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"Aaahh!" Calgon take me away!

Wanted Winter Cottage Rental! I am ready for a vacation!

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Shoe Fetish? MARIE ANTOINETTE'S ROSE GARDEN

"Shoe Fetish..who me?'

MARIE ANTOINETTE'S ROSE GARDEN
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Just created during long gray days..How about spring yearround?!.. love these dried roses from beach dunes

Shabby Pink Cupcake Collage Ornaments

Shabby Pink Cupcake Collage Ornament
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Print from one of my vintage cupcake paintings sprinkled with Christmas wishes.
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3 Stooges Me and my brothers..

What a geek check out my glasses..

Vintage Angels Rehabbed

Vintage Angels Rehabbed
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These cuties were so much fun to upcycle.Sorry on RESERVE

Rare Bird of Fashion

This designer looks like a hoot!
I hope I can go to this exhibit wow this museum changed use to be so stuffy and snoring.....z.z..zhttp://www.pem.org/sites/iris/

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Need a Holiday Tune Up?

My friend Carol is an amazing talented fine artist and decorative artist plus reiki master.(like a jacuzzi)
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Happy Pink Saturday! Gift Tag Tutorial For You

Happy Pink Thanksgiving to all!I call it Gratitude Day.. I am thankful for Bev hosting this heartwarming connection of like spirits. Here is a free tutorial for you all I am very grateful for HPS friends! xxoo


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An Art Tag Tutorial

This is my first tutorial . I hope to share a lot of great information here.

Supplies

Find scraps in junk draws,yard sales,fleamarkets,church sales.

1. Tags

2. Glitter

3. Magazine Clippings

4. Type,Quotes,Letters,Words

5. Paper,Shabby Wallpaper Scraps,Old Greeting Cards

6. Fibers,Yarn,Ribbons,Lace

7. Buttons,Bead, and Bling

Tags- mailing tags of all sizes. You can find them at office supply stores in bulk. Wal-Mart also has some of the smaller sized tags, but not the big mailing tags.

Adhesive- Glue stick for paper.Use a glue gun for 3-D embellishments such as buttons,fabric,millinery. Mod Podge is also good for gluing paper.

Paper- Check out your local scrapbook/stamping store, Hobby Lobby, Michael's, etc. Be sure to look at the wonderful handmade, origami, wallpaper, and wrapping papers too .

Magazine Clippings- Perfect for a rainy day make clippings from old magazines. Victoria Magazine is my favorite for clippings. Flowers, people, words, letters, etc. Organized by subject in boxes.

Yarns, Fibers Ribbons, etc.- Use these to decorate your tags. I use yarns, ribbons, chenille yarn, silk ribbon, DMC cotton floss and other specialty embroidery flosses and yarn. Don't forget about other things, like strips of fabric and raffia.

Buttons,Beads and Bling- These are great embellishments for tags. Anything can be used to embellish you tag. Keys, buttons...let your imagination run and have fun!

Happy Pink Saturday!

Good afternoon working with Santa and elve's.. oompa loompas..Xmas treats!


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Antoinette and Shabby Dressform Collage on their way to Washington State,Art and Soul Gallery to purchase.yippee!

Antoinette Christmas

Shabby Retro Tattoo Gift Tags

Shabby Retro Tattoo Gift Tags
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I love tattoo art esp vintage,retro..the shabby vintage roses wallpaper a gift from local Shabby Queen!
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Happy Pink Saturday Facebook Miracle...!

Good Morning,I have a 'Facebook' miracle to share this morning.
I signed up for Facebook about a month ago,for the heck of it I put my sisters name in search.This photo below showed up with her name and was not sure if it was her because she was missing for over 25 yrs.The last time I saw her I was maid- of- honor at her wedding to the man in photo.After she was married she 'poof' disappeared which was very heartbreaking for years.Unfortunately I do not come from a traditional family,dysfunctional with a capital'D'.Everyone seprated as adults and went MIA most of my adult life I have been alone and did not have a family of my own due to certain personal issues.
Anyway I sent her an email through Facebook when I found her.The first response was from her daughter in photo my neice!Then several weeks later I recieved a brief email from my sister and she stated she did not understand Facebook how it works etc...and have not heard from her since.My niece however..has communicated a couple times through Facebook email.. Kaily is a cheerleader in H.S.and the two boys are my nephews.
I have been very careful not to be overbearing in communicating and feel awkward connecting and really do not know how to after all these years? Last contact with neice was before Halloween and am leaving it up to them to contact me,I shared my email but have not heard anything....is it not safe to send telephone number thru facebook email? Any suggestions?

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**Happy Pink Saturday and Halloween Party cont..What was your fav Halloween costume?

