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Welcome to my blog. A place where you never know what the topic will be. I guess it depends on where I am at that particular moment. Feel free to share your thoughts and feelings about anything I write.
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11/12/2008
October Winner
10/10/2008
September Winner
2/5/2008
Sharing and caring customers
10/19/2007
Shout out to a thoughtful customer!
6/25/2007
Hometown Quilt
2/16/2007
Olde thyme books
2/6/2007
Ye Olde Apple Peeler
1/31/2007
wynter thyme blues
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Date: 11/12/2008
Title: October Winner
Congratulations to the winner of our October drawing,
Amy Cosma!
Here is what Amy has won.
Here's what Amy had to say:
I just received my October winnings and I am just so overjoyed.
I have the perfect spot for my light and I just adore the Devotional Book.
Thank you so much Birgit for pulling my name.
Warm Hugs,
AMY
ps. My daughter lovingly referes to you as the cool bubble wrap lady.
She loves all the packing you put in your boxes. Funny how simple things excite us.
Date: 10/10/2008
Title: September Winner
Congratulations to the winner of the September drawing,
Betty Shelton
Betty won this wonderful gathering of fall/Halloween items!
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Here's what Betty had to say:
Birgit, I received my free gift today, and thank you so much. I was so surprised. Usually packages come in and they are for resale, but this one was for ME!! Had a lot going on the last couple of days, so it really brightened my day. ~Thank you soooo much!
Betty Shelton
Date: 2/5/2008
Title: Sharing and caring customers
I have to say that since opening my online shoppe in May of 2006, I never imagined the fun I would have and all the incredible people the Lord would send my way.
I love it when our customers take the time out of their busy schedules to let me know that their order arrived and how pleased they are with their purchase. One such customer not only took the time to send me a kind and thoughtful e-mail, but she also sent along some pictures of her home of the items she purchased from us. With her permission, I've added her pictures to our picture gallery and invite anyone to feel free to e-mail me with comments and pictures of your homes. I'm finding the more I do this, the more I realize how much people (women especially) love to share pictures and ideas of home decorating. Be sure to visit our Gallery for more wonderfully inspiring photos! Thanks Beth for taking the time to spread your kindness!
Date: 10/19/2007
Title: Shout out to a thoughtful customer!
I'd like to give a shout out to a customer of mine. Celia ordered from me not too long ago and had mentioned that she makes candles and dipped bears. Well, we got to e-mailing each other back and forth and she'd mentioned that she wanted to start her own web site selling her candles and wares. I've been encouraging her to take the big step, as I was weary when I did it, but I've loved it ever since.
I've met so many wonderful people through my business. Not just customers, mind you, but all kinds of people with similar interests with a love for primitive and country crafts.
So, I go to the post office this morning and Celia sent me a sampling of some of her candles and I just have to say they smell soooooooo good and I love the packaging and the way she does them up! Be watching for her new website hopefully in the near future. I'm sure I'll be mentioning it in an upcoming news letter. Thanks Celia for being a great country friend! 
Date: 6/25/2007
Title: Hometown Quilt
When I was a little girl, my mom loved working on her crochet work. She was always making an afghan for somebody, painstakingly working each tiny square, until the afghan was complete. Then she would give it away as a gift or tuck it away until a gift was needed.
One of the blankets she made for me was an afghan called My Home Town. She let me pick the design I wanted out of a large book with so many choices to choose from, I didn't think I'd ever decide. There was the good ole' dog Snoopy, trucks, flowers, animals, you name it, it was in that big book of crochet patterns.
This blanket took over 220 four inch squares! Each one was slightly different. Then she would have to assemble the blanket like a jigsaw puzzle, being sure every square fit perfectly in place, completing the hometown design.
I loved that old afghan and kept it on the bottom of my bed all through my growing up years, should I ever get cold, and I still have it today tucked up in my closet carefully preserved in wrapping.
About a year ago, my mom and I got to talking about the blankets she used to make, and she asked me if I still had it. Of course, she knew better because I keep EVERYTHING! She's now a quilter and has a sewing project going at all times. She's made quilts as gifts the same way she used to crochet afghan's.
I asked her if she could make a quilt using the same pattern and my mom, being the super~mom that she is said she could. We went to the fabric store to pick out my favorite colors for the quilt and she went right to work on it. She gave it to me just after Christmas and I adore it! When I think of all the time and effort she put into each square, not to mention the LOVE that goes with each stitch, I'm overwhelmed by the great love that mother and daughter share.
