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Here's a shot of my birthday kicks... and here is another...

Just learned to make a mosaic...

Perhaps its really lame that I didn't know how people made these mosaics... but I just googled it and found out... super sweet!  Earlier post from this morning below...  check out my golf ball photo...

Back to the grind...

Oh back into the full swing of the work week... weekends need to be longer... Just one day longer would be perfect... luckily today I'm laying out an invitation at work so that little bit of creativity in my workday is good... I wish I had to use more creative energy at work... Here is a snap for the invite that I took last night...

I didn't have good lamps to use to set up some proper lighting, and the balls are so reflective and shiny that they were all glare from the lights in the room and the daylight outside... solution?.. one of those sweet light boxes that you can get for around $100 for photographing small things... but I don't have one so I set them up on a white dish next to the big picture window in the front living room, tossed a white sheet over myself and the balls, like a tent, and voila!  More even light!

Oh Birthdays...

Saturday morning Chris and I had to do the tiniest bit of tidying in the house because dad was arriving at lunch, as a birthday surprise!.. after we tidied we went out for some birthday shopping... found some jeans and a sweet shirt... oh AND a birdhouse and this other bird type cagey ornament thingamajig... then we picked up dad at the airport and headed to Galaxy Diner for some late breakfast/lunch...

I found a pile of decorative pieces for the front living room this past weekend!  The green birdcage is going to get a couple coats of cream paint... and then find its way up to the Yellow Room.  The eggy shaped cage with the bird on the top is going to get some moss and birds eggs I think...  Then I found this one Friday afternoon:

The little pot inside the crown is removable... The nest I found on Sunday, at Golden ACre (not in a tree)... I was thinking of something bigger but this one fits in perfectly... Then I also found these at Golden Acre on Sunday...

Sweet little piece of glassware and set of keys... they had bigger keys too... might have to go back and get those...

And finally this super tall bell jar...

So this room's accessories are just about complete...  I think once I have the chairs done and in place with the table... and the other little table painted and placed I'll have to find a lamp for the corner... then some wall decor, which I'll make... and then perhaps a fern... and something for underneath the tall bell jar... a plant?  a pile of teacups?  Oooo and I want to crochet a few different size doilies to place on the table that you see in the picture directly above...  I'm hoping to finish one of the chairs next Sunday and get the second one stripped and the legs painted... I picked up paste wax yesterday to wax the legs of the chair that I'm working on now... I just have to give them a light sand to smooth out the paint and then a couple coats of wax... 

Birthday eve...

Last night we went out to try out sushi... Turns out I like my fish cooked... And thinking of the orange flying fish eggs that are on top of the rolls at the bottom right there as sprinkles doesn't help... It looks so pretty though...

Show & Tell Friday...

Getting up at 4am is not conducive to life in general... so apologies in advance for the iphone photos... I didn't have the most time before we left the house this morning... and I couldn't find my dslr... I think its buried under the piles of fabric for the chair reupholster in the sewing room...  Anywhoot here is my show & tell item:

My super sweet vintage styled tags... I won these as part of my gift basket from the Vintage Chicks sale that took place a few weeks back...

I've always loved tags... I have a frame full of tags from my fourth year independent work as an artwork...  probably to go back up in the front living room...  and I totally want to make more of these tags for around the house...  they're just so darling...

The ribbons are super sweet too... velvety... sparkly... all dirted up and old looking...

These are going to be such a great addition to the front den... hopefully in another week or two I'll have the chairs done and the room all together...

Join in the Show & Tell party... check out My Romantic Home...

Sigh... but a good one this time...

This baby runs smooth... its just a basic brother machine but it came with a pile of bonus feet... walking foot, free motion foot... ZIPPER FOOT... and like 5 others... and it has this nice table attachment...  I was so excited to be working on my chairs again that I ended up getting ahead of myself and sewing a couple pieces together only to have to rip them apart because they weren't exactly right... 

Here is an iphone snap of the front, and arm piece... I'm just holding them on to get an idea of how the chair is going to look... I still have to replace the foam that is underneath and then fatten it up with some batting... but I'm waiting until I have all the fabric pieces ready to go before replacing the foam...

I'm so jazzed that this is a lot easier than I thought it was going to be and the piped pieces are turning out so well!  Keep in mind in the above photos that the pieces are just temporarily in place... thats why they're loose looking...  I have to start thinking of pillows now that will go with both the couch and chairs... Cream maybe?  I don't want to overdo it on the cream though... but black cushions on the purply grey couch just won't look right I think... what do you think?  I know I want to make some roll pillows and they'll be sharp and have piping... I'm just unsure what fabric to bring in to tie them together without being too matchy matchy... so let me know what you think!

One last piping shot... hahaha, its funny before I had to rip and re-sew this piped piece the guy there with his arm out towards the piping looked like he was holding up a head because the pattern on the piping  had a guy's head right on the outside, and it lined up exactly with the end of the guy's arm...  more sewing when I get home this evening, and cutting out the last pieces of the chairs...

Giddy up...

Its Calgary Stampede time... c'mon pancake breakfast!  Check out the belt buckle and lumberjack shirt I'm sporting today... 

No luck AT ALL yesterday evening... again no zipper foot... I have one more place to try today, so I'm calling later on this morning to make sure they have what I'm looking for... and that they will in fact be open... If I go to any more places that I've called to see if they have the foot, or will be open and I get there and they don't or they're closed I'm going to throw a total tantrum!  I also have a few people checking to see if they have the foot... and if its compatible I'll be able to borrow it.  Then if not I might just buy a new machine because all new ones seem to come with the plain old zipper foot.

Here's another Stampede shot... taken a couple Stampede's ago...