Vintage Baby Toys

These were mine, well, a few of my favorite ones....
The eyore was given to me as an infant, I love it, but its pretty old!
And the makeshift backdrop is my most prized- my baby blanket.

Summer - (more)

Bob Bakers Marionette Theater

This lovely place where the imagination dwells is only minutes from my house. I plan to go see the "fiesta" within the next few weekends and take the little nephew. Soo cool.

Reminds me of my favoorite part of the sound of music...

Summer - (daily pics)

tiny scarf dresses

I am making 3 tiny scarf dresses out of some old vintage scarves.


A sneak peek at the beautiful scarves about to make up these little tops.

resin grapes

I found this picture on ashley rose helvey's blog. These colors are so vibrant. Ah, I love resin grapes! My grandmother used to make these herself in the 70's. Her signature coblat blue ones still exist and I will have to post them someday.

little marc

DOSA

It was packed. Everyone had their huge stack to try on. Lots of pretties, silks, fog foil linen, some printed cottons. I really liked the hand dyed swirl stuff.

Lots of fun, it was my first time. wink.

new seats

We found a really nice wooden table and six chairs really cheap. The wood is in really good condition and only needed a little wood oil but the seats of the chairs were yucky.
My mom, sister and me re-upholstered them.

First we had to remove all of the old fabric and foam from all of the chairs.

Then I cut new foam with an electric knife (think thanksgiving) to fit the size of the chair base.
Next we took big pieces of the new pretty fabric and sandwiched the foam between the new fabric and the wooden chair bases. We had a two person operation stretching the fabric and stapling it to the base.
Last was just trimming the excess fabric from the bottom and re-attaching the seats to all of the chairs.
Voila, new chairs.

New Loot

I went out and bought a bunch of plastic food for still life paintings. I am only missing plastic cheese. It is not easy to find oddly enough.
So far Im working on one set up with a plate of grapes, wine bottle and small vase. This will be my first painting in about 5 years not counting the 6 foot one I did for my grandparents a couple years ago. Painting, fortunately, is something you never forget how to do.