Halloween is in 103 days

 

 

 

Thanksgiving is in 130 days

 

 

 

Christmas is in 158 days

don't throw away those tin cans - REPURPOSE them

Burlap ~ you know how we love our burlap!!!!

"Forget The Word Need"

"How many times have you said to yourself, "I don't need that"?  You're at a flea market, and there's this beautiful old serape blanket beckoning or a crazy yellow chair that someone has painted with an even crazier image of Van Gogh or a little primitive landscape that is like the 20 you already have.  You circle around it, you hesitate, and then you walk away empty-handed, either feeling proud of yourself for resisting the temptation or kicking yourself for not indulging your desire for something that could have added a little happiness to your life.  "Need is a wretched word.  It holds us in bondage," says my friend and collector Gail Peachin, who lives in an old farmhouse in the Catskills.  "There is very little we need - food, a roof over our heads, a toothbrush, and maybe a good pair of shoes."  Most of the things I have collected all my life were certainly not necessary to my daily survival.  But if you stripped all those things away from your rooms, tabletops, walls, and floors, where would the color, sparkle, humor, fun, and creativity exist?"

- Mary Randolph Carter (author:  Never Stop to Think..Do I have a Place for This?)

~ Just a thought ~

 

Shop your local downtown shops, or at the

Artisan & Craft shows that will be coming up soon

for the holidays; you will find unique and most likely

One-Of-A-Kind gift items
 (let's all try and not shop the big super stores this year)

Upcoming stuff...

 

Haxtun's Town-Wide Yard Sale, Saturday July 19th

Rhonda will be having items for sale at her house

Stop by!!!! you may even find a few things

left over from Burlap & Lace

637 Fairview (Haxtun)

 

 

 

Junque Gypsies will be at Holly Daze (Holyoke)

Saturday, October 25th

 

do you have a gypsy soul?

Gardening in and out of the box !

The heat is on, and it would seem that fear of frost is behind us..... so look for those unique items around your house, or at all the yard sales (Haxtun's town-wide yard sale is July 19th)

a Very cool desk made from an upright piano