Nifty Fifties Flowers

I have blogged about my trips to the library and the variety of crafty books there for borrowing. It is fun to look through the stacks and browse through them. This book really caught my eye, 'Nifty, Thrifty, and Kitschy Crafts'. It has a lot of 50's and 60's crafts that the author discovered in her own browsing through vintage craft books and magazines. Some of the crafts bring back memories of childhood, items made out of Popsicle sticks and macaroni noodles. What fun!

The one that I decided to do today was a flower craft. In the original pattern that she found it had stated that these would look great added to your poodle skirt. That is DEFINITELY retro!

There were three styles, but only two of them really caught my eye, the zinnia and the daisy. The pattern used a thick craft glue, but I like my hot glue gun, so that is what I used. In these pictures they are adorning a sweater and a t shirt, but they would look great on a jacket or even clipped in your hair. They were so easy, I might end up making them in a lot of colors to coordinate with the rest of my wardrobe.

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Heartthrob Cafe Memories

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

A few paintings

Can you believe it? Another post this soon! I have been making stuff, but the posting has gotten slower, sorry. These two wooden plaques were bought at a thrift store for less than $2.00 each. They had some premade botanical pictures on them. I decided to just paint some random designs on them. They are about 12 inches square and they turned out great but now what I really want to do is some more paintings in this style only much larger. The designs would make such a statement on a larger scale. That may require a trip to Menards or Home Depot. Sorry for the picture quality, my camera in not working the best right now.

Black and Blue Snowflakes

Ah winter in Minnesota! We have had a lot of snow this year and this design is snowflake based. There is a contest that I am entering this week for snowflake design. You can use any medium that you would like the only requirement is that it be no larger than 12 x 12 for display purposes. I doodled until I came up with this 'snowflake.' At this time I don't know if I want to submit the black design or the one that I did in the blue outline. Both are very unique. I have to admit after making the first design, I traced it for the second one, but as an artist sometimes you need to do that to get things just right. If anyone is reading this a comment or two would be helpful in my decision. The deadline is on Wednesday of this week. It would be nice to get some kind of recognition for my art other than friends and family telling me how talented I am. It keeps me going, but sometimes it would be nice to hear it from someone who judges and critiques art. No matter what

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