The Fabulous Farmhouse

Miniature Christmas Peeps

Gold Sugar Flecks Sprinkled Miniature Marshmallow JOY Peeps

Say that three times fast!

I have miniature Easter Peeps, Halloween Peeps and now available Christmas Peeps! Starting with gold sprinkled JOY shaped marshmallows, soon there will be red stars, chocolate mousse, and green trees (if I don’t eat them first).

In the store I have more out of stock items than I have hours in the day so if you need something sooner than later just let me know. There are also shelves and benches available and on the way in the store as well. I am just crazy busy and won’t be blogging regularly until after the upcoming Holidays but I will be here getting these minis ready to go, and finding balance in the month of December. On second thought, never mind the balance part, I’ll be here having fun and doing what I love doing. Making minis!

You may have noticed my facebook badge located here on the blog? If you haven’t become a fan yet please do because I don’t want you missing out on more new miniatures, more sales, reviews, and discussions. I did begin some miniature photo albums there for you to browse, listing more as time allows. If you have a Facebook profile please add The Fabulous Farmhouse as a friend. You can begin doing so by clicking the link above if you like.

Why have a page? Because a Facebook page offers business networking tools not available on a regular profile. The Fabulous Farmhouse Facebook page posts feed to the widget here on the blog, and the blog posts here feed to the other Facebook account. I hope I’m not confusing you, it sounds complicated to me but it really isn’t, it’s rather simple. Whichever way is easiest for you to keep up to date with new miniatures, stories, me complaining about snow (Thankfully not yet though!) and a little bit of this and that. Facebook also has the networked blogs application, and this one seems to me the easiest to keep track of what you’d like to keep up with. The Facebook networked blogs is how I found this most incredible blog about pumpkin dwellings on Cauldron Craft Miniatures blog.

The photos are really something! I know we’re supposed to be focused on Christmas but I’m all for having Halloween in December, I need a Tim Burton Room box or something equally exciting to combine the two holidays! Alright I’m going to get back to work now. Enjoy today. Thanks so much for reading, and posting too! Cathy McGhee

PS: If you have added me as a friend to your facebook you'll know right away that today is the last day for Gaye's

$10 dollar Fabulous Farmhouse gift certificate giveaway at her My Small Obsession blog.

and one more thing

 

Mozi says "Meowwy Christmas!" with his forever runny nose. Bless him.

Ok Back to work now:)

At This Present Time

At this present time I can cross off "Change Wrapped Gift Category Photo" off of my to do list. If you're anything like me you have lists of lists of to do's that range from "Do first" to "Get to this some year" and I think my tasks switch lists on their own doing because they get tired of waiting for me:) It's been bothering me that I haven't had my Christmas miniatures finished on schedule as planned. It finally occurred to me today that I have no control over that, and it's alright. It's alright because I have every other miniature holiday listed in the store and we can't have it all, right? We try.

Last Saturday I went to our local Deer Widow's Crafts Show at the Elementary School and I was talking to a lady that made beautiful wreaths and swags along with items such as old antique sleds adorned with ice skates and holiday ribbons paired with festive greenery. I stopped and admired and the woman said to me "everyone is getting ideas". As a previous crafter that did take my handcrafted items to local fairs I understood her comment well.  I smiled and let her know I was fresh out of time for any more ideas:) A few days before that I went on an overnight girls trip where we ate out and shopped for two days! I loved that!!! Ikea was great too! Wow a much needed vacation without a doubt, and I came home feeling much more patient and refreshed, not to mention with new clothes too. So I'm making time for myself a little bit more these days, because we all deserve that. I got our tree up and decorated for Christmas

I'm also expecting my first grand baby girl Naomi any day now. No wonder I can't sit still long...I guess I thought with the farm garden and backyard garden finished there would be more time. One of my favorite drawings the kids did back in elementary school was of a clock with about 24 or 25 hours! We can all use one of those clocks right?  My genius children:)

Oh also, I have created a Facebook page for The Fabulous Farmhouse. The link is on the left if you'd like to be a Fan. I previously only had my own personal Facebook account listed and it was filling up with folks I wanted to network with and great idea, so I also created a facebook account for The Fabulous Farmhouse and essentially redirected traffic. Besides, some things over there you just don't want to see, trust me:)

Last week I filled an order that included a miniature Easter Basket and miniature wrapped Frankenstein frosted sugar cookie.

  

It sure brought a smile to my face! So you really can buy miniature holidays all year round!

My new little Christmas minis will arrive in the store hopefully sooner than later, but you can count on being able to put them in your Easter Basket too (or on the table or under the dollhouse tree) Whatever you choose, I do hope you'll stop by and take a peek to see if The Fabulous Farmhouse can help your miniature holiday decorating and shopping fun and easy this year and the New Year to come. Many many thanks to you and a wish of a wonderful Thanksgiving Holiday for you and yours!  

Cathy McGhee

Happy 234th Birthday USMC

I borrowed my son and daughter in law's photo from their myspace of them before the Marine's Ball last weekend. Jess is due to deliver around December 6th but if she had it any other way, it would be yesterday:) Poor girl. I can't wait to see my grandbaby, but meanwhile I wanted to share the photo of the handsome couple.

The other bits of news I have is I am expecting the home internet to be up and running by tommorrow midnight, thank God! I've been borrowing the library, the Subway sandwich, and the Seven Services wireless internet locations in the meantime. It will be nice to be back to business as usual from the comfort of my workshop.

Lastly, and I apologize for this delay, the winner of the October miniature giveaway is Gisela. Congrats Gisela, and I will also say if you haven't seen her blog, to stop over there and check it out because she has some adorable miniatures to see! There is a fabulous witch named Mary over there!

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I'll be back as soon as I can, meanwhile stay warm and cozy and happy:) Hugs, Cathy
 

One More Thing....

I'm sorry, I forgot to mention with all that is going on the October giveaway winner will be announced by the end of the week. Just too difficult on a borrowed computer. Keep smiling!

No Internet Yet

Hi it's Cathy! Our local phone provider as well as our DSL provider have both been working on our internet connectivity and both agree this problem should be resolved within two days. Meanwhile, I still have access to internet away from the house and am checking email and shipping so orders can go out with minimal delay. It isn't the modem and it isn't the line from the house so they're setting up a new internet account for me, whatever it takes to get us back up again right?  It stinks, but it's just one of those things we all deal with sometimes. No biggie:) Thank You, Cathy McGhee