The best job ever and the coolest friends that I ever had were when I worked at a restaurant called the Heartthrob Cafe. It was in downtown St Paul, Minnesota and was so fun! Today we had a get together to catch up and reminisce. This is one of the many good things about facebook, finding people that you wished you never lost contact with. So, today my post is the buttons that I made for this event. We had 'flair' that was a lot more fun and cool than a restaurant chain that I will not name here. We danced and sang birthday songs. The girls wore poodle skirts and we did all of this while wearing in line skates. We were a crazy family and honestly this was one of the best times in my life. Ahhh...memories. In the time spent there somehow the button machine came into my possession. In honor of our gathering, of course I had to make pins. Here are also two murals that I painted at the restaurant. Let me tell you they were tricky! The murals are on glass and when
The project for today came from a few places. In my youth, I remember going to a friend's house and her Grandmother showed me a Christmas decoration that she had made, it was in a small frame. It was red velvet fabric and old jewelry and was in the shape of a Christmas tree. Then, a month or so ago I was watching the Nate Berkus Show. He has great ideas and is from Minnesota like me! He was showing what to do with things that you think are trash or not useful. Kind of like the things I do in my blog. So anyways, he had old jewelry and frames. Here is where the light bulb went off in my head. I had purchased a painted canvas at the Goodwill for a few dollars and was going to paint on it, but the canvas was torn. I ended up removing the canvas and using the frame. I stapled on some muslin and topped it off with an old shear embroidered curtain. Then dug through all of my jewelry and buttons and started to decorate it. I consider it a work in progress because new things can be added. I always have old jewelry because I don't want to throw it away or one earring was lost and it was a cool pair so why toss the other one. See a past post for necklace ideas out of old earrings and other stuff. Here is my new creation and I can't wait to see how it progresses. A really ornate frame might be the perfect item to finish it in the future.
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