journal entry: Wonderful globes are often in the collectibles case at thrift stores. I missed this one. I was looking over the case as I walked by and was expecting to see a traditional globe with a blue ocean. The sweet clerk, who knows I am always looking for globes, motioned to …
Lamps and Flower Pots I have always liked the “nesting” style of things grouped together. Thus, on one corner of my kitchen counter I put these two ceramic pots with the most beautiful little lamp I have ever seen. The pots were easy to find. They can be any place in the …
(There are seven “thrifted” items in this photograph. Two paintings, a floor lamp ( $5), a table lamp ( $3), a table ($4.99), a hassock ( $5) and distressed silver trays. ($1 each) When I was a child, I loved the old home at the end of the street. The …
This was a very fun globe to decorate and an unexpected thrift-store find. I bought the globe for $1.99 and the flexible clown with magnetic feet for a dime. The theme is “Don’t Grow Up: It’s a TRAP“. Anyone who has grown up . . . knows that it is true …
journal entry: I have also embellished these world globes with inspirational words and quotes and bright, metallic oceans, jungles and clouds. The globe above is a large globe. This globe’s theme is: LIGHTS WILL GUIDE YOU HOME I used sponges to create the metallic look of the continents and the …
journal entry: I am in the middle of re-decorating in “flea market style”. Grandpa is an incredibly good sport. Part of the “style” I am working towards includes the collection and decoration of world globes. My blog is like a journal. It helps me keep track of things I love and things …
journal entry: As I continued to prowl around for Bristle Animals for my new Christmas Nativity, I found two very angelic raccoons. Perhaps they didn’t look very angelic when I found them with their black masks and shiny, black eyes, and bushy, striped tails, but, by the time I added …
journal entry: Swans. Swimming and sailing and sweeping through the sky. Companion print to the multiplying giraffes which is found on this site in another post. I wanted puffy and poofy. I wanted someone I love to feel that the swans in the clouds were holding her up. Finished and …
journal entry: I dreamed about giraffes for weeks. They multiplied before my eyes. Every time I finished one, another appeared. That is how it seemed to me. Grandpa often asked if I was still working on the giraffes. Yes. Yes, I am. It was the most wonderful, whimsical fabric …
journal entry: How can it possibly be Christmas without quilts for the dollys ? This may have been one of my most delightful Christmas projects ever. Dolly Quilts. For little, tiny people. I mostly used scraps and in the case of the quilt above, I cut up a pillowcase which already had a …
