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A Valentine project

This is from last year, but I haven’t done anything this year, so I thought I’d resurrect this one. Melanie, Tiffany and I got together last year and made assemblages/collages/whatever-they-might-be-called from heart shaped jello molds. This is my result. Since I haven’t decorated for Valentine’s this time, I’ll content myself with looking at the picture. You can see theirs, and I promise they are worth the look, {here}. I’m linking up with Common Ground’s {Vintage Inspiration Friday}. And remember. If [...]

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First official project in the new room

Yay! The first official project of the new craft room/studio has been thunk up and finished! The room isn’t – finished – but I did move a table in there with a lamp so I could start using it. Still waiting for lighting and a furniture piece and some cabinets. There must have been a company promoting dog tags to grammar schools in the 1960′s. I’m sure it wasn’t just my school. They weren’t the cool dog tags like our [...]

Can’t get enough of this shop

Do you know about 5 Dollar French Market on Etsy? I love everything they have! And it’s all $5 each. Obviously. So I thought I’d be a copycat and make some stamped candles like these for the booth. I wouldn’t even think about putting them on Etsy. That’s her gig. She has a corner on that niche and does it extremely well. I’ll be a cheerleader for her. But I saw no harm in making some to sell locally. (One [...]

Butless cat and the psychedelic paper

Our friend Tiffany, aka The Cranky Queen, has collected what she calls “Buttless Cats”. You know. Cats with their hiney up in the air and an opening for a cactus, a sponge, a pin cushion… But the label Buttless Cat stuck. We no longer buy them for her because it seems she has one – or two – in every color, shape, size and maker. But I still buy them to sell. This one needed flowers in his… uh… bum. [...]

Let’s decorate some peat pots….

…. she said. Me. I said that. Tiffany, Melanie and I were going to have a craft night and that’s what I wanted to do. Decorate peat pots. Tiff said, Huh? Melanie said, Oh-Kaaay… They both said, Show me. I showed them some pictures and they were ready to go. Karla at Karla’s Cottage had made some pretty ones. So we got started. I drew a blank. Melanie’s were really cute. Tiffany’s were adorable and she showed them on her [...]

Cabbage Bowl Bunny

From the creative minds of Melanie and Wanda comes Cabbage Bowl Bunny! No doubt most of you have seen the 2011 issue of Flea Market Style by now. One of the first projects featured were these baseball skin flowers, created by Sara Smith (photography by Heather Bullard): Adorable, right? I was so excited and… I had the baseballs already! Couldn’t wait to make these cute flowers! So I cut the skins off the balls… Ummm… How can I word that [...]

More Fun With Gutter Guards

You know I’ve said I rarely have an original idea and that’s true, but I think this one was all mine. Which would explain the lack of hurrahs and applause and the “how did you ever think of that”‘s. But in the event you would like to make one of your own, here’s the super simple instructions. The gutter guard, which I believe is still made, originally looks like this Turn it upside down so that the tines are standing [...]

Gutter Guard Cloche

Y’all know I rarely have an original idea and this is no exception. I know I’ve seen it done on Raised In Cotton and probably some other blogs, and I’ve had it on my mind to make one of these for quite a while now. I found a bunch of old, wire, gutter guards over a year ago at an estate sale and they’ve just been sitting there, mocking, taunting, saying: Here we sit. Make a cloche with one of [...]

We made Valentines from tin heart molds

Another impromptu craft night, this time Melanie, Tiffany and me. I’m loving craft nights. It seems to be the only way I get anything done! Tiffany had bought some little tin – OK, aluminum – heart molds, so the three of us put our own touch to one. It’s so interesting to see the different ideas. A concentrating Tiffany. Melanie had just stepped out of the picture. Mine, Tiffany’s and Mel’s. I took closeups, but the background made them too [...]

We decorated bottles!

Melanie and I had an impromptu craft night Wednesday. We’ve seen so many of you decorating bottles and wanted to do some Christmas ones of our own. Here’s the outcome: We ended up sorta copying each other. You should have seen us trying to get started. That first step is the hardest. We had great components, but just where and how to start was tough. You kinda don’t know what it’s going to look like until after you glue it [...]

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