Summer Home Decor 2019

While I don't live near the ocean, seashells, mermaids

and ocean life come visit my home during the Summertime

  

 Thank you Angie!

 

 

 Hope you enjoy these last of our Summer days...Autumn 

will be here soon and I can hardly wait for it!

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

Christmas Card Swap for her SnowBird's Song #7

 

Click on the above links to see more of Karla's gorgeous cards.

 My mermaid bottle

It was a good day!

Mermaids & Sea Life Craft Day

 In 2011, I attended my first Bird Song art event by Karla Nathan

I met Beth at a vintage sale and learned of Bird Song.
Other than briefly knowing Beth, I did not know anyone at my first Bird Song.
I reached beyond my comfort zone and signed up for it.    

Little did I know at that time how much Bird Song would BLESS my life.

I've attended all five Bird Song events. 
I'm eagerly awaiting Snowbird Bird Song #6 in November 2017.

The amazing thing about connecting at Bird Song is you discover you
have a soul-connection with these 'Peeps'.

Sometimes our Peeps connection is by email or phone calls.

Sometimes it is connecting on Facebook.

Sometimes it is gathering at a Bird Song event.

These Peeps have blessed me with their generosity, talents, love & friendships!

A handful of these Peeps live in my local area.

I began hosting craft days in 2013 with local Peeps.

We've shared many amazing craft days together...Girlfriends Gathering.  

Together our souls are nurtured in creating art, laughter, joy & sorrow.
Our hearts, our lives are bonded in love & friendship!

We bring food and share potluck meals together.  

We share craft supplies as well as tips & techniques of creating art & crafts. 

I am so BLESSED with these special friends!

A note to Karla...If it hadn't been for your Bird Song events, I would have never known these friendships that fill my heart with joy nor the joy found in creative art...Thank you Karla!

Earlier in July, we gathered for a Summertime craft day
of Mermaids and Sea Life.

Many craft options were available -

canvas art, collage art, clay mermaids and mermaid crowns. 

Please enjoy a peek at some of our creations 

 

Supplies - endless possibilities!

Peek at our desserts...yum!
(snatched photo from Karla - thanks Karla!)

Canvas Art

Beth's canvas art, in-progress

Marj's canvas art, in-progress

Marj sharing her canvas art

My canvas art #2

My canvas art #1

Creating!

Collage Art

Beth's collage art

Clay Mermaids
Some mermaids were created to sit on real shells,
while others were used on their canvas art.

Karla creating her clay mermaid

 

Karla's first mermaid rendition.

She chose to later soften her mermaid.

Here it is revised

Nora's mermaid, in-progress

Marj's mermaid (canvas art), in-progress

Mermaid Crowns

Lee's mermaid crown

Nora's mermaid crown

My mermaid crown

Karla's mermaid crown and clay mermaid

Karla

Gail

Lee

Corrine

Mermaid Wall Plaque

Beginning stages of Nora's 'redesigned' mermaid wall plaque

Nora's 'redesigned' mermaid wall plaque, in-progress.

Another amazing day together!  Love you all!

I find myself finally sharing this post today, September 3rd nearly two months since
our Summertime craft day.  I can hardly believe that much time has passed.

Soon I'll be replacing my summer Mermaids & Sea Life decorations with Autumn Decor...
my favorite season!  I can hardly wait to to decorate!

Enjoy today, hope your day is blessed with the love and encouragement of family & friends!