Left Over Wool Felt Art

These are little art pieces made from left over wool felt when you cut out crowns. Some are free hand shaped hearts and a few were cut with a die cut machine. My piece is the photo above with the heart on the hanging wall art board. I love the K & Co. paper called Celeste and the one called Flora and Fauna. I used paper from one of these pads for the piece. You can purchase these two pads at Michael's.

House Mouse Card For May

Here is the Mouse card I designed for May. I used Copic Markers to color it. These mice grow on you after awhile. I do not like real mice but these are cute!

Class and a Crown

I will be teaching my Creative Card class this Saturday from 3:00pm to 5:30pm at Stamp Asylum. Below is a photo of one of the cards we will be making. In this class you make six cards using different techniques. It's really fun and the card pictured below is great for Mother's Day!

I made this cute blue crown at one of my art group meetings the other night. Just love that color!!
I picked up the rhinestone piece of jewelry on it at Warrenton.

Paper Cowgirl Made the Newspaper Today

Paper Cowgirl is in the news today! The Dallas Morning News featured the retreat in an article in the Arts and Life Guide. Check out the blog for more details on the article http://papercowgirl.blogspot.com/
You still have time to sign up for classes at the retreat. Here is the link for more info http://pcregistration.blogspot.com/ Not sure of the cut off date for sign ups but I know it's this month. So GIDDY UP girls and boys!!

Round Top/Warrenton Antique Show Final Installment

This is Kristi Knox http://junkology.wordpress.com/about/ and Theresa Cano http://gardenantqs.blogspot.com/ . I have been checking out Theresa's blog for some time. I found her when I bought something in her booth at Winnie  & Tallulah's in Athens, TX. She doesn't have one there anymore, now she is in McKinney at an antique store. She has great stuff! Her blog is fun and she is always traveling around Texas to let us know of great places to shop and shows to attend. She is full of info! Pictures of her booth at Zapp Hall are below. She had a wonderful booth! Kristi I met there at the show. But it is such a small world because she is taking my class at Paper Cowgirl! I could not believe I met a student in my class! Of all the the places to be and meet her. It was great! She is so sweet and I can't wait for my class in June to see her again.

Loved this couch area.

Looking in from the outside.

Check out the flowers wrapped in the corset.

Button chair by table. Yum!

This is looking down the hwy from the side of the road we were shopping on. Bumper to bumper of cars. we never even shopped on the other side of the road. Have to do that next trip!

We found this wonderful sleigh and I said lets get inside and take photos of each other. So we did. Melody took this one of me. we bought hats to keep the sun off our faces and they really were a blessing.

Junk Gypsy http://www.gypsyville.com/ was a fun booth to shop! They had some great items. I bought a rhinestone crown belt buckle and black leather belt for it. I also got a colorful teal and lime green dingle ball scarf. I just need something to wear it with. LOL Photos of their booth is below.

Jewelry table.

My husband said "poor deers" because of the crowns.

We parked by this building. Wonderful rusted texture on the sides.

This booth is Paris Montana http://www.parismontana.blogspot.com/ . They had some cool jewelry. I loved what these two ladies were wearing. You would see ladies all day long wearing fabulous stuff. They were probably going to the prom later that night. We were to tired to come back for it. maybe next time.

Back of ladies shirt.

Found all kinds of neat metal toy trucks! I still remember from a photo of Sally Jean Alexander's studio in Where Women Create of her robins egg blue metal truck. She put glues in hers I think. I never saw a robins egg blue one though or I would have bought it. Love that color!

This was just a cool set up with the lights. Same booth with the metal toy trucks.

Coca Cola sign in Japanese or Chinese. Not sure which since I can't read it. But I am pretty sure that it says Coca Cola.

Several booths when walking around Warrenton.

This was across from Junk Gypsy.

Loved these tassels. Great idea coming on! Have to make some for myself!

I thought it was weird to be selling a casket so I took a photo of it. The arch things above it are fabulous though.

This was a cute booth. Love how they used doors for an archway.

This was where we got cart liners. Really cute ones. They were from Winnie and Tallulah.  Although that is not what the booth was called. I think it was Split pea but I am not for sure. I have seen them at a booth in Winnie and Tallulah.

Well that's it for my trip down South. It was really fun and I highly recommend you going. The show is twice a year, Spring and Fall. Check out this site for more info http://www.antiqueweekend.com/indexmain.html .

Round Top/Warrenton Antique Show 3rd Installment

We had to take time to get some photos of the blue bonnets. These were in Brenham, TX and the last two photos are from Round Top, TX.

Marburger Farm is one of the shows you have to pay to get into. It really is worth it though.  The booths are nicely decorated with vignette displays like you would see in regular stores. They really pay attention to how their merchandise is shown.

Loved the color of this chair! But I didn't buy it. I was good.

This little girly was wonderful. I love the idea.

The crackle finish on this cabinet was gorgeous!

Isn't this a great use of faucet handles?

Lots of the walls in the booths were even taken care of. This whole booth had the vintage ceiling tiles on their walls. I thought this chair was such a contrast in color to this wall. Really pretty.

The wall in this booth was covered in book pages. Great idea! I have seen photos in magazines where a wall in a room was done this way.

Remember this guy? My family would eat at Kips Big Boy when I was a child. Fun memories.

This is Diane Cook and her husband. She had a great booth. Check out her blog http://rosa-josies.blogspot.com/ . She does fantastic jewelry! If you have a chance to take a class from her jump on it!

Cuff bracelet by Diane

Other pieces of Diane's jewelry.

Wonderful thimble necklace.

Fancy cuff bracelets.

Magnolia Pearl was at Marburger Farm http://www.magnoliapearl.com/ . These photos DO NOT do this booth justice! Their blog has a few pics of the bird cage dress and it's in better light so you can see it. Robin Brown (the owner) was in Stampington & Company magazine "Where Women Create" issue Nov/Dec/Jan 2011. I did not realize until I read the article she is from Bandera , TX. Her clothing has a gypsy kinda theme to it I think. Very comfortable to wear.

Beautiful dresses were made with wire, bodices, and I don't know what else. They were fabulous! The one in the photo above was right outside the booth and this one was inside.

Check out this magnolia flower made from paper. It was huge!! Stuck on a corner of the booth.

This bird cage hung inside the booth from the center of the tent like structure. The structure was constructed of burlap wrapped around wires and it kind of reminded me of dregs. It looked really cool though! Books had been cut into birds and were hanging from the ceiling.

Here is one of the birds made from a book.

This dress has real birds in the skirt cage. It was on the outside of the booth, opposite side from the other dress I showed earlier. The detail on the dresses was wonderful. Whoever thought of the decorations in this booth is VERY VERY creative!! Looked steampunkish! Which is soooo popular now.