Working, Playing, and Winning...

I want to share with you my bouquet that I made out of the flowers in my yard. I just mixed them all up and made a very colorful arrangement. It sits on my dresser like it always does so that when I wake up in the mornings I will see them. These smell so good! I love the scent of Gardenia's. Don't they look 'cottagy'?

I also wanted to share with you some good news! This is my booth at the Vendor's market. The lady that owns it decided to start having a contest every week on who could have the best looking booth. The prize is a $25.00 gift certificate to spend in the store. Well...I love competition...I always have. Guess what? She called me a few days ago and told me that my booth was the winner for this week! I was so excited! The first week of the contest and I won! Isn't that cool?

I decided to do it in a tropical theme. I have been feeling really 'beachy' lately. I love summertime. I cleaned out some things out of my storage building and was able to come up with a lot of tropical things. Most of it, I had left over from when I use to have the tanning salon. The name of my shop was called"Tropical Tan".

It was fun decorating it and getting all of the stuff together to go in it. Stevie was a lot of help. He hung the burlap on the walls and put the bamboo at the bottom. I wrapped the little shelves with 'tropical fish' gift wrap and cut up an old dust ruffle to hang at the top. We also cut a piece of old indoor/outdoor carpet to put at the bottom to look like water. It really is a colorful booth. I cut out several pictures out of a Coastal Living magazine to put in the frame sitting on the floor.

What do y'all think? I was so excited when Stephanie called me! I told her that I already knew what I wanted to spend my certificate on. She has a pretty little rolling tea -cart in one of the vendor's booths. I told her that I really wanted it and she said "Well, it's yours!" I was so glad that it was still there! It is made out of rattan and it is stained brown...that's OK because Mrs. Rebecca at A Gathering of Thoughts says that Zinnser primer will cover anything! I had to of course make another trip to Lowe's to get some! I will be priming and painting it soon! I will have do a post about it .

Now I'm planning how I will decorate my booth the next time. Maybe a 4th of July theme? I better get started!