I just posted a set of Kitschen Witch magnets on etsy. I made these awhile ago, but I thought they were pretty cute.

Halloween at the Abla house . . .Chilling Indeed.

New Kind of Album - 4x6 Photo Album - Black French Toile

I made these after an idea I saw in a scrapbook magazine. They had simply used their uncropped 4x6 photos in a regular photo album. Then added scrapbooked inserts. I thought, why not?

This is the first one I've posted on etsy. I love the glitter sticker flourishes.

And the brown craft paper. It looks antique, but with the black and white very elegant.

More Secret Llama

Signage "The Secret Llama"

I've been thinking about signage for my craft show booths and came up with this -- photocopied vintage fabric that I splayed around my llama pic. I'll hang "the secret llama" and then use the smaller signs for different things I'm selling. I'm thinking I'll attach some clothes pins to the back so that I can just clip it to whatever.

I love the font, Girls are Weird, which I got from dafont.com.

I thought it turned out pretty good all in all. So I made some notecards to go along with it. Added some buttons and viola! Now Evan's just got to figure out how to hang it.

A Strange Sight

What I've Been Up to Lately

It all started with a Dinner for Two cookbook I found at St. Francis thriftstore.  I'd been wanting to do something vintage without feeling bad about cutting a book up -- this was perfect.  So cut I did.  

I tried to be intentional about not matching stuff, but I can't help myself.  When I started gluing things together, it actually made sense!  So one album is more red/orange/yellow/blue/green.  The other is a little softer with pinks, light blues, oranges, yellows.

Each of these little albums are 8 pages and there's places for pictures, stashing recipes, journaling, whatever.  They're made of recycled cardboard (you know cereal boxes), pages from vintage cookbooks, a book ring and lots of frou frou. 

Go Go Green Jello!

Post Number II - April's Shower

I will try to get more photos of the event up soon. Some technical difficulties right now. 

We celebrated the anticipated arrival of Anna Pauketat a couple weeks ago with her mother, April, and brother, Jayman at the church.  Amy and I were the decor committee and we used April's french toile nursery theme.  Amy had put together a beautiful 12x12 scrapbook using papers April had picked out.  We took those papers and went crazy.  

Tag Book:  I don't have pics of this yet, but we made about 50 tags that were placed around the tables for guests to write little notes to April or Anna giving advise and wishing them well.  

Centerpieces: I made photocopies of some ad babies from the turn-of-the-century ephemera I have, enlarged them and used them as the basis for the centerpieces at the tables.  I also collected some shabby chic metal candleholders and vases.  I spray painted them and added tea-stained roses to the mix.  We just added more candlelight with votives from the church.

Cupcake picks:  Melissa made red velvet cupcakes that were absolutely delicious.  Because I had so many extra do0-dads left over from the tags, I made little collages and glued them to sandwich picks and we stuck them in the cupcakes.  I'm probably going to reuse these and make more to sell.

Banner: About 30 minutes before the shower Amy and I were inspired to throw together a "Baby" banner.  Amy just printed out the letters and we added some of our papers and froufrous and viola! a banner.  It was may inspiration for the pennant banner I made the following week. See future post.

Diaper Cake: The piece-de-resistance (spelling is French . . . )  that I made from 70 diapers, a bottle of lotion a small bottle and cranberry toile fabric I found at Walmart for $2 a yard.  I used more baby pictures and tea stained roses.  We set it with the scrapbook on the gift table. It was a great focal point. 

I also did the games and I think everyone had a really enjoyable time.  The food was great. The conversation was interesting. 

Now, we're just really looking forward to meeting Anna. 

O Christmas Tree

We weren't going to get a Christmas tree since we had sold the ones we had in Guymon. But toward the end of last week I thought, "Hmm, I think I do want a tree." So Evan agreed and we ventured out to Meijer over treacherous and snowy roads on Saturday night and finally found this pretty narrow one. Evan wanted LED lights because they save energy and I wanted white ones. So as you can see we both got what we wanted. A lot of my ornaments and Christmas stuff is at my mom's. But here it is with the birds and butterflies and vintage ornaments I could scrounge up.