Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Because He Loves Me

It's a beautiful day!
Sunshine and roses......and love!
 
 
Such a gorgeous pink!

 
 
These carnations are just beautiful too!
Roses from hubby!
He's the sweetest guy alive....
I am so blessed with this man!
It's so nice to be spoiled and loved!
 
 
TaTa Till Later!
 
Love, Hugs, and Blessings!

Sunday, April 14, 2013

Old Glass Bottles Made Pretty and Useful

Creating with my glass bottle stash!
 
I saw this cool idea on Pinterest one evening and I
really liked it! It said on the picture it was a tutorial,
but when I clicked onto the site it came from, Pinterest
wouldn't let it go through saying the page had a security
issue. Well it looked easy enough to do without the
tutorial so I decided I could wing it!
 
I have a large stash of glass bottles, and I love things
with twine on them. I also love working with paper
and using lace on things.
 
Heck, I love doing and trying anything at least once
and if it speaks to me.....we roll!
 
 
So.............I bounced up out of my chair, grabbed what
I needed to make one, looked at the picture one more
time, and dug in. Once I was done I decided I wanted a
top for the bottle. So I took the twine with my trusty
Modge Podge and starting wrapping the twine around
and around. I stuck the bottom of the wrapped twine
in the top of the bottle before it totally dried to make
sure it would sit inside the bottle. Then I kept wrapping
a little wider to give it a lip so it wouldn't sink in and....
wala....a bottle cap! I cut the twine long so I could tie
it to the bottle so it wouldn't get lost if it were to fall
off, added a little pearl in the top and it was done!
 
 
The cap actually kind of looks like a
tiny birds nest with an egg in it...
I liked that!

 
This was the first time I had made this type of paper flowers.
Omgosh are they fun!
 
This is the tutorial for the flowers I used here.
 
Just draw circles on paper, which for these I used
old book pages, and then cut the circles out on the
circle line you drew, then roll the paper.
 
After I finished the bottle I couldn't help but
keep making these flowers!
 
Had a bunch when I finally tired of doing them lol!



 
Two of the paper flowers have pearl
centers and one has a rhinestone.
I had to have a little sparkly ya know! :)

 
So this was mine all done!
and
This was theirs..................
 
 
Not bad and I love it!
Now I got two more to make to make a trio set.
 
I'll make each of those a little bit different and
with different laces. This is easy peasy and fun!
Always pays to keep the garbage! :)
 
P.S. I tried to get to the tutorial for this diy idea
and the site owner must have fixed the issue
because you can now access the site. But!...
it's in French! You can always do go to google
translate, copy paste the words, and it will
translate it to English for you....but you really
shouldn't need to do that....it's pretty easy to
figure it out on your own.
 
TaTa till later!
 
Thank you visiting! I love to share my trash treasues!
Go Green!
 
Hugs, Love, and Blessings!
 
 
With Sincere Appreciation I Would Like To
Thank The Following Websites Below!
My Twine Wrapped Bottle Was Featured At...
Such a nice surprise! Thank You!

Saturday, April 13, 2013

Spring Fancy Flea Part 4 - Thats It Till Fall!

 
Well ya'll this is it! Really!
 
I got pretty picture happy this time didn't I?
It truly was an awesome market!
I certainly got lots of practice taking pictures!
 
It's just awful when you love so much!
 
It's just amazing how big this market is getting, and
I'm really happy I can share it all with you! Especially
to my friends who couldn't make it and lived so far away.
 
So let's get going on the last leg of this long journey!
 
 
This is my friend Denise Haines with
from Clermont, FL., posing with her sweet sister who
always gives her a hand. Aren't they just so cute in their
ruffled crinolines! If your in or near her area, she has
shops at Adjectives Market in Altamonte Springs,
(awesome place for goodies and treasures), Traditions
Antique Mall in Wildwood, and Tres Chic Boutique in
Clermont. She's a busy lady but has awesome items to offer!
Hi Denise!!!! Looking good girl!
 
I missed finding a few other of my friends there darn it!
 
It was just so packed and busy, and so big this year!
 
Ok we are back to strolling along and enjoying this
beautiful day filled with tons of eye candy, inspiration,
creativeness, treasures galore, and friends!
 
 
This piece was so beautiful! I sat and stared at this for
some time! This was an angel paper transfer onto old wood.
It looked like part of a privacy fence maybe. Just gorgeous!
I wonder how much it was, I never even looked!
 
 
Another beauty at the same booth! Loved them both!
 
 
 
 
 
I loved this display can you tell.....
and look at that sweet little bird! I love birds!
 
 
This was an amazing piece...I bet it weighed a ton!
 
