Countdown to Baby Shower

Hi Everyone! Hope you all have been having a wonderful weekend ~ I'm going to be taking a wee little break from my blog until after the Baby Shower for my daughter, which is this Saturday ~ and so far the forecast is calling it to be a good day....no rain....no heatwave...Whoot! Whoot!

I've mentioned in past posts that I haven't been able to do any sewing because my room has been taken over with stuff for the shower....as you can see by the first photo, the bed is full of things :)




These are some little Thank-You bags that I put together for everyone who comes...inside behind the cute little card is some yummy Raspberry filled chocolate :)



This will be the centerpiece for the Gift table...



These are the Gift bags for the winners of the games we'll be playing... the games are: Thank-you card draw.....Don't Say Baby.....Baby Shower Left & Baby Shower Right....Guess What's in the Bag...and a Word Scramble game.



These purple bags are the prize bags that Amber will get for each game played...she gets one automatically :)



And yes ladies, I will be taking LOTS of pictures of the shower for you all to see :) I'll see ya all in just over a week! Until next time sweet friends :)

Did my Hubby do good Ladies?

First, I think that what ever problem I was having accessing my blog is done with.....I'm going to keep my fingers, arms, legs, toes, etc... crossed that it is....it is NOT fun when you can't connect to your blog!!

Okay, Saturday my hubby went to go visit his dad and step-mother, and on his way there he stopped at a couple of sales, and at one of them he found this fabulous Vintage pie plate holder ~ I didn't think to take a before pic, but it was orginally a dull silver color, and it has these sweet plastic white beads on it, which I kept ~ but I did give it a shabby and oh-so-chic makeover by painting it...yes...my FAVORITE pink color by Krylon Fusion called Fairytale Pink ~ I LOVE this paint because you don't have to use a primer first.



I love the Filigree details on it....



And the sweet Swag design too...



A while back I purchased a set of 3 pretty Vintage rose plates, and they are perfect displayed on this stand....



Isn't this so fabulous ladies!! Sometimes my hubby doesn't do too well in finding things for me, but sometimes he can really hit the jackpot!! :) I plan to use this for the Baby Shower for my daughter to hold the sandwiches on :)



Have a great day everyone!!! Until next time sweet friends :)

Some new Pink Pretties on Ebay

Hello everyone ~ I wanted to show you all some new Vintage pretties that I have listed on my Ebay, but I also wanted to find out if anyone has been having problems accessing their blogs? Since the afternoon that I did my previous post about being featured in the Italian magazine, Casa Romantica Shabby Chic, I have been unable to get to my blog ~ sometimes I can get to it, though barely briefly, then I can't connect to it at all. Today I was able to get to my Dashboard, so that I could do this post, and to find out if anyone else is having problems, or if it's just me....perhaps something with my Internet provider, which is AT&T. If any one else is having a problem, or know what might be causing the problem, I would really appreciate hearing from you......that is, if I can get to my Blog again to read comments :(

Here are the 3 items that I have given a Shabby Pink Makeover to.....

First it this fabulous pair of Vintage Wall Sconces...




Next we have this wonderful Vintage Candleholder, with a filigree base...



And lastly, this Vintage footed tray... All items were painted with my favorite Fairytale Pink by Krylon Fusion.



Well, that's all for todays post....I now hope that I can get it published! I'm going to be pretty busy for the next 2 weeks getting the house ready for my daughter's Baby Shower on August 6th....lots of things to do...and CLEAN, lol :)

So until next time sweet friends :)

Some VERY EXCITING NEWS~all the way from Italy!

Hello Everyone!! I can FINALLY tell you guys my exciting news!! I was just waiting for the magazine to arrive before doing a post about it, and it just arrived today, WHOOT!! WHOOT!!! Back on April 8th of this year, I received an email from Cinzia D'Agostino, who is the editor of the Italian magazine, CASA ROMANTICA SHABBY CHIC, asking if she could write an article about me, my home, my blog, and my creations. At first I didn't know if this was a legitimate email, so I emailed Miss Fifi O'Niel, to find out if this was indeed from this person.....she emailed me back and said, "yes, and to send her whatever she requests".....so, after some trial and errors in sending photos to her, and emailing her all the information she needed to do the article for their next issue, It has FINALLY been done :) I can not tell you how thrilled and honored it is to be featured in this beautiful magazine! I NEVER in my wildest dreams thought that I would EVER be featured in any magazine, and to actually be, is just so amazing!! I am STILL on cloud 9 right now ladies!!

Below is the cover of the issue that I am featured in ~ if you click to enlarge the photo, you will see my name in the cirle on the bottom right side....




The pictures below are copies that I printed off from the PDF file that Cinzia emailed to me, so they are lighter than the ones in the magazine ~ I thought about trying to copy directly from the magazine itself, but don't want to bend the pages too much or risk damaging any of the pages themselves, so I hope you don't mind. They did an 18 page spread with most of the photos that I sent to her, and I think they did an AMAZING job!! Please feel free to click on any of the pictures to enlarge them so you can get a better look....















Again, I want to thank Cinzia for doing this article on me in her beautiful magazine! You guys over there in Italy did an amazing job!! I LOVE it!!!

