Today is my mother's day, I am off having breakfast in bed, enjoying the sun (what little there is), shopping for antiques and mostly not cleaning !!!! Please enjoy these tags I made for you. Click on each one and save. I hope you are having as yummy a day as I am xoxoxoxxo
Images from Anna Corba and Sandra Evertson
Aubern'e made these wonderful firecracker favors for the Hobbit birthday party. Gandalf brought firework to Bilbo Baggins birthday party. I guess Gandalf is known for his fireworks !!! Aubern'e took a toilet-paper roll and covered it in paper. Added string for the fuse and glued a bamboo stick to the side. They filled them with leaf pin, dragon egg (rock), poppers, mushroom bead, fluffy patch for their feet and of course a gold ring. Then she taped a top, like a little hat. I was soo impressed with these and how well executed they were done. You must also check out the hobbit house Aubern'e made as a birthday gift for Chloe's dragons to live in. Aubern'e you are amazing me xoxoxo
This week on Gracious Hospital-i-Tea Blog-a-Ton is the theme Decor-a-Tea. Share ideas and pictures that incorporates tea in our home.
I am very algeric to most sented candles, so I really use tea-lights in my home a lot. I make mine is a bit different because I did not just want to set a tea candle down in my tea cups, creamers and sugarbowls. I was just too afraid they may get ruined. So I came up with this pretty solution, rock salt. I love using rock salt in decorating. It is dirt cheap (I keep an baggy full on-hand at all times) and it just looks so pretty. After a few years and it starts to look dirty it is easy to replace. All I did for the votive, is to fill a sugarbowl with rock salt to the rim and burry the tea candle. Then the flame is well above my bowl. I hope everyone is having a lovely week. Today is my Saturday and I have double chocolate bread-pudding made from my leftover bread in the oven xoxoxoxx
Chloe and I have been sewing little birds. She gave her grandmother one for Easter. I use Martha's chicken pattern and left off the wattle and comb. I also shortened the beak. We just blanket stitched the edges. We prefer to hand sew and I like the look of it better. They were very easy to make. Also if you have not seen it, check Calamity Kim's birds. So sweet.
PS. If you know of any on-line bird patterns, could you please let me know. Thank you xoxoxo
Chloe and I had fun making simple nests. In my egg issue I show how to make a nest using a wreath as a base, taken apart. Here we built one from scratch. I am blessed to have lots of different trees and bushes with just budding branches. The trick is taking your time weaving, in and out, and around and around. Have fun playing xoxoxoxo
I saw these wonderful button note-cards at How About Orange. You just download the PDF for the card, print it up and add the buttons. But I thoughts some baby yo-yos would be great. I also rounded the edges of the card. Now I have sweet cards to send to you lucky readers who win a book xoxox
Also I wanted to take you for all your wonderful advice and prayers for Cynthia and her cancer. I just wanted to let you know she is doing well. She did have a mastectomy. But they feel they got all the cancer and she will have chemo. But it is only a precautionary measure. Her spirits are high and she looks wonderful.
Well I have been meaning to make a Jennifer Murphy bunny for a while. I am soooo in-love with this bunny. I think it is the cup-cake skirt I love the most. I made Miss. Poppy a bit more fluffy and fat then Jennifer's because she has been munching lots of chocolate and jelly beans, just like me ;-) I needle-felted her some wool eyes and used horse hair for her whiskers. I glued Miss. Poppy on a vintage jello mold. Just perfect !!!!! Oh you can learn to make your bunny here.
