Oh my word.  My online shop sold out of just about everything, so I spent most of the day packing up orders.  I need to figure out how to set up a more efficient workflow.  I ended up going up and down steps for each order, so it was my workout as well.  Multitasking at its finest. The guy at the post office was thrilled, as you can imagine, when I showed up with over 30 packages to mail.  Like I said, I need to get more efficient and my husband’s going to help me with that come January. I was planning to list more ironstone today, but my stash of boxes, bubble wrap and shrink wrap were pretty much wiped out, so I need to replenish my supplies before I list more. While I sent a lot of packages out into the world today, I received some as well.

One of the fun parts about giving a dresser a makeover is accessorizing it with pretty knobs.  Think of hardware as the jewelry for dressers; a way to complete the look and take it to the next level.  When I first started refinishing furniture, I was partial to clear glass knobs.  I bought a huge lot of them on eBay and put them on everything.  In recent years, though, I’ve started to branch out into metallics, colored glass, ceramic, wood, tortoise shell, clay…many different materials and finishes.  Often when I’m working on a piece, I’ll try several knobs to see which one makes the piece sing.  The one I like most sometimes surprises me and I’ve become more bold in the knobs I try. I recently put together a collection of some of my favorites from around eBay… …knobs that are chunky glass…  …colored glass… …brass bin cup pulls… …and more.  Click HERE to

 One of the amazing things about this blog world is getting to know gifted, talented, awesome entrepreneurs.  Not only have I gotten to know some of them, but I’ve had the privilege of partnering with some of them.  One of those ladies is Ann of Sutton Place Designs.  I got to know her a few years ago when she introduced herself through e-mail and then sent me two big boxes of “samples”.  Pillows, runners, stockings…everything was so pretty and I was sold on working with her.  That has materialized in a lot of ways.  I’ve bought things from her to sell at Lucketts, I’ve sent her fabric I wasn’t going to use, she has sponsored my blog and she has sent me goodies now and then. Well, I just got some more goodies from her… I saved every little scrap of grain sack fabric from my sewing projects and sent

Those who have read my blog for a while know what a special lady my mom is.  She has been one my biggest cheerleaders in life and in my business journey.  Everyone’s been supportive of me, but she was the one who said, “Do it!  Do it and we’ll help.”  So, as I’ve been curating some collections on eBay, I wanted to include a collection of gifts chosen just for her.  It was fun to window shop for my mom and here are some things I selected… I know it’s not glamorous, but I absolutely love my Oreck Steam-It Mop.  A few of us chipped in and bought it for my mother-in-law last year because I love it so much.  I think my mom would enjoy it, too.     A few months ago, my mom tripped and fell and her iPad took the brunt of the fall and the screen