OWOH has arrived!

Hello and welcome! I would like to thank the sweet Lisa Swifka, our lovely hostess for OWOH, whom has been such a doll putting all of this together. It is a huge undertaking, I am sure keeping up with well over 1,000 blog postings. Yikes! I have participated in the last 4 years and I have loved meeting bloggers from all over the globe.

So let me begin by telling you a little about myself. First of all I am very creative. You will often find me with my camera up to my face shooting whatever tickles my fancy. Below are some of those things.

I am an artist & photographer living in a beautiful and charming town in South Carolina, USA. I am a mother to two grown children. I am a wife, a sister, a daughter and a friend to many and hopefully many more after OWOH. I love my family deeply. I love to go thrifting. The thrill of the hunt and finding a treasure is exciting. I am drawn to antique linens, laces, papers, and skeleton keys. I love coffee, caramel and ice cream. Yum! They make a nice treat combined, too. I love to make others laugh. It does my heart good to see someone smile.

Below is a calendar for the month of February. Just click to enlarge, then right click and save.
Below is a tea towel that I stained with vanilla coffee and added a fleur de lis design to, along with a mini notepad perfect for your pocket or purse. One of you will win these and some additional goodies. Just leave a comment and on February 17th a winner will be drawn and announced.Good luck! It was nice meeting you.
Don't forget to click on the OWOH link above to go back to the link list.

Blog Giveaway over at Indulge Your Shelf!

Laurie over at Indulge Your Shelf is having a spectacular giveaway to celebrate her 2 years of blogging and nearly 500 Posts! Wow, 500 posts! That's quite an accomplishment in itself. I'm impressed. Anyways look at this gorgeous book she created. She has photos of the inside goodies on her blog and details of how to enter to win this and a $25. gift card. So go check it out here. Oh and good luck!

And the winner is....

And the winner of Homage to a Loved One is...#4 which is La Dolce Vita . Congratulations, Caterina! Send me your address to tlsprinkle@yahoo.com . I am so proud of myself. I actually learned how to do a screen shot, as seen above. If you click on it you will see the numbers better. Doing the happy dance! Have a lovely Saturday night. 

Giveaway!! Homage to a Loved One

In celebration of the New Year, I am giving away this Homage to a Loved One mixed-media piece I created for Artist Class.
For a chance to win:
1. Become a follower.
2. Leave a comment letting me know.
3. Double your chances by blogging about this giveaway and come back and leave me the link. 
I will pick out the winner Saturday, the 16th of January. Good Luck!

Swap, Winner, Giveaway

This looks like a really fun swap. It's based on the 12 days of Christmas with each artist creating 12 of one day and getting 12 different days in return. If you would like to find out more, click here.

Drum roll please...and the winner of my 100 followers celebration is Angie of Artangel! Woohoo! The Random Number Generator chose #15. If I knew how to do a screen shot I would but I tried to save the page as is and it did not work. Anyone have a simple tutorial on this? Love to know how to do it for my next giveaway. Angie, I need your address please. Email it to: tlsprinkle@yahoo.com. Congratulations!

**If you would like a chance to win a Christmas themed blog banner for the month of December, click here and follow the directions. Lulu of CoastalSisters is offering it up.**

HaPpY hAlLoWeEn & a Thank you Giveaway

 Time seems to be flying by these days. We will be decorating the front porch for the trick-or-treaters, today.  I love making it fun and whimsical for the little people. ;D I will take photos and tomorrow will be my last post on Halloween. Promise.

I wanted to say thank you to all of my followers. You all are so sweet to take the time to read my blog and leave warm and friendly comments. I have enjoyed meeting you through your own blogs. See when you leave me a comment, I click on your name and pay a visit to your blog to return the love.

Eye candy, tutorials, adventures and eloquent words are what draw me into your world. What draws you into a blog? What keeps you going back again and again?

My followers have reached 100! I'd say that is cause for a celebration. So to celebrate it, I am giving away this pair of earrings. They are freshwater pearls and strerling silver ear wires. Just leave a comment and let me know what keeps you going back to a blog. Next Saturday the 7th I will announce the winner which will be chosen by the Random Number Generator. Good Luck and Thank you!

Denim and Daisies is a brand new online scrapbooking store that features challenges, giveaways, wonderful kits and digital kits,as well.

HaPpY HaLlOwEen!!!! and a Giveaway

Come in. I'm so glad you came. Look at the lovely garland.Ooh I love your hat! I'm so glad you got your invite. We're going to have some kinda fun.

Etsy helped me decorate for the party. If you click on any of the links, you will be taken right to that shop. I just love these pumpkins, don't you?.Look we have a pumpkin piniata full of goodies! We can take a bat at that later.
Aw you brought your pet ferret out to play.
I have a treat table waiting for you. These were so easy to make. Just add chocolate pudding to a cute little cup and then crumble chocolate cookies on top, add a vanilla cookie that you write RIP on and a little sprig of dried flowers and voila!

 Oooh...that ring, is to die for!Little does she know I meant it. Here my pretty.. want a little cocktail? Sure you do. After that long ride on your broom. You need a little something to warm those bones of yours.

Want an umbrella with that? Let's fly to the graveyard, shall we? I would love to cast some spells and see what happens.
Oooh, are you okay? Let me feel your pulse. My what a pretty ring that is. Oh I did already mention it? Did you bring your spell book?
Oh good. I'll just get mine. 

I need some buzzards beak. Got any you can spare? Oh good thank you.  Now lets begin, shall we. The fire is nice and hot.

Ooh look up! Do you see what I see? Yikes! It's working!

Shweweee.. that was fun! Grab a bag and head on home. What? Your ring? I don't know where it went. Oh dear. We'll have to look for it in the daylight. eh he he he!

I am giving away 2 BOO Banners from my etsy shop. Just leave a comment and I'll use the random number generator to pick the winners tomorrow. Good luck and add your email address so I can let you know you won! Stop by Vanessa's blog to visit more parties!

Antiquing and fun finds

So I had this past Friday off since I worked the previous weekend and Memorial day so I went to a fabulous antique store in a little Victorian town called Bellefonte. I picked up all sorts of goodies. Here is a sampling.

Laces, skeleton keys, seam binding

This image above was taken in the reflection of an old jewelry box I bought. Isn't it so neat. The brown spots you see are actually in the back of the mirror. Age spots, anyone?. lol

I bought old cigar boxes for a few fun projects I have up my sleeve. Stay tuned for those.

The front of thejewelry box.

More lace through the old mirror. You should try this technique. Got an antique mirror? Pull it out and play around with the images. It's fun!

I was gifted with this fun and pretty bookmark from the lovely Luthien of Pimp and Paint. We were involved with a Pay if forward sort of fungame on Tali's blog and you sent something from your shop to the next person that commented after you. It came all the way from Malaysia.

I have been working on my Vintage creation for Inspiration Avenue's Weekly Challenge. I can't wait to see all of the creations. Should be fun. If you can participate, please do. If you just want to pop over to see the creations, they are posted at 5pm EST on Sundays on their blog. Hope to see your work there. Also, we are looking for new artists to join our etsy street team. Just check out our blog to get to know us and let us know in a comment if you are interested.

Oh yeah the last day of September there will be a winner announced for this months Giveaway so hop over and enter here.