Marie Antoinette in a Teacup!

Hello Friends!

Today is Pink Saturday around the blogosphere,
and I thought today might be a good day for me to join in the fun,
because I have a little alltered teacup to share with you.   The Marie Antoinette Mail Art Group is having a Marie's Garden Tea Party swap,in which you are to create a beautiful garden party in a tea cup for your partner. My partner is Kris, who likes antique Bavarian china in pink and green colors for Spring.I found the perfect teacup in the first shop I went to!!   

 Antique!  Pink and Green!!  Bavarian!!!  Since this is the type of china Kris likes to collect,I thought I would make the garden party removeableand not permanently alter the teacup.

 I did this by shaving my florist foam into cup form and gluing two rows of leaves over it. Then I glued the bottom of a peat pot to the bottom so the little vignette could stand on it's own.  I then glued moss to the florist foam,along with a garden variety of paper flowers and vintage millinery.And a couple of  cute little pink mushrooms :)

 I made a little garden arch by twisting two long wiredfloral sprays together and shaping into an arch.Which doubles as a handle to lift Marie out to play!  :) And because a lady should look good from all sides,  

Marie from the back! I had so much fun creating this,this group dreams up the most creative swaps! I'll share the teacup garden party Kris makes for me next Teacup Tuesday! Here's some lovely flowers for you: 

Click to enlarge, right click and save! 

Visit Pink Saturday for lovely pink inspiration!
You will find more lovely teacups at Martha's Favorites and Artful Affirmations!
And, for lovely, shabby, chippy whites, stop by White Wednesday!

Lovely, feminine things at Pearls and Lace Thursday!
Lovely, cottagey links at Feathered Next Friday!

And for all things lovely and vintage, visit Knick of Time!

Have a great weekend!Time for tea...   

*aRt*pArTy*!!

This post is a bit overdue.
Our art party meeting this month had a "Royal Wedding" theme:
the swap was an embellished bridal shower favor box:

(all of them)

(the one I made)

the food was tea party tidbits:



and the make and take was altered crowns. Sorry no pic :(

It was so much fun...
kind of made up for being left off the royal wedding guest list :P

Spring Linky Party

Soooo, two linky parties today!! Party, party, party! :)

Here is the May Day basket I made for Kari's May Basket Swap:
(Click pictures to enlarge.)

My "basket" is actually an embossed tin bucket,
I wanted to do something a little different.
I'm a rebel.

Here's a close up of the little May banner I made...I love it!



And an even closer-up view, just cuz she's so cute:



And packed inside:

Vintage doily, crepe paper, millinery flowers, and postcard.
Everything else was from an estate sale, thrifted,
or handmade except for the journal and rubber stamp.
And the candy. ;)

And just to make it more fun,
once the package was in the mail,
I sent Karen (my swappee?) this picture to pique her interest:


And the next day I sent her this:


Visit Decor to Adore for more adorable Spring crafts.

And hop over to How Sweet the Sound for Pink Saturday
and more pink delights.

February *aRt*pArTy*!!

Another Swap!!
We had our monthly club meeting,
now known as *aRt*pArTy*!!, this week.
Marti was hostess, and the theme was
"Paris, je t'aime" (I love Paris),
and we had a little crepes bar...
spinach souffle, sauteed mushrooms, bechamel sauce,
ham, and cheese were the dinner fillings,
and for dessert fillings we had
raspberries, strawberries and chocolate!!

Yum!!

We swapped cones

and I received this gorgeous cone from Ginger,
filled with lovely things.

We also made these beautiful chandelier drops:


Sooo much fun!

Hatitude

Our monthly ATC/ETC club met this week, and the theme for this month was HATs! We decided to make a tea party of it and decorate our own hats, and what fun!! I don't know if there was something in the tea, but everybody got their creativity on! Here's some pix of our lovely "tea tasties":



Here's a picture of everyone in their hats:

I'm peeping out from the back row. : )

And here are some close-ups of my hat:




Constructed from 2 sheets of scrapbook paper, a paper plate, and LOTS of EMBELLISHMENTS! ; )

I think it would be fitting if today's freebie was of a hat nature, so here ya go:

Have a great weekend!!