I was featured!

Millie's bulletin board that I made using vintage sheets

http://vintagesheets.blogspot.com/2011/06/vintage-sheet-cork-board.html

frame memo boards

These are going into the booth at Serendipity Market next week!

vintage frames turned memo boards, painted by moi'...

I used aqua paint and whitewashed this one

allowing some of the antique-y gold to show through

each has a few clothespins stamped with vintage script...

now I need to make one to keep!

"pillow of the week" at BeColorful!

My pillows and Etsy shop were graciously featured on BeColorful!!

 How awesome is that to have a "pillow of the week"! She also paints amazing furniture, not to

mention she's a cute little, sassy girl!! Thank you so much!

You must go there. now.



snowed in projects

with all this cold weather & snow & having to stay in (because of  the

weather and taking care of two sick girls-blech!), I've been able to get

some things done. This is one of them...

I spent hours dying and drying coffee filters in the oven.

{my family keeps asking why are we having filters for dinner}

trying to achieve the perfect shades of blush-y pink and coffee-stained cream

hung with off-white vintage-y looking seam binding

I think it was worth the effort...

love it

I'll be adding one to my shop

& putting one in Millie's room

feelin' the LOVE

are these cute or what?! Yes, I know they are...I love them.

I made a set for the booth at Serendipity Market and I'm making a set for my Etsy shop...

and I think I'll have to whip up a set for my 13-year-old's room(they look pretty 

cute on her bed, don't ya think? :) 

an old project

this is a project I LOVE that I did a long time ago but have never shared.

The chairs were found at Curb-mart (i.e. fancy way to say the curb) via my mom. Good eye, Mom!

I set them up and took a picture to give you the visual...

oooh! Someone's throwing away those chairs!

My amazing daughter could do something sweet with those!

Thanks chair-throwing-away-people!

I'll take 'em!

I put them side-by-side & gave them a light coat of matte mod podge

to keep the paint at just the right chippy-ness.

I found the perfect board/door thing combing the my grandma's attic

I added some padding and fabric to the board and finished it with black braided trim.

I bought this great black & white houndstooth suiting fabric at a

garage sale and covered a rectangle pillow form.

I love the way this pillow turned out.

Is this not the cutest little bench?!

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and now my table sings!

 I've finally gotten to re-doing this hand-me-down coffee table that sits in our front living

room....it was that dated blond wood color in that classic early '90s style that I see re-done all over blogland.

Here it is before. Lovely. I know.

And here it is now!! All dressed up in vintage sheet-music!

 I absolutely love it! I gave it a good coat of primer, followed by

a few coats of Krylon Ivory gloss spray paint (I didn't want it glossy, but I knew I'd be glazing/antiquing so

that would make it have a more satin finish).

Then I carefully selected the sheets of music (which I bought a BIG bag of recently at a garage sale for a steal) I wanted to Mod Podge on the top. I purposely chose

ones with varied tones from light ivory color to a really aged tan color.

I also chose some with titles and words that were pretty and some with just music notes so it would be varied.

some detail of the sheet music...

then I mixed up a grayish/tanish glaze to antique it...

I'm SO glad I got around to doing this! It's so...me.

linking this up at~

 I'm submitting this post to Miss Mustard Seed's

go take a look! I'd love to win!!

a few Fall accessories

These are some cute things I've been working on...

I just LOVE this sweet burlap pumpkin...

and the vintage "give thanks" tag on it.

I used a real branch that was nice & chunky for the stem. The first "stem"

I was going to use, my dog thought was a chew toy for her...

I added a little muslin "leaf" stamped with old script..

now a little accessory for me...

a tweed rosette pin

I love the unravelled edges...

this flower would be too cute on a jacket, hat, on a ribbon as a belt...I can't WAIT!

and this burlap lovliness...

a "harvest" pennant banner

just like the pumpkin, it needed a few little "leaves"



I wanted the letters to look like they were painted on there ages ago...

love it on the mantle...

sadly for me, this won't go on my mantle because...

all of these I made to go in my friend's booth.

You can find them all and more allie~millie designs

at Serendipity Market in Edmond, OK!

allow me to introduce you...

to two of my little friends :)

 my friend, who has a booth at a craft/home decor/gift store, is graciously allowing me

to try out putting some of my things in her booth! I'm going to put these

two little guys in there.