A Fabulous new Find ~ Lower Price on ALL my Stockings in my Etsy Shoppe

Good Sunday evening to you all :) I hope everyone has had a wonderful weekend. I'm still trying to get thru all you ladies who had participated in the Where Bloggers Create party, and I still have a LONG way to go before I get to you all, but I'm working on it a little bit each day :) I've seen some really amazing spaces that you all create in, and I look forward to seeing more!

I wanted to show you this truly AMAZING find at my local Goodwill store earlier in the week....I couldn't believe my eyes when I spied it! And I got if for a really good price too...can't beat that! It's a Vintage Tole Bed Canopy! And it even still had the original tie back holders! I don't think I've ever seen one listed on Ebay that did...can ya say "SCORE!" I couldn't wait to get it home and put it up above our bed...as you can see it JUST fits, as the wall slopes a bit at this end of our room.....the curtains that I have on it now were hanging in our little front entryway....I've placed a smaller valance at that window...these curtains look nice and will do for now, but someday I hope to find just the right vintage lace panels to place in it....





It still has all of it's pretty soft pink toned flowers, but at the top it is missing some of the leaves, which is not that big of a deal to me...





Here is a close-up of one of the tiebacks.... okay, that is the strap to a ticket holder from when we had gone to one of the Nascar Races a couple of years ago here in Michigan, at the Michigan International Speedway...of course, I HAD to get the one with Jeff Gordon's name on it, DUH!! lol :)



I also wanted to let you all know that the price for ALL my stockings in my Etsy shoppe have been lowered, and you can still get them with FREE U.S. SHIPPING until July 22nd. Below are a couple that are currently available...you can click HERE or there are links to each of the available stockings over on my right sidebar. There are a couple that are currently listed in my Ebay shoppe, and if you would like to purchase them over on Etsy to take advantage of the lower price, just contact me thru my email which you will find on my Profile page.




Thanks so much for stopping by today, I love having you come by and visit me :) Until next time sweet friends :)

Where Bloggers Create 2011

Hello everyone! I am participating in the Where Blogger's Create Party for the 1st time, and am so excited! I can't wait to see all the other wonderful places that all the talented ladies, and gentlemen, create their wonderful treasures in :) I want to give a big Thank You to Karen, at My Desert Cottage, for hosting this wonderful blog party for the 3rd year! Okay, now on to showing you ladies where it is that I do my creating in.....first, I want to let you know that the photos you will be seeing were taken a couple or so weeks ago....it has now been taken over by things for my daughter's Baby Shower :)




The room that I work in, use to be my daughter's room, but when she married almost 2 years ago, I transformed it into my "sewing room"....this is a sign that was custom made for me, and it hangs on the door that leads into the room...



starting from the left of the doorway, is this Vintage pink hamper that I use to store bits and pieces of leftover fabric in....you never know when you might need just a little piece of something to use in a pillow or stocking....



above the hamper hangs this Vintage cabinet, which I painted white, then added a bit of pretty Vintage Rose Wallpaper to it....it simply holds some sweet little treasures that I like to look at....



next to the cabinet is a beautiful painting done by Cindy Ellis....I bought this from a seller on Ebay....isn't is just gorgeous....I do like me some roses, lol :)



This is a cabinet purchased at Target, from the Rachel Ashwell Simply Shabby Chic line....it holds my finished items and other things like my sewing thread, Vintage items that I am selling, and on the top you will see a sweet little vintage cabinet that I painted white, and in the drawers it holds some of the jingle bells I use on my stockings, little charms, and also my little "Thank You" note cards that I include with every package I ship out....



Next up, is this fabulous Antique Victorian Bed....it had to stay in this room, but it was originally brown, but I told hubby, that if it's stayin' it's gettin' painted white! I think it looks Perfect ~ I've dressed it up with a Vintage Chenille bedspread, a pink rose quilt at the foot of the bed, and the 2 rosey pillows were created by me, with Vintage Rose barkcloth and trims....the bed serves as my "work table", so to speak.....



A vintage tray holding some sweet vintage treasures....just for looks :)....



Here's a close-up of the pillows....



There's a shelf on the wall next to the bed, that holds more pretties and Vintage treasures, including a fabulous Vintage pink rose hat, which I LOVE to collect....



Next to the bed is a sweet little round table that holds a Vintage crystal lamp, and I had topped it with another one of my Vintage rose hats...it has since been replaced with a refurbished lampshade that I created for it....



Doesn't it look so romantic all lit up :)



Another sweet shelf I painted up white, and it too holds some sweet pretties and Vintage treasures....I like to be surrounded with things that bring a smile to my face :).....



Yup, I still have this OLD sewing table that I use to do my sewing on....one day I hope to find just the right style and size table to take it's place...until then it works just fine....the sewing maching with the cover on it is used strictly for making ruffles, and the other machine does all the rest....you can see I had started working on a cute pillow (remember, these pic's were taken over 2 weeks ago....I STILL haven't finished that pillow, lol )



And here is the cabinet that holds all my fabrics....the pretty boxes on top hold all my laces, trims, flowers, etc....not shown in this picture, behind the door, is an old metal shelf that holds my radio, 'cuz I like to listen to 'tunes sometimes while I'm working, plus other things I had no room for, lol :) The wall to the left is where the closet is, and that is where I keep all my packaging supplies and such in, and out of sight....



I hope you have enjoyed your visit to my little space that I like to create in ~ Please be sure to check out all the other wonderful creative spaces, as there will be lots of wonderful ideas that you can incorporate and use in your own creative space :)

Until next time sweet friends :)