CHRISTMAS CONSOLE TABLE DECOR - gold and white

Yesterday I shared all the photos of our front entry all decked out for the Christmas season. Today I wanted to share how I created the look.

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OUR FRENCH COUNTRY BEDROOM - curtains & chandelier

Happy Mother's Day to all you wonderful woman who inspire,
nurture, and go way beyond.
Today is the day you should do NOTHING. Rest, relax, rejuvenate, and relinquish the
reigns to someone else today
and see if the world does explode.

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MASON JAR DECOR AND LIGHTS - christmas tutorial

 

This is a simple tutorial with big impact and continued use. It's also another use for our ever loving Mason Jars we ALL love to collect.

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ASS OVER TEA KETTLE - union jack

 

We are well known for our rain here on the west coast. It usually

 rains for a long time but it's relatively light compared to other

 places. Last night was a different story. All of a sudden it poured

 like a mid summer Florida storm. I in the mean time was worried

 about some items outside so I went to the top of the deck stairs and

 started down. Well I made it to the bottom however I was no

 longer on my feet. Yes I took a fall the moment my shoe stepped

 on the wet stair. My hip landed on the ground, but my rib and wrist

 hit the concrete.

"GEORGE!!!!"

Well he came and got me back in the house and I was banished to

 the bed for the rest of the night with ice.

My hip is bruised, thank god for that extra padding I have,

 my rib feels fine but my wrist is sore.

So today I had to come up with light duty work.

I also couldn't do my other job because my PC has gone to the repair shop to be scolded and straightened out, so here I sit getting to know George's computer.

I decided to sit still, let my wrist heal and be a creative painter.

It's a beautiful serpentine dresser call *JACK*.

He's not done but I am for the night.

I also manage to finish a pair of wooden pillar candle holders made in India.

I got them at a yard sale recently to paint and distressed. The

plan is to take them to the community show next week but you'll

 have to wait and see if I can give them up.

Here are the close ups of the accents I promised the other day

on the lingerie chest I finished. Let me know what you think.

BEACH SHELL CANDLE HOLDER

This tutorial is pictures only ...

 

 

   

CRAFTING TIP:

Use a hair dryer to melt all those nasty glue
 strings away, it looks so cool when they just disapear!

Another beach shell tutorial can be found here: charms

YOUR VERY OWN CHARM - beach shell charm tutorial

Yesterday I showed you my beach charms and

promised to show you how to create them for yourself.

So without further ado,

Here is your step by step instructional how to make

 a flower charm from common beach shells.

I started by dividing the shells into different sizes.

 I then went and found the Krazy glue and tweezers.

 I started with one half shell and with a drop of glue

to the rounded

 bottom edge attached a second half shell kinda off set.

I used the hinge of the shell to mimic the look of each petal tip.

 The tweezers helped to keep my fingers

from getting glued together or glued to the shells.

As it sat on my work surface I dotted the glue

  on each new petal then holding the center

portion with the tweezers I pressed it onto the new

 petal letting the glue dry for a few seconds.

Continuing to use this technic I moved around the

 center part of the bloom added new petals. 

 Once the center started to get bigger I then

 changed my method by adding the new petals to
 the center portion by having it sit on the work
 surface and slipping each new petal underneath the edge.

By now this is what the back is looking like. 

 Keep going.

 and you will end up with this.

Next in the beach shell installments we have

votive holders found here:

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