...soul whispers

...for you dear ones ~

xo

...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!!!

...a little cottage guest room and the story of the false wall!

Hello dear readers

Here is a look at my mom's temporary room!!

Jim built a false wall for me...

and why would I need a false wall

 you ask?

(for the sake of this post, you asked!)

Well, without going into the "t-m-i" zone on the meter reader

(too much info)

let me just say that

we have been trying to move back home with our families in Ohio

for a while now

(almost 2 years!)

we've been here for 7 years,

and although it doesn't seem like a lot of time

look at your child

and zoom reeaallly fast in your mind

 back to 7 years ago!

yah!

alot of life are in those 7 little years! 

moving on ~

~  because the housing market in Nevada in like one of the worst,

early last year,  we made the decision to sell our lovely, 3200sq. foot home

(complete with a guest bed and bath room!)

(important detail alert there, I promise!)

thinking that we would rent a home instead

kinda like a no strings attached thinking

... 

and that we'd be ready to bounce

 at a moments notice

... 

are you still with me?

I know

but I have a point

honest I do!

any way

in a nut shell ~

we did sell,

less than half of what we bought it for

heart broke

swallowed hard

 ~ enough said!

moving on

through the kilning process of life!!

(curious though, am I at least bronze yet?! HA!!)

fast forward to now ~

we are temporarily in a rental home of 1800sq. foot!!

YEP!

you read that right

aahhhhh....

do you see my dilema NOW??!!

Honestly,

we thought we"d only be here for 6 months

okay 8 months tops!

this was only supposed to be T-E-M-P-O-R-A-R-Y situation!

as in gone, baby, GONE!

and ideally,

living in a lovely farmhouse somewhere in the northeast

feeding a few chickens

(what?! I'm just thinking of Belinda here!)

with roses and peonies and lavender growing everywhere....

ahhh

earth to Rosemary

focus!

needless to say

God OBVIOUSLY has other plans!

(and strangely, it is well with my soul!) 

 ~

so here we are

in our very COZY rental home,

in need of a guest room 

soooo

what's a girl to do? 

well

 look outside of the box of course

(which gets me in trouble most of the time!!)

and ask hubby of mine

to construct this false wall!!!

(by the way ~ awesome job honey!!

meatloaf and mashed potato's for you tonight

I know, but it's one of his favorites!!:)

now, where were we...

oh right,

 the false wall ~

 meaning,

not really a wall,

as in, it only appears to be a wall

'cause you

 can't attach it to anything

it's a rental, kinda wall!

wwwhhhheeeeeeww!

If you're still with me

hugs! :)

but I'm loving this false wall that

magically deliciously 

 turned our dining room

into

 a happy little cottage room for my dearest mom!!

(can't wait mom!! only 8 more days)

I made a ruffle slipcover shade light,

complete with sweet little wings ~

perfect for dreaming

and this lovely china cupboard armoire

that's been cleared out

for her pretty little self's stuff!!

 

I'd like to share that

through this,

I have learned

 that we don't really own anything in this life

other than how and what we choose to fill our souls up with

and that anything outside of that is a gift

things and stuff come and go.

To just do the best that we can 

to keep moving forward

and to graciously continue seeking up

every single day!

and know that this waiting time in our life

well,

simply that

this too shall pass!

~

thanks for reading

your support means alot!

 this now concludes the reason for

the false wall!!

If you haven't already put your name in for my giveback,

you may still do so,

I will announce the winner tomorrow afternoon

and announce

another little giveaway!!

spoiler alert,

can we say french lapin?!

until then ~