At University Pickers, we're all anxiously awaiting the new addition. I only have a few shelves there now, but I plan to have an entire booth once everything is finished. Hopefully this will be no later than April. In anticipation of this, I've created a "sign" for the booth. I LOVE burlap and linen with cream!
Before I go any further, I have to give my granddaughter Isabel special credit here. She and I were at Hobby Lobby, looking for the letters for the sign, and I found all of them but one - the "U"!!!! Aaarrrrggggghhhhhh!!! Isabel heard me grumbling and asked what was wrong. When I told her what the problem was, she double-checked to make sure I just hadn't missed seeing it. As luck would have it, there was only the one "U", and I needed two "U's". Isabel looked at the letters I had already picked out, then she picked up the "H" and says, "Why don't you just cut off the top part of this "H", turn it upside down, and make it into a "U"? At first, I couldn't see what she was talking about. Then all of a sudden I saw what she meant! Now is this cool, or what?!? I'm SO PROUD of her!! So check out both "U" letters above and see if you can spot the very slight difference!
Ta Da!! What do you think?
I've been trying my hand at collage, and this "cake" is what I came up with! I was inspired by a greeting card I saw about a year or so ago, and I loved the "cake" theme. So I gathered antique, vintage and new laces, pearl beads, vintage leaves salvaged from an old corsage, and a few other "bits and bobs" and.....Voila! I'm not quite sure what I'm going to do with this one. I made another one about a year ago for a very dear friend of mine. But instead of gluing it onto a canvas, I sewed hers onto a tea cozy I made. So let me know if you have any new ideas for it!
She looks MUCH happier now, even if I say so myself!!
And here she is, in full regalia, including the crown I made for her!
Isn't this cool? Daughter Laura gave it to me! It had been sitting outside on her deck for a year or so, and had been covered with what looked like.....well, for lack of a better word.....NASTY!! Well, I just couldn't let it remain in that dreadful state, so the first thing I did was remove the six glass panels (not shown in this photo). And then we had a very thorough cleaning with bleach! And here it is.....all nice and clean and ready for remodeling!! So I'll have to remember to show the "end result" in another post. Cause this is all I have for you now!
Oh...Yes, I had noticed that I have two different sized fonts in this post, but for some odd reason, it isn't letting me change it to all one size. Oh well.....:-)
I hope you're all having a lovely week!
May God bless! Jan
Well now that the lantern is all nice and clean, you can decorate it and display it back on my deck...just kidding! Glad you are going to find a use for it. I saw some recently online that had moss and some bunnies in it and it was super cute! Fingers crossed for your University Pickers Booth!
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