Baby Canvases and Ugly Clothes

I started this post WEEKS ago, so before posting anything new, I wanted to publish this one. The pictures are a little out of order, but I'm too lazy to change them. I had an order for a few canvases for a baby girl's nursery. The mom-to-be wanted to keep it pretty classic and simple with a large monogram.


She also expressed her love for sheep, so I put them on the two smaller ones.





I have this thing for scallops. (The shape, not the seafood). I think they are so sweet without being too fussy.



Can you see the 'feathery' details in the sky behind the 3 sheep?



Thankfully, my customer was thrilled, and sent me pictures after they were hung.



The bedding doesn't realy show up in this picture, but it is adorable. A couple of different shabby chic cotton prints.





Last year I posted about a weekend trip to Cincinnati here.
I wanted to post some pictures from this years trip.
We went to Gabriel's, my favorite place for cheap clothes. The catch at Gabriel's is that you have to look through some crazy stuff.
The crazy stuff is much more fun to blog about.
Mom found a t-shirt with an enormous Icee. Slurpee? Slush Puppy?



Whatever it is, it's 'yummy'.



Aaaawwww. Look at the little baby one on the back.....



These cannot qualify as shorts. They're more like denim underwear. Daisy Duke would blush.



Not sure what Nike was thinking. Gold + velcro?



Nothing says classy like a yellow cheetah print shoe with a four inch heel and zipper.



I considered this shirt.
My 11 year old told me once that I am so short, it's a little embarrassing to him in front of his friends.
I'll show him embarrassed when I show up in the lunchroom wearing this....

Cindy, my super -secret, never before revealed in pictures friend from my flea market posts (here, here, and here) found the worst item of the trip.
The ugliest leggings I've ever seen.
She was kind enough to try them on.

But , due to some holes in strategic places, she wasn't really ready to step out and model. You will have to settle for a peek of her leg.



Next, we went to Ikea. (My mom is taking the picture.) Her photography skills have improved significanty from last year's post. I love Ikea.
I found this wool blanket I love.


While I'm not crazy about this pillow, I like the color combination for Jackson's room. In the spirit of my beloved flea critters, we had a sighting at Gabriel's. Here is Michelle. Michelle is hoding up a totally normal shirt. It's a decoy. The real action is the lady in the background.



At first, we thought maybe she was trying the glasses on and looking for a mirror. But, after she shopped, and shopped wearing them, we figured something else must be up.

I really enjoyed the group we had this year.
Cindy can find a Goodwill store better than my TomTom.
Natalie gets carsick just like me.
Michelle and I like to swap recipes.
Paula reallllly doesn't like Skyline Chili.
My mom is as awesome as ever.

Sadly, as we checked out at Ikea, Cindy got a phone call that her mother-in-law had suddeny passed away. We headed home right away.
We are planning on going again next year, and, hopefully, it won't take me six weeks to write about it...

Pretty Bird

A couple of things I learned over the weekend:

1. The more you value something, the better it tastes to your puppy. The otttoman I painfully re-upholstered must have been delicious.

2. My Baker can argue, pretty convincingly, that Scooby-Doo was actually the bravest one in the gang.

3.Birds are sneaky. They can get into my house somehow without me knowing it.

4. Kids grow up waaay to fast.



Baker turned seven this Sunday. To add insult to injury, he also lost his first tooth.
No, I didn't skimp on a cake, he wanted donuts.
I'll tell you about the bird in a moment.

First, pictures of stuff that left here recently.



Burlap covered shade with handpainted monogram.




A couple expecting their first baby brought me a crib just like this one....



...and it went home like this.

A birthday plate. I did a wedding plate for this girl a while back. Waaay more than 9 months ago for those of you that like to whisper about that stuff.

A little girl baby plate.

Here's today's bird.

I posted about a different bird here.

Lilly was playing with her new babydoll.

As I walked across the room, and a bird swooped over my head.

Naturally, I screamed.

Lilly looked panic stricken, so I shooed her up the stairs empty handed.
She realizes she doesn't have her doll, and starts screaming, "My baby! Save my baby!", like the star of a Lifetime movie.

When the bird is gone, she tells me "I'm so glad the birdie didn't eat my baby's face."

Is she watching Hitchcock and Lifetime movies in the middle of the night?"

I'll never know for sure .

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