New Flowers for the Mall

I have been making a few flowers the past couple of days. This one today, it is made from pink crushed velvet. I put some antique lace in the back and the leaves are green crushed velvet with the embroidery to give them highlights. And it had to have a little bling with a rhinestone button. It is a pin that I will be selling in my booth.

This one I made a couple of nights ago. I took it to the mall to show a couple of friends and now I am holding it for a lady. It has part of an antique collar in the shape of a half circle on the back. And green organza ribbon leaves. I added a few stamens in the center of the rose and some beads hanging at the bottom. This one is crushed velvet too with a pin on the back. The blues look much lighter in person, with lots of highlights.

This is some more of that pink crushed velvet. I added some antique lace around the edges of the rose. I love this lace, it was on some material lace and was so old it was coming apart so I cut out the designs. They are beautiful. The leaves are a light golden organza ribbon. Also a pin on the back

The next two flowers are made out of paper pattern sheets. I have these two started and will finish them up in the morning. Need to wrap the stem with some floral wrap and maybe add some more little beads and for sure some glitter.

Thanks for stopping by and hope all of you have a wonderful week.

NEW TREASURES

Here are some new necklaces that I have been working on. It was really a lot of fun. This one takes me back to grade school when I used to wear a skate key around my neck. I always skated at recess. I love those kind of memories.

This one was a pin of a lady that I put on a flattened out spoon and added an old earring. Other earrings and beads on the chain.

I love making things like this. All the beautiful lace. This one is a lovely jar to store earrings or other jewelery.

And don't you love this little bird bottle. The top was already there so I just added some lace, beads and bling.

Had to make the back elegant too.

These are my fork easels. I have been making these for about seven years now and I saw they turned up in one of the Sumerset mags. They are so neat for light weight pics.

Hope you enjoyed and have a great day!!

NEW PILLOW IN PROGRESS

This is a new pillow that I started a couple of days ago. I am using whites and creams and all muted colors in the embellishments. I put my silk ribbon in a brown dye bath to help mute the brightness of the colors. The butterfly is one that I painted some time ago. I'll post again on the progress.

If you are interested in Crazy Quilting you should go to Pat Winters blog. She has a new CQ Magazine on the market, but you have to order from MagCloud. The magazine is awsome, some of the best CQ artist around are featured in this first edition.

Hope everyone has a great weekend.

MY NEW VALENTIES

Today I have been busy making a couple of valentines to put in my booth. If I ever get to get out and go to the mall. We still have ice everywhere and I'm not getting out of my drive way until it is gone or very mushy. A few days ago I was looking at Sharon's blog "My Vintage Studio" and she listed some beautiful vintage valentines to share with us. And my two valentines are made with her beautiful valentines. So I thought I would let everyone enjoy them too.
I love this beautiful lady with her gorgeous hat.

The feathers are some I picked up this summer over at Rick's. They live buy a canal and the ducks come to his house to eat. They are all so beautiful.

This is the second valentine. I used a white hanky, red lace on burlap. Made a rose out of net and one of my moffits.

Don't you love the pearls around the outside edge. I know I sure had fun making them. Thank you Sharon for sharing. I have so many of your vintage postcards and valentines. Hope everyone is staying warm in this winter ice storm. They are saying we may get snow tomorrow night. I'm ready for the 70 degree weather to come back. Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful night.

NEW TREASURES FOR THE ANTIQUE MALL

Today I thought I would show you what I have been up to here lately. This is one of my pretties that I put in the mall a few days ago. I went to one of Lisa's classes and learned to make this little sweetie. Here is an altered art bottle, I love the lavender!

And a sweet valentine..... It will be here soon.

An old door part with Bible verse...

Here are a couple of little cabinets that I shabby chic today. They will look very sweet with some baskets in the shelves. This little round table got the same treatment. It has a glass that goes on the top. Think I will put some cards or something under the glass when I put it in the mall. She has some little metal shoes to put on each foot.

These are my Cottage Cream frames..... Most of my frames have sold so I had to fix a new supply.

Another Cottage Cream frame. All of my decor is either Cottage Cream, Shabby Chic, or French Distressed Black.
Sunday I went to Arlington to get some groceries and ran in an Estate sale that was ready to close. I found a deal on all this furniture. This coffee table I got for my living room. I sold my cottage sofa the other day and now have a victorian sofa. So I needed a pretty coffee table. Think this one will do nicely.

I think this night table is from the forties. I will probably paint it Cottage Cream or Shabby Chic for my booth.

The lamps are so pretty..... I will add tea dyed lace to the shades and my paint the gold to a Cottage Cream. Really change them up.

And these little tables are from the forties too, at least I think. Think my aunt had a pair of these when I was a little girl. I will probably leave them the way they are. They were a little wobbly, I fixed one today and will fix the other one tomorrow. The glass on the floor goes on top of them. They are just darling.

Hope you enjoyed my little pretties today. Wishing all of you a good night and have a good day tomorrow.

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.