All Keyed Up...

yep, just what you have all been waiting for...key tags!
no?
you haven't?
you were waiting for the life-size Breaking Dawn mural
i was going to paint on my living room wall? yah, well,
i ran out of candy corn...and without "fuel food" that
project will just have to wait...so tags it is ;}

when i saw these...i knew i'd need to be a copy-cat and
make them with my own "found" objects...meaning i
found it when i was rummaging for something else...
so i thought i might as well make use of it! ;}





off to a good start thankx to The Graphics Fairy and some old
tags i've had since about the time MacArthur boarded the Missouri!





what is the creative process without a touch of four-legged anarchy!?




my first foray into straying from the original was the keys...
i do have some old fashioned ones, but they are decorative
and made of iron and consequently very heavy...they would have
needed to be mounted to a tag that had been reinforced with rebar!
and gol darnie, i am fresh out! ;} so, i went with the mid century
smaller version.{i just wanted to say "mid century"...like i meant
it...but i really don't... ;}





paper was glue-sticked to tags...
then the rummaging began!
on the one hand i need all my junk all around me when i
am "creating" for inspiration...but on the other hand, it
can be distracting! so many ideas at once...taming them
can be exhausting...and require a ding dong or two!

so, i snipped, and tied and glued and chopped until i had...



these.




i think simplicity was the key to the originals...
i have a hard time with simplicity...although it does
have its place...it's a little boring. ;}





a scrap of my fab script material...





a bit of burlap and a tiny sand dollar...




a smidge of cork...




but other than that...they are exactly like the originals!
and i found them to be delightfully photogenic!

now go forth and copy...with things that should have been trash...
and your own little twist! ;}


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it's key! as someone who used to live by the preppy handbook...
i just had to throw that in there!!! ;}

Houston...We Have Pictures!

gloriosky! my 24 hour probation period is over
and i am once again allowed to upload pictures!
{although i still have to report in once a week and
wear and ankle bracelet! ;}




so, i thought i'd go with some really obnoxiously bright shots
to celebrate pictures in general...and pink in particular.
{royal winton's "julia"}




i feel like a new man...uh, woman...uh, person {what's the pc way
to say that these days? ;} one never appreciates basic technology
until it's taken away...ok, it was my own fault but let's not cloud
all this melodrama with facts! ;}

PINK SATURDAY @ How Sweet The Sound

Picture This...

...you'll have to...mentally...cuz there are NO pictures here!
nope, no sireee bob!
i kept getting this funky error when i tried to upload
which i ignored...and instead of letting it make my head
want to explode, i turned off the computer {because the
alternative was frissbee-ing it out the window!} well, blogger
finally told me WHAT the error was this morning...hee hee...
wow! what a dork I am! but who didn't know that already? ;}
i am out of storage space so google is holding my posts hostage
until i pay a ransom...wow! can you stand that drama??!!!
anywho, now that i am all nancy drew-like and the mystery
of the missing pictures is solved, looks like it will be another
24 hours...
i'm sure you'll live...
i'm sure you never even noticed...
i really just wanted to whine! ;}

{Lack Of} Flower Power...

now if you saw this little pretty, wouldn't you want to make it?
yah...me too.
i wasn't even intimidated by the fact that it's origami...i mean
everyone knows that origami means "a simplistically cruel
way to befuddle the lazy" in japanese.
how hard can it be, right? even had step-by-step directions...
pictures and everything from Cut Out & Keep ...piece of cake, right?
{they are called kusadama flowers...this should have been my first clue...
when you have the words kus, sad & dam all in one name...anyone in their
right might should be filled with a sense of foreboding...but you know with
me, "right mind" is optional! ;}




so, you're supposed to use a post-its as your template...3 x 3...easy enough.
and right now, i'd like to say that i used the b & w copies of vintage book
pages because i was going for the stark, white, wintery look...but that would
be a big fat lie...i just didn't want to waste my vintage stuff on a experimentation,
which for me, ends up frankensteiny!




3 x 3's cut...i got my vintage on by getting some cuteness from The
Graphics Fairy



your first step is to fold it in half, so any one-sided print will do just fine.
then two...
then three...
then four...
i've folded napkins...i can do this, right?



no, as a matter of fact...i can't!
i just DO NOT get the next step...the one that makes THREE folds end
up inside each petal instead of the stupid TWO i keep making!
why does everything require math! sheesh!
i tried...i really did...i made the first one from a pink post-it...
over and over...fold after fold...after fold! it was so accordioned
i felt the strong urge to POLKA!



then you glue them together...easy enough, right?
meh...




somehow mine doesn't have that nice round hole in the middle...
yah, besides the pathetic 2 folds instead of three...thank you for
reminding me!




