My Tattered Elegance - Seite 2 
NEW TREASURES
Here are some new necklaces that I have been working on. It was really a lot of fun. This one takes me back to grade school when I used to wear a skate key around my neck. I always skated at recess. I love those kind of memories.This one was a pin of a lady that I put on a flattened out spoon and added an old earring. Other earrings and beads on the chain.I love making things like this. All the beautiful lace. This one is a lovely jar to store earrings or other jewelery.And don't you love this little bird bottle. The top was already there so I just added some lace, beads and bling.Had to make the back elegant too.These are my fork easels. I have been making these for about seven years now and I saw they turned up in one of the Sumerset mags. They are so neat for light weight pics.Hope you enjoyed and have a great day!!
This is a new pillow that I started a couple of days ago. I am using whites and creams and all muted colors in the embellishments. I put my silk ribbon in a brown dye bath to help mute the brightness of the colors. The butterfly is one that I painted some time ago. I'll post again on the progress. If you are interested in Crazy Quilting you should go to Pat Winters blog. She has a new CQ Magazine on the market, but you have to order from MagCloud. The magazine is awsome, some of the best CQ artist around are featured in this first edition.Hope everyone has a great weekend.
MY NEW VALENTIES
Today I have been busy making a couple of valentines to put in my booth. If I ever get to get out and go to the mall. We still have ice everywhere and I'm not getting out of my drive way until it is gone or very mushy. A few days ago I was looking at Sharon's blog "My Vintage Studio" and she listed some beautiful vintage valentines to share with us. And my two valentines are made with her beautiful valentines. So I thought I would let everyone enjoy them too.I love this beautiful lady with her gorgeous hat. The feathers are some I picked up this summer over at Rick's. They live buy a canal and the ducks come to his house to eat. They are all so beautiful.This is the second valentine. I used a white hanky, red lace on burlap. Made a rose out of net and one of my moffits.Don't you love the pearls around the outside edge. I know I sure had fun making them. Thank you Sharon for sharing. I have so many of your vintage postcards and valentines. Hope everyone is staying warm in this winter ice storm. They are saying we may get snow tomorrow night. I'm ready for the 70 degree weather to come back. Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful night.
NEW TREASURES FOR THE ANTIQUE MALL
Today I thought I would show you what I have been up to here lately. This is one of my pretties that I put in the mall a few days ago. I went to one of Lisa's classes and learned to make this little sweetie. Here is an altered art bottle, I love the lavender!And a sweet valentine..... It will be here soon. An old door part with Bible verse...Here are a couple of little cabinets that I shabby chic today. They will look very sweet with some baskets in the shelves. This little round table got the same treatment. It has a glass that goes on the top. Think I will put some cards or something under the glass when I put it in the mall. She has some little metal shoes to put on each foot. These are my Cottage Cream frames..... Most of my frames have sold so I had to fix a new supply. Another Cottage Cream frame. All of my decor is either Cottage Cream, Shabby Chic, or French Distressed Black.Sunday I went to Arlington to get some groceries and ran in an Estate sale that was ready to close. I found a deal on all this furniture. This coffee table I got for my living room. I sold my cottage sofa the other day and now have a victorian sofa. So I needed a pretty coffee table. Think this one will do nicely.I think this night table is from the forties. I will probably paint it Cottage Cream or Shabby Chic for my booth. The lamps are so pretty..... I will add tea dyed lace to the shades and my paint the gold to a Cottage Cream. Really change them up. And these little tables are from the forties too, at least I think. Think my aunt had a pair of these when I was a little girl. I will probably leave them the way they are. They were a little wobbly, I fixed one today and will fix the other one tomorrow. The glass on the floor goes on top of them. They are just darling. Hope you enjoyed my little pretties today. Wishing all of you a good night and have a good day tomorrow.
