This is my newest Chinese Checkers design.  Given the atmosphere that seems to be pervading the country at this time, I thought I would make a checkerboard designed with our founding principles in mind.  Do we still have liberty or do we have tyranny?  You decide.  Let us not forget the valuable price that was paid for our freedom.  This board sells for $55.00 plus S&H and includes glass marbles.

Here are some new items I've added recently.  I decided to make some mini-notebooks like my large journals only they are just 4 1/2 inches by 3 inches.  Many of them have the same pictures as the larger journals and they come with a mini pencil.  They are 4.50 each plus S&H.  I also covered a few more antique books in vintage fabrics and have a feather or a charm attached.  They sell for $13.00 ea.  And last but not least, a couple of make-do pin cushions from some vintage fabrics on a candle stick.  They sell for $22.00 each.

I opened my second booth at St. Mary's Antique Mall on April 1, 2014.  I am so excited and it is right across the aisle from my first booth!  For those of you who don't know where St. Mary's is, it is about 8 or 9 miles south of Ste. Genevieve, Mo. on old Hwy 61.  Here are a few pictures.  I've added some different furniture pieces that are hand-made right here in Missouri.  Love the big old document box in the second picture.  The child's drop leaf table is an antique piece and so cute.

Here are some of the new items I have just finished for the 2013 Christmas season.  These are journals I covered with papers I aged myself.  They are available in Washington, Jefferson or Lincoln and include a twig pencil.  They are $9.00 ea.

Some new journals to add to my collection of men's journals.  I've added Young George Washington (he's not just some old dead dude on the dollar bill!), a beautiful Indian painting by George Catlin, Daniel Boone and Lewis & Clark.  I've also made some journals for the ladies covered in vintage fabrics with some of my favorite heroines: Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, Molly Pitcher, and some cute colonial folk art paintings of little girls.  I've added a white feather quill ink pen to go with the ladies journals.  They are also $9.00 ea. plus S&H.  Fabric colors may vary.

These are some cute new pin keeps I hand-stitched.  I got the patterns from the Blue Attic.  I've also covered some antique books with vintages fabrics and gave them hand-sewn or copies of old paper covers.  I just love the "Sinners in the hands of an angry God" sermon preached by Edwards during the Colonial period.  It caused the Great Awakening in America.  I think we need to hear that sermon again!

It's been awhile since I added to my blogspot, so I thought I would catch everyone up.  I have been very busy through the Christmas season and it is now February and I'm not slowing down.  Last month I opened a booth in St. Mary's Antique Mall near Ste. Genevieve, MO and it is doing really well.  I call it a store within a store.  I offer a lot of hand-made items made by myself plus some from other talented craftsmen in the U.S.  I have hand-made furniture, primitives, colonial and a few antiques.