Sweet Salvage Raw & Re-find

 Well, the ladies and gentlemen of Sweet Salvage did it again!  This month's show was called "Raw & Re-find" and it was wonderful.  I took lots of pictures to share with you today and tomorrow.  Hope you enjoy your pictorial tour of Sweet Salvage on 7th!

I love this great candelabra, the heart shaped clock with jewels and the yellow daisies!

Great lampshade!  Love the little gold bust and the old basked full of burlap ribbon!

This display was so pretty because it used real plants!  The boards on the left with the bird and the flowers is a winner too!

Fabulous cubby!  Look at all the tiny treasures held within!!

This lampshade was so wonderful.  I know my friend, Dawn of Bohemian Valhalla bought this one!  Lucky gal!!

 A nice rocking horse found a new home on Thursday!

Baskets galore!  Love the old clothespins in the basket!

Another wonderful Sweet Salvage shopping experience!  More tomorrow!!!

Sweet!

Bought these at the store two days ago.  Love the daffodils and the ranunculus!

Nothing fancy, just lots of them for my dining table.

P.S. Had to look up how to spell ranunculus!  Knew it didn't look right!  And I had to try several different spellings before I found the right one!  Toughie!

Birds and Botanicals altered book is finished

I began this altered book several months ago. After working on it for a couple of days, I was tired of it and put it in a big envelope and let it sit for awhile. Today I took it out and looked at it again and decided that it was nearly finished. So I worked on it today to get it finished. Here it is:The cover is an page from an old photo album I bought that was falling apart. The bird picture is actually a piece of wallpaper.
Here is Joy's relative that you saw a while back. I imagined that this was her botanical book and she put it together with just what she could find. There is a "certificate of merit" just under her picture and I like to think that her teacher liked her book and gave her the certificate for doing such a fine job. There are tags and journaling papers on the other page for her to fill out with her notes while she collected her botanicals.

More tags in pockets and more journaling space. Also a "bird" word card.

Here I made a pocket out of stiff interfacing and put a pretty postcard in it with butterflies.

Here is a birdnest that perhaps she could have sketched or collected. There is a bird tag tucked in the back of the nest. The birds on the other page are mounted on a piece of wall paper that was folded in half and sewn together. The tiny tag on the left holds (perhaps) a feather from one of those birds.

Here is a picture of her best friend who helped her collect the things for the botanicals book: butterflies, bird's eggs, flowers, etc.

More favorite things: fabric flowers, pictures of birds, a game card with an envelope that has a tag with feathers on it.

The back side of the game card has my favorite twig chair stamp and a bird attached. The opposite page has some of that wonderful woven paper that I threaded ribbon through so it could hold tags.

These are the last two pages with shells, a bug, and a wonderful bird cage. I used a lot of the Graphics 45 papers, vintage papers, some things by Catherine Moore (the bird cage and the twig chair stamp), heavy paper to paint on with acrylics matching the colors in the papers. It was a lengthy project. Glad I put it away for awhile and then took it out again. The "rest" from it gave me the boost to finish it today.

Done! I think this may be a submission.

October's ATC

The theme was flowers. You could pretty much do whatever you wanted. Here is my ATC for this month's swap.

I love this flower fairy! Decided to put her on my ATC. Then I cut those flowers off of ribbon that I had bought a long time ago. See! Some of that stuff you buy you can eventually use! Nothing like it!

Altered book in the works

I am working on an altered book using old and new materials, and recycling others. It is still a work in progress, but I thought I would share a few pages with you. This is the cover. The flower and the lock plate are not fixed yet. Could change my mind on those two things.
This is one of the inside pages. I used an old "Certificate of Merit" as well as old lace. The background is several layers of different papers. This is a great collage technique to use to give the page more depth and interest.
On the wall paper background these birds look great! Love the machine stitching. Just adds interest.
This little girl is also on the page of wall paper. I have used a couple of pages of wall paper in this book. I think you will like the finished product.

Fun with flowers, recycling them

One of the items I bought at a rummage sale on Saturday was a hand bouquet of pink and white flowers. They were stuffed into green floral foam and then put into a white plastic posey holder (don't know what else to call it). I think it was a bridesmaid bouquet from the 50's. I wish I had taken a before pic of it, but didn't. What was I thinking??!! Anyway, here are the flowers I have put together from the bouquet. I removed all the plastic stems and pieces that held the flowers in place in the bouquet. Must say I like these better!

Aren't they pretty??
This last flower is made of a text page. Lots of circles, gradually smaller, then held together in the center with an eyelet. Then dipped in glue and over to gold glitter! Pretty!!