MY NEW ADVENTURE AT THE MALL
Welcome to "Tattered Elegance". This is my own booth in Lone Star Antique Mall. I am still moving in, but thought I would give you a glimpse of it now. This is the sign I made with the name of my booth. It is the foot board of a twin bed that I found on the curb. I painted it "Cottage Cream" and filled in the name is shades of purples with some purple flowers. All my furniture will be Cottage Cream along wth most of the decor. I would like to do the walls darker, but everything takes time.I also need a wall on this side of the booth. Maybe later.This is an antique shelf that Rick spray painted and I added the cream. It sold the first day it was in the mall.I have another shelf that I am working on that will take the place of this one. It will hold a lot more things and will look a lot better.I bought this bakers rack from the lady that had the booth before me. It is iron and I love it. Need to add some cream to it.This is a lock box that I made to hold my jewelery. My first attempt at making something out of wood. My walls really need some work. I will be moving a large vintage chest in to sit on this wall before the weekend. I will finish it tomorrow. I also bought a big fish bowl that sits on an iron stand, it will hold the lace I have for sale. And today I cleaned up my bird bath and it will hold all the mofits and buttons. I am so excited about having my own booth again. A lot of work, but sooo much fun.Hope all of you have a wonderful tomorrow!!!
MERRY CHRISTMAS 2010
Wishing everyone a joyous Merry Christmas. May you all get to spend it with family and friends and may we all remember the ones that can't be with us in person, we will have them in spirit. I want to thank all my blogging friends for this wonderful year. All of you have made it a SPECIAL year for me. I love all of you and hope Santa blesses you with everything you want. I will be spending Christmas with my son Kent and his family. And this year is going to be special for us. May God bless all of you and I will talk to you next week.
NECKLACE & EARRINGS FOR CHRISTMAS
Thought I would share my latest adventures. I've been doing some jewelery for Christmas. I am using chip china chards and the beautiful ends of silverware. I have wanted to do this for quite a while. These are the first two that I have finished and it was a lot of fun. I have some more chards ready to go, but need to cut off some more spoons. Guess I will do some more later. I am also going to make some mice ornaments, I did a lot of them a few years ago. Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday!!!
HAPPY THANKSGIVING
Hope everyone is having a wonderful time with family and friends. A beautiful time to be thankful for our precious friends and a time to reflect on the brave men and women that can't be with their family because they are giving their time to protect us. Pray that God will keep them safe. May this be the best holiday season we have ever had and may it bring new things to us in the future.
MY NEW EMBROIDERED ART BAG
Thought I would show you the new bag that I finally finished. Really this is the second time I have finished it. After I got it made the first time I didn't like the seam binding that I had on it. It was way to long and too much. So I took it apart and started over. Now it looks like I had meant for it too look. I found a picture of a bird that had been embroidered and in a nest so I made me a bird and transfered it on to muslin and started to embroidery. I added some leaves out of green velvet and embroidered the veins. Then just started adding all kind of yarns and threads to make him look like he was in a tree building a nest. The bird also has a couple of real feathers on him. Then I put the muslin on the bag and added the brown fringe trim around it. It looked to smooth so I held the steam iron above it and messed it up. I thought it looked much better. Then I added the tiger eye and turquoise beads. They matched everything perfect.My friend Pat Hutchison gave me some of her material for the lining. I took my embroidery to show her and she told me she had the perfect lining. So she shared her material with me. She is such a sweet lady!And my sweet friend Lisa, Tarnished and Tattered gave me the blue seam binding. It was a perfect match. Now I am working on another piece of crazy quilting. Hope to finish it soon. Hope everyone has a wonderful day.
FINISHED ART AND MEETING DAWN FACE TO FACE
Look at this sweet smile on this sweet lady. It was so nice to get to meet and visit with Dawn along with Lisa and Lori. The only thing missing was Charlene. We all got to talk about things we are doing and what we are going to do. Listening to Lisa and Dawn telling about the trip they were about to take and now I have had the chance to share in their pleasure by seeing the pictures on their blogs. Blogland is a wonderful place to be and meet such awsome people. What a joy to be with Dawn, the person that got me started blogging and explaining how to do it. She sent me many emails telling me just what to do to get things to work. Thank you, Dawn for always being their when I needed you.I told you I would post this piece of art when I finished with it. Well I'm a little late, but it is finished. I love the beading on the tree. It is one of my favorite things on this piece. I will be listing it on my Etsy soon. Hope everyone is having a wonderful day!!