Fairy Children Inspiration!

Well it is long overdue, as my involvement with the Clark Co. fair has caused me to put this so cute post off.  Last week or so, I recieved my 6 tags from the Fairy Children tag swap, hosted by JoAnne at Vintage dragonfly.

It was great fun to see where they came from.  All but one came from people I have swapped with before.  Here are the tags I recieved.  They are all so exquizitely made and envoke the feeling of spring so well! Just beautiful!

This beauty is so layered and just gets me really excited.  It was made by the talented hands of Mercedes Scott of mercedesscott.typepad.com

This gorgeous one comes from Lorainne Beaumont at rainebeau.blogspot.com

 This sweet one was made by Kimberly Laws at artjoystuff.blogspot.com ( have several of her things scattered around my craft studio)

 This pretty one was the work of the talented Jo West of mypaperplayhouse.blogspot.com

 This cool one came from Sandi McLean at scrapbookinwithg.blogspot.com  I love the textures she used!

This very lovely one comes from Jess Moore of scrapsavings.blogspot.com

And this is how I have them displayed in my craft studio, so I can see them all the time.  I bought this antique carpenter's ruler from Kimberly's Etsy shop last year and unfolded it to hang my favorite tags on.  A few of the tags here are from previously.

Now I will show you the tags that I made for the swap.  I had fun doing them up.  It is funny how it just evolves, and when you start putting them together, you are sure what you are going to do, but one thing leads to another.  I was so happy with the color palatte on these.

and if that wasn't enough fairy stuff, I just had to play around a bit more and came up with this fun little poster.  It will hang in the craft studio too.

I hope that everyone is having a most wonderful April and SPRING!

Selling my Wares at the Clark County Fair

It has been a couple of weeks since I posted, simply because I have been so busy getting ready for the Clark County Fair's Country Store.  I live here in Logandale, NV where the Clark County fairgrounds are.  Las Vegas is part of Clark County, so it is quite a large fair that lasts 4 days.  I helped set it up and worked there during the fair also.  Whew, I am glad it is over!    The following photos are of my wares and my section in the Country Store.

First off this is the black satin covered dress form I got for $5.00 at an estate salea few weeks ago.  It smelled reallly bad of cigarette smoke, so I got the most flowery bottle of Febreze and dowsed it about 6 times.  The odor came completely out and it smells so fresh.  I have other plans for this dress form, but for now it was beautiful covered with an antique dickie and a vintage collar.  It was perfect to hold all of my necklaces I have made that are for sale.

Next up at the same day I found this little gem of a cabinet.  Broken glass and very dirty, but there was a vision and it turned into this. . . . . . . . . .

Love I added molding to the drawer and painted it with a Robin's Egg Blue chalk paint that I made myself.

Here is another tray that was in an earlier post from the same day of yard sale finds.  I love chalkboard art, so thought it would be fun to do some on the chalkboard I had for sale.

a few of my pillows

one of the aprons I made with vintage buttons and doilies

this metal tray became this chalkboard

more stuff

Many things can become chalkboards

Another apron with vintage buttons.  All of my pillows and aprons, have vintage elements on them.
More of my vintage elements pillows were there.

My next project is to go to a new show in Henderson Nevada that specializes in vintage, antiques and collectables.

Easter Chalkboard and Decorations

On Saturday night I decided to try my hand at some chalkboard art on the large chalkboard I have hanging in my kitchen.  I also wanted to show all the Easter Decorations I have around this year.  I can't believe Easter is upon us.  Wasn't it just Christmas?   But I love this time of year and where I live we are experiencing spring in full force.  This week temps will be in the high 70's and low 80's for Easter.  I LOVE SPRING!

this ceramic egg came to me from Valerie Kraft of glittery daze and nights

This delightful wooden plate came to me from Kristen of signsandsalvage.blogspot.com

Lots of my little decorations either were given to me or I found out thrifting.

More signs given to me by signs and salvage

After all the vintage porcelain bunnies, chicks, colored eggs, baskets, chocolate and treats, "He is Risen" is the reason we all celebrate the wonderful Holiday that is Easter!  

Spring is here!

I am looking out the window of my Craft Studio, and I see that the leaves are all back on the cottonwood trees.  The fields are greening up and buds and small leaves are on my fig tree too.  I know that spring is here when in the middle of March in my community, the Rotary Club hosts a grand event.  It is called the Valley Wide Yard Sale.  This year there was around 45 to attend on Friday and Saturday.  I did find some wonderful treasures, but I think I am most excited about finding an old dress form, and a small cabinet which I will post later, with the before and after photos, as I am going to redo both of them.  But I thought I would like to show you the rest of my finds from the two days. . . . . . . .   ENJOY

I love to be able to look at something lying there and imagine it as something else.  This wooden tray will become a shabby chalkboard, as much as I like Monet, this image will have to go!

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I love this antique frame that I got for $1.00 because it has a small chip in the corner.  woo hoo!

 More frames and a hook with porcelain knobs

 I can never reseist porcelain bunnies, especially around Easter time.

 I have a collection of white pitchers.  I spotted these and had to have them. . . . .

 A handful of chandelier chrystals    Love these!

An assortment of old bottles and silverware.  I can repurpose all of it!

 These sweet vintage women's gloves are darling on.  They were a $1.00

 Some sweet little bottle brush trees

A wooden carving to go on the cabinet I am redoing.  Hope it fits.  This was .50 cents.

One home was selling everything, inside and out and most of it is vintage or antique.  People were carrying out dressers and tables.  My daughter found a sweet corner desk that she will redo.  This is where I found the dress form. We had to dig through lots of drawers and piles, and that is how I found all of this. . . . . . .

 An assortment of trims and laces, some are old, and some not.  Velvet brown ribbon, and a vintage crochet collar.

 I can't resist trims and lace.  Below is a true vintage trim and I think it needs to find its way to an apron.

I can't wait to find the time to get to my dress form and cabinet.  I have big shabby plans for both of them.