Tolentreasures

A little bit of this... painting for a customer and A little bit of that... work on the string quilt AFTER I managed to clean the sewing room  and make room  to  work again. Straightening the attic  and creating a space to  price items  for the  Open House.  It will be here before I know it.  And.. I found some t-shirts that made Some fun t-shirt yarn.  Last of all, work on all these "treasures" that I found at the flea market on Sunday!  Nothing  earth-shattering, just bits and pieces of  daily projects. 

Ran into Goodwill really quick last night after WW. Could I justify that guilty pleasure as my reward for my 1 pound weight loss? I found these three little wood pieces for .49 each. They struck my immediately as perfect additions to the princess' toy room. I could "see" them painted! Started them first thing this morning. And here they are done....minus the varnish. I caught them midflight on their way to the basement where they will receive the varnish. This is the results of my three bags full of wool, all cut up and neatly stacked, well almost. At Goodwill last night a jumper, skirt, jacket and sweater just jumped into my cart also. I want to make a purse from the sweater, it is still formulating in my mind. Any patterns, links or ideas that anyone would want to share would be greatly appreciated! I started this scarf in the airport in Pittsburgh and finished it on the way home on the plane. While I was in the Dominican I found out that some women from an...

This is the painting that I did for my granddaughter's toy room. I could not show it until after the party was over. My daughter is making nursery rhyme stitcheries for in the room that are going to be so nice! Can't wait to show those off when she gets them done!

First of all there was the inspiration. My daughter wants to redo a downstairs bedroom for the Princess for a toy room. She has been wanting a set of bookshelves for the room and I bought a set at Michael's and have had them sitting there waiting for some type of inspiration. She told me that she would like to do the room sort of primitive, old toy, primary colors. She reminded me of this toy that has been around our house for a long time and said, "sort of like that" Now before I actually painted the shelf, I wanted to make sure that our minds were working in the same direction...off to the stash to see what I could paint that would be functional in the room, should she like it. This is what I found. I had bought two of these at a yard sale for $2 each. I had painted one in my craft show life and sold it. I have used this one the way it is to tote paints around and so I thought this would work. I found the plaques in another stash. The words on this are stamp...