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I have a confession to make ..... I am not a yard sale shopper ~

A flea market shopper but not a yard sale shopper and it is all because I have already been there done that on the Little Tykes stuff ~ I have friends ( Pat and Lisa ) that live close to me that always find treasures at yard sales ~ not me though ~

But ...... when Dorothy at the Shabby Y emails to say she is having a yard sale I am there with bells on (really flip flops) ~

She has the most amazing studio in the back that she even opened up to the shopping gals ~I pretty much drooled over her neat as a pin studio stuffed with awesome treasures ~

Here are the wonderful things that I got from her that will be on my website soon ~ well, except the oval frame ~

I also went to a tiny little flea market and found these old photos and sweet baby shoes ~ I am going to use the pictures for pocket pillows ~ My daughter was with me and we just cracked up going through the boxes of pictures ~

This girl's bow is so fun ! I can't imagine wearing a bow that ginormous :)

People did call my girls bow heads though when they were little so maybe I can imagine it ..... hmmmm

So I told you a couple posts back

about Funky Junk Interiors

"She's Got Guts" challenge ~

It was to take something random

and do something with it that

you might not normally think of ~

Today is the link party day!!

Remember the grain buckets that

I got a couple of weeks ago ?

I knew that my challenge had to be

with those ~ So I went out to

my workshop and just

grabbed stuff that has been out

there forever ~

We have been redoing our bathroom

and my studio ~ I needed some

farmhouse style things for those

rooms so that is where my brain was

headed ~

The first thing is this wayyyy awesome

basket that I found at a flea market ~

It is perfect for a

studio organization piece ~

I tied on two of the grain buckets

and used them for buttons and pictures ~

Now I love it even more than I did before!!

The next thing was for

a blank wall in our bathroom

that I really couldn't figure

out what to put on it ~

This old frame worked great with

hanging grain buckets ~ I put in chunky

farmhouse soaps and a candle that

is battery operated {I love those! }~

Lastly was for our

other bathroom ~ I took an old

door front and repainted it with

Old White Chalk Paint and put some

dark wax and clear wax ~ Then attached

the grain buckets to it for more

soaps and another candle ~

It was a great thing to

stretch my imagination and do

things that I really hadn't thought

of before ~

Can you imagine going to a month long art retreat !!! I just think that would be the most fun and such a wonderful treat ~

I am so excited to be part of the online art retreat that is offered at Sweet Six Studio ~ Having it online is perfect because it will be around my schedule and I can go back to go over the instructions as much as I want ~

It starts on September 2 but I will be on vacation ~ sooo I will catch up when I get home ~ tooo perfect !

Talk to you soon !

I am soooo excited to get to go to

Karla's Cottage for Bird Song, a wonderful

fun, craft filled weekend on April 30 and May 1st ~

There are going to be awesome classes taught

by Lisa McIlvain, Carol Spinski,

Debbie Dusenberry and Karla herself ~

It is going to be held at Karla's

beautiful studio and cottage ~

It is going to be "down home, comfy and casual" which

is the way I just love to be !!

There will only be 20 guests so spots are

filling up fast ~

Come join us !!

These pictures make me want spring and to

be there right now :)

Click on the logo below to go to the

Bird Song Blog ~

I am lost deep in the depths

of cleaning my studio ~

I figured since I had a trail from

the door to my sewing machine

and to my computer that it was

time to clean and destash like

craziness!!

I have so much stuff that I think

I might use to create with ....

Stuff to do photo vignettes with ....

and just stuff I am not sure why with ~

Anyway ... so I have been pulling things

out and trying to list stuff in

my flea market category that I won't use

anymore ~ And also taking a bunch to

the thrift store that I don't feel

like listing because I am over it ~

These pictures are to make you all

feel really good about yourself and

to keep me accountable to finish ~

I am such a candidate for

Where Women Create aren't I ~ Hahaha !!

Alrighty I am back to burying myself

in "STUFF" ~

Update #1

I need a gazillion plastic bins !!

Update #2 ~ 8:08 p.m.

Oh my gosh I can see the floor ~

I need to stop and spend time with my hubby

but just maybe it will be done in

ohhhhh about a week !

Last night I got to go

to Lisa's house for a

Christmas crafting night ~ It is

so much fun to get together with

people who "get" the same stuff that

you do ~

Her house was recently in the

Dallas Morning News with some

beautiful pictures of her holiday decor ~

Well needless to say I knew that

I would pretty much not get any crafting

done because I really wanted to

look at all of her beautiful

Christmas decorating and awesome

vintage vignettes everywhere ~

Here are just a few of them ~

~ this is above the bathtub ~

~ over a doorway ~

~ this is the top of her headboard

with a mirror above it ~

It ended up that everyone pretty

much admired her home in awe, ate, chatted

and watched Charlene make

a necklace for Lisa out of some

of Lisa's vintage finds ~

( Lisa, Charlene & Cindy )

I have been wanting to make a

necklace with an old coin purse

for awhile so it was really fun to watch ~

Right before we left Cindy

had Lisa autograph her copy

of the newspaper ❤ ~

We were totally goofing around

with having her sign the paper

just because it was too fun ~

You've gotta love crafting with friends!

