Faith.......

I am have hit a rough patch in my life that just smacked me in the face and I don't know how to handle it. Funny how God works because I got this email shortly after it all happened. It is about Faith. I want to copy and post it because it spoke to me and feel it is worth sharing. Someone should have had faith in me and now in turn I have to have faith in God that it will all work out.


The God Kind of Faith

Today's Scripture

“…the life which I now life in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God…” (Galatians 2:20).

Today's Word from Joel and Victoria

Faith is all around us. People have faith in so many different things: faith that a friend will be true, faith that your job is taking you on a certain career path, faith that the chair you are sitting on is going to hold you up! Faith is simply believing in something. But there are different kinds, or levels, of faith. There’s a difference between having faith in God and having the faith of God. When you open your heart to the God kind of faith, you’re actually allowing Him to believe through you. The God kind of faith will cause you to believe for things when you don’t even know how they’ll happen. And it probably won’t make sense in your mind, but you have to allow your spirit to rise higher than your thinking. Don’t talk yourself out of believing. Don’t focus on all the reasons why not, instead allow God’s faith to rise up within you. Meditate on His Word that says, you can do all things through Christ and you are strong in the Lord and the power of His might. As you allow God’s faith to flow through you, He’ll take you places you’ve never dreamed. You will rise higher and higher and live the abundant life the Lord has for you!

A Prayer for Today

Heavenly Father, today I humbly open my heart to You. Use me for Your glory and have Your way in my life. I choose to believe in You and invite You to believe through me. In Jesus’ Name. Amen.

Flea Market Friday

Here are the few things that I had time to add for Flea Market Friday~ ~~~Pretty vintage hankie w/ violets~$3.50~Includes shipping.


~~Pretty pink heart pin cushion~$4 includes shipping~SOLD thanks Linda!





~~Unused linen vintage towel with colorful roosters~$5 includes shipping. SOLD!



Spring must be somewhere out there, snow possibly for Easter here, oh ick. Happy Easter to everyone!

A Quick Update....and Flea Market Friday

Hello Everyone!! Is spring finally here?? It felt almost like it today! I don't know anyone that isn't ready for spring. Someplace on this post I have pictures of my shelves with all my vintage Easter things. well the Peeps are new but they were too cute! Has anyone else had problems with post pictures?
Updates on life here...........My son went on spring break with his girlfriend to the Smoky Mountains and eloped. He told me before they went that is what the were planning but he called me today and said they did it. I hope they have a long happy marriage. They are young but they can make it. I think they were smart to save all that money and didn't get into that wedding trap.
I am now the proud owner of one of the 2 buildings I own. Not me and the bank but ME and only ME! The estate I have been working so hard on was tied into that building (a very long story how it came to be) I finally ended up with the building. It was an old diner and we had it open for a few years (my ex and I) called the Sanitary Lunch. What a name huh? I will post photos sometime of the front. It was exciting for me and I am not even 45 yet:-)

My frames are doing great and that is what I have been doing, as if I needed extra things to do. Here are a few more I have done. All are either sold or listed on Ebay with bids.

I am working on my new blog called Back Through Time's Bargain Beauties~it will fun things for sale at a really good price! Check it out in the near future!
I plan on visiting everyone soon. It has been so long since I have made my rounds. I miss everyone and please forgive me for my lack of blogging and visiting. Have a wonderful weekend!!


Flea Market Friday~~~~ Check out the other bloggers~Flea Market Friday
This might be confusing because I don't know what is going on with the way these photos are going in~all HTML or something.

~~~A cute little vintage bird pin~$7 SOLD~thank you Robin! includes shipping



~~~Vintage Garden Girl trivet~decals are on both sides!~~$9 includes shipping




~~Dainty Pink Towel w/ lace~$5 includes shipping

Flea Market Friday

I have been very busy lately, more than normal, that is something for different post~I did want to be in the Friday Flea Market so here goes............................




This post might say it is earlier but I promise it went on AFTER midnight, I must be too tired to figure out how to do the link with the widget, (forgive me Polly, I will figure it out!) Here is the link to everyone else Flea Market Friday
I don't have much time this week but thought I would offer a few little things. Just comment if you want anything and I will have to send you an Pay Pal invoice.
Happy Friday!!

