vintage Christmas Wreaths

More than 30 tips how to make a wreath using vintage Christmas ornaments like Shiny Brites. Includes step-by-step instructions and tips from Georgia Peachez herself!

Red Christmas Wreath - Tinsel and Glitter, Hand Made

Silver and Red Christmas Wreath - Tinsel and Glitter, Hand Made

Valentine's Day continues

I made a little personalized Valentine for grand daughter Zora to hang on a wall

It started with a heart shaped unfinished wood plaque from a craft store. It comes with a hanger on the back. I then gave it a base coat of craft paint-pink of course!

I hot glued some dollar store tinsel garland around the edge and then some gold Mardi Gras beads.

I eventually got the right size of a photo of her face to mod podge glue in the center.

I had little bits and bobs to add more fun and finished with hot glued on curlie cues of tinsel (that came with wire through it)

Da Da ! Zora !

Valentine's Day

I know, I know it's terribly late but I wanted you to see some of the Valentine's Day things that I worked on. I love making Valentine crafts because they are totally glitzy and gaudy as you want them to be!

                OK ready to get started with a collection of this and that I have been collecting...

First is a Valentine wreath that started with a couple bases and adorable heart lights from the Dollar Store. I added some vintage plastic pieces, vintage angels, mardi gras beads, sequins, a printed vintage valentine and wrapped with some frilly tinsel garlands. Get out the glue gun!

OK on to the next

5 Ways to Attach Granny Squares

Zora's blanket

I have been working like the craziest of Santa's elves making a blanket for Zora's Christmas present. Whether I finish it in time is yet to be seen. Here are some pics of the process:

I made 42 daisy flowers with 12 different colors of cotton yarn. The cotton made such a sweet soft blanket. pattern here

 A basket full of posies!

 I joined the flowers together with this video 5 Ways to Attach Granny Squares

 I decided to go with a simple whip stitch with a darning needle to sew them together rather than crocheting them together. I liked that it didn't leave a ridge and was lots faster. By this point my hands were very achy from so much constant crocheting, trying to get this done for my granddaughter's Christmas present.

Today and Monday before I fly to Philadelphia and I think I am going to make it if I don't keep making mistakes. Last night I was sewing away (after wasting an hour looking for the needle) and realized I had sew squares together in such a mistaken wat that it looked like an origami creature. Getting close!

Vintage Baby Shower

Vintage Stork Decor for a Vintage Baby Shower

Front and back

This looks good hanging with small tissue paper pom poms as clouds.

Download stork image Stork

The Cardboard Dollhouse Begins

The Cardboard Dollhouse Begins - see the tutorial here.

You can see from the photos most of the tools that I used: scissors, utility knife, various squares, and plain old Elmer's glue                                                          

After the basic structure of the dollhouse is all glued together and papier mache add to cover the edges, I gave it an all over coat of gesso primer. I am sure any white paint would work fine also.

Cardboard Dollhouse

The Dollhouse is getting close to being finished. I have been working on furniture. There have been many times I have said " why didn't I just buy it" 

Next working on the cardboard furniture:

Finally making some headway on the furniture for the dollhouse. The bedroom furniture is almost finished. The bed will have posters with some sort of canopy and the closet needs the doors painted. It has a tiny drawer in the bottom and so does the vanity which also needs a stool for it.

I have more photos to post tomorrow and some artwork but they are on the other computer so until tomorrow...

Vintage crochet

I saw a super cute poncho made from a daisy pattern like this one. The petals and in between areas were a beautiful turquoise and the centers were white. 
It was quite stunning and definitely Springy.

DIY Vintage Daisy Loom Crochet Pattern

by hellospeckless.com

My first daisy

testing on a very cold wintry almost spring Sunday

Hope you enjoy this trying something new to see if copying music from Youtube will play on my blog (or web site) I thought it would be inspiring for when I am working on my art journaling workshop - Embrace Yourself with Misty Mawn. Well as you can see it did not!



Here are a couple of journal backgrounds I did to be ready for the journal lessons.

This one of the lessons about writing and learning about yourself - going through each letter of the alphabet and choosing words that best describe yourself and positive /negative space with the art journal page. I started out with each letter being a negative adjective! so I had to work on looking at myself in a positive light or maybe what I would like to work towards being.

Today I will be working on the next lesson and I AM going to finish the papier mache and a base coat of paint on the  cardboard doll house.

DIY Parisian Bulletin Board - So Shabby Chic!

DIY Parisian Bulletin Board

Using an old bulletin board or frame with a backing, paint it white with acrylic paints (I used the craft paints in a bottle). Let dry and then wipe on a black , watered down, and then wipe it off to give it a more antiqued look.