Crafting Fun!

These are some new projects offered by Martha Stewart  in her new book Martha Stewart's Encyclopedia of Crafts website crafting ideas...I love the tea cup candles and the beaded necklace is pretty,,

How about painting some fish on a tote bag for the beach?

 A child can do this one. :)

I know this says "Happy Mom's Day" Pot hanger but I think you could change it and make it for any occasion, how about inverting them and using them to hold Dad's nuts & bolts?

Currently, were seeing the macrame and summer crochet trend all over the place.  Don’t think hippie-chic looks and handwoven plant hangers- Macrame and crochet looks are back in a modern and wearable way.  To create you own version  Too cool

I love this idea....I am always using chain and it is boring, but adding beads really pizzazz' it up!!! Embellished Bayou tells you how to do it. 

Another pretty eat craft by Embellished Bayou just go to your local $1 store 

and pick up those ribbons, or curl your own 

Isn't this cool? You'll never guess what it is made of. 

For the how to go visit

Mich L in LA

Is this not the best photo? I just love it.. :) I snagged it from Shell Bells blog so I could
share it with you here. I think it makes you want to kick off the shoes and wade in it, don't
you? So R&R and pull up a chair and enjoy....

Touring some of my Music Boxes and Photos

Hello...I have been working hard rearranging our home. phew....had to move a lot of things out of our guest room. plus I decided to take my roll-top desk and move it into the dining room and and make my office more roomy and added a shelve for my EBay stuff. Its quite a job to do it all! I thought I would also share a few of my music boxes that I have been collecting for over 30 years. I have a ton more in my curio cabinet upstairs but that is another tour...

the table moved from guest room

top of table hand painted

this is a very old music box

another old fabric music box

music box

music box "serenity"

my niece made this for me she is a florist
I love Victorian

my roll top it is a smaller one

I decided to add my photos to it

this is a photograph taken on our honeymoon long
ago in Martinique, Caribbean

an original print of Laguna Beach

a photograph I took in Florida at a park and yes its real

the alligator posed for me lol

one of my favorite music boxes

this lamp I got in the 80s at an antique shop and the
tea cart was my mom's

this is photo at a camp park in Morro Bay
that I love

you can't tell in the photo but we had to move this
mirror because it is so long the desk wouldn't fit and its
heavy too

my daughter gave me this apron for my "B" day
and it matches the flowers I have
but the real kicker are the spoon and fork hanging on
the wall, I saw them on a re-run of
"Everybody Loves Raymond" hanging
in his mom's kitchen...lol...I got them
in the 70s

and this is "Suzie-Q" my head
for taking photos of my handmade items. lol