PS. someone keeps leaving very sweet comments, but leaves no name or address. So I can not say thank you. Whoever you are thank you and I will try to stopping eating chocolate and getting working on the baking issue xoxoxox
I have been wanting to make some bags for shopping. I have heavy plastic-coated ones for groceries but they are too bulky for the mall and such. I had several ideas then, I saw Debbie's market sacks. What a brilliant idea and she inspired me. Mine is a little different from Debbie's. I put a inverted-box pleat in on each side and added a firm bottom. I like wide bags, because it makes it nice to really see what in in your bag. I am still hoping to make one I can fold up and carry in my purse. Thank you Debbie for the inspiration xoxox
Well since I had success with my Rubblework scarf, I thought I would take the same concept and make a table runner for Valentines. All I did was make a pieced top, add rick-rack to the edge and then a back side fabric. I did not add any filler or quilt it, I wanted it to lay totally flat. Thanks to Michele, I found a brilliant idea, 9 patch. Since the part I hate is all the cutting out of little pieces and putting them together, this was perfect for me. Thank you Michele. It is SO easy, you have to check it out !!!!!!!! My colors for my living-room this spring are soft reds, coral pinks and light turquoise. For the hearts I potato stamped them, I am pretty happy with the runner. The fabrics did not come together like I envisioned. I can see I need to develop more of a quilters eye. As usual I learned a few more things. With each project I do there are mistakes, but then there are lessoned learned. I have to say Kathy's tips in her Rubblework scarf pattern really helped me with the runner xoxoxox
Akk I can not believe I made a wall quilt. For those who do not know me, for years I said I would never quilt. When I was 19, I made a small quilt. I can not tell you how crooked, wobbly and a mess it was. Never again I said, ha !!!! At Christmas I saw this panel (below) and LOVED the center picture, it reminds of the old children books I adore. BUT I hated the rest of it (It all matched to much for me ;-). I keep thinking about it and what I could do, I finally decided to go for it. I decided to do the leaves and picket fence in wool felt (that I just appliqued on) Chloe needle-felted the holly berries for me, thank you Chloe. I actually quilted the scallops on the roof and appliqued it on but sadly you can not tell. I think I needed to add more batting to the roof to make the quilting stand out.
There is definitely some flubs and is it a bit wobbly. But for me, it is pretty even and that is all that matters. It was a big learn experience. I have to say it does not really go with my home and I am not sure were I will hang it. But I look at it and am glad I pushed myself to try something new. I have to tell you, I had all you quilting friends in my head as I worked on this quilt. I truly thought of all of you, it was like you were cheering me on. So thank you xoxoxox
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After :
Yeah, I did a patchwork and did not kill anyone ;-) I made Kathy- Pink Chalk Studio, Rubblework scarf and love it. I soo struggle with patchwork, I can not cut anything straite (even with cutting mat, rotary cutter and guide. My scarf is skinnier then it is suppose to be and I spent 2 two hours re-cutting and still made mistakes. But I think you can not tell, I hope. Kathy if I see you at the grocery store, do not look too close at my scarf :-). But I have to say Kathy's scarf was very easy to make. As a dyslexic I have such trouble reading patterns but I was really impressed with how well written Kathy's pattern is. Very clear, easy to read, full of helpful information. I loved the extra tips she added but it was not so much information that it lost me. Sewing it was easy and it came together with no problem. One nice thing, is you are just purchasing a PDF file. No shipping to deal with.
I have to tell you I have been lucky enough to meet Kathy and she is such a kind, fun and down to earth lady. Chloe still talks about her daughters. She is just like how she is on her blog. Kathy I love the scarf and am ready to try a bit more piece work, thank you xoxoxoox
In trying to save money and wanting a more homemade gifts, here is a few things I made for the girls. I use Amy Karol Bend The Rules artsy clutch. These were a bit tricky to make because the fabric was so thin and slippery. I used a very heavy cotton with iron-on facing for the inside fabric, so the silky fabric could just sort of hang around the purse. I added wrist cord to carry them.
These were crystals from Walmart ($1.99) I decoupaged imagines (Ophelia from Shakespeare for Aubern'e and a black capped chickadee, Chloe's favorite bird). Added jewels, broken jewelry, beads for thier Christmas ornaments.
I also made these button rings. So easy, just cut a length of elastic using a whip stitch, sew ends together and sew on buttons. I also made pot holders and embroidered dish towels for my MIL. And I forgot to take pictures of the tote bags I made. The cool one I made for my sister, it is an evening tote bag. She takes to ferry everyday and is single, so I thought a dressy, evening tote bag would come in handy !!!
When we were making the faux gingerbread ornaments, Chloe made one were she put a smaller cutout on top of a bigger cutout and painted it black. Well it looked like a silhouette and got me thinking. I made some from fimo and LOVE them. They are very easy.
Also I bought this wonderful pink and black paper with no idea what I was going to do with it (it was only $3.00 and the last piece). I came home took down a picture and taped the paper on the wall, but it looked a bit bare.Then I made these silhouettes and I knew they would be a perfect touch for my pink paper (and pink Christmas)
I took a length of mini rick-rack and glued the silhouettes to the rick-rack. Then just used a push pins to add them to the paper at the top and the bottom. They turned out smashing. One more craft I am going to have to make more of.
