a trip to the flea market, a wedding anniversary, a bit of creative stitching, my first piece of art in my shiny clean organized studio

a few years ago we use to hit flea markets and estate sales fairly regularly.

i did not realize just how much i missed treasure hunting until we got a chance to visit a flea market this past sunday.   with a very small budget i searched for treasures oh-so-carefully.

2 of my favs..... i feel as though the flea market angel must have guided me to find as one time i looked down just in the nick of time and another...... a glint of neatness caught my attention out of the corner of my eye.....

a very old scale. 

 i love the patina of the aged metal.

vintage industrial with a touch of victorian

craftmanship, detail, charm, beauty

this is a 1920's household budget keeper.

i have never in all my years of hitting garage-tag-estate sales, flea markets and antique mall-ing ever seen one of these.  all mine for 10 bucks.....left me with a few cents to divie up in to each of the yellow tins.


they say when you have 3 of something you officially have a collection.


i now officially have a collection of vintage fans.

guess i also have a collection of kids too.....

i also found this nifty neato vintage keeper of time from the guy i came to refer to as the $5 dollar guy.  every thing i touched he would say 'that's five bucks, its really old'  i fell in love with so many things but since he was not willing to haggle or deal i only purchased this one thing from him. 

i set it to the day and date my knight-in-shiny-armour and i were married

i found myself with a few other items. 

still need to snap photos.

on august 6, 1986 i met my knight in shiny armour.

on august 4, 1989 i married him.

i will love this man till the end of time

and the week after that

i have never been a play by the rules kind of girl.  i am out of the box....all of the way

i never looked healthy in white or off white, so this girl went with pink for her wedding dress

my mom made the dress and to this day i don't know how she did not lose her mind

creating this dream-come-true for me

oh-so-ticklish i am

gotta love these guys...stan, jr., doug

wish i would have thought of this attire for the wedding!

steph and i are adding some beading to our bags

without giving it much thought

i began stitching glass beads

using the bag that will be mine

as the experimental

first.

i usually don't plop my purses down

so glass beads are no problem

for a bag-o-mine

but should i use glass on

bags that will be offered

up for sale?

not sure what to do here

here is what i have done so far

and......drum roll please......

my first official piece of

art in my oh-so-clean and organized studio

and a gift for the hubs, and myself too

in honor of our 21 years of marriage

a collage of items from the 1920's

under a very old bubble glass

picture frame....

a portion of a journal page from the 1920's that i wrote our wedding date and first date on

the small piece of paper says from bill f. , i found this attatched to

the whitmans label that is up top on the collage.

had to include this since the hubs is bill f. too!

just a wee bit more stuff in the studio to shuffle around and monday i will be back to work full time in my studio.

it took so very little time to put this collage together.

being so organized again

i knew exactly where to

go for everything

i needed

whoo-hoo!

so until we meet again.....

mwah!