It's been awhile.....

It's been awhile since I have felt motivated to write anything. We haven't faded away, just taking a small break to reorganize and get a fresh perspective on the store and the studio! The weathers warming up so with a little luck we will get moving again. Back soon with new pictures and adventures!

Good Day Sunshine.....

Well here it is Feb. 15th, the day after Valentines Day. We've survived the Christmas season, the workload running up to the Feb. wholesale market, the market itself and now unpacking and trying to make sense of getting my store reopened on Feb. 25th for the Easter season.  Much to do and not much time. Wed. was my (hopefully) last eye surgery. It's been a long road with this eye, eight months to be exact of living in a somewhat distorted world. I've always had somewhat of a distorted mind but when your eyesight is also distorted and you do what I do, well it just makes life a little interesting! Today it was 44 degrees.. a small warm up for central PA.! Apple( the dog,) and I sat in the sun for awhile just soaking it up.Oh how I am looking forward to Spring...This has been a long cold winter.Depressing . Anyone who reads my blog knows we live in a old funeral home connected to an old mercantile store beside it. The temperature varies greatly from room to room.Having  ten foot high ceilings this house is hard and expensive to heat. We have hung plastic, closing off hallway areas that we don't need to keep warm, closed pocket doors and basically huddle around the pellet stove in the kitchen. Living large like a hermit! There are days I would like to chuck it all and move to The Villages in Florida! So whats next for us at Stamm House?Well, the plan is, get the store open on Feb. 25th. We should have lots of vintage style Easter, new children's toys and new retro candy! So here's hoping for an early Spring!

We're off to see the wizard!

Well not quite the wizard but we are headed to the Market Square wholesale show at the Oaks, PA! It's been a long cold month of work and  Guy and I are excited to be getting out of town at least for a few days. I'm posting a few sneak peek pic's of some of the new things we are taking. CRAZY pumpkin lanterns...a cool sly tomato lantern who comes with his very own tomato bug! Assorted German rabbit candy containers, chicks, gnomes, toadstools and high flying frogs....We will have a nice selection of German belsnickles in white, grey with spun cotton mushrooms and traditional red., also the pine cone gnomes will be making their first market appearance! If you are visiting the show our booth number is 1417 in the Gallery.
See you there!

 

This little piggy went to market!

This little pig along with a whole herd of pigs are going with us to market! These guys in the picture are made from an vintage sugar shaker. I just love this retro look! Reminds me of my childhood. I think this little porker will blend in nicely with our spring line of rabbits, ducks, geese and sheep. This is the last week of painting, the following week will be finishing and packing for the wholesale show at the Oaks..Feb. 4th and 5th.

Out of the studio and looking for food!

OMG the lights hurting my eyes! I've been locked in the studio for the past month getting ready for the wholesale show at the Oaks  Feb. 4th and 5th. I just came out and I'm in need of sustenance!. I swear I have moss growing on me from working such long hours. There's not been much new here at Stamm House since Christmas except getting ready for this up coming show. We have made some crazy new lanterns with wonderful German toadstool on them, a funky tomato lantern with his own tomato bug and a few new Easter pieces. If you are a shop and attending the Oaks, we are in the Gallery. I will be selling cash and carry of Easter, Halloween and Christmas. We will also have a selection of belsnickles that we will be taking orders on. I'll post a couple of quick pics of things in the pipeline....now I'm lookin for food!

We surived!

Well Christmas is over and Guy and I are still alive! A huge thank you to all our friends and customers who visited our store this season. Without all of you we would not be in business..so thank you. Whats next here at Stamm House? Well after a small break and we will be working on items for the Market Square wholesale show in Oaks Pa. the first week of Feb2013. I will be making some crazy Halloween and believe it or not more..aaagghhh..Christmas! After that we will be back home and working on new Easter items for the store. We will have a new German clown rabbit and a new German girl duck in her Easter bonnet. I'm also working on a German gnome under a toadstool candy box...so coool! There will be new retro candies in the store when we reopen and a selection of new toys. Look for our open sign around the Valentines day briefly for a few days, then open for the Easter season around the end of Feb!

Some Day....

"Some day", these are the words I hear myself saying more and more lately. Every year for the past twenty seven years or so when the Christmas season begins to approach, I find myself turning into a crazy, neurotic  screaming banshee. Orders are piled up, my studios a mess, I can't find a piece of paper to write on let alone a pencil or pen to write with. The phones ringing, the door buzzer is going off, the dog wants out, the coffees cold, the fish want fed, my leg hurts from my fall two months ago and the mailman left my supplies at someone else's house! Last night for a few precious minutes I was able to quickly glance through a Christmas magazine.There on the pages were wonderful pictures of homes completely decorated for the holiday season. Pictures of  vignettes with antique santas, fresh greens and cookies right out of the oven. The home owner looked so relaxed and happy to be enjoying the holiday season with her cup of (I'm sure warm) coffee in front of a fire. Switch back to me, in the studio late working on more stuff....The dogs asleep on her pillow, I'm huddled by , not a cozy fire but a propane heater for warmth. The belsnickles look like they are about to rebel and march out the door in a line singing "later crazy bitch!" A few more weeks of this madness then  maybe I will have time to get a Christmas tree..wonder if they are free after Christmas? The picture above is of myself and my sister, I'm the little one. Right now my sisters aboard a giant cruise ship in the pacific on her way to Hawaii and Mexico..hmm.. somethings not right in my life.."some day!"