Altered spool and Junking finds

Hello everyone,

Hope everyone has been having a wonderful summer. It is extremely hot and humid here in South Florida. Lots of rain almost everyday, but that has not stopped me from going junking and finding some nice things to display in my craft room and to use to craft.

 Isn't this cross beautiful. I bought it for $1.00 at a yard sale. I will put it where I have all my others displayed.

 Then I found at the same yard sale this heart pendant with the chain, also $1.00. I thought it was so delicate looking I just could not leave it behind. The 2 pieces of lace, the cross and heart are laying on are from the flea market. I paid 1.00 for each piece.

These 3 milk glass jugs are also from a yard sale. The lady had sold her home and was selling most of her belongings. She was an elderly lady. I had seen them on saturday, but walked away and did not buy them. Well yesterday on our way to walk at the park, she was out their again and I noticed they had not sold, so I figured they were meant for me to have. Also, 1.00 for all 3. They had plastic lids on them, but I threw those away.

These 2 milk glass pieces are also from the same yard sale. She had them in a plastic bag, both for 50 cents. I could not believe it. I immediately snatched them. I have been looking for some milk glass pieces and could not find any. The antique mall has pieces, but they are super duper expensive. I have bought most of the pieces I have on ebay and although they have been cheap, the shipping is killing me. I pay more for shipping than for the actual pieces.

 I am storing some of my pretty nail polishes in the smaller one and the larger one is empty for now until I take some of my hoarded crafting things out to place in it.

And last but not least, here is the altered spool tassel I made. I watched several videos on youtube ad loved what others were doing with the spools. So here is my take on it.

I hope you all have a wonderful week and Thank you for stopping by to visit me.

HAPPY CRAFTING.

Playing with Martha Stewart punch

Hello bloggers,

I have been busy playing in my craft room. Here is one of the things I have been enjoying. I purchased this Martha Stewart butterfly punch a few months ago. Ever since I have used it almost everyday. How you may ask, well I don't throw away any scraps of paper that are left from my layouts or altered projects. I simply punch out butterflies and put them in a bowl.

This morning at 5am after preparing my husbands lunch for work and making him breakfast, I sat down and started gluing the 2 butterflies together. I have since made 107 butterflies. My husband just laughed at me and said what in the world will you do with all those butterflies, but I do have something in mind, just not sure when it will get done. I have put it on my to do list.

Here are the butterflies.

Hope everyone has been having a great week and has a great weekend. Happy crafting.

Some pretty things

Here are some pretty things I have added to my craft room. I hope you all like it.

 Fabrics I purchased recently at Joann's to make flowers with. For now they will sit pretty on this milk glass dish my sister purchased for me. I wrapped the fabrics with a piece of tulle and tied a bow.

 This pretty dish I found at TJ Maxx. I wrapped this pretty trim that Evelyn gifted me with and added some pretty roses I made (see picture below) a broach from Tammy and a flower from Alease.

 This bowl holds some glass flower buttons and some magnets from Micheal's 1.50 bin.

Here is an overview of my craft desk.

Thank you all for stopping by and leaving a comment.

Hope you all have a wonderful rest of the week and weekend.

Ana

My latest Tattoo

Yes, I got another one.

I had been wanting to get another tattoo, but my husband is not for them at all. I am not a freak nor do I like to have them all over, but don't mind a couple of them as long as they are not too visible. So his daughter asked him to go with her to have hers done, so we did. I was so excited, I said to myself for sure I will make an appointment for mine right there and then. Well the guy had a spot and was able to do mine as well. you may wonder, why a spider web. Well I was married on Halloween and knew that I wanted something that represented that holiday and also knew I wanted it behind my neck. My hair is long and most of the time it will be covered anyhow. I am still going to go back and put the year on it that we were married. I could not remember the year for the life of me. I know, bad, but it is the truth. My husband and I had been together for so long before we were married that I could not remember. I knew it was either 2008 or 2009 but could not remember. It was 2008 that we were married.

Here is the rough draft.

 Here I am on the chair going through pain. Yes it is painful. You feel like a burning pain. After all they are tearing your skin and inking it.

 AS you can see in this picture, the blood on the spider webs and the redness of the burning.

This is the finished tattoo. You can see the bruising between the 2 spider webs. He incorporated oranges and purples. When I go back he will be connecting the spider to the web and adding the date to the heart.

Please don't judge and just move on if you can't leave a nice comment.

Playing with prima doll stamps and clothes pins

Hello everyone,

I have had such a good time playing with my prima doll stamps. A scrappy friend came over today and we decided to make 4th of July tags with the doll stamp.

Here are the 2 I made.

I also altered some clothes pins. Fourteen to be exact.

Here they are.

They look so cute in one of my milk glass bowls. My new obsession, MILK GLASS.

I will post my milk glass pieces in a later post.

Thank you for stopping by and don't forget to leave a comment.

more layouts and room addition

hello my blogging friends.

Here are 2 more layouts that I have added pictures to.

My youngest daughter in St. Augustine about to board the train to take a tour.

This layout is of my oldest daughter when she turned 1. Her birthday theme was CLOWNS. Even her outfit had 2 beautiful sewn clowns on it. She is with her grandfather and with her uncle.

 The bottom 2 were done today. The first one is missing a flower on the yellow circle. It was missing in the kit. Here is my daughter with my dad in St. Augustine and then at Downtown Disney.

 This one was also done today and again some pieces were missing in the kit as well. The acorns are missing the top part. I have contacted the company and they will be sending the pieces to me.

This is my handsome husband at the beach with my sports car which he bought me for my birthday.

Here are 2 new cabinets I found at a yard sale a couple of weeks back. After much sanding and painting and distressing they are finally done. The only thing missing is the chicken wire I would like to put on the doors. I took the glass out. Just added some of my goodies and the new milk glass pieces I bought. 

 Here is a milk glass lamp I found at a yard sale for $2.00. Could not believe it. Milk glass is so expensive here in Miami. So I was really excited to find it so cheap. Also the milk glass vase with the small tiny flowers was a flea market find for $1.00.

Hope you all have a great rest of the week and weekend. Thank you for stopping by and please leave a comment.

2 more layouts

Good morning everyone.

Hope everyone had a great weekend.

Here are the last 2 layouts I created using the Graphic 45, Secret Garden collection. I have had so much fun creating layouts again. Now off to print my pictures to add to them . I will be working on printing my pictures this week, hopefully.

Have a great week everyone and I will be back hopefully this week with some more project shares.