 
 
I love chicken and roosters too......it's the country girl in me!
Rustic and country always gets my heart to beating!
 
 
Thought this was a neat way to display those
old kitchen utensils. Just Cute!
 
 
Love old shutters and using them like this!
 
 
Another beautiful frame! If I bought all the frames I fell
in love with, I would need another house to put them in!
They were just everywhere and in so many colors too!
 
 
This was so pretty!
Look at the detail of the front in the photo below!
It's so beautiful! Would have loved this piece!
 
 
 
This is for my friend Sharon Reed in Michigan....
she loves old bikes and wants to get one so bad!
She needs to get her tail down here lol!
 
 
 
I so would have loved to take this home!
 
 
 
There was just tons of gorgeous painted vintage pieces
of furniture all over this market! I think I loved them all!
 
 
This piece was covered in this delicious fabric and edged
with furniture tacks. It was a sweet table....really pretty.
 
 
Beautiful pillows! If you love roses, there was a ton of things
to choose from in just about anything you could want!
 
 
 
I went weak at the knees when I saw this pair of lamps!
Gorgeous!
 
 
You don't know how bad I wanted this beautiful old chair!
It was stunning! I truly think if I had had a million dollars
to blow, haha, I would have spent every last penny!
Then I would have to buy a huge building to put it all, so
I could look at it whenever I wanted too! I don't need
anything, but I just liked it all!
 
 
(Update.....I found out this gorgeous nightstand belonged to...
"The Sassy Sparrow.") 
 
 
I couldn't resist taking a picture of this cute little bird....
I love birds!
It was calling my name but I knew if I came home with
one more bird, hubby would probably have popped me
one! I have many! But shoot what's one more or 20!
 
 
Beautiful mixed media art in this booth! Loved the crosses!
 
 
You can certainly find old chandeliers at this market....
in so many shapes and colors too! Loved the color of
this one and all it's sparkle! I love sparkly! :)
 
 
 
Gorgeous booth here....lots of burlap creations!
And.....I loved Loved this chair!
This booth was packed with people!
 
 
 
Totally loved this bench with the antique iron
headboard back and all the burlap!
 
 
This thing here just freaked me out at first! I was trying to get out of the mass crowd on Lemon St., so I went between two booths to get to the sidewalk. There was this big bag laying right in the middle of the sidewalk, so I went to go around it and happened to look down, and these big eyes were staring right up at me! It was a mannequin with her head laying next to her body, but my mind instantly envisioned a dead body in the bag lol! Hubby so needs to stop making me watch those shoot em up bang bang television shows he loves to watch! This thing was so creepy lol! It's probably beautiful out of the bag and all put together, but geeze Louise, it just gave me the creeps....and a yucky feeling inside! Couldn't believe my mind went to where it went when I saw this! Weird!
 
 
Love these, and I have lots of pots that I have wanted to
do something like this too....one of these days I might get
there, along with all my other want to do's.
This list is LONG!  :)
 
 
Toss and Found's booth where I bought my
beautiful pillow, necklaces, and key chain.
Loved about everything in her booth!
Those coffee filter banners she had in the picture
below were flying out of there when I was in there.
Those were popular!
 
 
 
 
I'm not real sure but I think this was a booth offering consignment clothing. They had just oodles of kids clothing and I just loved what they did to them....each piece had been embellished in some way, but my favorites were the ones with the paper doll images....just way to cute and such a great idea! It certainly seemed others loved it too, that booth was packed to the hilt, and with lots of buyers!
 
 
This little bench had the cutest saying!
I just had to share it, because this is exactly how
I feel about all of you!
My friends are the chocolate chips of my life,
and ya'll are just as sweet as can be!!! :)
AND, I LOVE LOVE ChocoLate!
Cookies too!
 
(update....this sweet stool belonged to "Shabby for Sure"
from Lake Wales FL. I couldn't find her on FB, but here
is her blog....Shabby For Sure.)
 
Well that's it for this Fancy Flea! It was an awesome
day and just full of so much stuff it made your eyes swim!
 
If you didn't make this one, maybe
you can make the one in the Fall!
If not, I will have my trusty camera in action for you!
 
I've heard the Fall one will be November 3rd, so mark it on your calender. I hope you had fun and if you didn't see parts 1, 2, and 3, of the Fancy Flea, and you like pictures, you can find them here at these links below!
 
 
 
 
Can you tell I love taking pictures yet!? :)
I was there all day....what's a girl suppose to do!
Taking pictures was much safer, or I would have
gone broke buying up everything I loved!
 
Have a wonderful weekend....and as always,
I love your visits and thanks for coming along!
 
TaTa till another day!
 
Love, Hugs, and Blessings!
 
Debi