My Tree Man Face

Last fall I saw a tree face and was intrigued it was different than others I have seen and I wanted one. After looking online the one I wanted was lake 29 dollars and that was too much to spend. See the last pic. At a recent yard sale I purchased one or 2.50 and painted it to look more like the one I had first seen. I forgot to take before photos but found a similar one online, see below

These are 2 pics of the one I painted to blend into the tree, my brother added the stick to resemble a cigar!

This is the color of it before painting

This was my inspiration photo I took last fall.
I hope to find more of these so I can have a forest family!

Suitcase as a Wedding Card Holder

The bride to be from the bridal shower I did the cake for asked me to decorate a suitcase for her wedding guests to put their cards in at the reception, I have seen them before and recently a blog post from another blogger had a birdcage she had made for her daughters wedding.

I copied some vintage postcards from Washington DC cherry blossom festival, printed on card stock and mounted on parchment paper then tied them to vintage lace.

Used vintage pins to attach them to the lining.














And as a added bonus, I made a luggage tag, copied and printed a Mexico postcard (honeymoon destination) her soon to be last name and a vintage key.

She Loved it!

One week till her wedding!

If interested check out the birdcage card holder at Jill Ruth & Co

http://www.jillruth.com/2011/04/wedding-project-card-holder.html

My Wedding Dress and the Royal Wedding Dress

Ok I thought I would have some fun!

When I first saw Kate's dress I thought of mine. The fitted lace sleeves and lace on the upper bodice!

I designed and made my own dress 34 years ago when I was 19!

So while the top designers are rushing to make a copy of her dress I have one in the attic!

My dress cost 50 dollars! and her's 50 thousand!

I a princess for an hour, she a princess forever more!

Best Wishes to Kate and Will!

The Making of An Apothecary Jar

I came across the making of an apothecary jar from unwanted candy jars or whatever jars you want to use. A geat repurpose, recycle project!

I think I saw this blog first http://adiamondinthestuff.blogspot.com/2010/12/apothecary-jar-out-of-junk.html

Then I did a google search and found others.

A candy jar with lid and a candle stick holder, glued with 6000 glue.

This one is waiting for a candle holder or other small glass item to use as a pedestal My glass vase Cloche' with a new decoration. Plus a zipper and buckle for some fun.

I just know you are going to want to make some!

Unless of course you already have!

I ♥ Junk

One of the blogs I follow has a guest heart thursday - A place to share your heart! http://clytie-randomhearts.blogspot.com/ Well I found this heart painted on a tree while I was at a flea market!

I think it would make for a cute photo shoot for a young couple!

Bride Photo Tag

I thought I would share the Bride Photo Tag if you want to use it the way it is just click on it to make it larger. then right click and save as. I got the old photos from the Internet, some from ebay. Yes I snagged them by right clicking, once a photo is 75 years old it is copyright free. OK so some aren't that old but if anyone don't like it I will take them down. I re-edit them to my liking, here is a sample.

Here they are individually

Vintage Inspired Bridal Shower

My cousin contacted me a couple of months ago for ideas for her daughters bridal shower. I sent her some pics and other ideas and she gathered stuff from antiques stores to thrift shops. Many things she already had, too. So the day before the shower I went and finished arranging the tables, it was set up in her house with the living room furniture removed.

The cake sat on an old suitcase and recipes that the guests were asked to bring along were collected in a rose bowl. This table was set up in a breakfast nook as you entered in the living room.

The parasol she had and her daughter used it in her engagement photos.
She found a 1911 Ladies Home Journal cover with a bride on it.

Centerpieces were arranged around her vintage camera collection.

I wrapped the mason jars with vintage lace and used vintage pins on the front(you'll see in other photo) also used lots of doilies, gloves hankies, pearl necklaces. The BRIDE tag I made from vintage photos and in my photo shop program I added the letters to spell out bride.

She found a pair of pink gloves and a pink cherry blossom depression glass plate.

The brides theme for the wedding is pink and brown and cherry blossoms.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot I made the cake.

One last thing, the bride and groom will be getting married on my husbands and mine 34th wedding anniversary!

Urn & Nest

I did a little rearranging the other day, so I just wanted to share!

Wow, just noticed I have 100 followers! Thanks bunches!!

Recycled Jewelry Bracelets

You might remember me talking about Anthropologie, I was inspired by some bracelets I saw on their website and created two myself.
This one was a brassy colored bangle that I wrapped with a burlap type ribbon, made a flower like base and added old single post earrings, just had to use a wire cutter to cut off the post and used E6000 glue.

This one is an stretchy band sort of like a watch band, I used 3 partner less hoop earrings, a pin and a clip style single earring, the butterfly was an old stick pin.

Twenty Years Ago This Was Something Else - Yes A TV

Twenty years ago, we started building our house, and re-purposed this piece in the powder room. Yes it looks like a dry sink made into a bathroom sink but it wasn't bought as a dry sink. This was purchased new right after we were married, 34 years ago, and we used it almost every day until it broke! So does anyone have a guess to what it was?

Yes my only commenter Teresa was right a console TV.