Meet the Knights Ferry Boutique

I wanted to introduce all of you to my friends at the Knights Ferry Boutique. They are a talented mother-daughter duo who create uniquely-sewn items. The mom, Pam, is an excellent seamstress and sews purses, jackets, pillows, and tea towels.

Entry at the Knights Ferry Boutique

Here's the entrance of the Knights Ferry Boutique. How quaint it is! Doesn't this entry just promise that there will be one-of-a-kind treasures inside? I just love the little, white picket fence!

Welcoming and cozy!

Pam is getting ready to remodel these front steps into a larger front porch. How fun! I can imagine the treasure troves of items she'll be able to display. I think it's just adorable as it is now!

Handmade purses and jewelry

Here's what their store looks like inside. For those of you near the town of Knights Ferry, it is worth the trip. Otherwise, the mother-daughter duo have an online store on Etsy found here. You can see they sell other items too like hand-painted signs, stylish jewelry, and hand-knit baby items.

Pam and Wendi with a customer

Here's a picture of my sweet friend, Pam (sitting), and her very cute daughter, Wendi (in the red). Come stop by and see them! Their location is 17631 Sonora Road, Oakdale, CA 95361. Their phone number is (209) 881-3378.

Knights Ferry's Peddler Faire

Early to the show we go, coffees and pastries in hand. Anita and I started off a little after 6:00 am this morning. We wanted to get to the Peddler Faire early. On the way there were so many Yard Sales, Oh! what to do?? Stop of course, we were finding all of these great things and buying them too. We needed to save room for what ever we bought at the faire also. So finally we said, " let's not stop anymore until we get to the faire". We were not disapointed, there were so many venders and great things to buy. We filled our bags and arms and returned to the SUV to unload everything. Hurry let's get back and find some more, we had so much fun.........

This is artist Michelle Maher she paints signs, furniture, ladders, etc. Michelle has the support of her dear husband, son, father and mother. They are such a wonderful family. Michelle has been so nice to paint some custom signs for The Green Pea and they are sooooo cute.

Here is Anita with Lucy (with a muzzle and a tummy harness) walking along with us, Lucy is not very fond of other dogs.....that is why she wears a muzzle. There is my friend Margarete waving. Anita is holding my paper holder/cutter that came from the old Knox dress shop that was in Sonora on Main Street for many, many years. It would make a sweet little shelf, I will take some pictures and show them later...

Tiramisu is growing up

Tiramisu is the sweetest little chicken, she runs so fast and gets on everything that is high. She is always on top of something. I found her a little friend so that she could have some company. I was telling one of my customers about them and she asked if I would please take a chicken of hers that was getting pecked to death by all her other chickens!!! Oh yes! I said, I will be right over to get her. So we have three happy chickens now, so far they all get along well together... I will have pics of all of them soon.


Tiramisu looking down at her friends as she walks the railing of the patio chair.


Tiramise looking pretty on the garden bench. I think she really likes her picture taken...

Escalon's Red Hat Ladies

Last week I had the pleasure of having about thirty of The Red Hat Ladies come in and browse the Green Pea. They all remembered over the years when The Pea was a hardware store and they like the transformation to an antique store. The Hat Ladies had just finished eating a wonderful lunch next door at Leonardo's Cafe. Lets see now! have a nice lunch with friends and then shop, sounds like a good time to me......



Look at the very pretty lady showing me her hat decorated with lots of flowers. Red and purple they were everywhere all over the store........



This is Phyllis standing with the ladies at Leonardo's. Just getting ready to visit with me.


Here they are getting their picture taken, we could not fit all of them in at once. So we took a few more pictures. Thank you ladies for the visit. Blessings, Sandi

Mr. Pea's Custom Bookcases

I mentioned in a prior post that Mr. Pea went out to visit our daughter in Texas for 5 days. My daughter likes to sew and she has a spare bedroom upstairs in her house that she had converted into a sewing room. She was running out of space to keep all of her fabrics, so she asked her dad to build her some built-ins with shelving. To keep the integrity of the bedroom in case it ever needed to be converted back, they created two "bookcases" on either side of a window and a window seat. The window seat has three drawers in it for her to keep her patterns.

My daughter took pictures for me of their busy week and just sent them my way. They ran out of time and didn't get the entire project completed, but I think it turned out just fabulous! Plus it gives Mr. Pea another excuse to visit our daughter again.

Our daughter is thrilled with the way it turned out.

Mr. Pea in his Texas workshop

Mr. Pea showed up for the task with a suitcase full of all kinds of goodies---a sander, nail guns, glues, clamps, etc. We were all surprised he got through security at the airport!

Routing the side of the bookcases

The bedroom is pictured below. The wall with the window is where the bookcases will go. Mr. Pea thought it was best to assemble the bookcases in the room itself since they were supposed to go to the ceiling.

The sides of the bookcases with the routed edges

Measuring to be sure the cases were "square"

Mr. Pea and Brad nailing in the backing

Sliding the first bookcase into place

Two cases installed!!

The window seat barely squeezed in!

Trimming the outside of the cases

Just beautiful!

Mr. Pea even added moulding to the top and to the baseboard

The bookcases caulked and sanded

This was as far as Mr. Pea got on the project. The hard part is over! Our daughter will cut and trim the shelving herself, then paint. She plans on sewing a window treatment and a matching seat cushion. Next time Mr. Pea goes out, he will complete the drawers.

I think Mr. Pea loves his daughter; don't you??

An Easter Chick

My darling chick, Tiramisu

Three weeks ago, as I was driving home from work, I saw something run across the street in front of me. It was a little black blur! I stopped alongside the road and combed the two-foot tall grass to discover a tiny little chick. It was peeping and its mommy was nowhere in sight. Being the softhearted, animal-lover that I am, I had to take it (he? she?) home.

The little chick was so hungry and thirsty! After getting it fed, we cuddled for awhile before I put it in a bird cage. I decided to name it "Tiramisu."

I have begun to let Tiramisu sleep in the bathroom at night, at least until it warms up outside. During the day I turn it loose to wander around my backyard and eat the bugs. As soon as the sun goes down in the evenings, I can hear it peeping on the back doorstep from inside the house. When I open the back door, Tiramisu hops right in and walks to the bathroom to go to bed. Since it is growing larger by the minute, I am hoping it will stay outside at night soon!

Historic Knights Ferry Gold Country Peddler's Faire

Now! this is a great faire, antiques, collectables and crafts. The food is great and admission is free, come rain or shine they will be there....8 am to 4 pm. Located by the covered bridge and Army Corp Park along the Stanislaus River. Sunday, April 26, 2009 there will be over 100 dealers.