Rock, Paper, Scissors

Remember that pile of stuff my husband bought an auction on the weekend? Well the crafting stars aligned themselves, the creativity gods smiled upon me, and my glue bottle runnith over....

It's filled with quite a few of those rusty, musty, finds. The aqua floral  clip on earring, the scissors, corks, nails, marbles, bbs... all from that box.

The boy is from my personal collection of photos. The shiny metal bit at the top is half of a vintage Christmas light reflector. That dangly bit at the bottom? An arrow head!

The gods were extra especially kind as this month's craftster.org challenge is "Rock, Paper, Scissors", all elements in my little assemblage box :)

This piece is now listed in the etsy shop here.

Duck madness!

And here's why I will very likely never be able to get anything finished, ever again...



They are just sooooo darned cute... even if they do threaten to nibble at my toes.

PINK!

When I was a little girl, whenever anyone would say the word 'pink' my friends mother would say...

Pink! Pink! Pink!
Like a roosters dink!

To this day when someone says 'pink' this poem runs through my mind. It must be because it's just the right amount of rude.

Something that isn't rude at all (quite the opposite actually... it's really rather lovely) is a pink themed challenge hosted by Alpha Stamps. Make anything at all with a dash or dollop of pink and post it to the Alpha Stamps facebook page and you could win a gorgeous handmade shrine by Teri Calia.  

Here's the official post and details.

So make a big pink mess, post your photos, and I'll cross my fingers in the hopes you'll win :)

Faerie Ring Shrine

I finished up the very last of the drawer shrines this morning.

This one is much bigger than the others measuring at 15" tall, 7.5" wide. I wanted to do something different with this one and there were a few ideas floating around in my noggin', but I settled on creating a faerie ring. They say if you step into a ring of toadstools you may get swept off to faerie land (and might never return!). I don't think this bunch will cause too much trouble :)

*esty listing is here*

Moons and Magic Carpets

Two more moon shrines to take a gander at. These are the last two smaller drawers from the set that I've been using to create this series of boxes. My husband suggested that we go and buy another set but I said that the recycle/upcycle part of these makes them a little bit more special. He agreed.

I love how the red and white really pops against the darker sky in this one. Go to the etsy listing for this item.

And this one is just so cheery and sweet. I especially like the ladybugs that are escaping into the real world. We have ladybugs all over our old house. They are everywhere! They crawl all over the windows, the tables, on the rim of my wine glass, the sink... I know they're a pest but seeing them around makes me happy.

I also like the little paper butterfly perched on a tiny pinecone. I've got a butterfly project on the brain so I just had to try to stick one in here somewhere. Go to the etsy listing for this item.

 

Last, but certainly not least... I bought a magic carpet! I've always wanted an old rug like this and when I saw this one for a song I jumped at the chance to bring it home.

The kidlet has already tried it out and said that he had some trouble getting it off the ground. No worries,  we've got all summer to weave some magic into that old rug.

Going, going... sold for $5!

It was a busy morning today. Mr Pixie went to an auction while I went to the local Y with the kidlet for swimming and cookery classes.

There were a number sweet things at the auction but the bids were high. The Mr did pick up a few nifty things, including this cool old box.

It's made from an old Camel cigarette crate. I think the hubby paid $5 for it. When the kiddo saw he immediately laid claim to it. "I'm going to fix it up and paint it!" I hid my cringing well (I wanted that box!) and told the kid he could have at it. First things first... let's clean it out!

 

Inside were loads of old treasures. Rusty furniture wheels, an old school bubble wand, a belt buckle, buttons, a perpetual calendar.

An old clip on earring, rusty keys and a pile of corks.

 

Couple of old marbles.

A pile of 2's.

The thing was chocked full of great stuff for mess making so I don't feel so bad about letting the kid at the box now. :) Seems we've both made out pretty darn well for Paul's $5 investment.

Peep, peep, chirp, chirp!

There are 14 new friends in the studio today. 10 fuzzy yellow chicks and 4 fluffy yellow ducks. Paddy is beside himself. He's enthralled with the little peepers.

This will be our 3rd set of chicks. We raise them for eating. Sometimes people are horrified when they see those gorgeous fluffy birds and find out they'll be dinner in just a few months. You get past those tugs at the heart strings when they reach the stage where they act like horribly rude, bossy, greedy poop machines.

This is our first set of ducks and I wonder if the same thing will apply to them. They are far too cute for their own good and much more entertaining than the chicks. We've already named the ducklings too (very bad sign) Tank, Connie, Fifi and Doug. Too bad we can't tell any of them apart at the mo'.

But for now we'll just enjoy the bundles of fuzz and let them a have cozy life under the heat lamps for a wee while :)