Showing posts with label Girlfriends. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Girlfriends. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 14, 2019

Mermaid Altered Bottles & Good Friends!

In July, Girlfriends Gathering, gathered at my home for Summertime crafting.

It was, as always, an amazing day filled with good friends, good food and creating!

I had done some purging in my small studio and
found I had way too many bottles...so,
Altered Bottles was our artsy craft for the day.

Of course with it being Summer,
Mermaids were the theme
Lee's Altered Mermaid Bottle

Lee first tried color fairy lights to illuminate her bottle.
Followed up by switching to white fairy lights

Nora's Altered Mermaid Bottle

While searching for mermaid images, I found most
mermaids have long, flowing, curly red hair.
Few are blonde and only found two as brunettes.

Nora chose a brunette mermaid to adorn

Love this text on the backside of her bottle!
(Several of us used it too)
 

  I think the way Beth's story goes is she found her bottle at
an estate sale that morning on her way here...
her bottle was blue and perfect!
 

Here's a different view showing a wonderful Beachy tag
(I think she may have made at one of our prior Gatherings)

Kim created her mermaid bottle in
her delightful, colorful Bohemian style
painting in her mermaid image



Gail chose not to create a mermaid bottle. 
She loves purple and chose to create this beauty

Rather than a mermaid bottle, Karla worked on her
 
Click on the above links to see more of Karla's gorgeous cards.

 My mermaid bottle

It was a good day!

Monday, May 20, 2019

Girls Weekend Fun - Part 2

Weren't those tulips shared in Girls Weekend Fun
GORGEOUS?
Part 2 of our trip includes Junk Jubilee,
West End Salvage and Recreating Mona Lisa.
 While we enjoyed this years Spring Junk Jubilee, 
it was a bit disappointing as there weren't as many vendors
for inspirational ideas or items to buy.
Apparently Junk Jubilee and Junk Stock were in
competition with one another that weekend. 

Ready to shop and be inspired!
Great junk & inspiration








Although it was a smaller show,
sharing fun & inspiration 
with good friends,
is always a great time!

Next stop, West End Salvage
Nora is often missing from our pics 
as she is the one that remembers to take photos...
Thank you Nora for the pics!

West End Salvage is known for creating 
reclaimed architectural items into
functional and works of art decor.
Also available are antique and 
vintage lightening, doors, furniture
and miscellaneous items.
 
Here Gail & I are with Don Short,
owner of West End Salvage.
Antique doors & lightening  



This door is in the center stairway


If you visit WES, be sure to enjoy their coffee shop!


Recreating Mona Lisa

Earlier I mentioned Recreating Mona Lisa
would be included in this post.

There really is a lot to share, so
I will post it separately. 

Here's a sneak preview

From drab
to Fab....
 
Please check back to see what changes we made.

See you soon!



Friday, June 15, 2018

Girlfriends Gathering Milestone Birthday Party


Recently Girlfriends Gathering
gathered for another craft day and 
birthday celebrations!


Since everyone has a birthday sometime this year, 
I had a bouquet of Birthday flowers waiting for everyone to take home
 










 


Some of us are celebrating milestone birthdays this year -
10, 40 and three of us turning 60!
 
 
Happy Birthday Rinne!
Happy Birthday Marj!
Happy Birthday Karla, Nora and Me!
 When you're turning 60, you can either claim it or try to ignore it...we're claiming it!
 I made each of us turning 60 a special '60' tiara...
K - arla
 
 
 
N - ora
 


 
T- ami
 



  We shared a wonderful day of good eats, fun & friendship!
 
















Kim needed an additional outlet, so work where you can, LOL!






George even grab some lovin' from Gail!

I offered two projects and some brought their own projects to work.  
I did not get pics of everyone's projects (sorry!).
I've been cleaning out my 'STASH' and shared old clipboards and miscellaneous lids
for creating...
 





Happy Birthday to these
AMAZING FRIENDS!