Angie's Birthday & Birdsong 2014 Peeps

Welcome back!

On my last post we had finished our Friday shopping at the Kansas City West Bottoms.

I shouldn't say we finished our shopping as it is nearly impossible

to see every store in one day.

Next the Birdsong Peeps headed to their various Lawrence, KS hotels and met up again to celebrate Angie's birthday inside her lovely vintage store My Father's Daughter

Our lovely birthday girl

 

(photo by Karla Nathan)

 

(Lavender cupcakes made by Karla... Yum!

Photo by Karla Nathan) 

(photo by Karla Nathan)

Beth provide us a Make-n-Take project of vintage empherma,

old ledger cards, trims & more...fun stuff!  Thanks Beth!

 Hope looking marvelous even with her broken foot & scooter!

Karla & Beth

Kristi, Randy, Lisa

Nora

We enjoyed Angie's wonderful birthday party, had fun creating Beth's Make-n-Take, shopped for beautiful treasures while at Angie's store My Father's Daughter and had the opportunity to donate funds to benefit the Ballard Center.

Thanks to all involved for making this event a wonderful evening!

Our next morning greeted us with anticipation & excitement as Birdsong 2014 had arrived.

Old friendships and new friendships gathered in Karla's beautiful home & studio.

Lots of love, laughter & inspiration were shared

Happy Birthday Gail!

Beautiful  Mercedes

 Nora & me sharing a good laugh

I usually am not in a lot of photos as I am the one snapping them,

but this year I made it a point to get photos with my friends.

Randy & me

Tami  & Tammy 

Andrea

I can't get Andrea's name to link, so please copy & paste to visit her site http://andreasingarella.com/

Heather

Suzanne, Heather & me

Linda & me

Selfie  shot...Lisa, Hope -2 , me & Gail - sorry Gail we only got your lovely eyes.

My next post will include more Birdsong 4 Peeps, Our swaps and class creations.

More Birdsong 4 memories can be found on the linked Peeps websites within this post.

Please click their links to enjoy their blogs and shops.    

 

Pre-Birdsong 4 Shopping

My Birdsong 4 weekend started off with friends Suzanne & Cheryl (the Colorado girls) arriving June 5 for afternoon shopping at the Mission Road Antique Mall 

 

Shopping at Beth's booth...Beth has BEST treasures!

This booth offers designer & vintage fabric swatches.

I have drawers full of swatches from this booth!

 

After some girlfriend time shopping, eating and sharing hugs & stories, we called it a night.

A good night's sleep was needed, so we would be fully energized for Friday's shopping at the 

Kansas City's West Bottoms vintage shops.  

 

We arrived about 8:45 am to the West Bottom shops.

Our sign for the day...smile.

 Not only were we on a treasure hunt, but we were excited to run into other Birdsong Peeps!

Vintage June brides everywhere

I like this idea of a vintage tart tin for a base!

 Do you miss Disco?

A view looking east in the West Bottoms area.

 

 Yummy French ribbons!

  

Did a lot of this today!

 

Enough for now.

 Our next adventure will be Angie's birthday party and Day 1 of Birdsong 4.

 See you back here soon. 

 

 

 

 

 

Birdsong 2014

I have been fortunate to attend Karla Nathan's Birdsong retreat since it started in 2011.

 

I am sooooo excited Birdsong 4 begins this Friday!

I joined three swaps - Birdsong banner, altered avian/garden tin and an altered bottle.

Two are partnered swaps, so I will not show those photos until after my partners have

received theirs from me. 

The altered bottle swap is not partnered, so I can share my bottle now 

front view

The bird print is a thin decoupaged napkin which allows translucent light through.

This old wooden bird was in sorry shape, so I repainted it.  

I enjoy using real acorns for bird nests.

 

While the bottle is nearly covered, the laces are light and airy allowing light to peek

through the clear glass bottle.

 upper back view 
 

 I am a lucky...blessed girl to spend the next few days with dearest of friends, new friends,

West Bottoms vintage shopping, create art and relish in the

inspiration of Karla's hospitality and art studio!

I'll have lots of photos to share, so stop back by later next week.

Blessings to you ~ Tami