Cloth Paper

I love making cloth paper.  It is so versatile and can be used in so many ways and ideas.

You can rip and tear, apply to journal pages, add to collages or 3 Dimensional pieces.  Make flowers out of the paper, make paperdoll clothing out of it.

Christmas Memories

Seth the chef making the Christmas Fancy turkey,  Christmas Vignettes

cinnamon and applesauce gingerbread men

Has time gone by so fast, that you realized where did Christmas go?  Were you baking, decorating, shopping, gift giving, eating, and you didn't even look at the pictures you snapped during the past Christmas'?
Vintage Bottled Snowmen for decorating and gifts...

Christmas Pinks, Christmas Reds and Greens

In the kitchen, in the living room, in the hallway, in the dining room, in the art room...

Mama and Papa Santa Claus

Here are some of my pictures to share of my decorating and cookies and gifts and family.  Have fun and bring on the memories!

A Rusty Solution

Want to make something rusty on your own, you know, the new fad of decorating with rusty stuff or making your safety pins for your prims and folk art decorations look unique and vintage!

Solutions:  PLEASE PLEASE Be Careful, do not keep out for animals, children or anywhere as a matter of fact.  Use it and dispose of it.

1.  Take your item, pour hydrogen peroxide over it or spray it with a Dollar Tree spray bottle and then sprinkle salt and watch it go!

2.  Two parts bleach to one part vinegar and mix in a spray bottle or in a small basin.  Put your item in and let it soak.

Some metals do not rust well.  I am not a chemist, so I don't know what makes what metal corrode.

3.  Leave an item outside in the weather through out the rainy season or put it out now quick while the weather is snowy.

Go for it, make those rusty things you have always been wanting to try and add to your Primitive decorating.

There are products out there that you can spray on or paint on that you can purchase.  A bottle of hydrogen peroxide=$1.00, bottle of bleach=$1.00, bottle of vinegar=$1.00, gloves=$1.00, salt=$1.00, plastic basin=$1.00, plastic spray bottle=$1.00, safety pins=$1.00==============all from the Dollar Tree.

Rust

The bible talks alot about rust, and that actually it is like a curse along with the moth, because it decays, corrupts, and breaks down things.  So why is it so popular today?  And why do I want to decorate with it!  Perhaps it is the color, a brownish, orangish, silverish tone, it goes well with other colors, it goes great with baskets and other natural textures.

More Mantles; Where do you get your inspirations

I am so into mantles, and don't know if I ever will get rid of the bug!  A great place to put all of those little nic nacs and pictures, and stuff that you have that maybe doesn't fit anywhere else in the house.  Color and Balance is somewhat the answer to you who ask "How do I decorate a mantle?"

Mantels or is it Mantles

Oh yes, the question is? is it mantels or mantles?

This is not a spelling quiz or is it?

Mantles!

I love my mantles.  I had three, now I am down to two.  I would even have one in my bedroom if I could have gotten my sons to get it up the stairs in this small colonial home.  But I had to sell that one during the recession  ugh!

I don't know where I have the love for mantles.  I didn't grow up with a fireplace in my home, but I always wanted to live in the Little House on the Prairie Days so that may be it!

Collage

DON'T get stuck on the small stuff, just keep going.  When you don't know what to do, try it all, canvas, paper, Artist Trading Cards, journal pages, draw, watercolor, cut out papers and letters, take a picture of your favorite thing, look back and see your Progress!