Altered Art Dolls

We will be having a very white Christmas !! We got a ton more of snow , ten inches !! So we now have piles of the white stuff ! I managed to check my mail , didn't think the mail man would of been able to even deliver mail , but he did ! Guess it's true the rain , snow , sleet thing !!! I was pleasantly surprised that my issue of Somerset Studio Gallery ( winter 2011 ) arrived ! Mine was a little late as the first one they mailed out never arrived ........someone else must be enjoying that issue !! So I paged through it and there were my little Altered Art Dolls I had created ! I had used copies of some vintage photo's I had of my dad , aunt and uncle so it was very special for me to see them in the magazine !

Well , I am off to shovel a path so I can get out and about for the day ! Thank you for stopping by ! I still have some things I still need to take care of for Christmas yet too, I always do and I still have not learned my lesson on doing things ahead !

Somerset Home

Went to my mail box today and waiting for me was the new Somerset Home magazine !

It is full of so many wonderful and creative art works ! And was so thrilled to have two of my things featured ! One was a repurposed ( it seems like everything I do is repurposed ) wood container done in vintage sheet music papers .

And also one of my Altered Wire Dress Forms in the gallery.

I have been working and working on trying to get inventory made for the up coming Junk Fest ! I am so thankful , my sister in law is taking my place tomorrow so I can have the whole day off to work on things ! Everyday I go over to my parents to help care for them , we also have a live in caretaker for them but I go for the afternoons and also make them there dinner every evening . They are 90 and 98 , so they are doing good considering there age !

The posted photos are of some magnets I made out of buttons ! I have lots and lots of buttons , I think they look like candy ! In the Somerset Home there is an article by Roni Berg with button magnets too ! BonBons , a great term for the little delights !

Etsy and Lollishops

I have to admit it .... Iam a magazine-aholic ! I was at the store the other day & picked up this Better Homes and Garden issue on 100 Decorating Ideas under $100 ! While paging through this issue I thought it was so great that Etsy was also mentioned in several articles as to where to purchase some of the treasures they were featuring !Some wonderful vintage letterpress letters !

and one Etsy shop where you can purchase them ! So great to see Etsy's name getting out there more and more in major publications!

This past week my paperclay bunny I have in my Lollishops shop was on the front page of Lollishops...my little bunny was so happy !!
She is in the bottom row , second in from the right. And I also made a collage of some of my creations that are available in my Lollishop store !Hope everyone is having a fabulous weekend!