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enJOY Your Blessings,

Kimberly  

Pretty Pink Sleeping Bebe - Tuesday Treasures #7

This precious sleeping baby Frozen Charlotte is a priceless focal point for this wall plaque perfect in any new baby girl's nursery.  Vintage wallpaper, buttons, and lace, along with wire, paper roses, beads, and scrapbook papers are all that was needed to capture the priceless innocence of a sleeping infant.

The pretty pink lace and vintage doll were part of my Tuesday Junque Treasures, and I have several of the baby dolls available in my supply shop.

enJOY Your Blessings,

Kimberly  

Doll Plate Special - Tuesday Treasures #6

Begin with a pretty chippy tray from a play tea-set and a pretty photo of a little girl from my collection, and so the story begins.  Antique French text, vintage drawer pull, vintage lace, and a reworked rose from a thrift store find were all that was needed to create this lovely.  The rose was off of the thrift store pillow, pictured here,  I took the pretty chiffon petals apart and sewed them back together with a vintage lace circle and vintage rhinestone button.

enJOY Your Blessings,

Kimberly

Welcome Little One Card For Baby - Tuesday Treasure #5

I stripped that little doll bare, but wait until you see what I did with his head, yikes!  A page from a vintage children's book for a background, a tag, stamped and tied with vintage seam binding, twine for a clothesline, and 2 toy clothes pins are all it took to create this sweetness.  True confessions time: the clothes pins I purchased on Tuesday are green and didn't match the rest of the card, so I substituted a couple of blue ones.  I have sets of 24 on these vintage toy pins in my supply shop.

You can checkout the collection of junque-hunting treasures I am drawing off of in my earlier post .

Thanks for popping in & have a beautiful Sunday.

enJOY Your Blessings,

Kimberly

A Timely Card For Dad - Tuesday Treasure #4

This little doll's vest was in a mixed bag of doll bits and just too darned cute, but it needed a little love.  A few doll-sized buttons and a plastic boutonniere were just what was called for.  Antique paper with clock images, a vintage measuring tape and watch-face, metal letters, twill tape and some zig-zag stitching and I have my Dad's Fathers Day card ready nearly 2 months early-I'm sure that's some sort of record.

You can check out the picture of all my treasures here.  It's not really too different from a Where's Waldo puzzle.

enJOY Your Blessings,

Kimberly

French Dresser Tray - Tuesday Treasure #3

This tray was kismet.  I had the idea for this piece in my head before I headed out on my Tuesday Hunt, and behold, I found the picture frame at the thrift store for $1.00.  Antique French text, vintage lace, transparencies from ARTchix, vintage buttons and clock-face, a vintage photo from my collection, antique Victorian scrap, were all arranged and preserved under glass.

I covered the underside with velvet paper and created 4 sweet feet from metal doo-dads and acrylic beads.  You can check out the picture of the unloved picture frame in this post.

enJOY Your Blessings,

Kimberly   

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There's No Place Like Home - Tuesday Treasures #2

Dorothy said it best, there's no place like home. 

These vintage, dirty, and doll-less shoes needed to elevated to greatness, and what could be better than magically transforming them into a pair of ruby red slippers, and using them as the star of this little collage piece?  Martha Stewart tinsel glitter in red did the trick.  A sample of 1950s kitchen wallpaper, vintage floral trim, rub-on letters, stamps and ink, and armature wire (this was wrapped around the glass bottle) were all I needed to tell this story.

You can see the raw materials from the great Tuesday Junk Hunt here.

enJOY Your Blessings,

Kimberly 

A Wee Teacup Fairy - Tuesday Treasure #1

  
 
 This is the Wee Fairy I created using the broken china cup and a beaded flower from Tuesday's treasure hunt, read here .  I used a little girl from Paperwhimsy, added butterfly wings, and  tucked her into a birds nest which I glued into the cup, a snippet of lace, and shredded antique paper feather the nest.

enJOY Your Blessings,

Kimberly

 

It's Tuesday, So I Must Be Junking

There is a very small, tiny really, flea market held in my town every Tuesday.  It's not the kind of event that you will ever find fine linens or antiques, however, it is often the source of plenty of good junque, small trinkets and treasures probably bound for the trash if they don't find a home today.  I also try to make my way over to our local thrift store every week, and this week Tuesday was as good as any day.

As you can see, I found a couple interesting, a  few pretty, and a handful of rustic, shall we say, items for my creative inspiration.

The plan for this mixed bag of treasures is share one item I create every day ,using something from my haul.  I'm not quite sure how many days of posts that will be, however, I was looking for something new and different as a challenge for myself, and I think this idea is it.

Thanks for stopping in today and be sure to check back daily to see my progress.

enJOY Your Blessings,

Kimberly