What I did :
I rolled out the white fimo on the pasta machine, the widest setting 5. Then I rolled out the black fimo on the next lower setting 4.
I cut out the white fimo with cookies cutters.
To cut the silhouette I had printed up some silhouettes I found on-line (here is a great free site) on card stock and cut them out. I set the cut out silhouette on the black fimo and cut around it. I found a small paring knife worked well.
Then carefully peel off the paper and set silhouette on the white fimo. Do not press down but use the knife to fix areas and then gently press down.
Bake as directed.
I tried painting black paint over the black fimo, also I tried using the shiny top coat. But really I like it plain, just back and white fimo.
I encourage you to play around with these and see what you come up with.
Wow everyone thank you for all the wonderful thrifty, creative (long list) of ideas. You have my brain going and that was just what I needed. I will share what I did end up doing, but it will have to be after Christmas, since my girls read my blog :-} Here are some wonderful ideas to help get you going. I will be posting some fun and easy snowflake tags I have been making. Stay tuned.
Oh my I want to do the boy in blue and the girl in pink !!!!!
I love these mittens. We are talking about setting up a tea table this Christmas and having tea parties. I think at one of these we will make these mittens. Thank you Dawn. She also has a wonderful tutorial on making aged Christmas tags.
Akkkkk, Debbie I love these. They are so french looking and I already have the right colored yarn. Thank you xoxoxo
I thought these were a brilliant idea Andrea and so easy.
Okay I think I am actually going to make this for me ;-)
You know how blessings seem to come in groups, well I have had a couple of weeks of blessings. I am always amazed how giving the blogging world is. Whenever I think people do not care I always remember how generous everyone has been and realize that is not true. Linda sent me the most adorable mini autumn quilt. Isn't it wonderful. She tea dyed the fabric, embroidered the pumpkin, added ribbon and included a stick to hang it from. Linda for years owned a holiday shop and you cans see what a great eye she has.
I thought this was such a clever idea, even if you do not sew. The quilt is about the size of a pot holder. If you had some special hot pad or vintage pot holder you could do the same idea. Thank you Linda soo much. It is just beautiful and I see every time I cook. Also thank you for the inspiration, I am sure the ladies can come up with some very clever ideas from your hanging mini quilt. PS. your sewing is sooo perfect !!!!
Dear Jill at Bittersweet treated me and girls to her amazing soap, some fresh bittersweet and paper I had been drooling over. Jill has one of the most giving hearts of anyone I know. Thank you Jill for blessing my girl too, it meant soo much to them. And as I told you they treasure their gift. xoxoxoxo
Janet (Janet is new to the blogging world, go say hello) was kind enough to offer some acorns to me. I do not have any that grow around here and was thrilled that she offered. But I was not expecting them to come in such a beautiful old tin and also oak leaves. Thank you Janet for taking the time and being so kind.
I have been sewing a lot lately. I made this apron for Chloe. It was so much fun because I just let it happen bit by bit. I took an old canvas money sack I had, opened up up and added tucks to the top.(yes there is a hole in the canvas at this oint I have just left it there) I had to add fabric to the side and made it so it ties in the back. Sort of like a smock. I think she could just wear it out and about with her jeans if it were a bit shorter. I actually did a pieced square for pocket. This will probably be the closest I will ever get to quilt :-) I do not know how you quilt ladies do it. Chloe is thrilled with her apron. Now it is Aubern'es turn, well after I make four huge burlap drapes for my kitchen.
PS. thank you for all the kinds notes. My finger is getting better and my family took very good care of me. Thank you Aubern'e for all the cleaning and cooking you did. Also thank you Chloe for helping me and the peanut-butter chocolate pie xoxoxoxoxo
Chloe and I yesterday had a harvest moon day. We made Turkey Feather's yummy harvest moon cookies. I found this vintage harvest moon image (click on image to enlarge). Printed it up on card stock, glittered him and glued a Popsicle stick on the back. I hope you are enjoy the season.
I do not know if you have seen it, but Susan Branch has new free patterns. I saw this scalloped apron and knew I had to make it. I have been unable to find an apron I love. I am large curvy girl ;-) and I knew I needed an apron with curves, so I did not look like I was wearing a tent. This turned out so prefect for me. If you read this Susan thank you for being so generous with all of us.
