Happy Thanksgiving!

No Pictures this time. Just a list of who and what I'm thankful for;
Guy,
My mom,
BooBoo Kitty,
Annie, Katy, Helene, Bob,  Jay and Patty,
Aunt Mitzi and family
Helen and  Carl,
Sissy and Joe,
Linda and Glenn, Karen and Lisa,
Bern and Jim and Aub,
Susan and Roland and Doris,
Jo, Dan and  family,
Frank and Pam,
Deedee and hubby
Alan and  Greg
Heidi and Cooch,
Sus,
Michael and family,
Maria and Dave and family,
Cathy and Joann and Carole,
Paul and Joe,
Lisa and  Dick,
Sheryl and  Mike,
Jeff,  Laureen,  and Meggie and Leif,
Hal,
Mary and  Perry
CJ and Marvin,
Jan and Marty,
Alan and Greg,
Dave and Renee and kids,
Laura,
Lu and family,
Pat and Jim and  Alex,
Leslie and Greg,
Mandy, Ro, Nancy, Mike,
Terry and Steve, Lupe, Margie, Karen
Sarah,
Paulana and Steve and  Blanca,
Genie, Chris, and  Lorelee,
Zack and Sharon,
Todd, Tony, Maryann, Annie, Angela, Kelly, Alex, and
 Omg, I forgot your name tall guy.
Sara and  Our gang,
My blogging friends and followers,
The beauty of art, nature, music, laughter, friendship, giving,  and, love.
Happy Thanksgiving!

Some more pics of the open house...

A look at the food tables before hand.

My mom being deputized as Meatball Marshall. Only two to a customer.

 

Guy and Mark 

Guy and  Mike, the  three musicateers!

Well, it finally arrived; our Open House at Agoura!

Our big push, for the last month, was to get the store lookin' like " Old St. Nick's  work shop".
We did it.  Yesterday was the big day, and  it was a screaming  success.  Here are some pics of my Christmas booths.;

I love the huge Eiffel Tower photo. It sold! yea!

I painted the booth dark gray to contrast with the white and silver accents.
  why did I wait so long.
 This is the best color my booth has ever been!

My Cowboy Christmas booth all decked out.

A Wallace silver plate punch bowl, tray and ladle.

Love those santas

The map came from the estate of the person who
supplied antiques to  the ". It is from the 1800s
 and  depicts railroad routes and shipping lanes.
The  industrial  cart shelves pull up and the sides close in.

It's Gonna Be a Cowboy Christmas

  I redid my small booth.

 I'm getting it ready for a Cowboy Christmas. 

I have a  really fun rebar  Christmas tree and I'm 

going to put  primitive ornaments on it.

1930's Wagon wheel bed

I wrapped some wool blankets in leather belts and stuffed them
into a  copper clad oval tub, along with a cute pair of boots and  an old sign.

An original stage coach  painting above the bed

Happy Halloween

Sunburst stained glass window

We bought this window  4 or 5 months ago, and  I was waiting for the right time to bring it in.  The only problem  was, how to display it. I opted not to use the frame, the window was already in, because it  was kind of ugly. so, I just  back lit one of the panels, and stacked the rest.

7', 4 paneled stained glass window.

Displayed in my booth.

Adding to Vintage Christmas ornaments....

I was   looking at;  //decortoadore.blogspot.com/, 

Laura's blog. She posted  a tutorial on making paper rosettes. I got inspired to add vintage music rosettes to my vintage German glass sunburst ornaments.  I love them. They are large enough to show up in the tree, but still look delicate enough. Thanks again, Laura

I started with this  vintage ornament.

I assembled this rosette by folding, accordian style,
3 pages of vintage  sheet music, then glue gunning them together.

I cut out the center of a foil doily and attached it to the rosette,
then attached the ornament to that.

This is an iron cross attached to another
doily center and  large rosette.

I'm not sure if I like the large or small rosettes best. What do you think?