Melony's Whimsy Daisy!

Quickie makeover post

Life has been packed with the sadness of two funerals, sniffles and coughs, and just stuff in general. Here is a quickie little post to keep me in the blog groove.

I have a really old ugly table. The good part of that is, I haven't fainted when kids have scratched it with Hot Wheels, or spilled fingernail polish on it, or when I have (accidentally) gooped hot glue on the poor thing. Thankfully, tablecloths work miracles.

 

 

Not exactly a page out of Home and Garden, but not bad for five minutes of my time, a clearance Kohl's tablecloth, and 88 cent Target placemats. Ambience, dahling....it's all about the ambience.

Valentine Tree Show and Tell

After years of having a wonky $10 tree, my husband decided we would celebrate our first Christmas together with a nice pre-lit Christmas tree. It was pricey (to my cheapo Goodwill sensibilities), but I didn't argue. It was also so pretty we didn't get around to putting ornaments on it for Christmas. We just enjoyed plugging it in and seeing the lights twinkle on the "snowy" limbs. My husband doesn't want to take it down yet. 

My creativity and glue guns have been blazing! I began to craft and create hearts during the last couple of months and have enjoyed celebrating Valentines Day with a Valentine Tree! You will see it in its entirety at the end of the post.

I wanted to share a few of the simple hearts I made. I've gifted a few along the way to some special people in my life. Hearts were purchased on sale at Hobby Lobby, and embellished with bits and bobs from my stash. My red Dollar Tree lovebirds are tucked into the limbs above and a few ribbon bows are placed are here and there among the limbs.

 

This heart sports lots of vintage aqua colored buttons and is hand stitched in red.

Vintage cards were stitched to felt hearts and buttons added.

 

X's and O's made with red thread and vintage pearly swirly buttons are on the heart below.

Pink heart with pom-poms was easy with a spot of glue. 

I love the little Martha Stewart felt appliques I found at Michael's. They have flowers and bunnies, but I liked this sweet pink bird to perch on my aqua heart. 

 

My next heart came out of my office supply box and turned out to be one of my favorites!

 

And a few others:

 

 

 

My daughter, Daisy, helped me with the tree topper. We had two glittery love birds that were off Christmas packages intertwined with some berries.

 

and at last...drum roll...our Valentine tree!

The Rejects are my Favorites

Happy Pink Saturday! We went to a great Sunday School party last night and I  carried some pink pretty-as-a-picture cupcakes. They were displayed beautifully on my new stand (bought at Michael's with my 40% off coupon.) I added some vintage Valentine cards and ribbon. I forgot to take pictures!!!

So, I came home and my daughter sweetly arranged the rejected ones. The ones with not enough icing or where we were practicing our "schmeering the icing on method." She was so proud I took pictures of these, and I've decided these are the ones worthy of attention anyway...cupcakes carefully and lovingly placed by little hands so proud to help her momma "be creative!"  Thank you, Daisy!

Happy Valentines Day!  

 

Nicky-Nacky Nook

A picture fell off the wall the other day. Just fell off. The glass broke and a huge blank space was left until I can get the picture reframed. This incident happened in a little nook underneath my stairs. This spot sports way more white space than I care for.

So, it was time to drag out a cute little $4.00 shelf from a local antique store and add a few of my favorite things to this new bare space. My new obssesssssion are these vintage baby vases. This little lamb is from 1960. The color is pure cotton candy sweetness. I have my eye out for these cuties whenever I am out and about. Yes, those are still my homemade lollipops from Christmas. They make me happy, so I guess they've become a permanent part of the landscape!

   

I filled some tiny glass butter dishes with vintage buttons to add a little color.

An old wooden spool with Dollar Tree velvet ribbon has an old kewpie standing guard over an old teacup and a vintage cherry brooch with a pearl.

 

Bob purchased an old treadle sewing machine on our first "treasure hunt" at Canton First Mondays. I layed down some Valentine scrapbook paper and began to add a little more stuff to froof things up a bit...an old jar filled with wooden spools, tied off with Dollar Store ribbon, d an old cherry brooch perched on top.

 

A Valentine bracelet is placed on a paper doily.

  I dolled up this dress form by first sitting it on an old crocheted doily so it wouldn't scratch up the sewing machine cabinet, and then added some vintage millinery and some berries for a "corsage".

Here is the final look. I like the results, especially since I just gathered little knick-knacks from around the house and didn't go buy anything special.

 

Actually, it's probably not the FINAL look and I'll fiddle with it some more! That's the fun of it. Oh, and those are Dollar General plastic doilies I painted and glued to the staircase and added some small fleur-de-lis wallies to the middle. They have help up pretty well and added some texture to the blank whiteness (have I mentioned I'm not too crazy about blank whiteness?)