NEW LOOK!

New Persnickity mainstore!   I've been on a creating spree for the last two months and I was tripping over things in the store so its bigger and better than ever now!   I added a second floor and there's a separate garden center with plants, flowers, gardening benches and pots.   I've also added two "Slap & Win's".    One is outside near the garden center and the other is inside near the stairs.    Slap both signs and be the lucky winner of free gifts!    Hope to see you there!

The Magic of Christmas

I'm always delighted when someone discovers Persnickity and includes my creations in their home.  The birth of A Persnickity Christmas represents what I love best - the departure from the traditional red and green, but instead keeping the shabby chic look with pastel Christmas decorations.  It really is possible to have a pink and green Christmas!  There's a large assortment of shabby style decorations on the first floor and for those who prefer sticking with the traditional red and green, the second floor is for you.

Santa can even be flexible!  The elves went to work with paint buckets and transformed his sleigh into a green and pink 'vehicle' and it still says "Christmas!"    There's room for two in the front and would make a great Christmas card this year.     Its available on Marketplace or at A Persnickity Christmas (click here).

Happy flying!!!

Home and Garden Mystery Sales

Home and Garden is having a fun event from December 1 through the 7th.   If you love surprises you don't want to miss this!    Many talented creators have placed Christmas boxes on crates with a low low sales price of 10L each but you won't know whats inside the box until you unpack it at home.    Isn't that just like Christmas morning (unless you're one of those who secretly peeks at your presents before Christmas!)    Each item will be Christmas themed.     Get into the Christmas spirit and start shopping!!!!   Click (here) to start your mystery shopping!  

LONG OVERDUE UPDATE ON MY BENCH

I'm sooooo late on this!!!    My apologies!!  Back in June I'd posted a blog entry entitled "Unwinding" in which I relayed the story of my acquisition of a VERY lonely distressed bench I'd found at a yard sale sitting at the end of someone's driveway.    It had called out my name and I gladly adopted it and brought it home for a make-over.   I had been refinishing it over the summer when I suddenly became sick and was laid up for two months and could no longer work on it.   After months of sanding and then sanding some more, a bottle of wood glue, primer, more sanding, and then paint I was thrilled to see it come back to life.   I bought a bench cushion for it and it now sits up in the loft of my house and my cat has 'moved in.'!     When I happen to walk past it, my kitty smiles at me and silently thanks me for THE new spot.

"Thank you for saving me" it whispers when I walk by.   It was bound for the landfill and only I could see the beauty in it.   "WELCOME HOME" I reply back.   Your history will remain a mystery to me but it deserved a fresh start.   Some day I'll pass it down to one of my kids and hopefully they will add memories to the bench too.   What DOES a piece of furniture hang onto?   Does it keep a list of the people or animals that have become one with it?   Does it relish the fact that it endured a much-needed facelift or does it long for the original skin?    

Dear Bench - You're a part of my family now and I hope you're comfortable, warm and grateful for the new look.   You're here to stay and grow old with us and I want to thank you for creeping out to the curb that day so I could bring you home.   

A Persnickity Christmas

I can get excited about Christmas whenever I want!   So there!    Some tell me I'm like a kid and can't wait until after Thanksgiving but I say Thanksgiving????   Are you kidding me????    My three Christmas trees have been up and decorated for weeks already!    I'm combing the newspapers for craft shows, visiting the winter wonderland that downtown has become already, and my Christmas shopping is well under way!    I don't ever want to grow up and Christmas is NOT just for kids.    Well maybe it is and I'm hanging onto my childhood with all my might.

I've been excited to take on a Christmas venture here - "A Persnickity Christmas" is my new store in addition to the mainstore Persnickity.    I've tucked winter on a beach and jump in the ocean when I get chilly.   :)  The first floor is dedicated to a shabby chic Christmas - pastels, golds and silver.     The second floor has more of a 'traditional' look to it - greens and reds.

Pink is my color even at Christmas and I created the Persnickity Christmas Tree with pink bulbs, garland and a crystalized star on top.   There's also a gold shabby chic tree and the more traditional - a green tree with red and green ornaments.   Beautiful tree skirts which complicate each style are available, along with lots of fun decorations.  

Cake anyone?   Three layers of cake and I'm well on my way to a major sugar high.   Hmm....and just how many pounds do I gain every Christmas season???

