Collections...

Do you collect anything?  I told the Mister this past weekend that I think I need a "collection", he looked at me like I had 3 heads!  My studio & storage room do NOT count, ok, maybe my glitter collection, but I mean a REAL collection... Check out some of these I found on flickr:

Pendants

Enamel Pins

(the one below is from Jennifer- the Naughty Secretaries Club)

Silver Vintage Purses

SHOES!

books by color... if you've seen my closet pics, you know I love this idea!!

cameras...

Dolls:

Blythe!  I have one, but never got bit by the bug...

Pose dolls

Little Twin Star and Hello Kitty by Sanrio

Vintage Salt and Pepper and egg cups

Ho-Ho-Ho!

owls... big again?! 

 I remember all those macrame plants holders with owl beads in them... anyone else?

Vintage dish sets

PEZ!

Oh, I LOVE how she's displayed these!!!!!!!!!

When I was a kid I had a ton of collections: Hello Kitty, miniatures, stickers, rainbow stuff...SO many tiny little things!  I still have my sticker collection and a lot of my now VINTAGE Hello Kitty collection.

Tell me about your collections: what you have & what you want to have...

I'm thinking vintage telephones in pastel colors to do a wall display...

Happy Tuesday, I must go tend to my sick girl :(

Tomorrow I'll have a peek at the fawn pendants I've been working on the past 2 days :)!!

Happy Birthday to....

Mr. Theodore Winston,

but you can call me Teddy!

1 year old!!

List it Friday!

One of my New Years Resolutions was to WORK my etsy store, and I've been doing pretty darn good!  I've been down in my studio almost every day!  I've also been going through all the finished goodies I had photographed months ago and LISTED them- guess what??!!... this week I had 2 sales!  It's always motivating when you do the work & then see the results!!  Here's what I've listed today:

Everything above is UNDER $10!

I also listed this little clip board art and painting yesterday

Also, man did the crochet bug bite!  Next time you see me my hands might look like lobster claws :)  The problem is, when I don't "get" the directions, I just grab new yard and start a new project, so as of today I have a hat & legwarmers started for darling daughter and a neck warmer for myself!  I'm almost done with the neck warmer & so far, so good!  The directions are really easy and even though I have to stop and really think it over a lot of times (even rip out a bit) I'm moving right along!  The neckwarmer is the one I got from Bella McBride on etsy

I'm doing mine in pink!

Anyone else doing anything crafty right now?  Let me know!!

Hope you have a great weekend!

and...

WELCOME NEW FOLLOWERS!

Yes, I base my self worth on the # of followers I have...

(wink, wink!)

Oops... i forgot!

I don't know how I could forget this:

This is by: WickedlyGood

and honestly, I find it wickedly CUTE!!

Hey Mister... if you're reading wouldn't this be a GREAT Valentines present... it is coming you know (Feb. 14th!)

I have a thing for cloud shapes...& this is just divine!

enjoy!

Red and Turquoise...be still my heart!

I know, I know... it's red and turquoise again today!  I can't help myself, I'm in ❤❤❤

this darling brooch is from elkumpel (on etsy, as are all of these!)

this mobile... SCREAM!  I love love love things that hang from the ceiling!

this lovely is from: littledreamersinc

a recycled necklace - so pretty and unusual!!

buy this from: HotPinkandSequins

train case with embroidered tree!  makes me want to take a trip (although the cold weather in Michigan makes me want to do that daily!!)

Find this beauty on sale here:

anotherjamiedavis

"Cutie-McCutie"- just in time for Valentines Day!!

Check out ALL the wonderful whimsical cuties in her store:

indigotwin

lovely little piece of art...by:

susannajarian

i love these smaller pieces in a grouping of pretties!

cuteness overload!!  i ❤ this!!

by: hine

how could you NOT fall in love with this?!

this is from:

MadAboutColour

they've been in a Pregnancy & Parenthood magazine & now on chinamommy!  Can you imagine how excited they must be?! :) haha!

& of course this twinkle & the rest are mine that I made with my 2 little hands:

I did the piece on the right, the little ceramic oval is by AshleyG

cutie~cupcake still available in my store:

chinamommy

Ok, I have been out of the studio TOO much this week!  We had a MOUSE in the HOUSE for the 1st time EVER!  I spent the entire day yesterday bleaching and washing the entire kitchen!    

Can you even imagine how many items you can have in 13 kitchen drawers?  Thankfully, the Mister caught him in one of those yucky sticky traps- Ewwww!

I have bad news for all those outside cats we have... their meals of dry food are going to be cut in 1/2, apparently they aren't hungry enough to hunt right now.

Ok, off to create!

Have a great day & don't forget: all items were from

www.etsy.com

the seller name is below each product, check out their other goodies too!!!

I'm Back, let's chat about "The Situation"!

I felt so bad for for not posting yesterday, but darling had the day off school and I was busy being her hired help with no pay. 

I am doing the invisalign braces 
(much better than the silver ones, eh?).

 Today was my 1 week check-up at 9 am.  Why, oh why do I think I can get darling on the bus at 8:12 and be at the dentist by 9?  I can barely get her to the bus stop let alone get myself ready and out the door by 8:40... yeah, i'm lame and well aware!  So... I get 3/4 of the way ready, jump into this gal: 

and fly out my icy drive-way and...
wait for it.... wait for it...
BANG!!!
Collision may be a little too strong of a word, let's call it the bump.  You see, our driveway is blacktop and the road is not, so see, here, was the start of my "situation" (not to be confused with Mike,"The Situation" on MTV's show.... Long Beach, Long Island... No, none of those are right - i'll google it: ok- Jersey Shore! Not that I watch it, but it was on while I was flipping channels, No, really!!  Some stupid show with obnoxious Italian kids that call themselves "Guido's"  Nothing like making a long story longer, hun?).
You'll see below the beginning of my "situation"
See how I'm leaving blacktop... Yeah, when you're hurrying to make the bus stop & your car hits that ice, you know it's not going to be good! (Sand thrown on by the Mister after so-called-BUMP)

It's not good at all, because not only are you going to hit that ice & slide, you're going to slide right into brush filled snow, where you WILL get stuck, you WILL have to leave the dog in the car, you WILL have to walk VERY quickly with a 6 year old & a Hello Kitty backpack to the bus stop 1 road over, and you WILL have to call your Mister, get him out of a meeting & admit you might have been driving like a bat-outta-hell because you can't get your butt or your daughter's tiny butt movin' in the mornin'!

oops...

Wheww, only a small scratch patch!

All that before 9 in the morning... of course!
Geesh, what would I even blogged about if I wouldn't have had 
THE SITUATION?

(yeah, that's Mike, "The Situation"-enjoy...UGH!)
I would probably have just told you a boring story about the fact I'm making darling daughter 
LEG WARMERS!

Can you believe how neat (and correctly) I've done the ribbing?
Problem being: I don't understand the next step, so let's just enjoy that ribbing...
how neat, how tidy, how lovely!

do you know of this crochet genius?
TWINKIE CHAN!
If you don't, you should!!
http://www.twinkiechan.com/blog/

Ok, I'm headed down to my studio because now it's 11:35 am!
I'm dreaming of this:

West Michigan is under a "perma cloud" according to the weather man last night- ugh!
Have a great Day!!