Church Rummage Sale

It's beginning to be that time of year again, when churches and other organizations start having rummage and tag sales. There are even some yard sales posted in the classifieds. I just love this time of year! You can see it in thrift shoppers' eyes, the thrill of the hunt and the joy of finding a treasure, but most importantly, a treasure at a great deal!! I found a few good treasures at the rummage sale I attended today. I got there about 20 mins after they opened. I saw women walking out with large bags, that's when my heart started to beat with excitment and then anxiety that I should have come earlier and might have missed out on some good finds. I entered the church and found the sale to be small, but having a variety of goods (mostly clothes - unfortunately!). First searching through the games: no luck, then the household goods: no luck, linens: no luck, however I did score a cute frame, a halloween craft kit and a boyds bear. Not much for the supply store, but some great things I can repurpose for the craft store. Tomorrow is my first yard sale of the season. With cash in hand, I hope to find something grand!! Watch Out People - I'm shopping here!!

Celebrate Champlain

A long time ago, in fact, 400 years ago in 1609, Samuel de Champlain discovered Lake Champlain. This summer, Vermont is celebrating this event with many historical and cultural events around the region.

Being Isle LaMotte residents, this celebration is of particular importance to us. Isle LaMotte is the first spot in Lake Champlain that Samuel de Champlain visited, accompanied by other French explorers and a handful of Indians. It has been noted that Champlain said the island was covered with the most beautiful pines he had ever seen.

Please check out the site http://www.celebratechamplain.org/ for more information on the history of the lake and information on the exciting events taking place throughout the summer.

Stay tuned to learn about the event that Nook & Cranny is planning to host. We are just awaiting approval from the VT Tourism Department.

Shelburne Farms-Shelburne Museum

This is a building at Shelburne Farms, located in Shelburne Vermont.

Don't you wish you could live here. We have been told that a very wealthly family named the Webb's owned all the property, they were the builders and the idea behind the Shelburne Museum also in Shelburne.

This property is so beautiful, with rolling fields and lawns along side the shoreline of Lake Champlain. Can't say we had ever been here before!

This place was one stop on our list of places for our field trip. We were glad we found the place, we shall visit again when the weather gets warmer. The lambs in the pics live here.

More Baby Sheep, Twins

Here are twin baby sheep, enjoy!!

Baby Sheep are the cutest ever

Here is the baby sheep photo we promised, we hope you enjoy. We think this is a Hallmark moment!!

Farm Yard Field Trip

This year we will be opening the gift shop early to mid June. Yesterday we went on our field trip, we need fresh/new photos for our greeting cards for the shop. We love to take pic's of animals, they sell well in the shop. We searched the web to find farms in our local areas. We found a small farm that was on our list. We were greeted by a very pleasant lady that was more than willing to allow us to take photos of her animals. She brought us into her small barn, and much to our delight there were hours old baby sheep. Needless to say we got some awesome pics. We will post in a few days for you to see. We thank the lady for her time and kindness. We also went to some beautiful property, Shelburne Farms. There they had some roosters, rabbits, hens and more lambs. There we managed to get some awesome kodak moments. As my daughter calls them "a moment captured in time to never be seen in that way again" She loves pictures!

Blogging - It's Essential!!

Mom and I have been trying to figure out how to drive traffic to our online stores, http://www.aclosetoftreasures.etsy.com/ and http://www.nookcrannygifts.etsy.com/. It looks like social media is the way to go! We've been thinking that blogging is a key to this, as we have come across many other crafters who have had great success in their ETSY stores and much of the traffic comes from blog referrals. So here we are...finally blogging! Stay tuned for some fun information about our shop, online stores and the fun that we have finding treasures and crafting materials.