Merry Monday in December!

I know it's late!

I had a bit of vertigo and it threw everything off for me yesterday and today.

But I'm better now and I don't want to miss posting.

I hope you had a very

I love October and November, but this month is truly special to me.

Not only do we have cooler weather and Christmas, but this is my birthday month!

I'm not one of those people that think" it's just another day" or they don't want to celebrate.

nope, not me!

I love it!

The mood, the cake, the gifts, the candles!!

Hell, I'd wear a tiara if I had one, lol.

I'm happy and grateful to spend another year with such lovely friends and my family!!

And you know how I like to celebrate every little thing..

Did you see the full moon last night?

It looked so gorgeous!

My friend Bernie took a picture of it for me, my phone just doesn't take 

pictures as good as his does.

It was 58 degrees and there was a breeze!

We made this cocoa the other night, 

Helena got it from the Great Pumpkin and we waited to try it.

It's very rich..

Since the night was chilly we made gingerbread to go with the cocoa.

They turned out okay..not like last year when I made sugar cookies for Santa.

I put them up on the fridge to cool & I bumped my arm, involuntarily jerked it back

and all the cookies flew to the four corners of the earth, much to the delight of the dog and cats!

It took forever to sweep up because we couldn't stop laughing.

We sprinkled these with pink sugar..

These are funfetti cupcakes Helena and my niece made yesterday.

We were going to decorate our stockings while they baked, but that's one of the times I got very dizzy.

The cupcakes were decorated while I took a nap. The stockings had to wait.

Remember all the neat stuff I got on black Friday at the thrift store?

Here's some of it...

sheet music to use in art projects for .75 cents

A one dollar frog made of what feels like cast iron, he's very heavy!

These hanging crystals..They were terribly tangled and after I spent half an hour untangling them

I hung them on this heart ornament I already had. Can't tell from the photo but they go all the way around the heart, it was a set of two but the other one had torn chains, so now I have a bunch of loose crystals to craft with. They were .25 cents

This desk organizer for $3.50

Old Christmas lights..I bought them to use in crafts..I'm too afraid to use vintage light strings.

.50 cents

I also found vintage cupcake liners and tart tins..

.25 cents each

I made this with one of the bulbs..

This is how she looks on the tree by my bed...

some of the other ornaments I've made recently...

I made this with an old ping pong ball and a light bulb bottle from Michael's.

I also used the vintage cupcake liners to create the little tree she's holding!

fold the liner in half...

roll it into a cone, add hot glue to keep it from unrolling, then decorate or paint them.

For this centerpiece project

We used clear plastic plates leftover from Thanksgiving..

covered them in glue & glitter and added cupcake liner trees.

that tiny Santa was .10 cents, I painted him pink and glued him down.

The house was a gift from Helena, two years ago

(she knows I LOVE gingerbread houses)

Isn't it cute?!

Here's a glimpse of my lovely assistant.. thinks he's helping when he gets on my lap and falls asleep while I try to craft:) He has purple glitter on his nose!

This is what Helena made for our abandoned art this week.

We left it on a bus bench..

Do you have any events or parties coming up?

I was fortunate enough to meet the most incredible person last February..

Her name is Christie Troxell, 

she's an amazing Designer, Artist and Brand Ambassador

at Ritzy Parties..

 

" Ritzy Parties is a full service design and coordination firm offering luxury event products and services, professional styling and merchandising, fresh florals, interior décor consulting, and custom, commissioned art. We bring style to story, and dreams to life.

Ritzy Parties is headquartered in Southern California, and serves esteemed clients nationwide, 

providing meticulously planned, curated events that are creatively and uniquely conceptualized, 

and elegantly executed."

 Christie Troxell, CEO, Creative Director

I hope you get a chance to look at her website.

It's filled with eye candy and art projects too.

Well, thank you for stopping by this week.

Sorry it was SO late.

I'm going to leave you with this...

See you soon..

This & That

Hello!!!

 I went thrifting on Saturday and found some things I'd like to show you.

First, I found this cute cardigan, $3

I thought this was a book when I saw it

but it turned out to be a jewelry box, $2

And OMG this!!!

It's twin size with no fading or loose yarn on it at all!!!

 

It was only $7!!!!!!!!!

I may use it in my Gypsy wagon, which I'm still working on by the way:)

This weekend, along with thrifting, I cleaned up my itty bitty studio

and found I have a few yard sale & thrift store finds.

This is a fruit basket, which I use for many many things,

 I just started hanging random treasures on it,

 like butterflies, fairies, cages, even necklaces and earrings.   

It was 99 cents.

The shelf directly behind it,

 holding the houses was purchased at the same time for two dollars.

 

This little cabinet is for CD's I think, but it's perfect for my paints, 

I got the idea from Anna at Frosted Petunia's

It cost $3. 

I should get going for now, my studio assistant is getting impatient for his dinner....

Have a great day, and I'll see you very soon!

Cookies & Stuff

Is it hot or what?
It was 106 degrees today,(it's going to be hotter tomorrow)
so Helena and I decided to bake some dashboard cookies.

They're super easy to make..
you can use prepared cookie dough, unless you want to pretend you're martha stewart:)

get a cookie sheet, put the raw cookies on it, then set it on the dashboard of your car.
they're usually ready in a couple hours, depending on how hot it is out there.
it's pretty much the only thing you can do outside in this heat...

thank goodness there's an air conditioner in my gypsy wagon, I'm almost done adding the finishing touches.... finally!
Been filling it with trinkets and treasures from yard sales, thrift stores....







and lovely artwork I've collected from a lot of you.

I want to have a itty bitty teensy reveal type party thingie soon...with big prizes and fun stuff...nothing too busy, it's much to hot for that don't you think?
and speaking of prizes..later this week I'm going to announce the winner of the fairy love potion!!!
I guess I've rambled on enough for now, have a great week-end and keep cool..
Oh!we might get some rain this week!!!!cross your fingers.

Thrift store finds

Goodmorning!
I love going to yard sales, but I dont like to go alone for some reason,so for the past couple of months, I've not been to any, Thank goodness for thrift stores!
Here are a few treasures I dug up last week.The little bowl I posted about on Saturday is right there.
I have a terrible obsession with cigar boxes, lol, so when I saw these two,I felt like I was moving in slow motion to get them!
This bunch of goodies was less than seven dollars.
I think my favorite piece is the bust,and the the fabric is really nice too, no fraying or rips.
So, I'm off to run errands and pick up one of my girls from school.
Thank you for looking....
Have a happy day!

Pink Saturday

Happy Pink Saturday to everyone!
I found this amazing pink dish at a thrift store for 2 dollars! It sits on my desk now,usually with bubble gum in it, but for now strawberry marshmallows have taken up residence...probably not for long either,They smell so good!

Bought this plant holder in a icky shade of beige/green,I spray painted it and added the flowers,ribbons & candle...I was going for a chandelier look ,didn't really get there,but it's OK.

Today the sunset was breathtaking,it was so so pink, I had to run back inside and grab my camera...I haven't altered this! It was made for Pink Saturday.

This next picture is just a little something that made me smile and give thanks for just being alive:
I was doing laundry and was in that auto pilot mode,you probably know which one..anyway
I just happened to looked up and I saw these flowers and decided to take a picture,when I looked at them on my computer later I noticed that one of the little buds looked like a teeny bird,just there for me to see like a little gift.

It made me feel so happy,knowing that in the midst of the ordinary there are miracles...teeny ones like this one that we need to look for and immense ones like Collette's one.
Have a magical,day, and don't forget to look.