But as I said I am big girl (size 18) so I was a bit afraid her pattern would not fit me. I will try to explain as best as I can what I did to make the apron bigger. I added 1 inch to each of the 3 middle pieces, so that gave six inches extra. What I did was move the smallest side piece down as far as I could (click on pictures below). To determine how far I could move that piece down, I started at the other bottom and laid the four straps, reversing wide end to narrow end, so it took up less room. I place the small piece above that and then the other three pieces. I had room to add the inches then. I just took one of those fabrics pens that vanish when fabric is wetted and drew a line in inch out from the pattern. The pattern calls for 7 yards of seam binding but if you buy those packages, they are four yards. So two packages will give you the extra seam binding. The only thing is I really need a pocket. So another day I have to figure out how to add one. But I LOVE this apron and the fabric.
Lastly I have never really worked with seam binding before and it was not easy. But about half way through I started getting the hang of it. But if you look close you will see places were the fabric popped out and I had to sew it down (shock)
Thank you for all the kind comments. It cheered me up and made all the last weeks negativity go away. Having spent a lovely day at home sewing and baking and reading all you kind words have made me feel right as rain xoxoxoxo
If you have ever wanted to do silhouettes but not sure how, you must check out Simple Gifts wonderful tutorial !!!!
Thanks to Dawn at By Sun and Candlelight I was reminded of Johnny Appleseed's birthday (the 26th, this Wednesday). We decided to make an impromptu day of it. We had so much fun. We read Johny Appleseed by Will Moses and looked at his Great-Grandmothers art work. We had an apple tea. We did soft-pastel drawings of apples and a fun craft. Paper quilts called Apple Core. We just used the template below and cut out papers and glued them till we filled a page. I printed up small version using wallet size on my printer. For a dinner we cooked baked apples and apple sausages with caramelized onions.
I wanted to say that my quilt represented Grandma Moses (right), Aubern'es her favorite colors (middle) and Chloe's is half her girl side and half her tomboy side (and her inner-struggle ;-) left). I think this may become a tradition. This is the type of day I homeschool for !!!!!
Baked Stuffed Apples
4 apple's cored
1/4 cup softened butter, 1/2 stick
1/3 cup rapadura sugar (it has a molasses flavor) or brown sugar
5 dried figs, cut into small cubes
1/8 cup raisin
1/2 tsp. salt
1/8 cup toasted, chopped walnuts
1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon and ground ginger
Pre-heat oven 350%
In a bowl mash together everything but the apples. Fill the core of each apple with butter mixture. If extra make a mound on top of apple. Drizzle each apple with a bit of maple syrup and 1/8 cup of water. The water will help the sugars not burn.
Bake uncovered 30 minutes or till apples are tender.
Lastly I wanted to share a few journals that inspired me. Remember your journal is only for you, it does not have to be perfect (see all my mistakes) or amazing. It only has to make you happy.
If you know of any or have a wonderful journal on-line, send me a link and I will add it to the list.
Several of you have said you hate writing or have sloppy handwriting like me. I have to tell you practicing calligraphy has helped me sooooo much. It is sort of like knitting, in that it forces you to slow down and focus on each step. For me while I write my mind is racing with all my thoughts and trying to add using my hand while all that thinking is going on, is very hard for me. So I sort of end up all over the place. Calligraphy (just like knitting, I think every dyslexic should learn to knit) has helped me focus and slow down. I will tell I personally hate those calligraphy pens with the nibs. I like calligraphy markers much better. I have two kinds, one wide and one narrow. So find what works for you. Here is some links and practice paper to help you xoxoxox
I have never really kept a journal. Maybe it is because I HATE writing, although I love communicating. I wish I could just have you all over for tea, it would be soo much easier. So when I saw journals on-line were people were cutting out images from mags, well that I could get into. I am the queen of magazines and have pilesssss of them around. At first I just cut out a lot of pretty pictures and let that express my thoughts. But I really do want to feel more comfortable with writing, as I also want my girls to. If you have not noticed, mostly how I teach is starting with me and the girls seem to follow suite.
I started to think about how I could incorporate more writing. I looked for pictures that would motive me to write. I actually made a box, were I put phrases and quotes to encourage us to write. The girls and I will pull out our journals, pick a quote and write about it. This and 70 glittery gel pens have made writing much more fun.
But I do not just use this book just as a journal. Actually there are lots of different ways to journal. I wanted my girls to see me using my book in different ways, so they would not feel bound to "journal" in only one way. I have horrible handwriting. The actually act of writing, just makes me bonkers. What you see here is after 2 years of diligently trying to have better handwriting and it is still bad. Better then before, but still sloppy. So I do lots of copy-work and practice.
