Curiosities Petite Inspiration Swap

Heather hosted another petite inspiration swap, noted as Curiosities, of which you could distinguish between Halloween, Flea, and mixture.  My lovely swap partners, Linda and Deborah, spoiled me with beautiful boxes of vintage goodness! 

Linda's wonderful box; look at those gorgeous cabinet cards! Love these and the script is beautiful.

Deborah's

This is what I gave the ladies.  I love the idea of the mixture so I used the less seldom purple touched with my romantic verision of Halloween and Flea.  The tag was made from papers and fabric that I washed and distress slightly; along with embellishing the vintage style image.  The hand stamped Witch ( I couldn't resist using my Copics to color her in) little baggie was filled with some Halloween tid bits for making tags.

Another fun swap.  I've really been thinking of a paper doll swap.  Just something to think about.  It could be a small one--just love that idea of creating a doll with sweet clothes!
Let me know what you think,

Flea Market Petite Inspiration Swap and Sunday goodness

I just had to show you the flower rosette I made for each of the ladies in the swap--what fun that was but it was definitely some work and sewing involved.  I most likely took it the hard way but I do love the result.

Hope everyone's weekend is going well.  I'm definitely missing my hour already :)  It's 4:30 Sunday afternoon and I can not believe it--ton's of stuff to do yet.  It was spring clean weekend here--this big old house sure get's dusty--I now know we have WAY to many chandeliers and lights.  Little one has been really sick the past week with fever, cough and such; spent time with Grammy and me for about 4 days and now Mom and I are both sick.  Ahh, but its Spring here in the South!  I pulled out my early Spring wreath, planted some pansy's in the window boxes, moved the Johnny Jump Ups to the ground to spread some love and now I'm here with my coffee enjoying the breeze and the 68 degree weather. DH took little one up to our pond to feed the ducks and play on the playground.  Kids bounce back like that!

On to the good stuff:
I joined in Heather's Petite Inspiration swap--Flea Market edition.  I just love working with the small inspiration pieces and would like to share the wonderful pieces I received from my beautiful partner's, Michelle and Lorraine.

Michelle's --Beautiful box with lovely papers, tags, ribbon, and sweet tid-bits; just thinking of all the history in those vintage pieces.  What a wonderful box--thank you so much Michelle!
I had to borrow Michelle's picture of the outside--mine did not come out.  I took pictures during our monsoon rain for about a week. 

Lorraine's-

Soft, vintage, sweet flowers, birds, and papers, and the little tiny treasures all tucked in.  So lovely, thank you Lorraine!

This is what I made for these lovely ladies:

I loved making the homemade rosette out of vintage pieces and lots of different textures.  The sweet bird embellished too.

Till next time,

ohh la la

I was in a serious slump after putting together little one's party several weeks ago and some serious long haul time in my day job (can you say crunching numbers for hours as a time--I think I've been chained to my office!).  I was bone tired.  Okay--now you are thinking analytics and creative (yes I do have headaches most days as both sides fight for being front runner in my brain!)  It's not my love, art is but it pays the bills and allows me the luxury of buying my sweet vintage goodies.  Yesterday I slipped into my craft room while she slept and stood there...tick tock...starting moving 'stuff' around --just looking at the little piles I had been gathering and the start and stops of several project.  I haven't been very motivated for Fall projects at all! Very unusual for me as I love this time of year.

I opened the windows, pulled up the blinds to let all that sunshine in, and listened to the quiet...slowly the baubles and trims came together and since I've recently found the new love of 'petite' worked on a Romantic inspired box and goodies--which is now in my Etsy shop.  I decided it was time to move forward and share a few of my creations.  Please let me know your thoughts-- I have sketched a sweet logo but now I'm stuck and need to find a web person.  I am NOT that person--for some reason the computer part of this stuff is work to me maybe its the 9 hours of analysis-crunching numbers-tables that it reminds me off.  Let me know of any recommendations to help me get that little logo computerized. 

Enough brooding--back to the art:

Ohh, la la--Romance Petite Inspiration for you :)

Goodies in the Romantic Petite Set:

A French Inspired tag with pretty bobby pins--also in my Etsy shop

Sweet romantic tags --I just love the natural textures with the softness of lace and linen--also in my Etsy shop.

I feel a little more back on track--well except for this sinus stuff that seems to be ramping up!  I'm off to watch the one goofy show I do watch-Chuck (I am married to the ultimate geek squad)--it's so stupid it makes me laugh most times and some days you just need that-fluffy .  Oh and off to share some pumpkin sugar cookies I made yesterday afternoon too!