Treasure TROVE

We visited our son and his family in Indiana this weekend and they showed us his new
work place in Roanoke, Indiana and they also took us to a few shops in this quaint little town.

TROVE was my favorite!

It is located at 270 North Main Street in Roanoke, Indiana.

There is also a TROVE barn and these first few photos are of some of the goodies in the barn.

LOVED IT!

Aren't these lights made out of clay pots so neat?

Fell in LOVE with this ladder.

The TROVE BARN

This building is the main store. They had so many wonderful treasures inside.

Sorry for the quality of some of the photos.
I am afraid that my camera has seen better days for indoor shots or else
I STILL don't know what I am doing. HA!
I do not like to use a flash so I contend with a myriad of blurry photos to weed through.

I just thought the building and the landscaping was beautiful!

I hope you enjoyed your mini tour. If you are ever in Roanoke, Indiana be sure
to stop by...you will love it!

Antique Christmas Ornaments

I have been sorting out all my Christmas items and just had to share some of my beautiful
very old ornaments with you. I have a thing for "treasures from the past" as I know many
of you do also. Here are just a few of mine...

Several of these are so old that they are almost paper thin and have lost a lot of their
color, but they are still beautiful!

Don't you just love this amazing glitter?

I don't know why, but every time I see the above ornament, it reminds me of the Star-ship
Enterprise on Star Trek! lol

In case you are interested, these are now listed over on my ebay site. You can click here to
be taken there.

Happy week ahead and Happy Thanksgiving!!

More Altered Bottles

I made a few more altered bottles and am so enjoying it again.

This one has a genuine piece of an antique ledger inside the envelope dated Jan 3, 1894.
I don't have very much of this ledger paper left, but I love to use it in special projects.

I love to leave the lace in the shape that I found it in. I feel it adds so much character to the piece.

I added a tiny collar to this bottle along with a vintage clip on earring.

I have listed these bottles in my Etsy store along with my previous ones.

I hope you enjoy your Wednesday! I will be staying in because Sandi did what she does best last night.

"FALL DOWN...GO BOOM!!"

It was dark outside and was in a place where the lighting wasn't so great and I totally missed the last step
 coming down off a porch. My body gyrated this way and that way and I finally ended up on my butt...
after twisting my ankle/foot.  It is a little swollen and sore ,but thankfully it wasn't worse.

Linking up today with Becky over at Timewashed for Blissful White Wednesday.
Thank you Becky!!

Antique Album ~

I found this antique fruits and flowers album

some time ago for only $5.

I figured the graphics alone were worth that much.

There are many more pages, but

I just scanned a few to share with you today.

I hope you enjoy it ~

Blessings~

One More Bottle ~

I wanted to share one more bottle with you that I finished up today. It is the one on the left and now I think I like this one best so far. Oh who knows! LOL I will probably say that with every bottle I make...

I used very old ledger paper as the base for this one. In fact in very beautiful script is written, "Wednesday April 4 1894". Next I added lots of vintage bling, antique trim and swarovski crystals and I love it. I will be listing it in my Etsy store if anyone is interested.

It is very windy here today and I have not gotten much done, but I did get a chance to run to town and pick up a few things. The wind was tugging at my car a lot on the way home...it had a mind of it's own and kept wanting to drift to the middle of the road. That HAS to mean that *SPRING* is here. I sure hope warm weather comes to stay very soon! Blessings ~

Antique Clipart Images ~

Don't you just love clipart? I sure do and I think it is wonderful when you find a site where you can download and use it for free. The two clipart images above are just a couple among many that can be found here. There are two sizes of each image that you can download for free so be sure and check out this wonderful site! Blessings ~

Vintage Lace Organization ~

I had a couple of these jars just sitting around and a pile of antique lace laying around so I decided to combine the two. I added a scrapbook paper design to the top of the lid along with a vintage millinery flower . I then tied seam binding ribbon around the jar along with a *LACE* flashcard. Loving these colors right now ~ Blessings !