I've added poems, house-hold tips, I copy books (like image above is from Joie De Vivre book), how I think the world should work, pretty pictures and why they are pretty. Anything that speaks to my heart and encourages me to write. So I encourage you if you are not one who likes to write or journal, maybe cutting up a pretty magazine might inspire you.
Mama loves butter, don't you see?
And-on good biscuit-so do we !
Mama loves something better than that-
She loves her Children plump and fat .
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I have been meaning to share my birthday gift to myself. The girls and I each have each have sketchbooks and copy-work books. But mine was getting shabby (not in a shabby chic way) and needed a new one. Plus I wanted to breath some new life into our books. I have seen several journals on-line (I will write about those in another post) that really motivated me. In this post I will share what I got and next post some of what we have been doing.
I decided since this was my birthday gift, I was going to get good and pretty supplies. I knew I wanted a large sketchbook that was spiral bound. I wanted it to be able to expand as I added thing like ribbons and buttons to it. I also wanted a hard cover, not a floppy one. I found one (after looking at 8 stores) at Barns and Noble. One of the things I like about this sketchbook is the inside edge is serrated. So if you want to pull out a page it would be easy and have a clean edge. The cover was icky, so I gussied it up !! I want to thank Andrea, because of my order from One Hundred Wishes, my cover turned out so charming. I even used her business card and ribbon. I thought the sentiment was perfect for my journal.
Because I am so scattered, I have found it best to keep all my craft supplies grouped together (Like all my felted wool in one suit case). So I made a little bag to hold all my supplies. I love Bend the Rules clutch. I just made a long, skinny version.
The poem above is from the picture on the journal. Ofcousrse it is a mama and her babies. I loved this poem, it made me smile.
My list of supplies:
Pencil
fine tip sharpie
calligraphy markers
gel pens
scissors
eraser-pencil
ruler
Andrea posted about these wonderful metallic pencil's. I love them, thank you xoxox
Oh my goodness, I can not tell you how yummy this glue stick is. It is made in Italy and smells like the world's best marzipan. The only thing is I want to bake every time I journal !!!!
My good friend Susan, shared her grandmother's version of over-night dough, that can be made into cinnamon rolls. Thank you Susan. I love overnight things, so I do not have to cook as much in the morning ;-) I changed Susan's recipe a bit because I wanted make a maple version. I added maple syrup to the dough and made a maple glaze. I also added toasted pecans, because I think they go so well with maple. But feel free to play with what you like. I listed my ingredients and Susan's, so you can see both and see what you would like best.
I did want to say I changed the baking time. I baked mine at 325% for 5-10 minutes longer and found the rolls cooked without the edges burning and I did not need to cover with foil. So as I have said before, everybody's oven is different, but try baking these at 325 instead of 350 and hopefully that will work better for you.
PS. Look at these baby shoes filled with baby tears plan. I saw at the fair and I thought these were so sweet. What a wonderful way to use those outgrown baby shoes !!!!!
My Over-night Maple Rolls
2 cups water
1 cup maple syrup
1/2 cup butter, 1 stick
1 tsp. salt
1 pkg. yeast
2 eggs, well beaten
3 cup whole wheat pastry flour
3-5 cup all-purpose white flour
Spread dough with 1/4 cup soft butter, 2 cups chopped, toasted pecans, 1/4 cup sugar and cinnamon.
Follow directions below to make and bake dough. This make two rolls, eight pieces each. I cooked one roll and put one roll in the freezer. I just set the frozen rolls in a pan about 5 at night and they were ready in the morning to bake.
Maple Glaze
Drizzle maple syrup in 1 cup confectioner sugar until you get desired consistency.
Susan's Overnight Rolls
4 c. water
2 c. sugar
1 c. shortening (butter)
1 T. salt
1 cake or 2 pkgs. Yeast
4 eggs, well-beaten
12-15 c. flour
Boil water and sugar 5 minutes. Add shortening (butter). Remove from heat. Cool to lukewarm (you can hurry this by placing in the fridge, but don't let it *overcool*). Stir in salt, yeast, eggs. Add flour a cup or two at a time, slowing down when dough approaches a nice soft (not sticky) * dough texture. You may not need to use all of the flour (don't get to the point where the dough is heavy). Knead.
