Laveta, don't ever, ever underestimate your talent,girl!!!! We are all here to enjoy each others creations, give each other encouragement and just have fun with good friends! I love your teacup with the crystals, that is very unique, way to go!!!And I'm like lamb, windows make my knees buckle, too!!! I really like the Fall colors you used on it. On your pricing question, I think someone has already said it, I've always heard to mark it up 3 times your cost plus time invested. So, good luck, trial and error sometimes has to be the deciding factor in some cases, unfortunately. Is that your shop in the background pictures, if it is... you are ONE LUCKY GAL!!! I love that whitewash look on the walls! Oh, and your corn gave me the neatest idea for a window valance for my kitchen window! So there, see how your creations have inspired me! Good luck with your sale, let us know how ya do!! blessings-sherri

I got a wonderful package from Luna Moon today. She sent me garden gloves, something I can always use. Peat pots for starting seeds, which she also sent several packages of. I love getting seeds & several of those were on my wanted list so I'm really excited about those. A pretty angel on a stake pot or garden marker. She is so pretty I'm using her on a pot indoors, where I will see her more often. Some wonderful smelling soothing bath salts. I can't wait to use those. A yummy chocolate bunny & jelly belly beans. A beautiful BIG tea cup & saucer with the prettiest purple iris on it. Not sure exactly what it is but I'm going to use it for a candle holder since I have one bedroon decorated in purple. I think it can be used as a small planter or bird feeder also. Thank you so much for your nice gifts. You got my week off to a great start.

dreamgoddes, very nice, you have alot of good setups here, I'll comment on your last one specifically. I love the Victorian theme you have going here. I would remove the tall candlestick because I prefer my eye to travel down from one taller object to the shorter objects in a trianglar sort of way. Your eye travels from the tall lamp then going down to the next taller item (dish in this case) traveling on down to the other items allows my eye to travel smoothly and pleasingly. I would also put the pretty post card picture of the ladies having tea replacing the one that you have already have there on the left. (I like the gold frame mixed with the silver, it also brings out the yellow in the yellow rose in the dish). I would add back in the pretty teacup with the flower on to the silver setting. My reasoning for bringing back the flower/teacup is because (where the photo had been) the teacup brings in the theme of the flowers from the other items surrounding it on to the silver part of the vignette, the teacup is totally fitting in the theme of the tea service. I think you could remove the doily under the silver tray, the white marble in itself is a lovely background. Please let me say, that this is only my opinion, it happens to be what is pleasing to me, so nothing against what others have said. Doing a vignette is a highly personal thing, it has to resonate with you first and formost, follow your heart and a few rules and you can't fail. Great job, you really have a treasure of items to work with, a vignetters dream!

I love china teacups and you've received many good ideas for repurposing them. On Martha Stewart's site she shows using them in a drawer for small items of jewelry. Not a great space saving idea but it looked very pretty! I've made and sold many 'tea-lights' from glass punch cups or glass cups and saucers. The punch cups don't come with saucers however they are often available at yard sales or I used any clear shallow bowls instead as in the pic below. This is the best pic I have. For use in the garden these require copper fittings to be super-glued to the bottom of the saucer and a copper pipe attached to it (crush the bottom of the pipe so it inserts easily into the soil). They look great when placed in the garden with tea-lights glowing. I used them around my patio. Many people seem to use these as birdfeeders but I've never done that as all it would take is some rain to make it a moldy mess.