A metal birds nest, book text, white buttons and a small cherub with some wings and taaaaaaaaaaa daaaaaaaaaaa a jar for keeping buttons. What a fun addition to my studio shelf....
The little cherub is so stinking cute! Such a happy little baby....
big hugs,
Now that she has her own bedroom, the little three year old now dictates a more sophisticated look. *wink* The color scheme in her room is black, hot pink, light pink & white. Firstly, I spray painted all the frames black to give everything a cohesive look. This way too, I can add more frames in the future simply by painting them black to match.
Next, I measured the frames so that the ribbons would fit evenly spaced on the backside of each frame. Then, I simply hot glued the black grosgrain ribbon in place. Easy~peasy. The bows easily clip to the ribbons on the frames for easy access. 
These black frames are going to be hung on hot pink walls.... should be caute!
I had bought a pop up book with cute animal pictures on every page, I just had to pull it apart to use in my journal. This page is called, "Life is a Circus." 
There are soooooo many layers of paint on these two pages...
I glued two pages of the book together to make a nice canvas to work on. I found that painting on just one page of the book made the pages curl. I dug through my huge stash of Dresden trim to spell the word circus. I think it adds a nice little pop to the background. 
I think I'll be doing more work in my journal when the mood strikes me. It did take me a long time to finish just this one page.... I could have used a heat gun to speed things up, but I like the drying time too... gives me time to start yet another project! *wink*
she just closed escrow on her second home....
Every single wall in her new home is going to be painted....
I get the easy job of watching her kids while they all work fixing up her new home....
Another perk of being a Nana.....
I picked up this lovely old tin container, small storage bin and box of doilies and lace for only $4.00 for the lot.
The container alone was a treasure, but inside... it was filled with buttons! Every hand full I pulled out had mother of pearl buttons in it. The plastic baggie is filled entirely with mother of pearl buttons from the tin container.... *joy* I love-love mother of pearl buttons!
I also picked up some jewelry... 
and these too.....
Fun shopping~ *wink*
fine talcum powder dust all over every.thing.
I am torn between having things out and looking cute... 
and things put away, organized and dust free. I enlarged the labels on all of my bins of treasure since last year... now I can see them without my reading glasses on. *woot-woot* While cleaning my studio for this yearly event.... I got rid of 5 large bags of 
I have my buttons close by in their own cabinet.... (I have more than this lol....trust me...)
What to do with all of these buttons??? Here is one fun idea I came up with...
I did manage to bring in a huge three piece t.v. wall unit into the room, that was my goal from last year. It was no easy task...... I tried it once, and the wide middle piece wouldn't make the turn into the room. That night while trying to get to sleep---- I thought about it, and decided it would fit through the door if I cut the wooden t.v. unit in half. The next day, it was cut in half and pushed into the room and reassembled! 
You can see the other pieces of this unit on this slide show below...
This is where I sit and do things like applique, bead work and where I look through books while I 
I always have some bling close by.... 
I have bins & bins of jewelry... and no matter how I look at some pieces of jewelry, I can't figure out what to do with them, until now. I picked up this wooden "Dream" sign for only $2.50 and now I simply hot glue pieces to it when I come across those "to good to toss out, but I can't use them" pieces. I use hot glue just in case I need to pry off some of the jewelry at a later date!
Thank you Karen of "My Desert Cottage" for hosting this years "Where Bloggers Create 2012" linky party! It is the only time of the year that my studio gets an extensive cleaning!
It was nice to poke through some of my forgotten 
I've been putting printed labels on all of my storage boxes..... and was surprised that I had to print out so many labels that said "jewelry."
Hooray for me!
I also added some rhinestones to this little abalone shell. It doesn't look small in this photo, but it is only 3 inches long by 2 inches wide.
I think I'll be making more of the little shell bowls... I am going to use this one on my nightstand to hold my earrings~
I found this fabulous tiny-little foot locker that measures in at only 6" tall and 10 1/2" across. This little beauty with the skeleton key lock, set me back one whole bucker-rooo. The lock was sticking so they unscrewed it to see what was inside...
I picked up some jewelry too--- slim pickings, but I never pass up religious pieces. 
I spotted a bag of pearl beads in a zip lock bag for .50¢ I was needing some "white" faux pearls for a piece of jewelry that was missing a few pearls and was to cute to just toss out. Well... I opened the bag when I got home... 
and WOWZERS.
Real cultured pearls. *gasp* FIFTY CENTS??? I have eight carded pearls, that show the size & color & value of each pearl. I added up the estimated value off of each card and that alone totaled $237.00. In the zip lock bag there was another smaller bag filled with nine loose pearls. Those ranged in sizes of about 7.0 to 6.5 so each one could have a value of anywhere from $25 to $45. (I used to be into pearls big time) Oh my goodness.... that right there fuels the yard sale fires.
The quilt calls for each of the appliques to be made on its own block.... that idea didn't sit well with me. I don't know why... Soooooooooo I calculated the blocks and then I cut one solid piece of fabric to applique the sweet treats to. The white background had my breaks on too... then I spotted some pink polka-dot fabric, and that had my foot full force on the pedal! Go-go-go...! The first one I worked on was the cupcakes. I used shabby chic fabric for the cupcake stand and a piece of pleated lace/ribbon as the cupcake paper. I decided to use some pink fleece as the frosting, and of course the cupcakes just had to have sprinkles! I knotted each bead on separately... 
Next I worked on the bowl of ice cream. I chose some slightly variegated pink fabric to replicate strawberry ice cream.. yum. I also added long beads for sprinkles... and a shiny silver spoon. 
I am still debating on if I want to put cherries on the cupcakes, if I do, I'll probably stick one on the ice cream too.