this was the second one i made...
i know...you thought that the first picture was so bad that it had to
be my proto...
uh, no.
i had the bright idea to liven thing ups and use funky scissors to make
a cool edge...not a good plan...take it from me. and in my mind's eye
i was thinking the folds weren't flat, but were opened and i used a
paint brush to force them open even! not! funny thing how my mind's
eye's memory is juuuuust as bad as my mind's mind! ;}
i also went crazy with the hot glue...not pretty...lots of glue-y entrails
everywhere!




it was so pathetic i thought i'd give it leaves...which just served to make
it look like a weird...ugh-ly butterfly. what can i say, i have the midas
touch! ;}




ok, this one is better...but i spaced on my count and i only made 4
petaly tube things...not 5.
i know...i am an embarrassment to anyone with glue burns and mod
podge stuck in their hair!




they look ok when you can only see a little of them...
{this is called a mercy crop! ;}




they really aren't hard...
well, my 2-fold version isn't.




who knows, maybe you have to use calculus to get that 3rd fold
thus adding an extra olympian degree of difficulty that i have no
weapon against!




a bit of advice from this crafty moron to you...although vintage paper
would be cool...i wouldn't use pages from before bell bottoms, platform
shoes and the hustle...it's too brittle and tears instead of folding...but then
don't we all.




they are not all together hideous...
for the Christmas tree...maybe tipped with glitter?
of course they can be made bigger or smaller, so on
gifts or a bouquet is not out of the question.



and if anyone can explain the 3rd fold to me...
i'd be grateful...and humbled...
{probably embarrassed too! but i have a brand new bag of
flaming hot cheetos to help overcome that...so, let 'er rip! ;}

THANK YOU TERRY S...I GET IT NOW! YOUR EMAIL IS NOT
CONNECTED TO YOUR COMMENT SO I CAN'T REPLY TO YOUR
COMMENT...MAYBE YOU'LL SEE THIS THOUGH...THX!
IT'S THE KITE PART...THE KITE...NOW I GET IT!


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Met Monday @ BNOTP
Project Parade @ DIY Showoff
White Wednesday @ Faded Charm Cottage
Good Life Wednesday @ A Beach Cottage
Saturday Night Special @ Funky Junk Interiors
Brag Monday @ The Graphics Fairy
Weekend Wrap Up @ Tattertots & Jello

Nothin' But Blue Skies...

she paints...




she crafts...





she grows...





she bakes...




she sews...




and her porch is adorable!



her name is jenny k of Blue Sky Confections ...go check her out...
you'll be as exhausted as i am...but it's a good kind of exhausted!
{i am so glad to know that someone else is doing all these things...
it really takes the pressure off of me! ;}

That Little Devil On My Shoulder...

would you look at those mirrors???!!!
i know!
and here i am...caught unprepared...my smelling salts
and fainting couch so far out of reach that i may just
end up in a heap on the floor! but if i was on the floor
next to those mirrors...somehow i know everything
would be a-ok!




so, tripped and fell into the clutches of a site called
AN ANGEL AT MY TABLE that is just brimming with so
many lust-worthy delights that i kept
thinking that the word "devil" really should be in its name...
because nearly every item could cause you to stumble!
{i'll take any one...or all of those birdie abodes, thank you!}






it's a watering can...that looks like a teapot!
i know!
and i don't even have any plants...or drink much tea
unless it's with a nyquil chaser during flu season!
and yet...i want it!





as if the fabric isn't fab enough!
the pink dingle-balls...stop it!!!!!





i could only toss unused tissues in this...
i couldn't bare to make it icky!





and i am just a sucker for anything union jacky!
{God save the queen!}




wow! not sure if i could use it...for real...
the thought of used tissues, burst ketchup packets,
smashed Smarties & ibuprofen stuck to pennies,
last months bills, a flashlight & 3 books within its
beauteous depths...no, no nanette!




i just want to frame this picture!





if you need a votive...it really should look like this!





jingle bells, hearts & wreaths...
3 great things that go great together!!!
{what commercial is the from???}






mini chandies!
i could tack one of these above my kitchen sink and pretend...
right?





now, pots like this i have seen a lot...
but with that added edging? not!!!
a-dorable!




can you have too much candle lit mercury glass? i think not!





vintage-y velvety blooms!
on your sweater...
at your waist...
in your hair...
{up high...where your cats cats use them as a toy!! ;}




this combination of mirror and bird cage...
lurrrrve!




and these little baubles...i want to try and copy!
i am in a frenzy of inspiration...how hard can it be?
{i'll get back to you on that one! ;}


now, never let it be said that i am trying to lead you astray...
fear not, little lambs! these sorts of sinful catalogs and websites
have been sent to test us...fire-y trials that we can stand fast
against...and then copy everything as best we can!!!
which is not to say that if i won the lottery i wouldn't buy
everything in this post so fast it would make your head spin! ;}

gorgeous photography!
beautiful wares!
oodles of inspiration!
AN ANGEL AT MY TABLE ...is a little bit of heaven!


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