Make dough at 2 p.m. Let rise, covered, in a large, clean, oiled bowl til 5 p.m. You can use two bowls if you don't have a large bread bowl. Gently knead down. Let rise again, covered, til 8 or 9 p.m. Shape into buns. Place in greased pans. Let rest on counter overnight. Bake in morning at 325 degrees for 20-25 minutes. ( You may need to cover with foil partway through baking if rolls are browning quickly).
I simply spread butter over the rectangle of dough and sprinkle liberally with a mixture of sugar and cinnamon (I don’t add soaked raisins or nuts, but you could). Roll up the rectangle. Seal the end. Slice into rolls a good two inches wide (high). Place them an inch or so apart on cookie sheets or in pans (metal works best). In the morning, bakes as directed above, but make sure they’ve cooked long enough to be done. You really don’t want them *too* done—they’re just so soft and moist and delicious when done right. Mix a glaze (almost a frosting) with some butter and powdered sugar and enough milk to make it between pourable and spreadable (oh, and add some vanilla, too). I glop some of this on each roll, spreading with the back of the spoon so that it touches the entire exposed surface of the roll. Use plenty (this is not a health food!). It runs all down through the spirals of the rolls
* I noticed this recipe says to not have sticky dough but with adding the maple syrup instead of sugar the dough will be sticky. I also leave my doughs on the wetter side, because as they rise they loose the stickiness and make a moister bread.
I have not done a huge amount of crafting this summer, summers always seem to be like that. But I did make a pillow. My mother made me this amazing pink pillow for my birthday. I LOVE the pale blush pink and the peal gray together, very Coco Chanel to me. Look how she used a large gray mother-of-pearl button and a smaller pink mother-of-pearl flower button. All she did was use this pattern, except she just used the knit stitch instead of the cable. Well she bought one skein of the same yarn in this luscious sea green-blue, but fried-out on knitting after my pillow. So she also gave me the skien. I knitted it in the seed stitch and only did one big front panel. Then I took a large piece of bark cloth and wrapped around the front. I sewed it on three sides and added the large gray mother-of-pearl buttons. It was soo easy and I am happy the way the bark cloth pulled all the colors together. I will save these for Christmas, for this year I am having a pink and blue Christmas.
PS. You will never guess who is coming to my house tonight, for a lavender tea. I will share all soon xoxox
Thank you for all the encouraging notes. David is doing better and hopefully will go back to work this weekend, fingers crossed. I am slowly trying to pull my home back together. Even though I hate cleaning, I really hate it when my house is falling apart all around me. So slowly life is getting back to normal.
Thanks to Alice at A Number Of Things I found this wonderful shop and blog Wee Garden. Oh what fun inspiration. What I loved about her ideas, is a lot were small and doable. Sometimes the fairy house ideas I see are amazing but quite ambitious. I like the idea of just a small simple chair in a tiny pot. Her gardens, well you could spends days there. She sells all the little chairs, arbors, fences, ect. Her book is on my want list. Check it out and be inspired. Her blog is set up a bit different then most blogs. To read her entries, go to blog archives.
Also Echoes Of A Dream has posted an amazing fairy house. Look at the end of the post !!!!
I saw this lamp at the Bainbridge Rotary auction several years ago, for $4.00 and it was love at first site. I will not tell you the story of getting up at 5 am, waiting with thousands of people, to then run, fall and have thousands of people behind me (and to their credit they stopped and helped me up), run though half a large high school to be the first to get my lamp. But it is a true-love story and love always wins out. The only shortcoming (all loves have a short coming) was the shade. Very plain. Wanting something smashing befitting my all-to-beautiful lamp, I started playing with the shade and this is what I came up with. I had these wonderful ribbon roses and dear friend had hand-died and made for me. I had been hording them for the right project, I am soo glad I did. I just glued some ribbon and the roses on the shade. To add to the rose theme, I had this crochet collar that has these little roses on them. It is hard to see in the picture the but the roses have two rows of petals on them. The collar just slide over the shade. A match made in heaven. This is my lamp next to my side of the bed, on a old doll's changing table that was made by a friend for his daughter. It works great for a side table. So what lamp-shade can you gussy up ????????
Say hello to my little froggy friend du Puy. I named him du Puy because he is filled with little french lentils (and I name everything after food ;-) I saw this wonderful project over at Pearl Bee. Have fun making one yourself !!!!
