Hello Friends!
Southern California has been very inspiring this month.
June in San Diego is typically grey and overcast
(I know! Who would have thought!),
but Vintage Marketplace and Vignettes
were here to save the day!!
I shall have to tempt you with the promise to post my
Vignettes Summer Soiree pictures next week.
But, as promised, here are the pictures
of my "haul" from Vintage Marketplace:
fabulous doll earring stand by Lisa Loria,
which I've lusted after for quite awhile,
but this petite version
was just too too darling to pass up!
Wonderful printed hankies ($1!)
from which to make my pincushions...
Cute little vintage perfume bottles,
FAB paper roses!
I've been working on swaps for my MAMA group
and Heather's Birthday matchbox swap,
and will be posting pictures soon.
Hope you are all getting a good start on Summer.
Graduations, Weddings, Father's Day...
Summer vacation...
Life is good.
Cherish it.
I'll be back next week with pictures
from Vignettes' fabulous Seaside Summer Fete!!
And an update about our new swap group at Paper Tales!
Here are a couple of lovely freebies for you:
Click to enlarge, right click and save!
Lots of links to lovely pinks at Pink Saturday.
For links to lovely, shabby, chippy whites, stop by White Wednesday!
Lovely, feminine things at Pearls and Lace Thursday!
Lovely, cottagey links at Feathered Next Friday!
Party on at a very pinteresting party at Tutus and Tea Parties!
And for all things lovely and vintage, visit Knick of Time!
Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend!
Love, love, love December!!
I got to open my very first giftie of JoAnne's Secret Santa Advent Swap!
So sweet! And I get to open another giftie tomorrow!!
Every day til Christmas!!
The rules were to alter two large matchboxes and stuff with 25 little gifties
and number them from 1 to 25 to be opened one each day til Christmas.
I love my Secret Santa aready
because she made this beautiful matchbox for me:
Oh, yes, you had me at velvet leaves and berries! :)
I am Secret Santa to our lovely hostess, JoAnne.
Because she did the Santa assigning,
there was really no way for me to be secret.
Soooo....here is the matchbox I made for her:
The "house" lifts up and you can insert a flickering tealight within,
so that it looks aglow.
The vintage looking tree is actually a newish tree which I bleached,
then sprayed with glimmermist.
Here are her goodies:
I wanted to wrap them in a variety of wrapping,
the way gifts under the tree look.
I used some Christmas napkins for wrapping,
so that she could reuse them in her artwork.
Okay, okay, here are a couple of cute freebies
for your Christmas crafting:
Click to enlarge, right click and save!
Have a great weekend!
And pop over to Pink Saturday for some pink holiday loveliness!
Well, I think this might be my pinkest Pink Saturday post to date!
I made this petite theatre for my grandniece,
who just recently became a big sister to baby Liam.
I can finally post this, as by the time you are reading this
she will have received it.
She really is a cutie pie!
I am meeting her for the very first time this week...
unfortunately she lives on the other coast
and I do not get to see that branch of the family
nearly as much as I'd like.
So, I'm pretty excited!
The petite theatre is made from the bottom of a papier mache box
lined inside and out with cute papers, tinsel, glitter,
tulle, music paper rosette, crepe paper valance,
paper roses and some scrapbook embellishments.
Raspberry beads for the "feet".
Actually,
I merged two pictures of her
to get the proper expression with a head to toe image. ;)
I'm hoping she won't notice that!
Think she'll like it?
Happy Pink Saturday to you all!
Thank you Beverly for giving us this opportunity to link up.
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.
I hope to have some pictures of our *aRt*pArTy*!! soon,
until then here is a little freebie for you:
Is it spring yet where you live?
Wow, well I have taken quite a long winter's nap, haven't I?
Well, I haven't really been napping...not like someone I know:
For some, napping IS an art form!
I have been busy creating,
now I just need to get busy taking pictures!!
I am excited about some changes.
I have been in a monthly ATC Club for over five years,
and the club is now ready to shake things up a bit.
We're calling it *aRt*pArTy*!!
and are shifting the focus from a monthly ATC swap
(where we made 9 identical ATCs, one for each member
and received 9 assorted ATCs from the other members)
to a format where the swaps are non-ATC, one for one, and optional;
we have a monthly make and take; and refreshments/decorations
all tie in with the monthly theme.
Last month was New Year/New Start and we traded (one for one)
altered journals, made an adorable Valentine journal,
and had a salad buffet.
Next month the theme is Paris je t'aime (Paris, I love you)
and we are trading Parisian themed cones and filling them
with arty/Paris-y items; for our make and take we are making an
embellished chandelier crystal, and having a crepe bar!!
I can't wait!!
I have almost completed my journal
and will publish pictures this week!
Meanwhile, here is a picture of my cone, filled with French goodies:
And, here are a couple of Friday Freebies
to make up for the time that I wasn't napping! ;)
And:
Click, right click and save! Have fun!
And here it is, Friday again.
Hope you all have enjoyed the Christmas countdown,
thanks for the nice comments!
I'll leave you with this sweet image:
Click, right click and save!
Have a great weekend!!
Here you go, it's Thursday's child:
Click, right click and save!
Hope you've got your trees decorated already!! ;)
Here's your Saturday Countdown to Christmas freebie:
Click, right click and save! Enjoy!
I trust that you all had a happy Halloween. I'm packing the Halloween decs away, although I will miss them, I had a blast creating for Halloween this year. I loved doing Kari's "Best Halloween Ever" and "Sweet and Sinister Swap", if she does it again next year, I highly recommend it!
I wanted to share a picture of the birthday cake composed of flowers my daughter sent me, deliciously flowery and worthy of Marie herself!
Marti and I have been busily creating fairy/Marie Antoinette slippers and were featured in the current issue of Stamper's Sampler. It's a bittersweet affair though, as Marti wasn't credited with the slippers she created. So here is a picture of the spread, with credits for the slippers each of us created:
And we were featured in another Etsy treasury, included with some wonderful Marie delights, which you can view here:
Both slippers and more can be found in our Etsy shoppe, PaperCreationsTwo!
Thanks for stopping by!!
As promised, here is a pic of the lovely goodies that I received from Pam:
There's a cute, "stuft prim" black cat,
some terrific ephemera for more crafting,
some sinister skull ornaments all glittered up,
some fabulous buttons at least one of which I want to make into a ring,
a really cute altered tin filled with black candies,
and I love how she altered that silver tray!!
Thanks so much, Pam, I love it!
And here's something Sweet and Sinister for you:
Click, then right click and save ;)
I have had so much fun doing Kari's Sweet and Sinister Swap this year! It's a private blog with lots of fun seasonal tutorials and also a swap with a black and white theme. We're to include at least one handmade item, one vintage item, one home decor item, something sinister and something sweet!
All in BLACK AND WHITE!
I just love themes and challenges, it makes you focus on things you may not have picked up on otherwise. I was assigned a sweet :) partner, Pam, and had lots of fun making, collecting and gathering things for her Sweet and Sinister package,
here's a peek at what I sent to her:
Just to be sinister and suspenseful ;),
I'll post the lovely goodies she sent to me...tomorrow!
