presents on the tree--Merry Christmas!

A Very Merry Christmas to you!

Here is my present on the tree at Unruly Paper Arts, simple instructions to be found there:

Have a wonderful day, my friends, and a Happy New Year, as well!

tiny mixed media ornaments--liquid paper mache and sparkly paints!

Short and sweet today, but wanted to share some tiny little Christmas ornaments:

More pics and details HERE

 

 

Used Li-Qua-Che liquid paper mache in silicone candy molds for the frames,

and of course my favorite metallic and glittery paints for shine!

These are really very small.

Happy Thursday, and a very Merry Christmas to you!

it's the most wonderful time of the year . . .

List of things for me never to do again in December:
Get new carpet.
Paint the sewing room.
Get an antique booth at the local antique mall with MIL and DIL.

Don't get me wrong, all of these things are good things, just not when one is trying to Christmas . . .

In lieu of something new, here are some of my favorite Christmas goodies from the past:

This needle felted bird's nest:

on our tree

 An ATC sized triptych:

You may remember these from last year--Christmas ornaments, all in non-traditional colors:

these were all given to friends

 And back when I still had time to do swaps, oh I love love loved this box of goodies from Lynn!

still love it, and all on our tree!!

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to finish moving stuff back into that newly carpeted and painted sewing room!

Happy Wednesday, and if I don't "see" you again beforehand, a very Merry Christmas to you!

A Christmas Alphabetica

Are you Christmas crafting?  I've been working on a Christmas ABC book.

You can see more of it in my share today at the Altered Pages Artsociates blog, along with how I made that shiny little embellishment, but how about one more pic for good measure?

 Thank you for stopping by today, and Happy Christmas Crafting to you!

apple of my eye--Unruly Paper Arts

Today, in keeping with the Noteworthy theme this month at Unruly Paper Arts, I'm sharing some sweet apple stamped (seriously, stamped-with-an-apple!) notecards, perfect for thank-you notes or a quick hello.

  Love those DecoArt Traditions acrylic paints!

Stop by and say hi if you get a chance--if you do, AND e-mail me your snail mail addy at: 

trisha2too at hotmail dot com, I'll send you one of the card as a little thank you.  And probably some ephemera, because really, if I'm mailing something, I like to get the most mileage outta that stamp as possible.  

I've actually put rocks in Flat Rate boxes. 

Because I can.

:) Happy Thanksgiving to you!

give thanks--an altered spoon

For my share at the Altered Pages Artsociates blog, today, an altered spoon, and a peek at a baseball themed book.  I made the original for my nephew, and now the basic book with instructions and lots of quotes is available in kit form HERE.

Love this photo of Babe Ruth--we've had several Babe Ruth autographed baseballs in our shop over the years, but you have to be careful to get an authentic one, as his secretary was quite adept at forging his signature!

Happy Thursday!

Dr. Who wedding card. What's on Your Workdesk? Wednesday, #337

A good friend of mine, her son just married, and the happy couple are quite the Dr. Who fans.  Being a watcher myself, from way back in the Tom Baker Dr. days, I figured--"When else ever am I going to get to make a Dr. Who wedding card????"

It's accordion fold, and opens to be quite large, but I used a photo from their wedding, so absent permission to post the photo, I'll leave it open at the first fold--

the die cut is actually a piece trimmed from the wedding invitation, and it repeats at the end of the accordion.
Okay, I cropped out the center, it has a really nice photo of their first dance, and their clasped hands are at the center, which goes with the quote:

That's it for me today!  I'm not overly ambitious about having time to visit everyone today, but will always return WOYWW visits within the week, so watch out!  Not sure what WOYWW is?  Drop by the lovely Julia's for more info. 

DIY dresser into tv stand, swap returns, and an awesome new industrial lamp--What's On Your Workdesk? Wednesday, #336

Lots of photos for this WOYWW, but I'll keep it short and sweet otherwise--first up, a dresser before and after I repainted.  It's now in the living room as a tv stand--

BEFORE--rough enough I don't mind repainting it

I love it!  Used DecoArt Chalky Finish paints, even on the ratty hardware.  Chalk paints are GREAT for pretty much everything!

Received these lovely Wings and Things themed atcs from a swap at Unruly Paper Arts:

Ugh, I can't remember who they're all from, as these are at home, and I'm at work--however, the bottom row left is from my long time bloggy friend Michele, and right is the wonderful Unruly editor Danie May.  Will credit the other two tomorrow, so sorry!

Now my awesome new lamp.  Please note that I did not make this, my talented daughter-in-law did, and I LOVE IT!  It seems like something my WOYWW friends would enjoy seeing, too:

I REALLY like the switch and Edison type bulb.

What do you think?  Industrial?  Steam punk?

Happy WOYWW to you, and thank you Miss Julia for the bloggy party!

baseball baseball baseball World Series baseball baseball!

You may not know that we live in the Kansas City area.  We attended one each of the division, league championship, and World Series games--it was especially nice (for us) that the Royals won each of those games, but even nicer that they won the series!

Anyway, all that baseball explains the atc I'm sharing today at Altered Pages, as well as this baseball themed mixed media book I've been working on.

I really like this photo of Babe Ruth.

Have a great weekend, everyone!  :)

DIY elephant key hook

The daughter-in-law has been diy-ing alongside me lately--this key hook she made for her sister is so cute, I had to share it with you:

The background is a piece of wood from the lumber pile, painted with DecoArt Chalky Finish in Treasure--one of my favorite colors, so pretty, and  Dazzlling Metallics in Emporer Gold=SUPER SHINY.

The idea is to hang your keys on their trunks--seriously, how cute is that?????

Have a great Wednesday!