These are cute little tiny plastic blue bird buttons~There are darling!
$2.50 that includes shipping.
Sold! Thank you Becca!!


This is a beautiful German Easter post card~brilliant colors!!~$6 that includes shipping.










These are original unused vintage feather decals~colorful!
$4 that includes shipping.

This is a small pair of cottage
prints in little metal frames~
$12 that includes shipping
SOLD~thanks Nancy!



This is a small little 4-leaf clover
press~$4.50 includes shipping

A pretty two-piece
Sterling candle holder w/ insert/both marked Sterling~Great aged patina~
$12 that includes shipping

This Week Went FAST!

I can not believe how fast these weeks are flying by! It will be spring here soon and I am not even half way through my winter projects. Does anyone else have winter projects? I think it makes the winter go so much faster. I look at winter as a cozy nesting time. Maybe I am crazy but hey it works for me, lol.
Besides working I have had time to design a rhinestone frame from vintage jewelry, you know how I like my collage work:-) You can see it on Ebay here. It is so sparkling in pinks and aquas.
I finished up another lampshade and it sits atop of a cute little terrier dog lamp. It is for sale in my antique mall at the moment but might list it in Etsy or Ebay. Poor little puppy gets lost under the fringe!

I was hoping to make a longer post here but I have customers coming into the store. Maybe I will add another one sooner than I have been!
Hope everyone has a great weekend!

Here is an add.....my business card holder I just finished tonite!! You can find it for sale here.

Happy Valentine's Day!

I haven't had much time for anything fun lately but I did want to make sure I wished everyone a Happy Valentine's Day!! My attached man is taking me to a nice romantic restaurant for dinner and that is always special. No big plans though, the usually candy exchange~hopefully he will get me my usual~Godivas, the dark ones are my favorites!

The Valentine Swap was fun and it was my 1st one. This is what I sent to my swap partner. I had a fun time with it and was hard to stop once I got started, lol. We had a pink theme going for both of us.







this is what my swap partner sent to me~Laura from Laura'sPretties~Isn't that little mailbox darling!? It was filled with all sorts of fun stuff!! She has a really pretty website too!








Gotta run but hope you all have a
Happy Valentine's Day!!!

Pretties & an Award!

I received a You Make My Day Award from Michelle over at I'm A Little Teapot, Thank you Michelle! That was so sweet of you to think of me!! I need to pass this on and I would love to pass it on to everyone I visit but I will have to pick 2~Lisa at A Thing for Roses and Casii at Granny Panty Chic.

Nothing much has been going on this week, Let's see..........I am still recovering from bronchitis and Tuesday I coughed so hard I cracked my rib, talk about pain! You just don't realize how much your ribs are involved in what you do, and nothing cuts a sneeze off faster than the sharp pain of a cracked rib, LOL. I haven't had a good sneeze in days. We were suppose to get a big snowstorm Thursday but it wasn't big at all:-( we only got around 6 inches, what a bummer I wanted to have the store closed for a snow day. I did open late, no way I could shovel so I had to wait on someone to come in and do that.
Tonight is date night but it will be VERY casual, the only thing I want to be is comfy this weekend. Flannel pants all day tomorrow!

My living room is still full of vintage clothes, linens, hankies, gloves, and lots of other estate goodies. No place else for the stuff to go so for now instead of a Christmas tree I have a clothing rack. I love having stuff to sort!! When I buy, I buy in bulk and I buy it cheap! LOL that is the only way to get it:-)

This photo of all the pink pretties is in my living room. It isn't decorated for Valentine's Day but I think it would work if I just tucked a few pink ones in here and there. I just love pink roses. The lampshade I made out of a damaged Victorian velvet and trimmed it with old metallic trim. The other photo that has the flue covers is also in my living room. I love to be surrounded by antiques and I really like my roses!

I need to get my Heart Swap stuff finished and shipped out on Monday. I do hope my partner likes her things. We are doing all pink and I have had a hard time to come up with all pink Valentine things. As soon as she gets it I will post photos of what I sent. Does anyone ever worry if their partner will like what they have sent? This was my 1st swap and I guess those thoughts have just gone through my mind. Here is a peek of what I have for her.

I don't really care who wins the Super Bowl I just hope there are some great commercials! Have a fun weekend!!