PRETTIEST LAMP SHADE EVER

I've been collecting old photo cards forever and finally incorporated them
in to a project......love, love, love this sweet lampshade.

Each photo card I used in this project has a childhood picture on it so I thought this lamp

would be the perfect addition to a little girl's room.  The lamp itself is a beautiful

gloss white and has a cherub on it (will have to get a better picture of the whole thing).

Have been so limited with the picture taking days as I like to photograph on sunny days and I think we may only have had one of those in the last month!

Happy (sunshinny) day!
xojanis

By your own soul, learn to live
And if men thwart you take no heed.
If men hate you have no care.
Sing your song, dream your dream,
Hope your hope and pray your prayer.--Parkenham Beatty

OLD TOY TRUCKS

I love old metal toy trucks and scooped this up at the flea market last weekend.  It is exactly what I have been looking for for ages!

I am really hoping to find a old green metal tractor pulling a farm wagon one of these days too!

I'm always amazed when I eventually find that exact little treasure I have been searching for!

Happy day...lets hope for some sunshine for the West Coast of BC this week!

xojanis

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither

the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into

nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.
Mahatma Gandhi

SALVAGED DOOR LOVE

Can you believe the colour of this old door?!?

One of my sweet friends salvaged it from an old house on a property they built on (this, two others, as well as tons of windows who her husband painstakingly removed as to leave them as intact as possible for me----thank you, thank you Jaye and Garth!)

 I had the perfect shelf and frame to add to it and I absolutely love the way this project turned out!

 And this flea market cross was the perfect embellishment for an old bottle

I had stored away.

Happy day!
xojanis

Each of us represents a star in Heaven. Sometimes we shine with the rest,

sometimes we twinkle alone and sometimes, when we least expect it,

we make someone else's dreams come true.

Author Unknown

PUPPY MADNESS

We got a new puppy last November who is such a joy (except when she chews up stuff I have made for a market!).  Well, I think I am a little dog crazy now and couldn't resist bringing home this sweet little friend from the thrift store.

Having so much fun preparing for the Olde Farmhouse Market!

“When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.” – Plato

Happy day!

xojanis