Barney's Work Day at The Green Pea

Hey Mom, do you have a little time to play ball with me? I am a little bored.


I think I will take a short nap. If someone comes in will you keep your voices down? I am so tired.


I think that it would be nice if I had a pillow or even better a soft new bed, this floor smashes my head.



Wish it was closing time, there is nothing for me to do and I miss my friend Logan. I want to play and all Mom does is work, talk, talk, talk and help customers.



I have just been promoted and this is my very own chair. I am now the store greeter and wear my tie to look professional. I can hardly keep the smile off of my face. How do you think I look?

My New Day Bed and Quilt

This is the iron double bed I bought this past summer. I can just see it in someones sun room.



I purchased two beautiful quilts this summer and this is the second one. It is about 80 years old and is so beautiful. The picture does not do it justice. The first quilt I put on one of my beds because I was having a Open House and it sold the first day. Oh! I really wanted it for myself too.



One nice feature about a double day bed it that you do not have to remove the pillows to take a little nap.


There are so many tiny stitches and this quilt feels so nice to the touch.



This iron bed is unique in that booth ends are the same height. It is painted a light grey and has a few chippies. The swags are so elegant, I wanted to keep it also but I do not have room for it in my house. I just love the colors in this quilt and think it looks so nice with the bed. I hope you all have a good evening.

The Lion's Club Fall Car Show

Escalon's Lion Club had a very successful Car Show this past Saturday. With over 280 cars entered, food courts, vendor booths, raffles, 50's music and just a lot of fun for family and friends. I think all of the shops and the Cafe were very busy on Main Street. The weather was cooler and we even had a few showers in the morning.




So many cars to look at. It was hard to pick just one car as your favorite, they were all so nice.



It was very nice to have the cars parked on the grass, it made the walking easy on the legs and it was cooler than the heated pavement. Important things when you get older!



The showers seem to clean the air and drop all the dirty dust on the beautiful old cars. Fortunately a few towels and a little elbow grease and they were sparkling clean again. Rain-rain go away! All these little boys want to play!



Here is Madison looking at all of the trophies for the winners in the car show. Madison came to help her Oma for the day at the store. Thank you sweetie for your help. I had a Fall Harvest Open House and it was a busy day for The Green Pea. The Oakdale Art Club had 20 members showing their art work in my store and that was a real treat. Thank you to all of the members for sharing your works. They are a friendly group with a lot to offer their members and the local communities. I was please to hear that they had some new sign ups for membership. A special thanks to Janet, Dorthy and Anita for looking after all of the art work, Friday and Saturday.

Oops! one more pic (blog meeting)

Fun Meeting New Blogging Friends

Last week I was asked by these three lovely blogging ladies to join them for breakfast . I know Miss Jean from In The Garden with Miss Jean and Becky from Sweet Cottage Dreams, but Dawn from Cottage State of Mind was new to all of us. So we met for a wonderful breakfast at the local Waffel Factory. We were all having a good time laughing, telling stories and talking about our families and of course our dogs. It was time for me to open, so we headed to the store for a few more hours of fun. Dawn had made a Pupcake for each of us, they were so cute. It had two 1930's Scotty dog candle holders on the top, she also used a 1930's plates to set the pupcakes on. Dawn found the Scotty dogs and plates in the attic of her 1930's Bungalow home. You can find the directions on how to make the cakes on her blog. She also had a copy of the cover of a 1930's Sunset with a sweet little girl and a Scotty made for each of us. Just for the record both Jean and Becky are the proud owners of Scotty dogs and they are all soooo cute too! Check out their blogs and you will see for yourself. Sweet Becky had a gift for us too, thank you for the cute little note pad, magnet and book marker. The day was so much fun that I hope we have another one soon.



Dawn holding her camera , Miss Jean and Becky holding their Pupcakes, how do you like B's green hat?



Dawn found just the right Fall color tie for her dog Sunny. I bet you look cute Sunny.

Burlap table Cloth

What do you think about covering a few of my display tables with burlap table clothes? I love the texture and color of burlap.

Two Sweeties and New Treasures

These two young ladies Camille and Josie had the sweetest little smiles. I just had to take their pictures. They bought a sign that read: No boys allowed ! for their bedroom. I hope that your brother gets the hint girls......

I have been finding trunks lately. I love them for coffee tables and also for storage of quilts and what ever.

Here are two new flower frogs. I have a collection of my own and I am always looking for unique frogs. I have some made of pottery, wire, iron & glass but my favorites are the wire ones.

Look at these little cuties, they are hand made and painted. They would be nice for the garden, patio and inside the home. They are vintage and in good condition. Just toooo sweet.

My truck was full and I needed to make two trips of treasures, I was lucky this time. It was all from Escalon, all of this from only two sales. I am trying to not buy projects, love to just clean the new treasures and put them in the store right away. Sooooo nice........ Well, I am not showing the truck because it has about 4 projects in there. Most of them are easy except for one dresser that needs painting. Just can not pass a real deal !!!