I just HAD to.....don't slap my hands for this one!    There's a framed picture for your home or maybe even a gift for someone ...   "Dear Santa....I'm writing to let you know that I've been Naughty...and it was worth it....You Fat, Judgmental Bastard!"    

Please visit!   Both the mainstore and the Christmas store.    While you're there join the group for free gifts and updates on new items released weekly.

Persnickity Mainstore (click here) and Persnickity Christmas (click here)

Spooktacular Halloween

Orange and white twinkling lights catch my eye as I enter the store and at that moment I'm compelled to wander over to the Halloween displays.  I may as well have just stepped into a time machine though because its suddenly 20 years ago.

Its Halloween and my kids have hurriedly put on their costumes, waiting waiting for darkness.  They start whipping each other with their pillowcases (the vessel to collect their treasures), pent up excitement to get this show on the road!   I insist they eat SOMETHING before we head out but my request has been met with moans and groans instead.  No sense in fighting this battle - this day was meant for sugar overdoses.  Period.  Out we go as I glimpse at my watch.    One hour maximum!

They don't walk to the houses...they RUN.  The faster you go, the more houses you hit.  The more houses you hit, the more candy you get.  I have choreographed the route so at a half hour we turn around, cross the street, and work our way back.   Ahhhh.....back home.   Stand back!   The family room floor is about to be re-carpeted in Ring Pops, Sour Patch Kids, Skittles, Pop Rocks and chocolate bars.    Are they interested in sorting, counting, eating?   Oh heck no.   Let's not forget ROUND #2 begins now!    AND my friends......Round #2 is the bonus round.    The closer it gets to the end of the evening, people want to rid themselves of any candy they have left so now instead of getting just ONE piece, the neighbors are handing out multiple pieces - even HANDFULS!!!   Another sweep of the neighborhood and its time to march home.

Pillowcases dumped out.   Candy sorted and the sugar high begins.  But the best  part about all of this?   Kids don't particularly love chocolate.     Awwwww.....what a shame.   Here....let mom alleviate the burden of hauling that worthless chocolate upstairs to your room.   :)     I guess I'll have to take one for the team.   Suffer through the days even weeks ahead of an abundance of Kit-Kats, Hershey Bars and my weakness - Almond Joys.     Tsk tsk....tis a shame.    My dentist is secretly planning a trip to Europe on me.

The memories of the costume search before Halloween, the parties at school, the excitement that permeates the house the hours before they go out to trick-or-treat.....if I could turn back the clock I would.   The innocence of childhood.....*sighs.   I wish something excited me that much now!    I still love Halloween though.   My kids are grown and will be taking their own children out trick-or-treating some day, but I still  stand outside on Halloween night and oooo and ahhhh at the costumes of the little goblins, watch the kids cut across the lawns to the next house, and laugh at the reaction of the little ones when they hear the cackling witch from somewhere in my garden.      My strategy now?   Buy way more chocolate bars than I'll need to hand out.  Darn!  I'll  have to eat the surplus myself.  

To celebrate the magical day of Halloween and the beautiful colors of autumn, I've made a few decorations which are in my Marketplace store and at the main store.     Happy Halloween!!

Its Arrived!!!

I'm so pleased to announce that Persnickity is open for business and I must say its been a joy to create!   I owe this all to the best person I know - my friend and creator extraordinaire Freya Olivieri, owner of Mon Cheri.    She picked me up, booted me in the behind and made me believe that I could do it.   On the days I was ready to give up, she kicked me a little harder and kept reminding me.....you CAN do it!   Don't give up!    Three months later (and some days more motivated than others!) I can say it was rewarding and educational, and I'm excited to have something I can keep working at and watch grow.

The mainstore is open at Verlorenes Paradise (CLICK HERE) and Freya graciously gave me a spot to open a store on her sim Mon Cheri  (CLICK HERE).   Come visit and let me know what you think.   Any suggestions?  ideas?  ways to better serve you or create something you want?   I'm open to anything!

Persnickity is all about my love for shabby chic, the pastels, the sinking into overstuffed chairs, and just being comfortable.   I've got home decor, furniture, gardening supplies, flowers, shrubs, house and store builds, and coming soon - the holidays!   And OOOOO I get out of control during the holidays!   There's no such thing as 'too much'!

Persnickity is also on Marketplace so if you feel like staying in your robe and slippers you can catch me there instead.    Hope to see you soon!

Persnickity Marketplace