"Whew! what a party with the HPS and Halloween Party combined into one..I will be blogging till 2012! I am so grateful that I was up till midnight and had energy and woke up refreshed this morning? I am in pain as usual but not as severe as I thought I would be,esp in this weather which puts me down till June! I have heat on 90 and keeping my body warm wrapped in blanket and hot tea at my computer,thats a good costume!......I was expecting to be wiped out in bed today.I have not had this much clarity and energy for 9 yrs!
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My best costume,I was a Southern Belle.I found a big puffy pink tulle vintage prom gown with hoop underneath the skirt and it had a matching tulle bonnet with huge pink roses.By the end of the Halloween night festivities I looked like Scarlett O'Hara in the scene where she was all tattered and torn in the mud covered in dirt.Not a practical costume for a country girl from Concord,Mass. at that time.
Salem has become Disney.
Still pondering at this age what to wear at 54 yrs to Salem this year,if I can go? I have fibro and arthritis,the damp and cold is wretched...Any suggestions ideas for a warm costume??

"A sprinkle of Mermaid Whistle's, Seaweed Dust, Plover Pixie's ..poof!"

'Wicked Happy Pink Saturday and Fanciful's Halloween Party!

Hello Gals, Oooooo weee..!! 'wicked' weather may be dark and gloomy outside,perfect weather for candles and cupcakes,my sweet survival pack. My wee cottage rumbling from gale force winds..Ooo... just gives me shivers and goosebumps...love the power of nature! Cannot wait till it is over and discover Treasure's the 18ft waves landed across the beach brought into shore by mermaid muse's! Oh my Goodness I am a happy 'diva'
today,2 blog parties and new friends to meet and greet!

I have my cup of Fanciful tea and my pink -diva-do and slippers,bling...ready....

Ooops a weather report.......tra..la..la...I could just hug and kiss these waves! xxoo

"The little peninsula I live on has now become an island!! I better blow up my raft and grab my rubber ducky!" "Sailing sailing over the ocean blue..la..la..la"

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'Foreverafter Caldron Brew'
"A sprinkle of mermaid whistle.....a dollup of seashell treasures.....a teacup of vintage button's and rhinestones...a tablespoon of magical beachglass and vintage china chips...Next a dash of plover pixie dust...Stir in a dolly of whimsy love..Topped with a pinch of lavender,pink crystals and rose petals...mmmmmm.....Done!..... twirl till dizzy.

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Etsy Buy Handmade avintagebride

Tres Chic' Spooky and her Wizard assistant,Gigi...twirl in sweet candy pink swirls under a magical Paris moon. Original painting in pink and white acrylics and pink ink.Spooky's top hat is adorned with a handpainted pink shabby rose.
Upcycled vintage,black velvet board back from a frame..8"x10"
Signed by me the artisan.

"The Wizard!"

Ooooo my witchy spooky stare..... Boo!
Thank you lovely's for visiting. Wishing you Love...Health and Wealth..XXOO

Happy Pink Saturday..Dolls!'

Ooooo! Brady in Pink!! What a Doll!

Marie Antoinette in Red Altered Doll

Marie Antoinette in Blue Altered Art Doll

"Hi Pinkette's,My inner child loves dolls,I did not have any growing up poor,I use to use towels,clothespins and corn husk(in summer/fall) as dolls and a curtain my earliest memorie's.I had a magical imagination."

"These Charlotte dolls arrived on my front stoop! A generous gift from Lorraine who had a Cottage shop on the Cape. Funny thing is I have never met Lorraine!!

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A Last Beachplum Rose Happy Pink Saturday

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"Most of if not all the beachplum roses along the beach are almost all gone now. I was greeted by this one precious rose.I said "Your beautiful and thank you for enduring the cool autumn seabreeze along the shore." I think maybe the 'townies' and summer residents must think I am the 'nutty' lady that talks to the flowers!!" Later I was pleasantly surprised by the pink fairy aura in left corner of the photo...maybe the roses friend?
Next when I arrived home I saw construction on an old cottage shed and hustled for the salvage door and panels.I found this pink buoy washed up on the beach by Shabby Mermaids.What a lucky day!
I am late posting a gracious faerie blog award from an inspiring artist..perfect timing with this post,a reminder that everything is in divine order.Faerie Blessings

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A Poem for Gray Rainy Days Happy Pink Saturday

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I found this poem yesterday during our monsoon here in Massachusetts.I think this one is a keeper on gloomy days to warm my heart.


Silent Noon

Your hands lie open in the long fresh grass,--
The finger-points look through like rosy blooms:
Your eyes smile peace. The pasture gleams and glooms
'Neath billowing skies that scatter and amass.
All round our nest, far as the eye can pass,
Are golden kingcup-fields with silver edge
Where the cow-parsley skirts the hawthorn-hedge.
'Tis visible silence, still as the hour-glass.
Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragon-fly
Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky:--
So this wing'd hour is dropt to us from above.
Oh! clasp we to our hearts, for deathless dower,
This close-companioned inarticulate hour
When twofold silence was the song of love.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)









"Somewhere in Time"