...my tube sock stockings!!

...hello my little gumdrops!!

I feel it only fair to warn you ~

I am feeling a little ornery today:)

I blame it on the holiday punch!!

you see,

I've

been

a

very

d

i

r

t

y

girl...

HA!!!

yep!

I just couldn't help myself...

do you think Santa will maybe let this one thing slide??

It all started in that $ tree

when I was picking up MORE "holy candles"

(((big hit I tell ya'!)))

and went downhill from there!!

  

I shoulda' left those darn tube socks on the rack...

but NOOOoooooo!!

I saw potential in them,

I think I heard them whispering:

"aahhhh, come on Rosemary,

just ONE more project isn't going to kill ya'!"

~ so home they came with me!!

  

I knew that these humble tubes of cheap cotton

could be spun into

oh-so-lovely stockings

with a few supplies I always have on hand!!

  

first, the lace got sewn on all random like,

as everyday elegance is what I am after:)

Then,

(this is the dirty part!)

I grunged em' up real good!!

paper tags,

 handmade cotton roses,

torn strips of cotton for ribbon,

snowflakes ~

nothing was safe

and all went in for a dip!

When it came time to embellish them a bit further

(I know, but it's in my contract, I'm part crow!!)

I sprayed some silver glitter all over them

...

eeewwwwwwhh ~ purrrrrtttttyyyy!!

but

NOT enough!

So I added a happy jingle bell fleur to the toe

nice!

but the "girl" stockings said

"yah, NO!"

"you're sooo going to have to do better than that!!"

humph!

can you imagine?

dirty girl stockings talking to me like that?!!

so...

I gave them a little extra bling:)

they must have liked it,

 as for the rest of the day

the only thing I heard outta' them was the words to "Santa Baby!!"

LOL!!

I put a white sparkle initial on each of the stockings tags

so "Santa" Baby" 

ie. ~ hubby o' mine

would know whose was whose

as he is the stocking filler upper:) 

((this alone is h-y-s-t-e-r-i-c-a-l! and something I have come to really look forward too!!))

each stocking dangles from a hand stamped ribbon that simply says

Find beauty in all things

well, I think that I can check this off my list!

for today anyway!!

~ sharing this over at:

Common Ground's: ~ Vintage Inspiration Friday ~

Freckled Laundry's:  ~ Air your laundry Friday ~

My Romantic Home's: ~ Show and tell Friday ~

Come see all the inspiring things that are going on!!

here's to cheap, dirty ~ tube socks!!!

...a dreamy pink bird aviary!!

...hello dear ones!!

today

I would like to show you one of the pretties

my mom and I were working on!!

This is my new,

oh-so-lovely

~ pink bird aviary ~

Which is now hanging over my bed!!

Is it not ~ dreamy??!

...sooooo many projects were going on in the studio!

This took about a week to put together

and it all started with this ~

...and no ~

 this is not a pile of yummy colored pasta

(hhhmmmm, what a fabulous italian dinner that would be!)

this is sumptuosness at it's finest

dupioni silk!!!

cut into ribbons,

ready to be bloom stained and grunge dyed

for other prettinesses!!

(I so enjoy creating with such gorgeousness!!)

so

after being bloom stained and grunge dyed

(some vintage lace and paper dollies too)

It was time to do the birds!!

I removed all their eyes!!!

as they were all a hideous red plastic!

can you imagine?

and can we say

eeeewwwwwhhh!!!!!!

after dying them, I replaced their eyes with jolee's flat back, hotfix pearls.

(whew, say that 10 times fast!!!)

and used a brown permanent marker for the centers.

As soon as I put the centers on,

each bird took on their own personality!!

next

I used my most favorite glitter

~ german glass glitter/fine grit ~

for their beaks & wings.

In Nevada, we have Quail birds

 that I enjoy feeding and watching their peculiar ways!

I just love when they run, strutting their top head feathers to and fro!!!

They were the inspiration for my pink birds!

(see the three crystals atop their heads, quail influenced!!!)

I then painted all their little wire feet,

tied a piece of silk or lace around each of their necks

and

Viola!!!

new friends!!!

I found this scrolly metal candleabra in my travels,

it was gold...

until

three spray paint cans later,

it became creamy white!!!

I didn't know what I was going to do with it at the time

but

I know it just called to me!!! 

I used vintage earrings and rhinestones to finish it all off,

as, who simply doesn't love mixing the vintage with new?!

I am really loving my pink aviary!

Every morning,

at the crack of dawn, I hear the birds outside ~ waiting for their seeds

and as soon as I open my eyes, 

I am smiling with a joy in my heart to wake up to such beauty

to my ears,

 to my eyes,

...to my soul!!!!

 I hope you were inspired by this pink bird aviary

as much as I enjoyed creating it with my mom:)

I am thinking of putting one of these special pink friends

in my 100 friends giveaway

I'm almost there!!!

What do you think?!

Is this something that you would be interested in???

Let me know by leaving a comment

and I will start putting pretties in a pile!!!