Woo hoo

Our beautiful fall colors have certainly brought people to Eureka Springs in droves. What a wonderful week it has been!

Meanwhile, we're continuing to get in gorgeous new merchandise. A quick peek at a few things:

Opera score pillows.

Keep Calm and Carry On pillows

(the recession mantra)

Curly vine cross.

Tall glasses with cross relief.

Shoe hooks...and arm hooks.

My favorite: a bottle tree chandelier.

Hanging bottle tree.

Mirrors, mirrors, mirrors.

Bronze feather trees.

Teapot and teacup ornaments.

Color me awed

Wow. Last year was our first autumn in Eureka Springs...and I swear it wasn't as awesome as this. My husband Rob shot these in the past week. It just gets more gorgeous every day.

This last shot is the view from our balcony (the Basin Park Hotel is at the top.)

Fall is in full swing

If you're thinking about coming to Eureka Springs to see our beautiful fall color, now is the time! Beautiful orange, red and yellow foliage everywhere...and it will only get better in the next few weeks. Come visit!

Biker Bonanza

There are a jillion bikers in town this weekend, thanks to the Bikes, Blues & BBQ event in Fayetteville. And the best thing? My favorite biker / blogger / customer Denise from OKC popped in yesterday to say hello and do a little shopping. Check out her blog (Bella Dreams) for lots of fabulosity and inspiration!

How Now Multicolored Cows

Now in-store... Cows! And more cows. And an occasional pig. Love these. (In fact, I now have some of these cows in my dining room.)

Eureka scores

American Style Magazine named Eureka Springs one of the nation's Top 25 Arts Destinations among cities below 100,000, including Santa Fe, Taos, Key West, Aspen and Carmel. Read all about it here.

(We're just slightly below the 100,000 pop. limit: at last count, we're at around 2200. Take that, Santa Fe.)

New finds

Ooh la la. These 36" wide Eiffel Tower blinds just came in today and it's all I can do not to haul a few of them upstairs to use in our apartment. But I'm going to try to use some restraint. ($48 ea)

These 3x5 bamboo rugs are also quite fabulous, I think. ($48)

This new piggy pot rack (only $72) matches our piggy cookbook holders (below.)

And you know no post of mine is complete without something bird related. Below, behold these darling little 8" egg wreaths (or they can also be used as candle wreaths.) Only 8 bucks.

We're a winner!

That's me, hamming it up in front of our winning window display. Yes, we won Eureka Springs' first monthly window decor contest. Woo hoo. (Note that the window is bird related. Of course.)

I had read something about the contest, but really hadn't paid much attention. So...last week I took a day off to try to shake off a nasty sinus infection. There I was, slouched in front of the TV in my nightgown, and Rob calls upstairs to tell me to get dressed and come right down. "Trust me," he said. "You'll like this." Oy. I threw on some clothes, didn't brush my hair or put on makeup, and crawled downstairs to meet two lovely women from the Downtown Business Network who awarded me the prize. "And now we're going to take your picture for the newspaper," they said. Ummm, no you're not, I thought. They kindly let Rob take the photo later when I looked a little less disheveled.

All very nice, you know, except the article in the paper said I "gushed" over the prize. Honestly, I was too sick to gush, but whatever. Now I have to figure out how to win this thing every month.

More, more, more...

It's been awhile since I posted -- just so busy this summer -- but wanted to share some more of our new merchandise. More birds, more pigs, new glassware, new wire baskets, new clocks, new soap....well, see for yourself:

Be sure to check back in the next few weeks for more new merch. I'm expecting some fabulous cow paintings, as well as some wonderful saints statuary and saints jewelry!

More new merch!

New things keep rolling in. For example, below, another style of card/photo holder (perched below a lovely wall rack featuring gilded birds...of course.)



Another new chandelier, below, with a sheer organza shade and acrylic crystals, affordably priced at $89.99.


Speaking of chandeliers, check out the tin plaques with various chandelier prints, below.


New sparkly frames:

And a two-sided wall clock with an antique map background:

Finally, French postcard linen pillows:

Au revoir for today, my friends.