~NEW TREASURES at FourSistersInACottage.com

~OVER 125 LINENS ADDED~

~BARKCLOTH, SHEETS, PILLOWCASES, HANKIES, QUILTS, and LINENS GALORE~

~Just click here www.FourSistersInACottage.com and have a look see if you have a chance~

Happy Weekend Everyone,

Love and Hugs, Amy

~2 ROOMS of LINENS~

~CHECK OUT ROOM 3 and ROOM 5 of my website as these Lovely Vintage Linens are ready to go to new homes~

HAVE FUN...more added soon www.FourSistersInACottage.com

~MY Linen HOARDING CONFESSION!!!!~

~You can click on any picture to enlarge for better details....

IF YOU DARE....LOL~

~ I AM SICK....LOL....

What is wrong with me you ask????

I think I am a LINEN HOARDER!!!!~

LOOK AT ALL THOSE LINENS.....ALL VINTAGE, ANTIQUE AND OLD!!!!

And I DON'T EVEN SEW, I don't even know how....I just love old linens.

Since I truly do not think I am really ever going to learn to sew, well not anytime soon that is....

I promised myself for 2011...

I am selling it all!!!! All the linens that is.....

Stay tuned because it will probably take me HALF if not ALL YEAR LONG to get them on the website.

Just thought I would let you see what a LINEN HOARDER looks like....

They say admitting it is the first step...oh, and all those bins are full of linens too....LOL, I am sick, the love for linens sick that is.

Hugs and Love, Amy

~AND THE WINNER IS....PLUS A SNEAK PEEK~

~AND THE WINNER IS KRISTI from JUNKOLOGY 101,

Thanks to everyone who entered and there will be YET another GIVEAWAY this week....stay tuned for the 4th GIVEAWAY of the year...it's gonna be another fun one, I PROMISE!!!!

~AND NOW A SNEAK PEEK INTO what's coming up on the website this WEEK~

~LOVELY OLD VINTAGE LINENS, BARKCLOTH, CURTAINS, PILLOWCASES, TABLECLOTHS and FABRIC.....this is just a little sample of what's to come.~
We are expecting another 6 to 18 inches of snow Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday so I will be staying home and taking loads of pictures for www.FourSistersInACottage.com

HAPPY HAPPY NEW WEEK.....only 8 weeks til my shop opens for the season...YIPPY!!!!
Hugs and Love, Amy

~GIVEAWAY TODAY~LAST CHANCE TO ENTER~

~TODAY IS YOUR LAST DAY TO ENTER MY 3rd giveaway of the year.....110 piece paper ensemble~

Will draw the winner tonight around 9pm CST~

Love and Hugs, Amy

(PS.....to see more details, just go back a few posts to see everything)

~Me with the Girls~

~I HATE HAVING MY PICTURE TAKEN as I never have felt that I was one of those photogenic types, but I did it anyways....

Me, Kristi, Maddi and Alli~

~These pictures were all taken the 1st morning Chase and Kristi arrived from Florida~

~SISTER LOVE IS THE BEST~

Tonight is the night.....I say goodbye to my "big girls"
This is so painful....I already have a lump in my throat and have been holding back the tears all day.....

Hug those you Love and don't let them forget how much you love and adore them.....

Hugs, Amy

~KIDS SLEDDING in IOWA~

~Part of our crew~

~Maddi, Kristi, Chase, Alli and Alex....we were missing Ashley and Nick~

~They were at our house playing in the snow and sledding, after one of the sleds broke, I went and got swimming air mattresses, blew them up for the kids and TADA...a super fast sled was born. They came in, got warmed up then headed to our famous "Thomas Park Suicide Hill". They came home to homemade hot chocolate with marshmallows. Fun time had by all, Oh to be a kid again~

Hugs and Love, Amy

(PS....still time to enter the 110 piece paper giveaway....see post below)

~A GIVEAWAY #3 and 25% off EVERYTHING ON ETSY~

~Yep, EVERYTHING in our Etsy Shop is 25% off~

USE COUPON CODE: LOVEYOU

to receive your 25% off and STILL FREE SHIPPING ON EVERYTHING IN THE ETSY SHOP~

Don't forget to enter our NEWEST DRAWING, number 3 so far this new year!!!!
Hugs, Amy

~3rd GIVEAWAY of the YEAR~

~SOOOO MUCH HERE I HAD TO STAND ON THE CHAIR TO GET EVERYTHING IN THE PHOTO, 110 pieces~

~ANOTHER PAPER EPHEMERA GIVEAWAY~

110 pieces of fun vintage reproduction paper all cut from a magazine by me.