I am getting there and it

ROCKS my socks off!!

My studio/office is getting clean ~

In between organizing ... I am still

painting, sewing and listing

things on my website ~

Here are just a few things that

have been added ~

Annie Sloan Chalk Paint not only

works great for furniture but for

small things too!

I got these super cute

linen bags in that I just love!

For a limited time

you can get a FREE cosmetic bag

with every Linen bag purchased ~

FREE !!!

Next is a progress picture ~

The top shelf needs done still

but I can see the floor and

the fabric and other stuff is all in bins ~

I needed to use plastic bins

so I can see what is in there ~

It would be fun to use cute baskets

but it would not be functional for me ~

I am off to make some roses ~ Chat soon!

I am in serious need

of organizing my office/studio ~

Soooo.... I decided to add

all of my "destash" stuff

to the Flea Market category

of my website ~

I have so much "stuff" that I

have been keeping to someday

make things out of ~ Or maybe

use for little photo shoot vignettes ~

It isn't happening so it has to go

{So I can get more....ahhhhh!!!}

I think that may be a sickness of

some sort ~ :)

Here is the beginning and I will be

adding more as I clean ~

Yesterday for some reason it

was all about the bags !

I have burlap bags and muslin bags

that have been in my studio for a few months

and for some reason

all of a sudden they were calling my name ~

These are what I worked on ~

So seriously ............

I am supposed to be organizing this closet

that I have put off for ohhhh about 10 years ~

We are getting new hardwood floors though

so it is a necessity of life unless the workers

want to get killed when they open it ~

Why in the heck do I have this closet and

how in the heck did it get like this !!

Oh my gosh !

Okay off to organize and toss !

WAIT !! I have worked for 10 minutes and I am

at a stand still ~

For all of your organizy type gals out there ~

What if I have something that

I think is cute or pretty and I really like

it but don't have a clue what to do with it ???

Here is an example ... she is darling but I won't

put her out because she doesn't go with

my decor ~

Do I save her for grandkids one day? ~

Do I put her out on Easter? ~

This is just one example of ..... ohhhh quite

a few things ~

(Oh my gosh, is this what hoarders think ??)

What do I do ?

AHHHHH !!!

I just received a package that I ordered from Angela Harris ~

They are kits that I am supposed to create with but they came packaged

so pretty I can't open them yet ~ Soooo I have them displayed

in my studio just as sweet as can be ~

I know I will have to open them soon though because

I won't be able to stand it ~

I REALLY REALLY need to continue my purging quest

but for some reason I have just quit ~

That is totally how I am ......

Anyway, so instead of purging I am creating more

disasters all around me ~ I just want to antique shop

and create !!

Isn't that what we are supposed to be doing ???

I actually have an office/studio and a big huge workshop outside

but where do I end up ........ in the kitchen and dining room ~

I really don't like to cook much

so I guess this is a great thing to do

in the kitchen :)

See how the island has a cute apothecary full of flour ~ Well

I am pretty sure it is just there because it is cute ~

My dining room table is a full too !!

I am thinking it is supposed

to be a place to eat but my hubby is a pilot

and not home much for

dinner and my kids

are married so it is a giant craft table ~

Works for me !

I do my Bible study here too :)

I love to start my day with Jesus ~

I have not gotten alot of cooking done

over the last couple of days but I have

had alot of fun crafting !!

Okay I am really really going to clean these areas

right now ~

Chat soon !

I am soooo very much leaning

toward painting my studio walls

a soft creamy white and going

with whites, creams (surprise, surprise)

and Robin's Egg Blue ~

I love Annie Sloan's Duck Egg Blue paint

and I LOVE vintage aqua jars ~

The color is so beautiful

and I have never had anything blue

in my home at all ~

These are some jars I found

yesterday and have a really hard time

parting with them .... I guess I don't

need to hoard them ~

I am cleaning and

destashing after all ....

( I am keeping some though )

Janet at The Empty Nest has

an awesome post on the

history of the jars and

how to figure out their age ~

Thank you Janet!

I love knowing the history of things!

Alrighty I need to unload

my car from junkin' ~

I was so excited when I received the Winter issue of Artful Blogging and saw a picture of my dress form ~ It is in an article about Tiffany's "Show Me Your Form" blog party ~ I had to include my dress form in the party because my family truly does not get the whole dress form thing ~ in fact my girls who are 19 and 21 think she is pretty scary ~

It was alot of fun and really fun to be in one of my very favorite magazines ~ in fact all of the Somerset Studio magazines are pretty much to die for gorgeous ! I would love to carry some of them on my website so I will have to see if I can do that ~