Vintage Inspiration # 78 Monday Marketplace

In case you missed it, this last Monday was the "Opening" of a new online "Marketplace", over here at Common Ground. Usually an idea starts as a seed, and then has to germinate for awhile, but honestly last weekend a phrase started taking shape in my head, and before I knew it I had hit the publish button on a post for a new weekly venue for selling online.

It will be three years in June when I first started with this blog, and in those three years, I've gotten to know so many talented and creative women (and men). I had been making jewelry for a couple of years before I started blogging, and was selling in the store where I had a space. When I started blogging so many friends were opening Etsy Shops, and so I jumped on board. Guess what...selling on Etsy isn't a piece of cake. There are so many sellers and shops and products; it's a given that you can get lost in the crowd.

True to the name, Common Ground, God has evolved this blog, and me, over these last few years. I'm finding that as I've learned "who I am" in the blogging world, I enjoy the ability to "shine a light" on others. There's so much talent out here in blogland, I'm hoping that Monday Marketplace will give us one more place to come for inspiration and just plain shopping fun.

So, if you're an Etsy seller, have an Online Store, or just love to shop, I hope you'll come by and link up some items that you'd love to share. For more info on this online selling and shopping link up party, Monday Marketplace, just click here and here.

So now, a few highlights from last week

Judy, from French Laundry makes organization true Vintage Inspiration!

Home is Where the Boat Is has us thinking of Spring

with a wonderful tablescape inspired by nature.

Miss Flibbertigibbet took us to a quilt show

Holly, from Down to Earth Style uses a vintage door on her mantle

Donna from the Decorated House, 

shares a tutorial on painting a wonderful old frame

Geneva from My Heart's Song shared a fun way to frame

out some vintage bird graphics.

and come on... look at this amazing outdoors chandy

that Vickie from Ranger 911 created from old garden fencing and insulators!

so so wonderful!!

And a totally "green" birdhouse by Garden Therapy

yay, come on Spring!

If you haven't entered Nancy's Give Away

for a $50 Gift Certificate in her Etsy Transferware Shop

then just click here,

Give Away closes Saturday at midnight.

I'm joining in on these great parties:

Feathered Nest Friday at French Country Cottage

Inspiration Friday at the Picket Fence

Potpourri Friday at 2805

Home Sweet Home at the Charm of Home

Fridays Unfolded at Stuff and Nonsense

What Have You Redone at Redoux

Hope you'll join in with 

"anything vintage or vintage inspired"

Please have a visible link within your post 

so others will know where to come and party.

love ya bunches,