Friday Flea Market

Hello everyone! Thanks for stopping by. Listed below are a few items for sale for the Friday Flea Market. Just click on the picture and you will be redirected to my website, http://www.gracefulrose.com/ to complete your purchase. Again, thank you for stopping by and please leave a comment if you have any questions or you can E-mail me at jsgreer@newwavecomm.net . Be sure and check out my home page for a discount code and get 10% off your purchase until November 30th.

Happy Thanksgiving

I want to wish everyone a very happy Thanksgiving! I am so thankful for the support you have given me over this past year. I very much appreciate it. May God richly bless you and your family!

Vintage Christmas

I remember the times when I was growing up, that toys were not something that we had in our house all the time. My parents did not believe in over indulging their children so consequently we usually had to pick maybe one item that we wanted real bad and hoped and prayed that it was under the tree. That "special bicycle" for my brother or that "special doll" for me was eagerly awaited for months before Christmas. We dreamed of that special toy and made plans in our minds what we would do if we got it, but that was never for sure, for we had hard times in our family. My dad always came through though somehow. He would wait until Christmas eve after we had gone to bed before he would bring any presents in. He must have known we would snoop! He was right. I wish my grandchildren could experience that same feeling of joy on receiving that one special toy. Too often, they have so many toys and they get them all year long anyway that that "specialness" has gone out of Christmas for them. In these days of our failing economy, maybe there is a silver lining to all of this. Our hearts need to return to the real meaning of Christmas, the birth of our Lord and the love of family and friends. Merry Christmas everyone.

Dreaming of a pink and white Christmas

Well it's not even Thanksgiving yet and I am already thinking about my holiday decorations! This will be the first year that I have really been able decorate the "little cottage" because of renovations in the past. (I had a makeshift kitchen in my living room for 9 months). I only had room for one small table top tree that year, but it was so worth it! I love my new huge kitchen! Not that we are done, but I have learned to muddle through all of this! I had a friend once, her name was Tressie, she was a lovely lady and a lawyer's wife. She wanted to come and visit me and this was years ago when we first moved to Kentucky and we lived in a big house that we were fixing up. Well I thought I should wait until we were finished with our remodeling before I started having company, but Tressie passed away before we ever got done. So from that, I learned a valuable lesson and so from then on, I invite people to my house no matter what is going on and I have found that most enjoy their visit, even though things are not perfect. Case in point, one year I had a tea party at Christmas time. I started in October decorating the house and really had it decked out pretty good with no less than 3 Christmas trees and a complete Christmas village and all the trimmings, 2 fireplace mantles all decked out. It was huge success and many of the ladies came all dressed in their finery and hats and we had a great time. They never even noticed that I didn't have a light fixture in my dining room (bare bulb in the ceiling) but I had so many twinkling lights and pretty decorations, they never noticed. Some of the rooms had no woodwork. My husband did put the mantle up in the dining room one day before the tea! That was cutting it pretty close. Anyway, if anyone wants to come visit me, come right on. We have now remodeled 6 houses, 3 of which we have lived in and this one may never get finished so I quit worrying about it. So I am off to the attic to get out the decorations. I just had to get a white tree for my new kitchen which is all pink and white. I ordered some of those wonderful pink lights from Mimi's Rose Chenille Boutique for the white tree. Stay tuned for pictures!

New Shabby Chic Christmas Items at Graceful Rose

Hello everyone! It is that time of year again when our thoughts turn to the holidays. What an exciting time of year! With all of the holiday decorating, cooking, baking and shopping, we get so busy it is hard to keep up. We hope our new holiday items will make your shopping a little easier. Here is a sample of some Shabby Chic Christmas items now available at http://www.gracefulrose.com/.

I'm working on new items all the time, so I hope you will stop back often and visit!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Janet

Flickr: Your Photostream

Flickr: Your Photostream

I have now joined Artspan.com

Hello everyone! I am happy to announce that I have joined Artspan.com as an individual artist in an effort to for my original paintings to have more exposure on the web. I am listed by name, region and genre on their site. Please check it out if you have time. that is www.artspan.com. If anyone out there has artwork and would like to explore this, for a nominal fee you can post 6 of your images on their site and they will link back to your website. If you do not already have a website, for a small monthly fee, you can set one up with a shopping cart and all. This is a great way to have more exposure for us starving artists. I saw this in The Artist Magazine and am hopeful that Artspan.com will give me a much needed boost in sales for my original oil paintings of roses and such.

Thank you for visiting.

Lollishops Coming Soon!

Hello everyone! I want to let you know about a brand new shopping guild that is coming very soon! It is a place where girly girls will love to shop and frou frou is everywhere!

If you have a shop and want to be a vender at Lollishops, please click on the link below!




It's a great place and you will love everyone there!