Pink Saturday...A Shabby Chic Inn On The Prairie

Rachel Ashwell Is embarking on a new venture! A bed and breakfast that is decorated in the most glorious array of shabby chicness you have ever laid your eyes upon!

Isn't it beautiful!

I think she is going to have some happy customers when she opens for business.

Thank You Beverly for hosting our Pink Saturday. You can fins all the PS links at her blog,

How Sweet The Sound. 

 

 

 

Have a fabulous weekend my loveleighs!

Happy Anniversary All That Jazz!

Today was the one year anniversary of All That Jazz. We opened our booth for business this time last year. We started off in the same shop we are in now, The Painted Lady Vintage. We were tucked upstairs in a corner half the size of what we have now. It was half the price too!

It took us 5 hours to unpack all our boxes and set up for business. We had A LOT of smalls. We were worried we wouldn't have enough product to fill the shelves but we managed to stuff it to the gills!





I told you we had a lot of smalls! Most of these things have all sold by now. I can spot about 10 things that seem to be hanging around still. It's fun to look back and see what has sold. That's why I take tons of pictures. It's a great way for me to see what's sold. I'm a visual person so it's easier to tell from a picture what merchandise has gone out the door and our tags aren't always descriptive enough to tell us what an item is months down the road.

When we started we had several "display only" pieces too. Like the mannequin and the door and turquoise picture frame above. That has changed. Now if it's in the booth, it's pretty much for sale or don't put it in.
We were only in this space a month when a spot opened up downstairs and it was offered to us. We hesitated slightly because we didn't have any large display pieces but the shop owner offered to let us use some from the shop and we were off and running.





Downstairs! Things came downstairs much faster than they went up, let me tell you! All the furniture is borrowed except for the rocking chair and the bench. We started setting up at 10:00 and had to hurry because Girl's Night Out Started at 4:00. We made it with half an hour to spare.

SPRING 2010

EARLY SUMMER 2010

MID SUMMER 2010

LATE SUMMER 2010

AUTUMN 2010

CHRISTMAS 2010

WINTER 2010

MID WINTER 2011

LATE WINTER 2011

ALMOST SPRING! 2011

One Year Later
What a RIDE it's been!

Happy 1st Anniversary All That Jazz!!!

Boring Week...

I've spent the last week relatively bored. Nothing new is happening and I could not for the life of me come up with anything interesting to post on. I haven't been blogging at all. Lots of web surfing has been taking place. I've lost 10 pounds from the exertion, LOL! I can't even use the excuse that I've been working on Jazz projects because there has been nothing new in that front either. I think the time change has me in a minor funk and the fact that it's been raining here pretty much non stop the last couple weeks. I am so tired of gray skies, but compared to the poor Japanese people, I'll take my doldrums any day. God Bless them.

Since I couldn't work myself up to post anything new, I pulled into the deep recesses of my computer files and decided to share these pictures of my youngest niece again. I am so longing for a Summer day such as this.

She's two years older now and still has those big blue eyes and blonde hair.

And she still wants to pick the flowers. Last time she came to visit she wanted to and I had to tell her we didn't have any! Nothing but brown sticks and slimy leaves. Some serious weeding needs to be done within the next month. If it would ever stop RAINING.

Hope you all have a wonderful week! I am off to make the rounds and visit since I have so sorely neglected you this last week!