Saturday, July 25, 2009

Feels Like Fall....

Starting to feel like Fall at The Brickhouse Craft Shop. This summer has been strange...no heat waves..YET! I am afraid that come August and September, Summer will finally arrived. These cooler temps have me in the mood for my favorite season..FALL! I have been busy talking with our crafters and ordering lots of goodies for the upcoming Fall and Winter seasons...The Brickhouse has a new artist...Beryl...She is wonderful and so very talented. A BIG box arrived on Thursday and WOW...her goodies are so wonderful. Tim and I are so impressed and happy with her...We welcome her to The Brickhouse and hope she stays around for many years...Here are some of her awesome creations....you really need to stop by The Brickhouse and see these in person..You will love them...

Have a wonderful weekend and stop by our porch again and see what is new.

~~Patti~~

Friday, July 24, 2009

Before pictures of our Kitchen

I posted a month ago showing pictures of our 8 DOOR kitchen.I finally found some before pictures of our kitchen...thanks to our good friend Penny! Penny took pictures of our kitchen when she was visiting PA . She lives in Florida and read our blog and realized that she had pictures of our kitchen. ...well thanks to Penny I can now share the before pictures. It is amazing what a couple coats of paint can do to change the look of our kitchen!
I am trying to put all our photos on Picturetrail..and I have a lot to learn! I need to spend some time this weekend learning my way around it. In the meantime, click here to see the before and after pictures of our kitchen:

Tim and I are so excited...The Brickhouse has some AWESOME new goodies...Thanks to our new friend/crafter, Beryl. I will be posting pictures of her goodies...so stay tuned!
Have a wonderful weekend and please stop by our porch again.
~~Patti~~

Saturday, July 18, 2009

What's new..part 2

The Brickhouse Craft Shop has the best crafters. You all need to stop by and see the new goodies that are arriving weekly. We are keeping our crafters busy! Yesterday we got a delivery from Country Home Accents. April and Tony the wonderful and very talented husband and wife team create some of the most wonderful goodies for our shop and our customers. We hope to be featuring them right here on our blog in the near future....but until then let us share with you the goodies that we got from them yesterday. These are amazing..they are Bonnet Make~do's....So different and so NEAT...Love them!
The picture of this dress does not do it justice..It is SO NICE in person! I am going to be buying one of these for myself..I love it!

Awesome Sunflower...!!

To see more of April and Tony's creations, you have to stop by The Brickhouse Craft Shop....and while you are visiting please feel free to sit on our Porch and relax...have a wonderful weekend.
~~Patti~~


Friday, July 10, 2009

What's New...

Busy times here at The Brickhouse Craft Shop. Tim is knee deep in saw dust! He has been so busy cutting wood. He has been making birdhouses and as soon as he makes one it sells. He is having a hard time building up his inventory! I have been complaining to him that he doesn't make any for me..I love his birdhouses and I don't have any in my gardens! All these birdhouses I have pictured here are sold and waiting for our customers to come and pick them up. Lucky customers..wish I could keep them!


I have been busy painting and staining and also contacting our new crafters.


Make sure you stop by the Craft Shop in the next couple of months and see what is new from our new friends and from our "old" friends. Tim and I are so proud of the wonderful talented friends that are busy crafting goodies for our customers. The Brickhouse has the best crafts from the best talent right here in the USA!
AND we have some talent right here in our family....Tim's sister, Christine makes beautiful yo~yo wreaths.. they are so nice. For some reason, my camera made this wreath look brighter than the colors really are..this wreath is really beautiful...stop by The Brickhouse and see all her beautiful wreaths!


AND guess what else is new...or should I say WHO else is new? Meet my new Great Nephew, Hunter..... he is a cutie and such a good baby.
So that is a little of what is new at The Brickhouse..be sure to stop by and see for yourself all the new goodies.
~~Patti~~








Sunday, July 5, 2009

Christmas in July



Tim and I hope you all had a nice 4th of July. It was a busy weekend at the Brickhouse...we had a new customer stop by on Thursday and we weren't even open! But we opened for her and she was so nice. We love meeting new people! Friday in the shop was like the day before Christmas...we were SO BUSY! It was great! Some of our regular customers stopped by on Friday..it is always nice seeing our friends/customers stop by...we start to miss them when we don't see them for awhile! And it is nice to meet our new customers! Then yesterday morning we had a call from one of our regular customers..her daughter was visiting and they wanted to see if we were open..we weren't but I told them to come on over...we opened for them! It is so nice having the Shop next to our home and being able to open anytime.
We are starting to think ahead to Christmas...ONLY 5 more months! I placed some orders yesterday for new items for our Shop. I ordered through a couple of our wonderful crafters, April and Tony, and Becca, AND our special friend/crafter Teresa is working on some great crafts. We also found some NEW crafters and I placed some orders with them...We are excited about getting some new goodies for our shop! Friday night Tarrah, the lovely wife of Bob the Potter, stopped by with some new pieces that Bob created...WONDERFUL pieces of Pottery. I am tempted to buy some of them for myself! Tim and I love his pottery.If you are reading this and you are in our neighborhood please stop by The Brickhouse and see the new pottery!
Make sure you stop by our blog again, we are going to feature Bob the Potter on the "Porch"! He is so talented and so is Tarrah....she showed us a picture of a penny rug table runner that she created! Let me tell you she is so TALENTED, too! Tim and I are trying to talk her in to opening a craft shop in her hometown...We know she would do great, between the Pottery and her creations..wow! If or WHEN she decides to have a Shop of her own you can bet we will be bragging about it!
If you are a crafter and are interested in selling wholesale..PLEASE send us an email..we are always looking for new crafters. The Brickhouse Craft Shop sells only HANDMADES....NO MADE IN CHINA!
Tim has been busy making birdhouses and he is way ahead of me, so I need to lock myself in the craft room today and paint, paint, paint!
The Church birdhouse that Tim designed is selling as fast as he can make them! SO proud of him! We are also working on some new designs..so stop by The Brickhouse and see what we have to offer! And while you are visiting our shop make sure you spend some time PORCH SITTING....the flowers around the porch are blooming and the hummingbirds and butterflies have been visiting the Porch...so stop by and say hi and enjoy the view.
~~Patti~~