Happy December! "Merry Ho Ho", the Elf on a Shelf, is back at our house this year and Little Caleb (age 7) is all about it. He drew the above drawing at school yesterday, which sealed the deal that Big Caleb and I have to be on our toes to keep the magic alive....
I hope you and your family have a wonderful Thanksgiving! Don't forget that Saturday is Small-Business Saturday - Let's support our local businesses as we can - Antique malls and flea markets, estate sales and auction companies, and local mom and pop shops need us...
I hope you're having a great week. I'm starting to work on the January 7-9 Antique Alley Arkansas Antique Show. Exhibitors are calling and signing up from all over, which is exciting. I'm looking forward to it, but I do need a little break. I'm excited about spending...
I am once again overwhelmed with gratitude for everyone who supported Bella Rustina last weekend. For the exhibitors who brought such a great variety of items to the customers who traveled from all over to support them. Multiple exhibitors had their best show ever,...
The boys had a great Halloween. We participated in a trunk or treat the weekend before last and I'm pretty proud of my 5-minute-Dollar-Tree-Monster. I bought white balloons, 2 sheets of white poster board, and a blue tablecloth for my creation. Some thought it looked...
Caleb had an awesome seventh birthday! The bouncy house arrived early, so Caleb bounced on that thing off and on from 11AM to after 7PM. I got in the bouncy house and jumped around and it was work! I don't know how all those kids bounced all day. We had around 20 kids...
My website went down a few times over the weekend and I finally fixed it yesterday. Of all weekends for my website of 10 years to have issues, it had to be a time when I have a gazillion exhibitors wanting into the Bella Rustina Modern Vintage Market, a bunch of ads...
I would have never thought I'd be this busy with the November 5-7 Bella Rustina a couple months ago. Big out of state shows booked their shows the same weekend so I knew for sure I'd struggle with getting exhibitors. It has been the complete opposite - I accidentally...
Last Thursday Joshua and I were stuck in the traffic caused by the overturned trailer full of cement blocks. It took us almost 2 hours to get from Maumelle to Conway, but it went by fast. We played I-Spy and I taught Joshua how to signal semi-trucks to honk. He was...