Findings!

SCORE!!!

I stopped by a little antique shop called the Beaver's Dam, in downtown Webb City today and found these awesome printer's blocksThe smaller one is actually metal

What Fun!

Michelle

Three or More Tuesday!

It's time for Three or more Tuesday!

Be sure to visit Tam and everyone at the Gypsy's Corner!

OK don't cringe!

I know everyone has just cleaned all of these out...

In my defense, I am a 70's girl...

I have 3 or more OWLS!!

I really don't like the realistic looking owls figurines or the macrame' owls, but I gotta tell ya, there's something kinda cute about an owl. :)

They remind me of that story...when I was in The Brownie's...The Brownie Story, with the Wise Old Owl...you know the one.

I mean look at this one...wink, wink!!

Here's another cutie!

Speaking of cutie's...this is Logan, my side-kick...he helps me with all my Met Monday's, tablescapes and staging for photos for Etsy, he's my helper! :)Sorry, I couldn't resist!

I like wearing my little owl necklace too...




Thanks for stopping by!

I can't wait to see what you have 3 or more of!



Michelle & Logan

Hooked on Gray or Grey!

Hi Bloggers and welcome to another edition of Hooked on _______! (You fill in the blank :) Be sure to visit all the participants at Hooked on Houses http://hookedonhouses.net/

This week I'm featuring Grey and/or Gray, which ever you prefer...I'm not sure when it started happening...I've always enjoyed the look of zinc and grey is in my wardrobe, but sometime in the last, oh, let's say 6 months there has been a surge of grey on the market and I'm hooked!

I found these beauties at Target , I'll let the pictures speak for themselves...I can't quite explain them...they are quite large, wickery-ish, painted orb thing-a-ma-bobs...they presently live in my unusable fireplace. I really like the controlled chaos of them...


Bedding, from Thomas O'Brien, this was a splurge...I must admit.

Thank you for stopping by! Are you hooked on grey too?

Michelle

Ode to the Ocean Tablescape

Hi bloggers! It's Thursday again and you know what that means! Susan at Between Naps on the Porch has graciously hosted another Tablescape Thursday! Be sure to swing over to the porch and visit all the wonderful tablescape inspirations!
http://betweennapsontheporch.blogspot.com/


I want to invite you to a seaside retreat, where the cares of the world slip away into the sounds of the crashing waves and the only distraction that occurs is the constant cries of the hovering seagulls. The dinner bell has rang and it's time to saunter over to the dining table....Man, I need a vacation!!!

Why is it as soon as the weather turns warm, I'm ready to hit the beach! Unfortunately, it's a little harder to hit nowadays, I'm a little landlocked right now...but I can dream! Maybe in July, I'll get to go home...in the meantime I have conjured up an "ode to the ocean" tablescape! I began pulling together this table based on the inspiration of my bargain placemats...you remember them from Met Monday, right? Well I gotta tell you: I LIKE COLOR! It was kinda hard for me to stay within the blue and white scheme...not that I had to keep within some kind of boundary, but to see if I could!





I started off collecting from around the house...

Seashells, seashells, and more seashells...I pulled some cylinder vases that I have in my collection and decided to use them as candle holders...lots of room for sand and shells...I love my creamy white candles...that's about the only color I use.
Another inspiration piece is this fantabulous aluminum serving dish. I picked it up at the Goodwill last year for $2.98...why anyone would give this away is beyond me! :)

Call me crazy...I dug WAY back in the cabinet, you know, way back in the back that you can never reach, back, and brought out my silver charger plates usually for Christmas, silver seemed to be a common thread developing....

The dishes, the obvious choice, the Claremont dinner plate and salad plate and whilst I was stretching to reach the chargers, I happened upon my little appetizer plates that I got @ Pier 1 at a ridiculous low price (after Christmas, year before last) that just so happen to have blue and....silver, yes, come on little fellas you're going to the beach too !

I do need to introduce you to some new pieces, I got this pitcher and creamer at the Maxx last week. They are really a beautiful white china.
Now that I've got all the elements (except the food, glasses, and silverware:)...let's get going to the beach!

Napkin/bowl...bowl/napkin...I could make up my mind...

I picked up those napkin rings up at the Goodwill...the painted napkins...

I had these little Blue mercury glass votives in my bedroom, they've made an appearance too...

I love my little silver urchin...
I hope you have enjoyed this weeks "ode to the ocean" Tablescape...I'll be dreaming of Emerald Isle, NC and visiting all of your tables...I can't wait!

Thank you so much for stopping by and visiting!

