I'm Back... Finds & My Visit...

Finally I have some time

to sit down and share with ya'll!

I have been keeping up

(to a point)

with your blog posts,

creations and emails..

But, I still feel I'm behind somehow!

I visited my booth yesterday

to put more things inside

and totally forgot my camara!

Sheesh!!

I am going back tomorrow,

and promise to bring my camara.

In fact, my camara is already

in my purse, so I don't forget!

I also did a little thrifting

and antiquing yesterday.

Here are a few of my finds:

Sweet little step ladder...

Laundry bag and

HUGE basket...

This is a mirror, but,

I got a jumpstart on it

this morning and already

took the mirror out

before I took the picture...

I scored all of these

blue Ball jars for FREE!

(My sweet gramma gave

them to me...

Thanks Gramma!!)

I found this Raspberry Soda

bottle top advertisment.

LOVE LOVE LOVE!!

2 metal vintage picture frames

and

an antique mirror and brush..

Close up of the brush..

LOVE.

I also wanted to share

this picture of my Gramma...

I visited with my Gramma

when I took a trip to

Michigan a week ago.

She's in a home, and hooked up

to oxygen 24/7 now.

(insert sad face here.)

She always enjoyed the beach,

and I can remember her

taking me to the beach

when I was a kid quite often..

Soo, being that she is on oxygen

and in a wheel chair,

Mr. Ruffles & I decided that

if she can't get to the beach

we'd take the beach to her!!

We took a kiddie pool

and filled it with beach sand,

a bucket & shovel, pinwheels

and a beach ball.

We even found a citronella candle

that looked like a mug of frosty beer!!

She thought it was real at first

and pulled up her nose... hehehe!

I also saw my 3 year old grandson

on the other side of the state.

I had a blast with him

swimming, shopping and sidewalk chalking..

That's my son and my grandson..

Love those kids!!!

I had a great time in my

homestate of Michigan..

But, it's soooo good to be home!

Sherri

 

Linking up at:

The Thrifty Groove

Ruffle Bag

Yippee!!! Lookie what I made today!

More ruffles!!

I'm pretty excited it turned out the way it did, since it's my first attempt at sewing a ruffle bag.

(And, since it took me almost 4 hours to figure it out and put it together.. LOL)

I used white duck cloth for the bag itself, and then I used white cotton for some of the ruffles and inside out cottage rose patterned material for the other ruffles.

I also made a liner out of the rose fabric, and even added a pocket inside!

I'm just thrilled how it turned out.. soooo cute!!

Love .. Love.. Love...

Linking up at:

The Shabby Chic Cottage for Transformation Thursday

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Making it with Allie

My Simple Home Life for Simply Creations Friday

My Romantic Home for Show and Tell Friday

Lovely Crafty Home for Lovely Crafty Friday

Passionately Artistic Easter Linking Party

Eisy Morgan for Inspired by you Wednesday

Bag for My Flea...

I always get a laugh out of some of the blog and post titles out there,

so, I thought I'd give my comical side a try.. :)

I don't really have any fleas.. well, not the itchy kind anyway!!  I found this burlap bag at The Fresh Market grocery store.  Thought it'd be great to bring with me to flea markets and such.  It sure helped carry alot of things from Renningers this past weekend, but, man o man.. my shoulders burned!!!  I wore a tank top and the more things I bought and stuffed into my bag, the more my shoulders would rub on the burlap and just burn and itch.  Guess I didn't think too far in advance on this one!

So, I made little shoulder pads of sort for my bag.  Check it out - My new "Flea Bag" :

I tied a couple of ribbons on the straps, the cream one says, "Journey".

On the top of the straps, so my shoulders won't hurt anymore I cut a peice of toile fabric scrap I had laying around in 2 wide strips.  Tucked it all around the straps, and on the side that would hang on my shoulder I added some pillow stuffing.. then hot glued the fabric and onto the straps.

Ready to go hunting for fleas flea market hunting!!

Linking to: Shabby Chic Cottage