Newest Issue of Mercantile Gatherings Magazine Listed on eBay!

New Spring Issue of Mercantile Gatherings listed on eBay!

The perfectly primitive magazine for all you prim lovers out there! 

CLICK HERE 

New Vintage Palette Art Prints Available on Etsy.....and a GIVEAWAY!

Stop by my Etsy shop to see my new 5x7 art prints made from some of my original acrylic canvas mixed media art. These prints would look adorable in a 5x7 black frame and grouped together to make a stunning display!

Professionally printed with a lustre finish on professional photo paper. Shipped in a cello resealable bag in a heave cardboard mailer.

Right now I have five designs available. One is my Bunnita Bunny print...

 and the other four are my favorite of all holidays....Halloween!!

Luminista the head Ring Mistress of the Cirque du Halloween...

Vladmira the Vampiress...

The Queen of Halloween...

and my Halloween Pumpkin Girl...

(Just click on any of their above pics to go to my Etsy shoppe.)

And to be entered in my print giveaway for your choice of one of these prints...

1. Simply leave a comment here with your favorite of the five pictured above and why.

2. LIKE my Vintage Palette Art Facebook page for a second chance to win.

3.  ADMIRE my Etsy shoppe for a third chance to win!

4. Add a link to this post to your Facebook page for a fourth chance to win!

Please let me know how many of the above you have done when you leave your comment....thank you!

The Lucky Winner will be announced on Sunday Evening August 26th!

Good Luck and Thank You for entering!! 

Fall Issue of Mercantile Gatherings Magazine!

The Fall 2011 Issue of Mercantile Gatherings is now listed for sale on eBay!

For all you Prim Lover's out there....hurry and get yours today!

***Note: Sold all 15 copies of the first one and just relisted another 10! Get yours today!***

Just click on the picture above!

New Vintage Palette Art Auction on Ebay.....

May I introduce to you....

"Little Miss Sunshine"

 Hand painted wooden trinket box.

 Lined inside and penny rug fingers cut from the pages of a 100 year old book.

Listed on ebay as a 5 day auction. I hope you will stop by to look at her and add her to your watch list...

CLICK HERE

Happy Spring!

Autumn Sunflower Lazy Susan Listed...

I've listed this OOAK lazy susan on ebay last evening. Painted on a recycled wooden lazy susan...


This would be perfect to display your special treats if you are having a fall or Halloween party with pumpkin-like face...


The wooden cone shaped base allows it to spin with ease...


The perfect decoration in place of a vase of flowers for in the middle of your dining room table!

Here is the AUCTION LINK so you can go take a look.

Happy Fall Y'All!

PFATT Tuesday Offering on Ebay...

PFATT Tuesday is here! The members of the Primitive Folk Art Talk & Tea ebay group are doing a themed challenge and the theme is "Miss October 31st". You will have to stop by and check out all the amazingly creative PFATT Tuesday auctions by CLICKING HERE.

And here is my contribution to PFATT Tuesday! May I introduce to you......Elizabeth, "Miss October 31st"!

"Mirror, Mirror in my hand...
who's the fairest in the land?"

Since winning the title of "Miss October 31st", Elizabeth just can't stop looking at herself in the mirror and admiring her new crown and sash. I guess you could say that winning the title has "went to her head". ;o)

Hand painted on a vintage wooden hand held mirror with acrylic paints and using vintage papers, black mica flakes, german glass glitter and a very unique vintage celluloid button.

Elizabeth was a joy to create! I hope you will stop by to see HER AUCTION. She ends next Tuesday evening...July 27 at 9:45pm EDT-6:45pm PDT.

Back Issue of Mercantile Gatherings Magazine

I have only 2 of this back issue available on eBay. If you have never tried this magazine and you are into primitives, then you must try it! They have free patterns available in each issue that make it worth the price just for those alone.

Each isse is full of primitive shops, homes, decorating ideas, down home stories, ebay and website directory and much more!

