Took a quick trip…

Oct 12, 2011

I decided to go to Beau­mont over the week­end for some antique and thrift store shop­ping as well as hit this won­der­ful flea mar­ket. Mom, dad and I were up and out early Fri­day, Sat­ur­day and Sun­day and found some AWESOME items for me to use in upcom­ing class projects and work­shops. I was so happy. I just give mom and dad a list of items I’m look­ing for and they are off and run­ning. They scored some great finds for me this trip. Those two are keep­ers I tell ya.

I took a few pho­tos of some of the items we found. I have boxes filled with great vin­tage stuff. But some I’m gonna keep a secret as a girl can’t share all her sur­prises… can she?

We found salt and pep­per shak­ers, an awe­some book filled with vin­tage sheet music, lots of wooden blocks, alu­minum molds, candy molds, mer­cury glass orna­ments and bot­tle brush trees. I have no idea where I will be stor­ing all my finds but let me just say the front room and bar in our house looks like a bomb went off. It has boxes and boxes of vin­tage stuff all over the place. I need my TA Dar­lene from Artis­tic Jour­ney BAD, BAD, BAD right now. She is super good at organizing.

And I was thrilled when dad found this booth with yards and yards and yards of awe­some trims and lace. I can­not wait to work these into projects. The col­ors are the per­fect shades of cream and pinks which I love to us in projects.

Dad also made me a few things while I was vis­it­ing. He made me a Pep­per Mill with Lisa’s Kitchen at the top and a scene of a golden retriever and his mas­ter hunt­ing a pheas­ant carved around the bot­tom. I really miss going in the field with my sweet golden boy Sonny.

Then he made me a piece of yard art for my flower bed. He attached clear glass plates, bowls, a can­dle holder, lids and a soda float glass. I love it and need to fig­ure out which flower bed to put it in so that my adorable dogs don’t break it cause then they would instantly not be so adorable.

So now you kinda know why I did not post any­thing on my blog these past sev­eral days. I’ve been out trav­el­ing, dig­ging and find­ing treasures.

Oh and tomor­row I will be post­ing the final part of the Pop Art Por­trait tuto­r­ial in my Tips, Tech­niques and Tuto­ri­als online work­shop so make sure you check it out.

Hugs!