Wordless Wednesday

Some New Etsy Items

Still waiting on this little mouse to make her appearance! Can't wait to meet her and end the anticipation. Meanwhile I have been furiously making new pieces in anticipation of being creatively brain dead for a while. Here are some of the new pieces!

Pink and clear. Love this one!

A new bezel that allows the paper to show what is behind the pendant. These will show the color of your clothing or your skin. I've been having fun with some summer colors!

Copper and bronze teardrop.

Another lime and icy white. The white is hard to see, but is really pretty and shimmery.



Antique Album

I came across these albums at the last Renningers and knew I had to have them. I love old photos and since they are so treasured to me I cannot comprehend someone getting rid of old family albums! Not to mention the inherent beauty that comes from the graphics on these pages. I mean, do you ever see anything like this anymore? Oh well, I guess one mans trash...

Gold edged pages make my heart beat faster...

The leather covers!

Did I mention the covers?

What a beautiful way to start a family album!

Who are you? What is your story?

I promise to respect these people and their lives.

Wordless Wednesday

Sophie's Nursery Part 2

Here are the remaining pictures of Sophie's room!

An old ammo crate that my father made into shelves for me when I was in college. It has been with me in every house since! The "love" is painted driftwood.

I painted these bottles aqua, white and gold and a dear friend made me these crepe flowers that sit inside. 

A little mushroom pincushion from Foxtail Creek Studio, she does amazing work!

A little vintage basket with paper mushrooms.

Vintage thread.

I made the "S" and purchased the print from The Wheatfield.

Well I think that does it! I hope you enjoyed my tour. We can't wait to meet our little sweet girl. We are almost ready for her!

Sophie's Nursery Part 1

Not that pictures of my daughter's nursery really needs two posts, but I guess I went a little picture crazy. Plus I made a couple things for her room that take some extra explaining. The natural light is not great in her room, but hope you enjoy!

Sophie's crib has been in my family for over 60 years. It was given to my father's parents as a gift for their new baby, my Uncle Al and since then, 18 of our babies have had sweet dreams in here including my father, myself and Elise. I love the history and the beautiful hand painted graphics on the side. It has the wear of a treasured heirloom and I feel lucky Sophie will also sleep in it.  

Above her bed is a collaged picture that I made and her mobile is paper mache boats.

The boats were made from this pattern and beautiful inspiration. They hang from driftwood picked up in Costa Rica. They were so fun to make!

An antique mirror picked up at Renningers Antique Fair with a feather garland with a pattern from 100 Layer Cake. I decided to dye the tips of the feathers to make kind of an ombre effect, but it is difficult to see from the pictures. They turned out pretty nice though.

Handpainted sweet babies...

 

More tomorrow!

Instagram Fun!

Earlier in the week I Pinned this article and it inspired me to create a couple of pictures in instagram that have two filters. Here is what I came up with:

I first took a picture with my camera and then uploaded it to instagram in airplane mode. I filtered with rise first, saved that pic and then uploaded it again and re-filtered with amaro. I like the way they turned out and am excited to experiment with this a little more!