Michelle

Painted Napkins

It's Met Monday again! Thank you to Susan for hosting. Check out all the other metamorphosis at the porch!
http://betweennapsontheporch.blogspot.com/

I have a "sneak peek" project for this week.

I was in the Maxx and spied these beautiful placemats in the clearance area...4 mats for $7.99 is not bad, but 4 mats for $2.00!?! Yeah!
The blue was a little funny, not quite aqua, not quite gray, but I decided I could find napkins to coordinate somewhere in my excursions...

After some searching, I could not find any napkins that coordinated, nothing was just the right shade or just didn't coordinate at all. I settled for white napkins...white goes with everything!



I really love the pattern and I started looking at it a little closer. It dawned on me that I could reproduce a part of the pattern on the white napkins!





I considered doing the entire pattern, but I decided to do the little corner flourish instead, the entire pattern would be too much, I just wanted to coordinate not match! :) So I drew out a pattern on Kraft paper and cut it out.


I placed the pattern on a corner of the white napkin and used a colored pencil to sketch out the pattern.

I mixed some paint until I felt it was a close match to the placemat...I used light blue, green, gray, even black.

I painted all four corners of all four napkins. It was a little tedious, but it didn't have to be perfect because I wanted the hand-painted, batik look.

Here is the finished napkin, I really like how it turned out! I think it coordinates great! I was excited about how close I got the blues to match...after so many attempts @ finding the perfect napkin- hand-painting was the way to go!

I hope to feature these placemat and napkins on Tablescape Thursday...I can't wait!

I hope you have enjoyed this project and hope it inspires you to paint your own napkins!

Thank you for stopping by

Michelle

Spring Time Tablescape!

It's Tablescape Thursday ! Thank you to our host, Susan at between naps on the porch! This is such a great event!
http://betweennapsontheporch.blogspot.com/

Hi everyone and thanks for taking the time to visit me! I'm totally excited about this week's tablescape! It is NOT from the job :)...I took the time at home to put together, what I think is the cutest color combo.

What inspired the entire color pallet was this great fabric tablecloth. Green, Yellow, and a deep coral red. We'll call it my inspiration piece!





The dinnerware should look familiar...I took the plunge and bought the Gibson dinnerware from Big Lots. Yippee! :) Thanks to Gollum for the inspiration! I can't believe the quality!

I used the dinner plate and salad plate for this tablescape and mixed it with two sizes of a mum plate.

The jacquard napkins are a nice contrast with the check of the tablecloth. I love the tonal quality of them. I have them slipped them into the napkin rings that came with the beautiful dinnerware.

I love mixing and matching!

Then I had another idea...
I couldn't make up my mind, so I've decided to offer another idea for a place setting...whoops there's the merchandiser in me coming through...sorry! So I shopped the house!

Milk glass is a love of mine and it goes with every style and look; so I used a few pieces on the table too. Instead of a small mum plate, I took a shallow MG bowl and put a candle in and used little mini apples around...

This small green urn is something I found at the Goodwill. I love it with a candle and flowers around . The deeper green pulls some of the green from the larger mum plate out too.





Hey look! Logan has decided to help me with the tablescape! He is such a big helper showing the napkins!



Thanks for stopping by! I am so excited to see all of your tablescapes!

Thanks again Susan!

Michelle & Logan

Recycled Tags

It's another fine day in the "Show Me State" and I wanted to show you how to recycle a store tag on this Met Monday!

Thank you Susan for hosting! Be sure to stop by the porch to see all the other great transformations!

I'm a green gal, although I've been recycling before it was trendy...you know what I mean? Isn't there a country song that says "I was country when country wasn't cool" That's what I feel like..."I was dumpster diving...I mean recycling before it was cool" :)

I like to give certain items a second glance before I throw them in the trash. What can I do with this? It's pretty much my motto, one of them, anyway...

This project is not new, many people have done this trick before and here's my rendition......

All store products and clothing have tags, this particular one is from Target, it's pretty nice, I love the color and composition...what can I do? Well, I decided that I would try to keep as much as the color and leaf pattern ( because I love a good leaf) as I could....what am I going to do with the logos?
I decided to round the corners, ink the edges and sand off the logos...looks pretty good-modern yet weathered, right up my alley....

The circle punched picture just so happened to fit perfectly in the leaf area without covering too much...perfect! I added hemp for some texture.


A loverly recycled page embellishment was born! I incorporated it onto a page and thought it was dandy!


I hope you enjoyed this "green" Met Monday!


Have a great day!


Now I've got that song stuck in my head...It was Barbara Mandrell right? I'm going to i-tunes right now!....


Michelle