A box full of surprises

My hubby said to me, i will be picking up a surprise for you at 10 o'clock. A surprise? Ooooh!!!
Ok. Let me tell you this about myself. I love surprises. But i don't. I am bad with surprises. I want to know. But then when i get asked, ok, shall i tell you what the surprise is, i say, no, i don't want to know. And i ask questions. A lot of questions.
Are you sure i will like it? Can i use it or is is for display? Is it vintage or is it something new? Where did you get it? And again, will i really like it?
So i kept bugging my hubby with these questions until he went out to go get it.
The only thing he had told me about the surprise was that it was for my business.
Which made me even more confused. lol.
When he came home he was holding a big vintage box! I already loved it.
Told me to close my eyes while he put the box down in the middle of the living room floor. Made me sit down. And one by one he pulled out all these adorable figurines out of the box!

My heart jumped with joy with every cutie that appeared!
How sweet are these? How sweet is my husband for getting me all these?
Most of them are vintage or will be vintage in a few years. But i don't even care about the dates, these are precious no matter what!

Hubby told me these were for my business in the way that if i didn't want to keep them here, i could sell them. No hard feelings of selling something that was given to me, there was permission to do so. And no bad feelings towards the figurines, they had lived with their previous owner for so long, that they didn't mind going on adventures and travel to new places.
How adorable.
I love.

Squirrel Cameo

Something is coming. Can't say too much. Cute thrifted squirrel will be included. She will have a cameo.
This is her pre-appearance.
I'm still here. Just working hard and prepping lot of cute and creativeness!

Getting ready for date night

Miss Kitty is getting ready for her special date with Mr. Big.

(thrifted miniatures and dresser from the re-ment strawberry line)

Edit: Kitty figurine now listed in the shop: Find her here.

Vintage For Sale

I was thinking if i would have had a brick and mortar store somewhere, there wouldn't only be items for sale that were handmade, there would definitely also be cute and/or crafty vintage items on the shelves. So why not in my Etsy shop? I'm not going to open a separate shop for the vintage items. Because i have no idea yet how many vintage items i will list and for how long i will be doing so. (plus it's easier to maintain and promote just one etsy shop, there is already a group of people that know their way to my shop, and i will try to keep the vintage items somewhat relevant to my 'ismoyo' style; cute and crafty).

You like this cute unicorn? It will go up for sale soon!
Now listed in the shop here!

Giveaway Winners Announced!

Thank you all for entering my 500th post celebration giveaway! Happy to see the sweet comments coming in and getting to know some more of my readers. Not many seemed to be interested in my decorating books, but most of you really liked the cute goodies, so i've decided to change giveaway package #4 into a surprise package filled with cute goodies! Share the cuteness!

My Vintage ceramic friends were happy to help me with the Lucky draw...

The five lucky winners are:

Package #1: Debbie Hill. Girl, i love that you collect shopping lists! I will send you one or so along with the package ok?

Package #2: Tess! It is nice to know where some of the goodies are going to!

Package #3: Sarah from Girl Land. Love your blog and Etsy shop!

Surprise Cuteness Package #4: Jessica from Funky Finds. I will gather a package of cuteness for you. You loved the elephant totebag from the other package, i have a similar Sweet Face tote bag but it's not an elephant. I will put it in your package, what is it? A surprise!

Package #5: Anne from GreenJello! Hope your crafty hands can use some of the supplies!

I will email you all today for your snail mail addresses!

i love sundays

i do love Sundays soo much
they are my catching up days
everything i do, and get done is as a bonus
what ever i feel like
the day before the next week starts
mental preparation
rest and reflection
i like to do some tiding up
spend a little bit of time on something that keeps getting postponed
listen to a lot of music
catch up on long overdue emails
work out craft ideas
finish half done projects
drink tea
things like that
and if the sun is shining (like today)
and the birds are singing (like they do today)
i love sunday lovely sunday