Button Trees and Jewelry Holders

This weekend I have felt like absolute crap but while I was laying around watching Bravo I did get some craft projects done:

I saw this on Pintrest and I feel in love with it.

 Since I paint I decided I wanted to recreate it for the apartment. It took me a little while to figure out the grass and several trips to different stores for all the buttons (which are a pain to put on one by one) but it was all worth it.

I only wish I would have made it BIGGER.

While I was wondering the isles of Michael's I also noticed this laser cut frame boarder and had an idea for my bathroom. I've been wanting to showcase my necklaces (and not have them in a pile in a drawer) for awhile and this is the end product of my craft store find:

I painted the boarder and used foam board for the backing. I like it a lot and I think I'm going to get another one to paint a different color and get a wire mesh background for earrings. Theses were super cheap to make (only about $8) and it only took me like 10 minuets to do. What should my next color be? I'm thinking Purple.

I also did a little Retail Therapy on Saturday and bought all this:

When I shop... I shop HARD.

I've been searching for the perfect wrap shoe!

It was magical and my closet improved TENfold. (literally) Then today I decided to go through all my clothes/shoes/purses and get rid of some stuff...or Spring Cleaning as I like to call it.

Goodbye Clothes/Purses/Shoes

I'm so happy I finally sat down and did this I've been meaning to do it for awhile. I refuse to keep things I never wear and I hate keeping things just because I once liked to wear them a lot. It was time and now I have a lonely closet begging for new friends, whatever shall I do?

How often do you "spring clean" your closet?



Welcome Home

Getting to Seattle at 5am has its perks.

The city is absolutely beautiful early in the morning and even though I was still passing in and out I was excited when I was awake to be in my new home with my cars. It's just crazy to think that we drove our cars across the country and they were not going back to Mississippi.

 We rolled up to J's apartment and I'm sure he questioned himself as to who were these ugly, exhausted, scary looking people? Surely they weren't the friends that he once knew. Oh J, it's us in all of our 24 hour driving glory! We went upstairs and promptly all tried to go to bed but the Road Dog Olive was wide awake and ready to play. She was such and amazing road dog the whole trip and basically slept the entire time so of course when we got out of the car she was ready to run a marathon. My response to this was 3 hours of TRYING to sleep and then finally giving up and getting up to get ready and head to our new apartment. We basically got NO sleep but we were running off of excitement and headed off to get all of the paperwork finished so we could get in our new apartment. After all of that was said and done we had arrived and then they told me that we could paint our walls. Really? I can PAINT. Seriously? Okay I haven't slept in 35 hours but this sounds fabulous-Mom, GPS the nearest home depot right now! I am such a evil and sick person to make them paint a few accent walls in my new apartment after no one has had any sleep. I still can't believe no one refused; everyone just went along with it... and then in the middle of the painting I crumbled and fell apart crying asking WHY did I do this to us... WHY!?

Unloading the cars

Why yes, those are the same clothes and the same dirty faces.

And then I made everyone paint:

This was when I started crying and my mother thought she would cheer me up by painting "Baby making room" on the wall. I just cried harder...I'm not ready for kids Sharon!

 I love how I'm crying like a baby and everyone writes sweet I love you's to me on the wall.. really people I've torchered you all day long, all week long, and you are trying to cheer me up!? My family and friends spoil me.

Later that night we went back to J's to let the paint dry,to sleep in beds, and of course hang out with the coolest guy ever! After a fun night at J's the next morning our movers came and unloaded all of our shit -also, let me just state that these guys were AMAZING! I can't even begin to explain how awesome they are and if they read this  I LOVE YOU! (Hey, It's possible we are Facebook friends now)

Sharon Supervising

Greg unloading my 100lb boxes in to the apartment.

Bedroom

We are all just praising Jesus that we didn't have to carry everything upstairs and looking fabulous.

"We did it!"

Whoops the lotion exploded in the bag. No problem we will just make a lotion cup.

And then came Haley's whole reason for coming.

Making sure that we are properly protected and that if a killer tries to get us we can Mace him!

The Knights are Home!

Until Next time....



Paintings & such

Not sure if I've blogged about it before but one of the things you should know about me is that I paint.

 

Black light paint!

 I love art (in all forms) but painting is the one I think I'm best at and enjoy the most. I can't paint you a life like portrait, I can't do landscapes, or animals - my area would be abstract. I love movement, texture, vibrant colors and the bigger the better. Claude Monet and Vincent Van Gogh are my favorites and they are the reason I fell in love with Impressionism. Not saying that my work is anywhere NEAR theirs; they are simply my favorites and who I draw inspiration from.

I paint to relax, to have fun, and to get my creativity out!

Another perk of this hobby is getting to sell some of this work and the thought of something that I created in someone else's home; when they look at it they love and cherish it and that makes me so incredibly happy and grateful. I started doing art shows about 2 years ago and they are really fun but incredibly exhausting. I slacked off with my involvement in art shows when I got engaged so that I could focus on planning my wedding but now that, that is over I'm back!

Our itty bitty town has a new street fair going on every Thursday for the month of July so I got in touch with the people in charge and decided that I wanted to set up my booth. Today was the first day and right after work I drove downtown to set up. This is a new event and not a lot of people came out tonight I'm hoping next Thursday will be much better.

I managed to get the hubs to snap a pic of my tent - he's a keeper.

Excuse the crappy camera phone - oh and me trying to be cute.

I'm not going to sugar coat how lackluster the attendance was tonight I painted 1 face out of about 8 children. Granted the okay part is that I didn't have to pay to set up for this fair and I'm assuming it is going to grow (fingers crossed). I met a couple of new people and made some contacts so all in all it was a good evening in downtown Laurel.

I urge people to support your local artists (in every form) and get out of your house. The worlds a big place and nothing happens until you make it.

I'm sure I'll have better post next Thursday - they have music at this street fair and the hubs is scheduled to play.

Hopefully that means lots more faces and lots of sales!

Happy Thursday Everyone - PS. Tomorrow is Friday!!!

What is your passion/hobbies?

Have you ever done any vendor shows or exhibits?