Love Day Favorites

I hope everyones day of Love was happy and great.

Enjoy a few of my fav love cards I found....

images found here

Trying to think of anything but dance...

All I can think about is dance, dance, and more dance.

I've got to get it out of this crazy head of mine!

So what do you do when you have no energy to be creative,

but you need a creative boost?

Say it with me my friends. Pinterest!

Pinterest is my happy place when I am in a desperate need of a 5 minute fix at work, or when I'm laying on the couch too lame + lazy to do anything but don't want to feel like I'm doing nothing. I go to Pinterest.

Come look at some of my top pins on a cold + lazy January day.

Beautiful things = beautiful day

Oh please enjoy

Travel Case

This has been my most recent project, a beautiful travel case I picked up at thrift store Deseret Industries. I got it for a whopping $2. It needed a little work. I had to completely gut the inside, cut new card board, re-fabric, and put it back together. Luckily I had some fabric laying around that worked perfect. I covered the inside with a dark, almost pea green and a grey. I then covered the center attachment piece in lace to add a little something. Next I cleaned up the outside with lots of soap + water and added a nice patch for the finishing touch. Now I just need to decide if it's a travel case or my new sewing case. Either way I'm in love.

Lace Cardi

I went to Downeast Outfitters the other day and fell in love with a lace cardigan. The only problem was that it was $34. I decided to make my own instead. All I did was round up some of my old lace ribbon and sew it to the front. I wish I had a picture of me wearing it because it actually looks really cute. Plus, if I ever get sick of it I can just undo my seems super easy. Great $5 fashion.

More Thrift Baby

These are an assortment of thrift and my work. This wall hanging sits about our couch. I wish wish wish I had a cute couch so I could take a beautiful picture of the whole thing, but sadly I have an old hand-me-down that is the exact opposite of everything I love. One day this will be fixed. I painted the tree which sits in the middle. Right now I'm working on a series of tree painting so if you like, you can get... soon. The other 4 hangings are a thrift find, $8 for the set. I repainted and antiqued them but am thinking about painting them grey or white What do you think? I need opinions here. Next we find a beautiful clock that R actually found. It took a bit-o-time unscrewing, painting, and screwing back into place, but we love the ending effect. Plus it cost around $3 and you just can't beat that can you. Maybe one day I won't have shop at thrift stores for everything, but then I just might have too much time on my hands

Who would LOVE a huge paper flower?

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100 Layer Cake

Vintage Suitcase

I couldn't resist posting again so soon. R just took these pictures tonight of my next thrifty buy, and he did an AMAZING job. We were literally sprinting up a dirt road and barely making it up a huge hill in time to catch the last rays of sun. In about 5 minutes R managed to get about 8 really great shots. These 2 being a few of my favs. This find of a luggage was $2 and I think will look so amazing draped in my hand at the airport. I can't even wait to travel with it! And the perfect thing about it is that it's small enough that I could still use it as a cary-on and not have to pay the extra baggage fee. This will look so much better on me than my old dance team duffle bag.