Mosaic Monday 3/22/2010

Behind my dryer in my laundry room are these letters: IRON. Aren't they cute?! All made with wood and fabric. You can have a set also if you'd like, just contact me.
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Fabric, Paper and Ribbon

Just wanting to mention to those of you who haven't seen my laundry room that the new "Pages" at the top of my blog just under the banner and entitled "My Home" includes the photos of my laundry room, which you just might find interesting. ;-)
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On th' rose kick again, chicks. Just trying out different things I can do with them really. These are what I've come up with. I may try selling them on etsy though. Every single one is a different rose unless I mention that it's NOT or they are in groups. I don't remember how many I've made the past few days. DUH!

Back of the above lolli. I love pink and red together.

I call this one my "grunge shabby froufrou" lolli. ;-)

Backside of one above.

I call this one "majesty." Pink ostrich feathers and a rolled fabric rose. I also put a pink crystal on it.

The back has another rolled rose made of iridescent fabric.

And this one is another paper rose I'm experimenting with at the moment.

And one in pink.

Again, these are made from coffee filters.

My absolute favorite one so far. It's really beautiful for a paper rose.

These are NOT really orange but are simply too close to the camera but I've got to hold it while taking the picture and that's pretty much CLOSE.

Now, these are the ones I dipped in food coloring but later I added yellow watercolors around the edges. I just dipped the brush in the watercolor and dragged it around the edges. No right or wrong way to do it, just practice to get the effect you like best.

Two with the yellow edging. Each one will turn out differently.

This one I edged in darker pink—almost magenta edging. Gorgeous in person!

This one I painted with acrylic paint around the edges. It turned out really lovely.

This one came out blurry and I knew it would because I was taking it in my studio (I've decided to call my craft room my studio) without much light plus I sort of moved when I clicked the shutter button and the settings were too low but after I downloaded it to my iPhoto I liked the soft ethereal look of it. I thought I'd just show you along with the better photo of it. Call me silly. ;-) But this one I used acrylic paint on it.

Here's the one where I didn't move.

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Pink Saturday Laundry Rooms 3/20/2010

Follow the arrow to the top just under my header to see the new Page I put up showing rooms in my home.

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Happy pink saturday, my sweet chicks. Beverly of howsweetthesound is once again hosting this event so go visit her for all the other pinkiliscious photos.
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While trying to find a pink laundry hamper the other day I came across a few laundry rooms done up in pink and thought that I'd share them with you. Now, these are truly some adventuresome women. And I did find a darling pink basket that could double as a small clothes hamper. Isn't this just pinky cute?!

Not very large but awesome!

Hey, I'm loving the pink stripes.

Can you believe how small and darling this one is?! I've told you chicks that your laundry rooms can be gorgeous with just paint and a few inexpensive touches.

Now, this one belongs to a woman whose dream was to paint it shocking pink with the ceiling zebra stripes. She was an adventuresome and beautiful woman who truly had flair, but sadly she passed away the end of last year just a few months after giving birth to her third child. Very sad.

She put on these darling little knobs also.

I think this is my favorite laundry room out of all these room though. This gal definitely has more space than I do and she really went all out for this room. Darling!

I have a hamper like this except for the cloth bags. I'm going to make some for our hamper since the net black and white ones that came with it are wearing out. These should hold our laundry items just fine!

Last, but certainly not least, is this absolutely darling...squeeeeeeeeeal...little booth at a flea market and, if I could ever find doors like that, you betcha I'd put them in my back yard on my patio.

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Some Relaxation Today

Can you guess what I'm working on in the craft room while I'm reorganizing it? Just too much fun, chicks. Hey, it can't be all work, ya know. ;-)

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Winner!

Sorry I didn't post this last night but things were a little chaotic around here. However, our winner is

Mary of Blushing Rose

Congratulations, sugar. I'll get the tassel in the mail today or tomorrow.