vintage2glam: November 2013

Sunday, November 24, 2013

my Doll House Challenge.......

My dear friend Vicki from Ocean Grove asked me months ago would I like to create a mixed media dollhouse for the Annual Ocean Grove Doll House Show. I told her I really didn't collect dolls, I have 2 boys and no girls and wasn't really into the doll house collecting thing.....Not that I didn't like it just I am involved with so many things that really didn't have the time for this hobby at the moment. She said to make it a mixed media house and to do my thing....... I called my friend Jayne a doll expert to ask her advise.......She brought over a doll house and said its yours..... do what you want with it......I didn't want to be too fussy but it didn't have the bones I was looking for.....so she took it home and a few hours later appeared with this beauty.......

she found it in the local thrift for $2.00.....can you believe it....I couldn't.... It was PERFECT!!!!!

so off to my workshop it went......wasn't sure what to do....I thought for days, weeks, how was I going to make this a different doll house from all the fabulous houses she receives each year..... since I have been on a painting kick I thought make it "a painted house"......and so I began......

I hung up a few of my colorful paintings and just began, I base coated it and blended all my favorite colors and started to make the house like my favorite paintings......

I thought if I treated each side like a canvas then how can it be bad........

as long as I keep the same colors through-out how bad could it be

I had fun adding all the trims and details........

I took off the shutters and added wood trim to add a little detail.....them replaced the shutters.....

I had this painting and thought I would turn it into wall paper for the house....so I measured and trimmed it............

attached to the wall and I just LOVE it.......I painted the floors black and the walls pink and turq....

had these paintings and also used them as wall paper.....thought it would be easier then to try to paint designs on the wall....

I removed the hinged roof and just attached it when I was through with the painting on the inside....

I needed some more patterned paper so I painted another sheet and added it to the house....

I have been collecting these old paint brushes from my art class room...the students really know how to ruin brushes....I just couldn't through them away.... I have been saving them and never knew what to do with them until now.........

so I added them to the roof since it is a painted house ..why not!!!

here is the finished front.......


and the finished back.........I acquired a few pieces of doll house furniture, which I painted to match, and believe it or not found some furniture at the dollar store...so I just painted those too!!!!!!

I can't believe I was able to complete this challenge using my painted pages, paint, a couple old paint brushes, a $2.00 doll house, and a couple dollar store pieces.....See you don't have to spend a-lot to have fun and make something creative........

Thanks Vicki for challenging me to make this doll house,I truly enjoyed the journey.....

Can't wait to see the show.......

Sunday, November 10, 2013

a little get- a- way.......

needed to quick get- a-way...needed some where to grab a nice drink a nice view and some good food..... so John suggested we go to "On the Deck".....I must say it was quite Delicious......

even my "talula" was happy.... with an awesome parking spot with a great view.....

we took a little spin up the mountain to the highest point on the eastern seaboard.....it was quite peaceful.....

and very beautiful...you could see the "Freedom Tower glistening in the background.....

love that you can see for miles.......with a little help too if you want......

really a great spot overlooking the harbor........

still breaks my heart to see this...and how many loved ones were lost....

the sky was so perfect this night......

I am still trying to remember all those magnificent colors of that gorgeous colorful sky..

Hope you were able to get out and soak up some of that fall sky........

Saturday, November 2, 2013

jewelry shows I AM READY!!!!

I have 5 very interesting jewelry shows coming up from now till the December......

my work space is loaded with interesting vintage pieces that I am creating into new modern pieces with great colorful beads and findings.....

I LOVE taking vintage finds and incorporating them into new and colorful pieces....

I make pieces that you will not find anywhere else.... taking the old and updating it into something new and unique....

love taking vintage fabrics to create my pretty flower necklaces.....this piece help me win Cloth Paper Scissors mixed media jewelry artisan of the year for 2012.