Mosaic Monday

Another saucer/bird bath I've made recently. The day was not sunny enough for a good photo but you get the idea.

I love the spiral...one of my favorite shapes for these...

Yesterday was a terrific day. I got to meet Courtney! She is a fellow blogger and participates in YOE.

I've never met a bloggy friend in person before so I was pretty darn excited.
We talked about everything (including politics...I know, bad, right?)




She lives in Kinder which is about 3.5 hours away. I wish she lived closer so we could get together and craft! Since she was only in town for the weekend, I told her we'd have to figure something out next time she plans on being here.

If you want to see the goodies we swapped for YOE, click here.

Mail call!

I love it when mail makes me squeal!

Just look at the goodies I won from the Year of Enchantment door prize in May.
I love EVERYTHING!

Time for our close ups:

First we have these sweet dolls with various trims attached....even the boxes are awesome.


the log...a PINCUSHION, the mushroom....see that butterfly? Its a TAPE MEASURE....and the owl? Those aren't glasses, they are scissors!

And my new favorite tote...which I'm already using as a purse for the summer :-)


Kerry, thank you SO much!

Here is the gnome doll I made for the YOE challenge this month.

Curly Girl says gnomes are supposed to be grumpy and have beards. Maybe so, but I think she turned out pretty cute anyway!


She seems to be quite happy sitting on the shelf with the toadstools...

Mosaic Monday

Here is a bird bath/ saucer I made a few years ago......it has glass bubbles floating in it too...I love the feeling of movement it elicits....




For those of you interested in making your own mosaics, here is a wonderful tutorial. I love sitting outside working on them. It's very much like working a messy puzzle!

A day in NOLA

Saturday, we took the kids into New Orleans for the Creole Tomato Festival. If you don't know what a creole tomato is all about, click here. They are simply hands down, the BEST tomatoes ever and we eat them throughout the summer.

The festival wasn't as big as we thought it would be but we still had a lot of fun.


As you can see, we had to start the morning off at Cafe Du Monde.....


do I have sugar on my face?


say wha?

check out this stilt walker...


close up of her shoes...



For June's toy drop, I made the 'dreaded box jellyfish.'

and dropped it by one of our favorite fountains.....




it was gone when we checked on it a couple hours later...click HERE to see what the finders say...

There were lots of booths to choose lunch from but it was soooo hot, we opted to go INSIDE to eat lunch!

The rest of our day was spent running in and out of stores trying to keep from melting!

mermaids.....

In May, the YOE theme was mermaids. I already posted what I sent and received for the actual swap but here are two ornaments I made and kept.

Here is the first one I made.
I used an image of a Ziegfeld girl and then cut her out, adding hair and other elements.
I love turtles and thought her hands looked like she could be swimming with one....so added that.

I was so excited with the results and then botched it with the glitter! I couldn't throw her away after all that work so kept her for myself.

Anyway, she went from this:



to this:

using paper was a pain so I'm glad that particular challenge is over!