Happy St Patrick's Day & New Stuff !!

Happy St Patrick's Day ! Sweet little tea cup with some of my vintage jewelry beside it , the shamrock is actually velvet, it is so sweet !!

I have been trying to create this past week whenever possible ! I am listing these vintage spool note holders in my Etsy shop .
Also have been doing some collage on canvas. This is one that I did yesterday , not sure if I am done with it !

I also used some paint with a shimmer to it , not sure if it really shows up. Gotta get movin , have a hair apt this AM & I so need it !! Have a wonderful day !

Will it Arrive?

Will it arrive ? Spring that is !!  This has been a brutal winter and it seems as though it just goes on and on !! Yesterday was so nice out with snow melting, how wonderful that was ! This AM though , we had "icey" rain  , now turning into snow! Fortunately it is not suppose to last long !  With the weather keeping a lot of folks a little blue , I have been creating some paper flowers , creating my own spring I guess ! Parer flowers that I will use in some projects I am working on ! Love working with paper ! These are some quilled flowers, paper swirls and the fans from a die .

Have a wonderful weekend

Cards & More

      I have been busy creating a lot of cards this past week. Will post some pic's of some of them !

Paris birthday card

I could  get lost in creating cards, my studio is a giant mess from it all !! A little late , but this is one of the Valentines day cards I created. I love flowers , so I guess you will always see a lot of flowers on my cards !

More flowers , added to a vintage wood hanger , holding vintage papers & such ! I have this listed in my Etsy shop

Notice the sweetest ever little hand  crochet bag , actually my mom made that quite a few years ago when I had her make up  a bunch of them for a project ! Can hold a little treasure !

My sister lives where you can actually go into a store & buy something !! Yes I do have stores where I live , but not very many and not filled with the things I love ! I had her pick up some fabric for me for some upcoming projects! Is there nothing better to look at then an adorable "pile" of fabric ! So a big thanks to my sister for getting this for me !

Hope everyone is having a great weekend ! A little up-date on my last post ... the little doggie my son-in-law rescued from the cold is doing great and is now there new addition to the family. The kids love him !

Who Could Do This ?

Is that an adorable face ? My son in law was driving out of town the other evening and found this adorable dog on the side of the road. Mind you we have been having very cold weather STILL , like -20 below ( yes , that is really really cold !)  He  brought him home ( he had ice chunks stuck to the bottom & a hurt leg) he would not of lasted the night outside. It is such a good little dog , trained and good with my grand children ( he tries to sneek in their room when it's nap time ) ! He has a vet apointment today.So I would have to just ask , why would someone just dump a sweet little dog off on the road to just freeze to death ?  If people want a pet , remember it's forever or if a situation does arise please find it a home or if nothing else take it to the pound, better than letting it have a slow death. Not the best photo , he moves to much to get a good shot , laying on a pile of blankets ! Warm again & lots of food and love !
I will try to post some projects I have been working on. I have been busy with life , so I have not had much time to post much!!!  Just surviving winter , yesterday I was driving very slow on a side street because they all have ice and ruts and chunks on them and I just started to slide ...sideways , yikes and hit a large pile of snow that is really a big chunk of ice , so I damaged the front bumper on my Jeep! Oh crumb , dislike that a lot ! So ready for spring !
Have a wonderful & blessed day !!

Delight

I have been busy doing a lot of paper crafting , this banner is a distressed look with vintage book pages for the folded flowers. Spelling out DELIGHT , I love that word ! Hanging it would be a wonderful reminder of what a delight it is to have such a blessed life, or as a reminder we should be a delight in others lives! I will be listing this banner in my Etsy shop hopefully this evening when I get time !

Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart. Psalms 37:4

I have been gathering up some books to read and study . I have already started on Psalms 91 , an awesome book for anyone to read ! I do have to admit that I am a "bookaholic" . But these I hope to get through in Jan and Feb .

And in my quest to eat better I also have some "food" books to pour over ! Last year I tried my hardest to buy organic foods & I also had a garden, in order to eat healthy.... I said .... I tried. I still have room for improvement , but I am determined to be more responsible even when I purchase things to think twice as to where it came from , I would rather buy handmade and support someone in there efforts than a big corporation or shipped here from who knows where . Hope your week is fabulous and blessed ! Leave you with some cards I also created.

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 !

Holiday !

I have been trying to get some of my Christmas decorations up ! I am scaling back from what I use to do , and this year my hope is to focus even more on what Christmas is really about ...the birth of our Lord & Savior ! This is from TruthMedia , a women's daily devotional , "Many are unfamiliar with the fact that our word "holiday" comes from an old English word whose original meaning was Holy Day . Though our secular society seeks to drain all that is holy from Christmas leaving little more than tinsel and toys, eggnog and elves, we can bring back a sense of sacredness to the holiday. You can click here to read the devotional entirely !

Hope everyone is having a creative and warm day !!!

Vintage glass Christmas balls , bell shaped ! Are they not adorable ? Blessings to you !!