Date: 2/16/2007
Title: Olde thyme books
These wonderful olde thyme books looks so nice displayed in amongst your prim gatherings. Back in the days of olde they'd keep writings of there remembrances and devotions in books that would be handed down as family keepsakes. I can just imagine using the old nib tipped pens dipped in inkwells to keep such wonderful memories alive.
If you have any special requests, feel free to e-mail me. I'm happy to personalize these types of books for you!
Date: 2/6/2007
Title: Ye Olde Apple Peeler
My love for antiques and primitives started many years ago, when my husband Daryl, and I were first married. Daryl is a builder by trade and he was working on a remodeling job in a very old home. He was taking down some walls in this old house when he found a small treasure. There inside the walls of this old house, was a rusty old tool of some sort and a few spice bottles. After sharing his find with the homeowners, who decided that it was just junk and would be better just thrown away, he brought his new found treasures home to me.
I was thrilled to see the things he'd found. Among the rusty, geared gizmo and extract bottles, there was also a big old railroad spike and a wooden peg of some sort. I just loved these little baubles and quickly found a place of honor in our humble mobile home, to display them for all my friends and family to see. They became conversation pieces and I found myself wondering about the people who used them, their purpose and why they were put inside a wall to begin with.
As time passed, I found myself looking for little unwanted treasures at yard sales and local flea markets. We eventually sold our mobile home and built our own home and that's when my love for antiques and primitives really blossomed.
I now had a blank slate to decorate and I was overwhelmed with the styles and choices out there in this big world. I poured over magazines and decorating books, but always seemed to come back to the warmth of old, used and rusty.
I'm still working on the whole primitive decorating style as there's so many different varieties of prim! Some people love the floor to ceiling stuffed with prim, while others enjoy the simple, basic style~ like the folks lived in the 1800's. They lived off what they had. I guess you could say I'm a "tweener" because I love the simple style but enjoy the homespun, floor to ceiling stuff too.
One of my favorite places to shop is not at a local shopping mart, but in old antique stores that are stuffed floor to ceiling with pieces of days gone by. I've also become heir to many of my family's passed down pieces, such as my grandmother's old china dishes, my dad's childhood teddy bear that's stuffed with sawdust, my great grandfather's old mission rocking chair with a well worn hole in the seat and many other treasured pieces that all have a story to tell.
Thanks for listening to me ramble on about my love for old things. You'll find more pictures of my home in our gallery. Thanks for stopping by! Hugs~ Birgit
Date: 1/31/2007
Title: wynter thyme blues
Well, here it is, the end of January. We've got a small amount of snow on the ground~ maybe 3-4 inches. It's freezing cold outside but the sun is brightly shining in a clear blue sky.
I don't know about you, but I can easily get caught up in wynter depression. I don't get outside as much and I tend to snuggle under a blanket with my prim and crafting magazines. I'm cooking hearty, stick to your ribs, meals and warming myself in front of the woodstove during my daily devotionals. I go to bed earlier and read more devotionals then too. No, you could definitely say, "I'm not a wynter person"!
I've been taking a short respite from my sewing and switched gears to paper crafting. I love to make altered journals, greeting cards and scrapbook our family memories. I haven't bought a greeting card to give in years, and I don't intend to start any time soon. Giving home made gifts and cards is a most heart warming experience for me. I love the thought that goes into each project I lovingly create for that special someone. I love to watch their face light up and say, "you made that for me?"
I'd love to have lived back in the times when almost everything people gave, was hand made. True craftsmanship was alive and well. In our fast paced world it's so easy to just run to the local shopping mart store, where you can find anything under the sun, and buy it. I believe that true craftsmanship is still alive and well if we look for it or take the time to be creative ourselves.
My daughter had a surprise birthday party to go to and we both forgot until the night before. It was 9:00pm on a Friday, when we both realized that she had no gift to give. Thankfully, being the crafter that I am, I have so many supplies to create with, that we got right to work and made her friend a beautiful altered tin using her friends favorite colors. We printed a picture of my daughter and her friend from our computer and added it to the colorful tin. Then my daughter filled the tin with candy and chocolate and picked out the best home made birthday card she could find to give to her dear friend. As it turned out, all the girls at the party oohed and aahed over the tin that she can use to put all her secret love notes in. LOL!
The best gift to me, was the time that my daughter and I spent together, choosing just the right papers, creating and bouncing ideas off each other. The time we spent laughing at how we didn't have a clue what we were going to do, but it came together anyway and it was a gift loved by all.
I urge you to take the time to spend with your children and include them in your crafting. Take time to read a good book and maybe start a daily devotional reading while your at it. Take time this cold winter to snuggle under a blanket with someone you love and stay warm!
Hugs~
Birgit
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