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!!

NEW TEAPOT CHIMES FOR THE MALL

Here is one of my new teapot chimes that I made this week. I also made one for my daughter Kim and a little one for my son Kent. This one is a teapot, the one I made for Kim is a coffee pot and Kent's is a child's teapot. So cute. I will show you the others later. I will be working with Rick in the morning. We are repairing the feet on a victorian sofa that I found on the curb. Today I found a shelf, it would make a nice entertainment center, but we are going to paint it and put it in the booth for display. It will hold a lot of items.
Charlene and I went to lunch Tuesday and then went to JoAnn's to shop and play in the fabric. We both had a wonderful afternoon.
Hope everyone has a great Friday.