Organized clutter!!

Yesterday I was getting my website ready for the upcoming Christmas Carnival on SaturdayNovember 28th which I'm participating in. Last night about 1 AM I was working on my needle felted Angel Snowman for my giveaway and needed some blue ribbon...it has to be here some where!

Maybe it's in one of the bins - sitting here at my computer I see 4 plastic bins and don't really know what's in any of them except stuff for crafts, Ebay, personal?

Pulled all of this out of the green bin (my favorite way of organizing)

no blue ribbon in there!

More clear plastic bins!



Maybe I bought some at Big Lots

More clear bins

Pretty boxes for ribbon storage




Here's a bag from the church thirft store - everything was 1/2 price paid $1.25 for all these treasures!

Never did find any blue ribbon but I'm really frustrated and unhappy about my cluttered Shabby Cottage. This isn't something that just happened recently but the clutter had gotten much worse since selling on Ebay (inventory!), blogging and my re-interest in crafting.
So today I decided to clean up around here and started a new blog
DeCluttering Our Shabby Cottage

I know something else to take up my time but I'm hoping this will hold me accountable and keep me on track.

So I'd better hurry up and finish my Angel Snowman!

Warm hugs,

Blog Anniversary Giveaway 1 Year!

That's right! This week I had my 100 post and November 3rd is my one year blog anniversary! I decided to combine the two and have a giveaway. What better day to tell you about it than on PINK Saturday since I have some PINK in my giveaway.

When I started my blog I knew zero about blogging just read that blogging was a good way to get folks to my Ebay listing and website. Well blogging is so much more!! It's like having friends with you all the time day or night. It's still hard for me to share the things that go on in my life daily but I'd like to do that even if I think people won't be interested. Sometime we need to just do something and not worry about it.

I'm going to have two giveaways. This first one is for my followers. It amazes me that people like my blog enough to follow me - it warms my heart and puts a smile on my face! Thanks you followers every one of you! On November 3rd a name will be pulled from all my followers and they will get the three pot sitters in the photo below I'll even throw in the PINK bench!

The second giveaway is for everyone who leaves a comment on this post. On November 3rd I'll pick a name from all the comments.

Two Gooseberry Patch books.

Christmas 2008 10th Anniversary & Chistmas 2009 Book 11

Handmade pillow using vintage linens.

This is so sweet! A bowl with two little birds.

It could be a bird feeder, candy dish or maybe a soap dish.

This is my first needle felted bear Benny.

He needs a good home!

A beautiful handpainted rose plate.

So here are the rules:

1. If you are a follower or become a follower on 11/3 your name will be in the drawing for the pot sitters and pink bench.


2. Leave a comment on this post to win the 2nd giveaway. Drawing will be on 11/3.


3. If you put my giveaway badge on your blog please leave a 2nd comment and tell me for another chance to win.

Hope you understand all this it's about 1:30 AM and I'm really tired. Email me with any questions.

Warm hugs,

Thank you, Patty from Attic Clutter

Patty from Attic Full of Clutter pulled my name from her followers to win this lovely pincushion! I received it over the weekend and I've already started using it for my needle felting needles and it's perfect!

This needle felted mouse "Betsy" is one of my newest creations.

Betsy is a little over 4" high, made of 100% wool and is wrapped in a needle felted flag. She used the flag to keep warm while watching fireworks on the 4th of July.

Betsy only needs to have her whiskers and she'll be ready for adoption.

Thanks again Patty. All my needles fit on this large pinchusion and they are very handy when I'm working.

Warm wishes,

PINK Saturday 6/6

A few weeks ago I took my sister Cheri out to lunch for her birthday and then we did a little shopping. What else do you do after lunch!

And I found this cute pink bench.

And thought it would be perfect for some of my needle felted critters.

This bear was my first needle felting project.

Here's a snowman all decked out in Pittsburgh Steeler / Penguin colors!

This robin kinda looks cute on the bench.

These lambs look sweet on a pink bench.

And here is Hildie the country mouse...she's going to the Mouse Ball.

There are still many more felt critters hanging around the house and they are multiplying! Do you think I should try to sell them? How do you decide how much to charge? I've never sold anything I've made...maybe I should just buy more benches!

Don't forget to visit Beverly's blog How Sweet the Sound and see the list of everyone participating in PINK Saturday.

Warm wishes,

PINK Saturday

It's hard for me to believe that PINK Saturday is here! I've decided that I'm going to put in lots of pink impatients this year and some white ones. A lot of my yard is in the shade most of the day and impatients do very well and are so cheerful!

This beautiful rose is from a bush that was already in the yard when we bought the house and it's still going great!

I love this clematis but it didn't do very well last year hopefully it will do better this year.

This is a woolly lamb that I've needle felted. Poking the wool hundreds of times with a needle is a great stress reliever! I think she turned out kinda cute. I have many more things I've needle felted recently and will start putting them on here for you to see.

Since my husband Jim's illness we are home together every day and my life so different - I'm sure there are other words I could use but yes everything is different!! If I go out he goes with me, if he needs to go some where I go with him because he is not driving yet. He had a heart catheter on Tuesday and oh what a stressful day that was. His appointment was at 10:00 am and they didn't take him in until 3:15 so we didn't leave the hospital until almost 9:00. His arteries are clean, his heart is still pumping at 20% and his blood pressure is very high and the Doc wants him to have a defibrillator put in. Jim is not sure he want one put in..he want another opinion so now we wait for another appointment.

Please visit Beverly at How Sweet the Sound to visit other PINK blogs!

Warm wishes for a Happy Mother's Day,