Artwords-Botanical

This weeks word is Botanical. I have tons of photographs of plants, but I think I like this one the best!

Book Tuesday

This weeks book is one of my own - The business of Bliss - How to profit from doing what you Love. This is by the editors of Victoria magazine and just like the mag, the pictures are wonderful.
It is in 2 parts - Inspiration and Dollars and Sense. It shows many examples of women in business and what they do and great pics. There is also some great business advice to anyone wanting to start a business.

Here are some pages...





Great inspiration and to make you dream!

4 X 4 Swap

Back in March I was in a swap hosted by Vintage Dragonfly. It was Spring has sprung as the theme and you had to make a 4X4 collage on thick board and mail to your partner.

My partner was in Germany, so I decided to send a collage about maple syrup, which is a sure sign of spring around here! I put a penny on the back with the maple leaf and a red maple leaf cut out. I hope she likes it!





I got one back from Terry Woelfer from New Jersey. This was the box it came in - isnt that neat? It is covered in vintage pages.




Inside on a bed of black paper was her collage. It was a piece of heavy wood and a photo she took and a quote about spring.




On the back was a cute little envelope with a note to me and the quote wrote out so I could read it.



Really cool. Thanks Terry!

You can see all 32 of the collages at Vintage Dragonfly's flickr account. They are all gorgeous and so different!

Just a quick note...

Quickly, I am on my way shortly down to my moms and as usual I am stopping along the way - big surprise! - to shop at some stores I frequent. Yesterday was shot getting my car fixed and Wed I went to an auction sale. Sarah was like " Did you get MORE stuff?"

Of course!!

The car was full and at the end of the sale at 9:30PM(!!) He was making job lots of whole tables for 5 bucks!! Too bad I didnt have a truck ( how many times do I say that?!!) but I got some good deals. It is spread out all over my living room floor and looks like it exploded in here. On wed I also had time to hit the antique market and the thrift stores and got some good things there too!! I will post pics next week.

Gotta go, have a good weekend!

Cheryl

PS - This pic is a vintage lace collar I have listed on ebay right now.

Artwords - Woman

This is the artwords entry for this week. The word is Woman. I have a collage with a girl with flowers behind her and pink and clear buttons. She has birds flying around her that say Release your inner.... and each bird has a word.

Brilliant
Happy
Confident
Strong
Playful
Talented
Sexy
Cute

Describes Women to a T don't you think?

Book Tuesday and ebay listings

Todays book is Creative Concrete Ornaments for the garden by Sherri Warner Hunter. The first half of the book is about making the forms and the different kinds of concrete and tools needed and the next part is the projects.

A couple of the pics here are of using bottles as an ornament wall, and mosaic butterflies.



A neat read in a medium not used frequently.

I listed a few things on ebay yesterday...




These are vintage thread skeins - from 1894!



2 prints of mother and baby with wood frames - awesome in a nursery!



And another copy of Victoria from my collection.



I think I am listing a couple more interesting finds today too! I will keep you posted.

Spring ATC swap

I am participating in a swap from swapbot. This one was to make 6 ATC's to spell out spring and send to one partner and one person would send back to you.

These are my backgrounds for the cards...







Then I did the finished ones. I made a picture to do with spring on each one starting with that letter.




So, Shower, Pansy, Robins, Iris,Nest and Grow. These are my first attempts at ATC's so I am happy with them.

Tomorrow, these are off to Australia!!

House Pics

I FINALLY uploaded my pictures from my other computer!! And it actually worked. I burnt 665 new pictures! Alot of these are pics from the addition we put on the house last year. I am going to do these in stages and show you from the beginning. First the original house was about 600 square feet! Yes, very small - one bedroom, kitchen, living room and bathroom. I had made a partition in the living room for my daughter but it was very small. So we had a shed out the back that was insulated and had a wood floor, so we were going to join the 2. We thought a long hallway or small room, but it ended up being 11x 18'! Which turned out great.



So this is the picture of the shed before. I had it full of stuff and storage and that had to be all cleaned out too! So there were 3 trees in the way that had to come down. My close friend's do that for a living so they came one day and all 3 were down in 15 minutes!



This is the view from the back of the house. The house is to the left. The big tree in front is still there - thank goodness, I wanted to take down as little as possible.


THis is the back door that was on the house that we used as the opening into the new room.



More views! This was last April so a year ago! I looked at these pics today, and you dont realize how much was done till you see this again. I'm glad I can do a pictorial reminder on here.

Next, we had to fix the roof on the shed and clean it out!

Vintage corset

This is a picture of a vintage corset. It is only 22" around! Can you imagine? It has laces up the front and hook and clips at the back.
It has bone stays and lace across the bottom.
I just listed it today on ebay for seven days so till April 26th.

I've been busy working on some swaps and tomorrow I want to clean out my "shed" AKA workshop/studio. I will post pics of all. Now to go watch Survivor!!

Artwords-Dinner

I took this picture last week and they are from the grocery store of course! But I can't wait till dinner consists of just tomatoes, salt and pepper!! (Maybe some bread). Can't you just taste them?