This is the Autumn 2008 issue and once these two are gone, I won't have any more of this one available.

Hurry and get yours today! CLICK HERE to buy!

Wonderful Sisters...........

I belong to two very amazing eBay groups..........both EHAG and PFATT. This spring, each of these groups had a swap and I signed up to do both. In an earlier post, I shared the gifts that I got to send and now I want to share with you all what I received. I know that the saying goes......."It's better to give than receive" but it's SO much fun to get to unwrap these special treats when they arrive! =o)

Here are my PFATT swap gifts before their unwrapping.........


Here are all the goodies that I received from Pam of Softinthehead for the PFATT Swap! OH MY!!!!!!! I was once lucky girl! Thank you so much Pam for all the sweet gifts! Your little mousie is so cute! I love my little pumpkin guy! The Bethany Lowe garland is so yummy! I love the Martha Stewart tags and my card! The witch sign and the wax ornie are perfect! You were way too good to my girlfriend!! =o)


And below is my wonderfully sweet EHAG swap gift that I received from Amelia aka Sweet B Folk Art! Isn't he adorable??? And she gave me the cutest card and some Smarties candy to fill him up with! Jadyn's favorite candy is Smarties, so this made her extra happy!!


So a big "Thank You" SweetB!! I will treasure my little treat jar forever!!! Oh and I almost forgot that she sent me the sweetest little vintage five and dime store charm bracelet to use in creating my art! Can't wait to use the little skull charm!

Hugs..........

New Painting on EBay Listed Tonight!

I just listed this new 12"x12" chunky canvas painting on eBay this evening! This is the largest canvas painting that I have done to date.

Her name is Saffron the Sunflower Diva and those icy robin egg blue eyes just pop off the canvas at you!

Just click on any of her pictures to go see her eBay auction!

Saffron ends next Friday evening May 29th at 9:00pm EST-6:00pm PDT.

Have a great weekend everyone!

This Past Weekend's Show Display.............

I thought I would share some pics of our set up in the hallway from this past weekend's show. We were set up in the hallway outside of the cafeteria. So we really got to spread out. We kept our display right up against the lockers so our customers could see easier and with it all spread out, they had more room to view things without having people standing in their way.


Some little prim dollies in our black cradle........


Our awesome podium that we take to shows. A special thank you to Stacey or Tattered 'n Torn Prims and her hubby for custom making this for us several years back. I purchased the vintage ceiling tin tile off of eBay. It came from a saloon in Montana! See Joycee's Mischief black cat sitting up there for all to admire?


There's Penelope standing there! Lots of people bought tickets for a chance to win her at the show..........


Prim goodies, Mercantile Gatherings magazines in the fall basket and Laura's stacked pumpkin blocks. Those little block sayings in the bowl were a hit! They have the cutest sayings on them!


You can see how long our dispay was in this pic...........


A special THank You to Joycee, Memo, Laura, Lincoln and Riley for helping us haul in, set up, and tear down! We got it all done in record time!! YEAH!!!


Our Ohio State Buckeyes section was very popular with the shoppers there.......


Our black Halloween tree with little prim ornies. Best comment of the show overheard by Memo...."Oh.....it's a black tree.........Oh, it's a halloween tree................Oh, that's wrong............that's just all wrong." Some people just don't get it! I should write a book on all the overheard comments made at shows.........LOL!


Our vintage door with our ceiling tin tile star. We also use vintage shutters to hang things from. Why is it that everyone always wants to by our display pieces? LOL


Joycee's newest style dolls are sitting on top of the cupboard. They are paper clay over cloth and I'm trying to talk her into listing at least one on eBay. Leave your comments on this post to try to convince her too. She thinks people won't like them because they are different than her other dolls. Let's all convince her otherwise............


Show sales were down from last year, but we expected that with everything that is going on with the economy and this being election year too.

