Columbus flea market

(photo hijacked from Jill Harris)

last thurs. i hit Columbus early and without jeff. tuck is home from school, so jeff watched tuck while i ran over to the market before taking the car in to fix the AC (3 years old and the AC has broken twice now). my goal was to find a vintage doll for a project i am working on. and you can see from the photo, that i did indeed find the perfect doll. while i was there, i ran into beth and jill, which was really fun. they both were pushing around their cute little carts while i chose to hand carry my stuff in bags and backpacks ( i find those carts are so hard to get around the booths) finally i ran into beth again and i opened my palm up to show her that i had .21 cents left and it was time to go! tomorrow is thurs - see you there!

Emily's Day Out - SOLD!

Yay, i added my first item to my website today!

Meet Emily -

At one time, Emily was a lonely little doll, found abandoned in a thrift store. After rescuing her, Emily was brought home and given a makeover. Her new look consists of new hair, new makeup and beautiful new skirt made of vintage lace and an antique button. Her torso was beaded with lovely teal colored amazonite rondelle beads. From clasp to the bottom of Emily's faux torquoise dangle bead, she measures 14". Her chain consists of various deconstructed sterling chain, vintage pearl links and one handmade cacoon bead, layered with vintage ribbon, blue tone seed beads and wrapped in sterling silver wire. Emily is a one of a kind necklace. She has been signed and dated on the back. Emily will be carefully wrapped and shipped first class in a padded envelope. check her out at http://www.lemoncholys.com/

Emily is SOLD!

jumping around a bit

about a year and a half ago, when I was visiting my friend, Kim, in Ohio, we went antiquing and i found this really cool vintage garden book that was done binder style, with removable pages. it was similar to a cookbook format, but smaller in size. i picked it up because i thought it would be a great book to use in a RR book swap. After the new Marie magazine came out by Somerset magazine, i thought that would be the perfect theme for the book; especially since we artists all seem to love anything and everything that has to do with Marie. So i put the word out in my Charmster group and got the swap going. Tonight i decided to start working on my cover. i picked up this Nancy Ann story book doll while in California. she was $10; her hair was a diaster, but her clothes were perfect. i knew what i wanted to do with her hair,so that really wasn't an issue. so here's my dolly. i'm going to make some sort of box for her to lay in and i'll glue that to the cover of my book. i also want to make a litle theater for under her dress. she has pink hair, only because i couldn't find my white yarn. kind of looks like cotton candy.

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and here is what i added to my friend, Laurel's RR necklace. her theme is "let love in". she had added a keyhole for her center piece, so i added a tin type photo of a man peeking thru the key hole. then i made her a heart charm using some polka dot metal i cut out from a vintage receipe box. on top of that i added a little bezel and put the words: "let me in" on top.

Marie Antoinette doll

i created this Marie Antoinette doll using techniques i learned from Joanna of Moss Hill Studio's online art doll class.

she is for sale, so if interested, you can email me at keeshagirl4@aol.com. i accept paypal, MC and visa.

update: she is SOLD.

SOLD!

my baby loves her jewelry

new spoon jewelry (and a fork too!) to be added into my etsy shoppe within the next few days.

here's what i worked on today

the first picture is a flower shrine assemblage. it was another project i did using items gleened from my work desk! the second picture is a canvas icon collage (8x10) i added fibers around the edge of the canvas. i liked to think of the two women fresh from their Easter bonnet win, ready to take on the night! both items can be found in my etsy shoppe, http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5072419.

Sammy's doll

here is the other doll i made for the "beat the winter blues" doll swap, for my bud in Oregon, Sammy http://sammystuff.blogspot.com/ (stop and say hi to her, she's had the flu forever!) anyway, she emailed to say that dolly had arrived and her sweet hubbie helped her open the big box. I rescued the doll from a thrift store. she seemed cute with potential once i removed her most hideous outfit and gave her a sweet little haircut! her dress is a vintage baby dress. i made her crown from chicken wire and then vintage lace. for her stand, i took a doll holder and glued it to a vintage shabby chic - ish plate and added glitter on top. she carries her little pink purse where ever she goes - notice the little bird hitchiker?