Frame Hoarder

hello there!  I am blogging sitting in my living room as usual.  Right now, there are 2 sofas in here.  And I am feeling like a hoarder.  In my defense, one of the sofas is on Craigslist waiting for its new home.  My older sofa has a lovely new slipcover that I would *love* to share, but my home is a bit of a disaster as we are reworking some rooms.  So it will have to wait.  But, soon, I promise.  On top of hoarding sofas (and ironstone, and mercury glass,vintage trophies....) I also have a problem with antique frames.  I am a frame hoarder.  Doesn't that sound repulsive?!?  I am though.  I always pick them up... they are so lovely in their chippiness and odd sizes.  Sometimes I will paint them.  Sometimes I won't.  Every now and then I will weed some out and let some go.  But it is always so hard.  I always remember the ones that I really should have kept.  I will be taking some to the shoppe this weekend after I decide which ones make the cut.  And, when one goes home with someone else, I will feel a little stab of pain...  almost like the pain of letting go a piece of English ironstone....

For all of you who collect and then sell some, what is the hardest thing to let go?

Okay, I have a full house in the workshop, so I am off to work... it isn't going to bibbity bobbity boo itself done *wink*

bye for now~

A Giveaway: Post Road Vintage

Hello all!  Hope you are doing well!  Sometimes (sometimes!) I get a little caught up in the details.  Like I really, really wanted something to put my dish soap in that would look pretty.  And that was 4 years ago... maybe more.  When I finally decided to use the mason jar pumps, I looked around and decided that I wanted to hunt the *perfect* jar.  Well, I found it... like a year or two ago.  Then, I decided to get a crown jar... one of the smokey ones... ahh... smokey grey... anyhow, I realized that they don't take a standard zinc lid like my pretty aqua-y Atlas did.  So, I pulled a switcheroo and now I have a great mason jar pump (with green dish liquid... the Mr. says I have to use it all up before finding something to bring out the beauty in my jar.)   And, this story is to tell you all how I met Heather from Post Road Vintage.

You may know her from her blog, or her popular e-zine Homebound, or etsy.  However you know her, you know this girl has simple, stylish living down pat.  And, she is creative and makes great, functional products.  Her soap dispensers don't get yucky or leak.  She has researched how to make her product better.

So, after "meeting" her and ordering one of her pumps for my very own found jar, I twisted her arm until she agreed to do a giveaway of one of my favorite products of hers....

She puts a special finish on old mason jars to make them look like old white pottery.  So pretty!  I love it... I think I will have to get one of these too!  

So, I bet you want to know how to win... 

* go to Post Road Vintage on Facebook and like it and leave a comment here.

Okay, now I know some of you over achievers like extra credit, so here are some more ways to get an entry

*Subscribe (what do you mean you haven't!) to her incredible e-zine Homebound (it's free!)

*Share on Facebook

*Tweet on Twitter

PLEASE, leave a new comment for each one you do... this makes it oh, so much easier to figure out the winner.

I will announce the winner on April 3rd. 

Good luck everyone!  I will be back soon... I have lots of things planned, but nothing finished!  Story of my life!

bye for now~