Marie style bottle

These bottles seem to be the latest in the mixed media art world, so I had to give it a try. I gave mine the Marie treatment and added lace and flowers.
Love the ribbon berry on top of the bottle, more lace and ribbon for the ruffles. The lace is from my vintage stash.
You can see I threw in a bit of the French theme with the words Paris. I made the fuchsia's from hand dyed silk ribbon, the pink flowers are satin ribbon and the lace covering the bottle is also from my vintage stash. You can see this on my estsy shop if you are interested.

Camping time again

I can't believe it is camping time again. We had a dry run with the Argosy but in 2 weeks we are taking out the glamper. Above is a picture of our hospitality table at our last camp last year. We had 30 people sign our guest book. It was great fun.
The Glamper is a 1967 Aristocrat little and cute. This year we are camping close by and that is a good thing considering the price of gas. Also I was approached by a member of our group and asked if they could photograph the glamper. Well you know I said yes, as long as I didn't have to be in any of the pictures. I think it will be great fun to see what they do. Summer is upon us and we here in Oregon know you have to "make hay while the sun shines" TTFN

Flowers for Memorial 2011

This year I had the privilege of being asked to do the flowers for memorial, it was a request I happily accepted. these are the ones I made from the beautiful bounty of Jehovah's creation.
I used plants for the most part, as you can see from the above picture, this pansy was so beautiful and the bocopa on the left is just coming into bloom
I used miniature roses for the back ground in this container and added cut roses and babies breath in flower vials. I think it gave it a romantic look.
Miniature daffodils form the back ground for this one in the charming Italian looking pot. Again miniature roses, pansies, and cut flowers in vials.
This was the one put on the stage, The green flower in the center is a clematis, with ranuclus and parrot tulips on either side. I had help with the preparation's as we had to put all the plants in plastic bags as there is no way the pots would have fit. My little bit for Jehovah and His Son.

Strawberries in the Marie style

I tried a new look for my velvet strawberries I made them a bit fancier, I tried to do them in a style I thought Marie Antoinette would like. They turned out rather well I thought. Above it shows the top views of some of them, I used ruffled ribbon and lace, and topped

them with flowers and ribbon berries. The above picture shows the variety of sizes from the tiny ones on the right to the rather large one right above them. The large one has crystals instead of seed bead for the seeds on the berry.

A close up of the other pic.

These are some of the different colors, some are hand dyed velvet like the pink one in the center. and some are out of the new Marie blue velvet I found. It is getting hard to find velvet in the pretty pastel colors.

Here we see them all. I thought they turned out quite well, I think Marie would be delighted to have a small silver urn full of them. I know I smile when I look at them. TTFN

French ribbon roses

These are french ribbon roses I made for a swap with my Marie Antoinette art group.
I packaged in them in these wonderful cellophane bags, they are attached to cards with a corsage pin so they can be used as such.
I made 5 you send 5 and you receive 5 in return. I made each one a different color and slighty different. I tried to get them all in the picture.
The color is pretty true for the bottom 2 but now so for the top 2 on the left they are much prettier. It is only my second swap with this group but they do beautiful things. TTFN

Tuzzie Muzzie

My first tussie swap, I put a lot of time and effort into this. I hand dyed all the velvet and the silk for the strawberries and the fuchsias and used semi precious stones and fresh water pearls for the fringe around the top. The paper roll is from a french book, with a cut out of the Eiffel tower, and I loved the bird.

Guest book for the Glamper

I have a vintage 1967 Aristocrat trailer cute, cute ,cute, I love it. When we go on rallies with our group we have trailer tours. Members decorate their trailers, and on one afternoon of the camp they are open for tours. So I decided I need a guest book to reflect the way the trailer was decorated, and this is what I came up with.

Don't you love that big poppy style flower?? It is from my collection of vintage flowers , and the velvet leaves are almost vintage. I made the dangling fuchsias and the little pocket is made from piece of vintage lace.

Added the rhinestone button for a bit of sparkle and some silk dupioni ribbon.

Everyone says they love the "Glamper" and the guest book was a success. Last glamp we had 30 people sign some weren't even part of the rally but asked to see it any way, many pictures were taken and I was so happy people liked both the trailer and the book.