New Etsy Items

Here are the latest items i have just listed in my shop

 TalkoftheTown   on ETSY

 My shop has vintage and handmade jewelry, house wares, up-cycled clothing and vintage clothing.

 Blue beaded bracelet

Vintage red beaded necklace

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You can also check out my other shop on ETSY:

KOOKY HANDBAGS

for handbags, clutch purses and totes, scented sachets and pillow cases and key chains.

I have two shops on ETSY.com and they have this fun activity, making Treasuries. You can feature your favorite items and choose a theme.  It's very addictive and i enjoy it so much. If you're extremely lucky and your treasury is popular you can get your treasury on the Front Page which is a big deal.  Here is my latest treasury:

 Purple Orange Love

If you want to you can leave a comment. Much appreciated!

Handbags Handbags, and yes, Handbags

I haven't been keeping up with my blog for quite sometime. I would like to post design related projects and ideas, and items. I'll try for once per week. I may feature interior design, or fashion design. If anyone wants to give me suggestions for projects or items let me know in the comments.


Here's some 2012 spring handbags that i admire from Pinterest. Which is your fave?

Source: click.adstexpress.com via Victor on Pinterest

Source: click.adstexpress.com via Victor on Pinterest

Source: etsy.com via Tricia on Pinterest

Source: static.artfire.com via Tricia on Pinterest

Source: cache1.bigcartel.com via Tricia on Pinterest

Source: static.artfire.com via Tricia on Pinterest

Source: static.artfire.com via Tricia on Pinterest

Source: img509.imageshack.us via Tricia on Pinterest

Victoria, BC and Seattle, Washington trip

Victoria, BC and Seattle, Washington trip, a set on Flickr.

These are my trip pictures from March of Seattle WA, and Victoria BC. Had a great time with my big sis. It rained quite a bit and destroyed 2 umbrellas. Lots of great coffee shops and I loved Pike Place Mk. where they have the original Starbucks. I also loved visiting Beacon Hill Park in Victoria with their petting zoo, especially the miniature pigs.

Let's play dress up your pooch

The other week i was sorting out my scarves seeing which ones i want to keep and give the rest to the Goodwill. Yes, i have too many. My Lulu beagle basset girl happened to be on the bed while i sorted and i decided to play a little dress-up. Usually she will not comply with having any kind of clothing on her, but i think she was so sleepy she didn't care. When she was around 6 months old i bought her a pink and brown hounds-tooth patterned sweater but when i attempted to put it on it was a real struggle. I tried numerous times and finally managed to get in on but she began to bite at the rear area and looked quite uncomfortable and not at all into sporting a fall sweater. I had thoughts of parading her down the street and have people oooh and ahhh at how cute she looked. Well, i found out that Lulu was not a dress-up pooch. Chihuahua's, Malties, toy poodles and other small breeds tend to tolerate being made to wear clothing. I contemplated a t-shirt that said 'Drama Queen', which Lulu happens to be, but my husband would be mortified to walk her with that on her backside. He insisted we have no pink, or rhinestones at all on her. I settled for a dark brown collar with little flowers in different colors. Steve was okay to walk her with that one though. So we both got what we wanted. Lulu couldn't' care less of course.

But anyhoo, i did have a little photo session fashion show with scarves ... luckily she didn't mind this time.

Pretty polka dots

Red and White bandana

This is an old tshirt of mine. She had it on for a full minute before she demanded me to take it off.

How cute is this??

Archie was spared the fashion show. He doesn't even wear a collar anymore because he kept losing them, most likely trying to get under fences in the backyard. I love this photo of him, albeit a bit blurry. He perfectly matches the Van Gogh chair.

Cottage trip

My husband and i went to his Uncle's cottage on Lake Rideau ...it's on the way to Ottawa, about an hour and a bit from the capitol city. It's only a 40 minute drive to St. Lawrence river.

This is the view from the dock. Nice huh?

We were delighted to see this hummingbird getting his sweet water from the feeder.

More shots of the hummingbird.

Alvin chipmunk was very sociable and ran around the deck as quick as a wink, and even jumped on Steven's leg for a moment. Cute.


We took the afternoon to explore the town of Brockville, it is on the St. Lawrence river. Land of the Thousand Lakes.

This is Canada's first train tunnel.

A lovely apt in downtown Brockville. I loved the Parisian-like balconies. Click on the photo to view the first floor balcony, it is just lovely!

So, we had a nice cottage stay for two nights, and were happy that the mosquitoes and bugs were not too bad. The lake was freezing, but Steven jumped in a few times. I was to chicken, but i did put my feet in and after 5 minutes i took them out ...it was too cold for moi.