Friendship Tree

I have been spending a lot of time lately rearranging my studio along with adding a floor
 length chalkboard {more on that on a later post}, and gray washing my pie safe that
stores all my linens and it has kept me very busy and tired! :)  It  has also led me to adding
special pieces to this little tree.

I call it my "Friendship Tree".

I picked up this little wire cutie a year or so ago at a friends shop who was selling and moving
out of the state. I only paid like a couple bucks for it and I knew it had to come home with me.

I have always been a "detail" person and just love the bits and bobs that come along
with ordering things in the mail. I started hanging them on this tree and each time I
look at it and see a specific tag , I think of the person who sent it to me.

I just added this tulle bow with the "OH JOY" tag. I won it in a Christmas in July
giveaway.

This JDL fabric tag and lace was on one of the scarves that I ordered last year.
Love it!

I have shown this heart tag before. Becky over at Timewashed sent this to me along with some other
goodies awhile ago.  As you can see I haven't removed it from the tag yet because I love it as is. 

I can't highlight each and every tag, but believe me there are several and there is room for many more so I
shall keep filling it up. It just makes me happy.

What makes you happy?


I hope you had a wonderful weekend and that you will have an awesome week ahead!
Blessings~

The big black box

I got up this morning and decided that I was tired of looking at the big black box on our bedroom dresser so I set about making a cover for it and this is the result.

{notice the dresser handle on the bottom left...lol... I also started painting this dresser a few weeks ago and this is as far as I have gotten. ha! One of these days...}

It is just a piece of fabric that I added embellishments to and threw over the tv. No fancy seams or anything. Just a square piece of fabric. 

I sewed on a tulle ruffle and then added cheesecloth on top of that. Hand stamped ribbon on top of the cheesecloth. Very haphazard...no measuring. Just wanted to make something fun that wouldn't take long or tax my brain too much. :) 

This is how it looked before...ugh. 

I also added a vintage hanky and a fabric pin with ribbon tails. 

Lest you think I spent hours sewing this rickrack, lace and tucks in this fabric...no, I did not. I purchased the fabric this way. It was on clearance so I purchased what they had left. {JoAnn Fabric} 

Hope you enjoyed your peek into my bedroom again today.
Blessings~ 

Fairy party...part three

I really thought that I could wrap up the fairy party in this post, but I will have to do one
more. My dial-up only lets me load so many pictures before it goes wonky on me so I
 am not going to push my luck. :)

Above was our drink for the day. Pink lemonade with 7 up. Perfect on a hot summer day.

Pink sugar wafers are perfect for a fairy party. {Did I sugar these kids up or what? lol}

I put the plates, napkins and cups in the wire basket in the vanity table where a drawer used to be.

{This photo was taken the night before so they aren't unwrapped yet}

Initially I had the tulle decoration running down the middle of the table long ways, but
I realized it had to go diagonal for each of the kiddos to have a place to actually color etc.

Loved the way my daughter-in-law Melissa fixed her hair so I had to snap a photo.
I should have purchased wings for my DIL's also. :)

Two happy little fairies...

Just some pretty decor to fill up space and hold the pink butterfly wands.

Little Ms Ainsley playing with the whirly gigs. She was such an adorable little fairy!

Fairy Keira just painted her nails and put pretty stickers on them. Did you notice the sweet
little necklaces that I found for them? I was going to make fairy dust necklaces, but as
luck would have it I found some on clearance at Claire's. Tiny little vials of pink glitter
along with a heart charm on a silver chain. They were the perfect size and color.

Three sweet little fairies holding their bags of jewels.

I wanted to get a photo of all the fairies together, but the littlest one did not cooperate. ha!! 

Fairy Ainsley picking up more jewels. It is hard for me to realize that people in blogland
really don't want to see 500 photos of my grandchildren and it was so hard to choose. *smile*

Close up of a beautiful little fairy. We really did have a wonderful day and I know I overdid it
on the photos, but please bear with me and I promise I will wrap this up with the next post. :)

Celebrate life!!! 

Love Is In The Air ~

I have been working on decorations this week for a bridal shower at our church next Sunday and that put me in the reminiscing mood. I wanted to share a few pictures of some of the decorating and favors that I have done in the past.

This cake was *NOT* done by me, but I just had to include it because I think it is so gorgeous!! This was the cake for my niece's wedding in 2006~

The next few pictures are of cards that I made for my neice a few weeks after the wedding. I had such fun making these cards and she loved them.

She was a gorgeous bride!

I made 150 favors of simple white boxes filled with white jordan almonds

for her wedding. We schlepped them all the way from our home in Michigan

to the wedding site in Pennsylvania.

Simple, yet elegant favors~

The 150 favors spread all over my table in the midst of tying on

ribbons and roses ~

Bird cage/candleholders that we used for my daughters wedding in 2003

and I have used them several times since for bridal decor.

These particular photos were for my daughter-in-laws bridal shower~

I put a votive candleholder in each one and then smooshed lavender tulle around it.

(I really did have the tulle smooshed down around the candle

very well so it would not catch on fire)

I put the bows on the side at the bottom of the cage instead of on top

since the candles would be lit.

Several cages on my table in the midst of being decorated ~

I enjoy decorating so much and I also love making favors etc.

It's the little *DETAILS* in life that I am drawn to.

I am in the midst of using these same cages for a bridal shower

next Sunday and when I get them all decorated

I will share them with you.

I really like how they are turning out.

The colors this time are light pink and light pistachio green...

*SO PRETTY*

Have a blessed Sunday ~

Stairway Wall & Other Projects ~

I think I am finally done with my stairway wall for now. I was up and down on the ladder so many times yesterday that when I woke up this morning I had muscles screaming at me that haven't been used like that in a long time! I really wanted to put Wall Words above my mirror, but trying to conserve and not purchase anything right now I decided to use things I already have.

I hung an old empty frame up above the mirror and then draped it with a piece of very old fabric that is so soft! I didn't want to cut it up, so I swoshed it over to the one side. What do you think? I love the photograph in the center that I purchased from Alice over at Painted White some time ago. I want to put it in an old frame too, but until I find one the right size I just have the photo on the wall. I realized after it was all done that I probably should have offset the frame...oh well...*SIGH*

Isn't this chandelier so pretty?? Another project *WAITING* to be finished. I purchased this (with the Rachel Ashwell shades included) at an antique mall for $25 probably two years ago and it has never been put up. I do hope to actually get hubby to install it this summer. I will keep you posted ~

I love this door! I think I am turning into a gyspy!! LOL This is the door to our guest room that has needed stripped for years and this past summer I finally did it. It had layers and layers of white paint on top of blue paint or blue something...so this is the door stripped of the paint with blue *whatever* left behind. I was going to paint it white again , but we had kids coming to visit before I got it done so we hung it up as is and it has really grown on me. I even attached a bit of lace to it with old thumb tacks...am I crazy or is it just my age?

I hope you have a wonderful day today ...blessings!

Birthdays and Blessings

I love this blessings sign that I have hanging in a guest room . Love the scrolls and the brown and blue tones. Be sure to count your blessings today! I thought I would share a gift that I wrapped for a friend. I used vintage wallpaper, vintage ribbon and a vintage millinery flower as well. I printed the Happy Birthday banner on the computer and attached it. I was very pleased with the way it turned out. So to everyone that has a birthday today...Happy Birthday and many blessings in the coming year!