to NYC for a week? Glassware, pottery and books! First stop....Anthropologie....where Natalie Lete is doing her thing (and reasonably priced)

Here are some of the things that I bought......

Jeffrey even likes them!

This is a little condiment set....add it to my collection!

and I have been using this pretty teacup

that I use every morning to drink my new favorite tea in....Kusmi Kashmir tchai

another teacup....just for fun....

And these Lily of the valley glasses from Fishs Eddy....mine are my favorite color, PINK! Tomorrow, I'll let you know about the books....Happy Sunday! :)

Hello again!

I've been away for three weeks....
I went up to Cape Breton....sold the house. Paul and Jeffrey came with me and we packed up all of the "stuff" that we could fit in a 17 foot truck....and I had ALOT OF STUFF!!!!!We must have left 2/3 of it there. I learned that Paul is a great packer-upper.....He loaded the truck the first day with Jeffrey, and the next few days with me....Then off we went to Providence....and spent 8 1/2 hours unpacking the truck and packing it all into storage.....(I rent a place here on Nantucket with Jeffrey....guess we'll have to buy another house somewhere...!)




So my new "home sweet home" is in a storage space all piled up on top of each other....

Here's Paul....I'm sure happy to be finished!

And there is Jeffrey and Cally checking out the Cape Breton sunset....Onward....:)