Wish you all could have came to see us! Remember that our Village Gift Shoppe Fall Open House is this weekend too! We hope you have time to stop by and see us at 106 N. Walnut Street in historical Gnadenhutten, OH. We'll have free door prizes and refreshments for all!



And don't forget to sign up for a chance to win Miss Penelope pumpkin. Tickets are 50 cents each or 3 for $1.00. We'll draw the lucky winners name on Sunday October 19th at the end of the day when we draw the door prize winners names..........

New Fall Issue Mercantile Gatherings Magazine..........

I have the newest Fall issue of Mercantile Gatherings magazine listed for sale on eBay with a BIN price of $7.95 for all you primitive lovers out there.........


This wonderfully primitive magazine features 67 glossy heavyweight pages filled with primitive shops, homes, articles, patterns, website and business directory and even an ebay directory!

This issues Featured Designer is Together for Christ Folk Art, Featured Home is Harveting History in Southern Illinois, Featured Shop is Sugar Bucket Antiques & Free Pattterns are Mrs. Squashworth by Veenas Mercantile-Prim Little Scarecrow by T.F.C. Folk Art-Blessed be the Name of the Lord by Twigs-Crow Lighted Box by Piney Creek.

Silent Flight Tag on eBay!

I've listed another in my series of hand made hang tags. This is the one that I have entitled "Silent Flight". Just imagine how quietly they would glide over that marsh on a moonlit night? We all know how quietly those bats can zip around..........*shiver*


The twisted wire hangers are hand made by me and I bend them into the shape of stars to match the ones that I hand stitch on with cream colored quilter's thread, which I then coffee stain to make them look more aged. I also use vintage buttons that I try very hard to match up with the looks of the prints that I choose.


I have to share this story about an email that I received through eBay about one of my tag auctions. The sender was not anyone that I knew but her question was, "Is this price for just ONE tag?" Well.........I replied back that it was. I tried to explain to her how many steps go into creating just that one tag. Evidently this person was not an artist or she would have never asked that question.............=D

If you would like to go see this tag on eBay...................just CLICK HERE.

"Little Ghost Witch" on eBay.........

I listed this little Halloween collage on eBay last evening. A little framed collage that was created from a thrift store framed print that has been recycled. I just love to create art from cast off items!


I love doing these frames with the penny rug finger borders....


And hand painted the background with this black tree and crows.....


Just CLICK HERE if you would like to see it on eBay!

Third in my Series of Witchy Hang Tags....

I hope you all have time to stop by eBay and take a peek at the third in my series of BeWitching Hang Tags. This one I have done before and I absolutely love it!


I even hand shaped and made the rusty twisted wire hanger that matches the hand stitched stars on the tag. I always use vintage buttons on my tags also....I just like the little vintage touch that it adds to them........


I paint them and sand them to make them look more timeworn and the hand stitching is so much fun to do!


CLICK HERE to go see it on eBay. This auction ends this coming Sunday evening at 9:30pm EST.

"Silent Flight" Hang Tag on eBay!

Here's the sister tag to the one that ended last night! I painted this tag cream and added a repro print from the same illustrator. I Love the muted colors of these prints! Once again, I embellished it with hand stitching, a vintage button and a little hand painted bat down in the corner.

I hope you have time to stop by eBay and take a peek! This auction ends this Friday night at 9:30pm EST-6:30pm PST.

I've also been putting up all my auctions with FREE SHIPPING! You can't beat that!!!

CLICK HERE to see it on eBay! I guarantee that you won't be disappointed with the quality if you happen to be the lucky winner of this tag.

New Vintage*Palette Auction......Miss Candy Corn Queen

This little candy corn cutie is one of my favorites! I painted her on a canvas print that I found at the local thrift shop! The frame was already the right color so I didn't have to do a thing to it.

I painted over the print with acrylic paints and Miss Candy Corn Queen was born! She has real german glass glitter added to her crown and on her dress to make her sparkle in the moonlight!

I hope you have time to stop by and take a peek at her eBay auction before she ends on Friday June 6th at 9:00pm.