Oct 1, 2008

Lots to catch up on

It seems like I have been gone forever. I had computer issues and just got everything straightend out. What a fiasco! Thanks to everyone who left comments and I am going to try and catch up here. Can't do it in one night though. :)

It's finally feeling like Fall here in New York. The leaves are beautiful shades of orange and red. The air is clean and crisp. And I still haven't got all of my Fall decorations up! We have been so busy latley. We put down our new hardwood flooring in the kitchen and dining room this weekend. It is gorgeous! I'm so glad to see the carpet ripped up (that we just installed two years ago) in the dining room. Boy was that a mistake. It didn't fare well at all against the contstant traffic. The flooring is teak and it's the wider boards and made in a mill in Va. They call it hand scraped. It has dents and dings so it looks like it just came out of an old colonial home. I will put some pics up later this week. We, I say we, but I really mean my significant other and his helpers, built a new base in the living room for the coal stove we bought last year. We had a pellet stove and sold it for this and it's the best decision we ever made! I love that constant heat and we are sure lucky since the cost of fuel is outrageous.

I know the economy is really shaky these days so I've been trying everything to promote my store. I donated four gift certificates to our local PBS station, where I work, for the on line auction and I'm not sure if that is the reason, but I got two sales this week! They featured Primitive Thymes of the main page so I thought that was really cool. Among many of my jobs at the station, I used to manage the Auction department there.

Well this is a long enough post for tonight. Just wanted to let everyone know that I didn't drop off the face of the earth.

Can't wait to share some pictures later this week.

Hope everyone is having a super week!
Nancy
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Sep 13, 2008

Winterberry Prims Handmade Country Furniture


You have to check this out. Shelley is the owner of Winterberry Prims and has been selling primitive cabinets, shelves, buttery, benches, tables, peg racks and much more on eBay for the last few years. I found her about a year ago and have been buying ever since! Her and her husband make everyhing out of their home and they are so talented and wonderful to do business with. She has just started a picture trail site and is going to be transitioning away from eBay over the next few months. I have been extremely happy with every purchase. Heres the link to her new site:
http://www.picturetrail.com/winterberryprims


Good luck Shelly with your new venture and I wish you much success. I'm also including a few pics of some of the great prim pieces she has made.


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Sep 12, 2008

New Candle Line


They finally arrived. My new line of soy candles. I'm just so excited!! Just unpacked to make sure nothing was broken. I have been buying these candles from a local primitive gift shoppe for years and they beat any other that I've ever tried hands-down. I will never go back to Yankee and those were my favorite. My favorite thing is they are double wicked which makes a big difference and they burn down even all the way to the bottom. I'm offering free shipping with them too.
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