4 WAYS TO WIN!!!!

Just simply enter on this post for one chance

Post on your blog about my giveaway for 3 chances

Become a follower for one chance

There are tons of cute photos to use in your altered art projects...WWII, Advertisements, Cupid Awake/Asleep, Valentine's, St. Patrick Day goodies and more....You will get everything pictured.

Hugs and Love and GOOD LUCK!!!!

Amy

(PS....will pick the winner Sunday, Jan 30th in the evening after I say goodbye to my girls in the Army.)

~Get Ready for ANOTHER GIVEAWAY~

~YEP......I sat down yesterday and cut out over 100 vintage photos from a magazine to give to you on my next giveaway.

I will take pictures this week and will officially launch my next giveaway, it's looking like TUESDAY.....Loads of fun stuff for alter art projects and more pink n red vintage tickets.

Kristi and Chase get here tomorrow from Florida so I will try to get the pictures on Tuesday. Please don't enter yet......it will mix me up and I am easily mixable.....LOL

Happy New Week....

Love and Hugs, Amy

~MY MILITARY FAMILY~

~This is my sweet and smart daughter Alli. (Sister #3 of the Four Sisters) She has a new boyfriend Stephen who is also in the Army as a Combat Medic. (shhhh don't tell the girls, but I think Chase and Stephen could be brothers, or is it just that military hair cut?) Alli is leaving in 10 days for Active Duty Army and she too, will become an Army Combat Medic. That means I now how 2 girls in the military. WOW....still trying to get used to that whole idea. She'll do great and who knows, maybe she will get to see Italy and Alaska like she's always dreamed of doing.~

~And this is my sweet and smart daughter, Kristi (Sister #2 of the Four Sisters) with her hubby, Chase, married, living in Florida and both Combat Medics for the Army National Guard.

They are coming home next week to see everyone and say goodbye to Alli. Chase just got back from a long tour overseas in Iraq and Quatar and we are excited to see them both. Kristi worked this summer in St. Croix helping build a hospital with the Army and will be leaving soon for Haiti for the Army~

Hopefully, weather permitting, since Ashley lives 80 miles away, next Thursday, I will have all FOUR SISTERS HERE and take pictures to share with you. It's going to be BITTERSWEET for me, as I will be so happy to have them all together again, but also know, it's going to be a very long time before we are all together again.

It makes me sad just thinking about not having them around. I've been a Mom for almost 24 years and although I know we love seeing them grow up, it's still hard to let them spread their wings and fly. I have done the best I knew how in raising them and only hope and pray that THEY ARE ALL HAPPY, HEALTHY and WISE.

I think it's in their blood.... they have uncles that were in the Army and Marines, and both Grandpa's were in the Army, their dad was in the Air Force, yep, I'm and ex-Air Force Wife.

I just think it's there, in their genetic make-up somehow :)

Just think of all the memories they will have and the chances they will have that we never got.

THANK YOU TO ALL THOSE PARENTS OUT THERE THAT HAVE MADE OUR AMERICAN SOLDIERS.....AMAZING SACRIFICE FOR BOTH CHILD and PARENT!!!!

SAY A PRAYER for OUR TROOPS

Love and Hugs, Amy

~AND THE 2 WINNERS ARE...~

~WOW WEE.....SO MANY ENTRIES and NOT ENOUGH GOODIES TO GIVE AWAY, not to worry I'm gonna have more~

THANK YOU TO EVERYONE who left comments, became followers and added the giveaway to their blog. That was soooooo awesome!!!!

And the winners are as follows:

ROSE GARDEN ROMANTIC (giveaway #1)

SWEET BEE COTTAGE (giveaway #2)

Thanks again to everyone for playing and I WILL have another one SOON!!! Stay tuned....for more fun giveaways!!!!

Hugs and Love, Amy

~LAST CHANCE TO ENTER VALENTINE GIVEAWAY~

~GIVEAWAY #1~

~GIVEAWAY #2~

~DRAWING THE WINNERS TONIGHT....LAST CHANCE TO ENTER!!!!~

Good Luck and Happy Saturday!!!!
Hugs and Love, Amy