On my way to Georgetown,
TX last weekend for a fun getaway, I drove
thru the cute little town of Carmine. Carmine is VERY close to Round Top and
Warrenton where all the recent antiquing fun was happening. I was on a tight schedule but when I cruised
thru Carmine...what I saw was a "sign" from above that I HAD to stop!
I love old signs, and even though these were not in my
budget....I just had to stop. Below are some of the cute things I discovered!
Isn't this store front with the baby pumpkins just the cutest thing!?!? The store wasn't opened yet but looked very promising!
The store is called Texas Trash and Treasures! Carmine's only about an hour and 1/2 from my house, so I need to pop up again sometime soon and check this store out! Double click on the picture to see the street sign.....it's a very German Community! You can get awesome sausages and
kolaches in this area. mmmmm...mmmmm...mmmmmm!
Next, we stumbled
upon a precious store named Emily & Co. The store is behind the homeowners beautiful home pictured below. They even have a little Lawn Jockey (see him in the bottom right?)
This is the back yard of the big white house and side yard to Emily & Co. And since I LOVE Coca-Cola signs...I was particularly drawn to this part of the yard.
It seemed that everywhere I turned, something had been turned into a cute planter. Here's a old washer turned planter!
The lettering on this window was just stenciled on with gold paint, but it gave it such a special look, don't you think?
But WAIT...there was something I REALLY wanted but heeded to my budget and didn't get! I HEART that Coca-Cola Cooler.....it was in great shape and a really good price, but I was behaving....wahhhh....being good is BORING! I STILL am wishing I had that cooler!
And here's a beautiful door......if you've read my blog for long you'll know I LOVE doors, windows and Coca-Cola.....I hit the jackpot on this adventure in Carmine! But again....all looking and no buying!
Another clever idea for an old wash tub.....fill it with bright sunflowers and hang a cute Halloween sign on the front! BOO!
And to finish off the Carmine tour, I wish I could tell you we drove away in the Red Truck....but sadly we didn't. I could just imagine tooling around the country road in this prize possession and traveling in style! And you KNOW....I would fill up the truck bed with all SORTS of fun treasures. :) Thanks for coming by.........and visiting Carmine with me! It was fun to hang out with you.
HAPPY FALL YA'LL!!!!!!
First she fed us some delicious taco soup and we oh'ed and ah'd over her cute decorations and beautiful pumpkin cake she made. 
Check out this precious cake she baked and decorated for us. Even the little pumpkins have cute, curly stems. She hasn't been at this long but she definitely has talent!
And I must say....it was DELICIOUS, as well as beautiful! It was Orange Dreamsicle flavored....mmmmm....mmmmm....mmmm,
Check out her cleaver mantle decorating. Click on to enlarge and look at her framed Halloween-esque pictures. 
Jennifer's mom, Fredna, (seated) also a co-worker and is quite talented as well. She's a great seamstress and whips up the prettiest pillows, draperies, etc. She's "da bomb!" Here's she's sewing up one of the "cones" some of the group made. 
Just another touch of Jennifer's decorating talent. She's filled her vases with the most interesting things! And check out the tassels she has hanging from the furniture. Aren't they cute? 
At the cutting board.....crafty friend, Denise, Fredna and Michelle. Good friends have a great time together. :)
Denise and I made a candy corn door hanger craft...but we each put out special touches on them. Isn't it funny how we can all use the same pattern and everything turns out completely different....we ALL put different spins on our crafts.
And here's the whole crafting gang with our goodies to take home! 
And Kathy decided it was a tassel kind of day for her. She is so good at them and so creative, we were inspired to make tassels at our next craft day in November....we will be doing Christmas tassels.
These are the finished product..........a finial, some spray paint, ribbons, glue gun and a hanger! Cool, huh?
