New Year's Day.............

First of all, I hope everyone had a safe New Years Eve. I realize at this stage of my life...it's hard to stay up late and get up early. It's already mid morning on this beautiful, sunny day and I have so much to do. I'm already behind schedule. (This may be one of those posts that takes me all day to get finished.)
In my family, it is tradition to eat ham, blackeyed peas and greens on New Years Day. I have already cooked the ham this morning and made potato salad and deviled eggs. I'll finish up the greens and peas shortly. My Mom called and they are coming by for a visit. They haven't seen the new kittys and thought today would be good. I invited them to eat, because we have plenty.
Today is also the day I traditionally take down our Christmas Tree. I have pretty much packed everything else up and re-organized it all. Ever since we were first married, I have left my tree up until Jan. 1st...don't really know why. Good luck, maybe??? It always makes me a little sad when I do the un-decorating...
But, it's nice to have my everyday goodies back out.
Well, I figured this post would take me all day and sure enough, it's almost 9:30 and I haven't finished. We had a great meal and visit with my parents, phone calls from both kids wishing us a Happy New Year and all in all, I couldn't ask for a nicer start to 2010! But, I honestly didn't think it would take me this long to post. I promise I'm almost finished...just wanted to add one more thing. For my January Giveaway, it will be this:

A fabulous spoon rack with chicken wire backing...comes complete with three assorted wood spoons, two cutting boards, grungy doily and even the grungy votive and pan! AND if you're the lucky winner you can choose the colors you want for EVERYTHING! As my hubby says, it don't get any better than that!

All you have to do is leave a comment, send me an email,

shari@homespunandprimitives.com

(put contest in subject line)

or sign my guestbook at the bottom of this page.

I look forward to hearing you all!!

Hugs,

Shari

Afterthought.......I have a few Christmas pics to share. Look to the left and click on the picture....

There's lots more, but I have to upgrade and I haven't had a chance...maybe tomorrow.

NeW TrEASures AnD A littLe "TWEAKING"....

I've been working on my dining room a little lately. It's the one room that never seems to get much TLC from me. Here are a few pics of what I've done lately......

Peg rack with bonnet and plate.....

Oak cabinet with milk glass plus..........

New crow design.....

Antiques sign along with repro box that I made.......

Oak hutch filled with china and a little this and that......it's actually a really pretty piece of furniture. The front is kinda rounded and it has the old fashioned looking glass panes with a mirrored back. My china is old looking with fruit.

Glass door.... Up close china...

Old, old ironing board.....

Dining room table with new bench and patchwork runner...

Long, skinny cutting board.....love this one!!

New bowl shelf filled with bowls and more.....one of my favs!

Well, that's about it for now! Be back soon!

Hugs,

Shari

a WeeK hAs GoNe By.............

It's been a while since I have had a chance to sit and blog. I am trying my dangest to get caught up with orders. It's almost time for vacation and I'm excited about getting away for a little while. We have found someone to house sit and watch after Ruffie, so I can RELAX. Wish we could take him with us, but he doesn't travel well....

Thought y'all might like to see more of my projects....

Sugar cones in different sizes........

Mini colonial paddle and hearts....

Bought this star months ago and have never hung it up or anything. Decided to repaint it this mustard color and I love it! I'll show you later where I ended up hanging it.

I had a special request for a long skinny sconce wrapped with rusty tin. I only had a little bit of tin left, so I made Tina one and this one for myself. (Wish I could find those 9 x 12 sheets of rusty tin from Darice, I think.)

S/O stitchery for Deb...She loves it already!!

Pillow, dough board and twigs...

Special order mini signs....

More signs and a Special order bird.....

A Goodwill plate re-do, love the way it turned out....think I'll keep this for myself! LOL!

New kitty on my web site..........


Family sign.....

Loved the way this turned out! Cait made the crow pattern for me and I came up with the perch for him.

New little star with candle....

Special request little shadow box, about 8 x 8 inches in size.

Little shadow box backed with chicken wire. I'll be putting this on my web site soon. I think it would be soooo cute to have little seasonal goodies in it. You know like a pumkin, heart, snowman and maybe a star. Just haven't had time to work on it yet.

Cutting boards....

Table benches in three sizes...

Not much time to chit-chat, but wanted to show some pics.

Be back soon!

Hugs,

Shari

200th PoST GiVeAWaY

200th post coming soon!

I missed doing "anything" for my 100th post....it didn't EVEN cross my mind. So I decided to do something for my 200th and that will be any day now.
This is the way it will work....Thought it might be nice to enter everyone that makes or has made a comment thru the month of MAY! And then do the drawing on the 31st. So keep in mind....for each comment, you'll have 1 entry. And if you sign up to be a follower, you'll get another entry! Plus you'll also be entered in my web site monthly contest~~yipee! 2 drawings! 2 Prizes!

~~ 200th Post "Giveaway Gathering"~~

A burgandy cutting board, Primitive Collector mini sign, mini sugar cone wrapped in grungy cheesecloth, a jar of rag balls topped with homespun, metal star, room spray, grungy candle and holder, little bunch of Sweet Annie plus a homespun doily!

Giveaway for Continental US only, unless you want to pay extra shipping for international.

Look forward to hearing from y'all!

Hugs,

Shari

MY NeW SpOOn RAcK.....

HAPPY WEDNESDAY Y'ALL!

It was beautiful today in K-ville and I got SOOO much done. It is so rewarding to me when I can get most of my LIST accomplished for that day. Not much left for today at all.

I wanted to share my new spoon/bowl rack with y'all! I made mine a little larger (than the one on my web site) to accomodate some of my cutting boards. Love, love, love the way it turned out in the black antiqued finish.

After putting up my new spoon rack, I started "Tweaking" a few things in my house. Boy, is that like a chain reaction or what? Went as far as filling in nail holes and touched up some paint. I'll be posting pics of some of my latest projects soon.

Gonna clean the slate on my fireplace before I go to bed, so I should run..........

Hugs,

Shari