Happy Birthday Tony!!!

Hi,
I just wanted to say Happy Birthday to my brother Tony!!!
This is a picture of him with his wife Debi, at my daughter's wedding this past October.

Hope you are having a great day!!!

Love,
Rosemary

Birthday Cake!

Hi all, happy Tuesday!!
Remember a few posts ago, I told you about the little vintage birthday candle holders that I got from EBay? This is what I did with some of them. I made little birthday cake boxes.

This is the small version.

This is the lager version. I had fun making them, and they turned out looking like cakes, which is what I was going for.

We are having Springlike weather here today, yay!

So I need to go and get busy, but I just wanted to say hi, and share some cake with you.

Have a great day!

Love,

Rosemary

Spring Has Sprung, At My House!!

Happy Sunday!! (Oscar Sunday)

I have been busy working on these Spring cones today!!

I thought I would show you a few of my other Springy things, around the house.

I went to Garden Memories yesterday, and bought this nest. Well actually I bought two of them.
Barbara always has the best eggs, birds and nests. She has a great eye for these, she has a great eye for everything.

I couldn't resist this robin either. I knew if I didn't buy one, they would all be gone in a week.

This is what I did with the second nest. Here is what happens to me, every time I see a new one in the shop, I have to get it. Now I have nests here and there, all over the house. I like them all year long, but particularly this time of year.

It just started raining again. We had a pretty big storm last night too! (I know, it never rains in Southern California)

Hope it clears soon for those celebrity dos!!

Enjoy the Oscars tonight! (It's all about the dresses)

Love,

Rosemary

Busy Week!! Boxes, and Birds!!

It's been a busy week!! I have been creating more of my boxes!! Some for Garden Memories, and some for special orders. I took a picture of some I just finished this morning.
I have a cold, so this glittering, and gluing keeps my mind off of that.


Thanks for all of your complements on my daughter's tile redo!! Maybe sometime I can come up with some how to directions for any one who wants to try it.
Now for some pink birds. Aren't these cute? These are vintage birthday candle holders. I got them from ebay. They even came with the original birthday candles. I love the graphics on the box. I originally saw some like these on Andrea's One Hundred Wishes website, but she sold out in 2.8 seconds. (Yay Andrea) I was a little bummed out about that, so I tried ebay, and was amazed to find some, and didn't get outbid like I usually do.



What is it that I am going to do with these you are asking yourself? I am going to use some on the tops of my little boxes. I am also going to try to make a large round box, like a birthday cake.
I will show you when I figure it out. I just thought they were very cute!!

So that is what I have been doing this week. I hope you are all having a good week, with great plans for the weekend.

Back to glittering!

Rosemary

Spring, St. Patrick's Day, and Amanda's Tile!!

Happy Monday!!
Hope you are all having a nice holiday Monday!!

I wanted to show you some of my Spring/St. Patrick's Day decorating.

Old books, with bird nest.
A little vignette in progress. Spring has sprung.I got this cute little lamb at a thrift store for $2. He already had tiny shamrocks around his neck.More green.
I love these fairy books. They are made to look old, but they are new. They have beautiful illustrations.A bunny from Garden Memories.
Now, here is what I have really been up to this weekend. I spent Saturday and Sunday at my daughther Amanda's house. We were painting her kitchen. Couldn't really get a good picture of the wall color. It is a Tuscan yellow. That deep golden yellow color. Now picture tile behind her stove, a shiny white 1980's tile with little pictures of herbs here and there. She did not like it.
So in comes mom, queen of the paints. I say lets paint over the tile and make it look like tumbled stone. Well, it was a big job, but I did it. Here are the after pictures. Did not have my camera, when we started. I know you are picturing that old 1980's tile in your head.

What do you think???
We thought it turned out pretty good!!
I think you can click to make larger. I primed and painted. Then I pulled out my craft paints, and went to work. I put on poly at the end, so she could wipe off any splatters that may happen.

We were really excited with the finished project.
I am taking a little break today.

Have a great day!

Love,

Rosemary

Guess What I'm Doing??

Ok, so I'm tired of the hearts and flowers!! (I've had mine up for a month)

So I have started a little St. Patty's Day/Spring at my house.
I am off to Ventura to Garden Memories to drop off more goodies to Barbara.

Later this afternoon I am going to help my daughter paint her kitchen.

I will be back soon with some pictures of my St. Patty's Day/ Spring house update.

Have a lovely Saturday!! The sun is bright, and it is suppose to be in the high 60's today.
Talk to you later,
Rosemary

Happy Valentine's Day 2008!!!

Happy Valentine's Day!!

I hope you all have a lovely and romantic day. I think Cupid looks a little tired. All of that arrow shooting, I guess.

Enjoy your day!

Love,

Rosemary