YESTERDAY & CACHE OF THE DAY

DIGGING OUT: Yesterday working out in the back yard. These aloe plants seem to grow wild down here. When dad first moved here 15 years ago he said there were hundreds of these in the back yard. He dug out several hindered and put them out for the trash man. He said some guy in a pick up came along and took them all! I bet he was going to sell them to some nursery. Any way there is still this bunch that keep growing back. This is whats left after I dug out 1/2 of them. I am going to dig a few more out this year. And keep a few. Good thing about digging in Florida is it is all sand! But these guys have big roots like a yucca plant has, you have to cut them with the shovel. If anyone is around I would be glad to give you some. Also started to clean off the patio so we can power wash it and clean the patio furniture. More on the project next post.

SAW YESTERDAY: Saw this guy yesterday when Maggie and I were taking a walk at our local park, I think I have posted pic's of this park in my other blog, I might still post some here. I don't know what he is, but he sure was pretty and cool to see. He would not let me get to close, so with my cheapo camera this is the best I could do. I want a camera like Judy and Emma , not that I could take great pic's like she does!
AT PARK WALKING MAGGIE

ANOTHER PARK FOUND CACHE: This is another one of those parks located all over Melbourne. This one had a cache hiding in a tree. The GPS took us right to the spot all I had to do was locate it. Looked all over down low then looked up and there it was hiding in a tree. I just love these little parks and they all seem to have a cache n them. If it wasn't for geocaching I would never know the were here.

HIDING CACHE

THE CACHE WEATHER IN MELBOURNE FL. Woke up to sunshine and warm this am. Temp 70's. By late after noon clouds started to roll in. Getting storms over nite and into tomorrow.

I still am going to the gym every morning, and trying to watch what I eat. Just going for a week has made a difference in my energy level, I cant believe how good I am feeling already. Now to lose this fat. lol

Well thats all for now thanks for stopping and come back soon.

Blessings to all

Donna & Maggie too.

I see PA is going to get some snow tonite.....sorry ....lol lol

VTT & STARTED TWO JOURNALS TODAY

RED KITCHEN

LOVE THIS BOOK

VINTAGE VALANCE

NEW JOURNAL

GLUING PAGES TOGETHER

MINI JOURNAL
WEATHER IN MELBOURNE FL : TEMP 78 We woke up to to rain this AM but by 10 it was hot and sunny.

Today I found some red kitchen thingies pic's on my puter from last summer. So I thought I would join in on VTT today. I am running out of vintage things.

First is a square Pyrex bowl sitting on a red checked table runner from the 40-50's. I love that red checked stuff, and I did find some napkins a few weeks ago at a yard sale down here in FL.

Next is a really great book with vintage kitchen ware in it, I love it. If you ever see one get it you will not be sorry. You will love just looking at it just for the pleasure, let alone looking up your vintage kitchen items. Eye candy for sure.

Then there is 1/2 of a cookie jar made by Hall China Co. expressly for Kraft Food Made in the USA that's what is on the bottom. When I looked this up it was listed for 350.00 with the lid. As you can see I don't have the lid. I hung on to it for years hoping I would run across one, but never did and finally sold it at a flea market. Made some $$ on it but nothing near 350.

And then there is my sweetie 50's hand crochet dress pot holder. Love these little things.

Then there is a vintage valance that I still have and going to hang in the kitchen here. There is a vintage food grinder on the left side of pic.

I am going to a antique show on Friday maybe I can get some cool pic's of vintage there. To keep me in the VTT.

Today I started two altered art journals, the blue one I got at yard sale for a buck! It is a great journal, worth way more that a $1. So I started gluing page together today, there are a lot of them and I need to condense them to make it manageable when its full. The other one is a mini craft paper book. I got a bunch of these when I worked at a craft store in PA. Did not know what I was going to do with them but they were so cheap like 10 cents, I could not pass them up. This is the first time I have tried anything with them. This one is going to be a mini travel journal, since the piece of old atlas paper is the first thing I picked up in one of my paper piles.I am learning to be more spontaneous in my art instead of trying to thinking it to death.

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Blessings to all.

Donna & maggie too

MORE LOOT & CACHE OF THE DAY

OLD ALMANAC'S : Here are a couple of old almanac's I picked up at a flea market this summer in PA. I paid more than I normally would but hope to make my money back selling on Esty and then get to use part of them on my own altered art. I have seen them since for a lot more than I paid so maybe I did get an ok deal. They are from 1912 and 1949. I was looking for one from 1945 the year I was born, but no luck.

WHEELED CART: This is the cart I got at a yard sale the other day. It was only $5 I got a good deal here that's for sure! It has wheels and is in like new condition. It seems like I get a lot of good stuff for $5. Dad always ask me when I get home what did I get for $5 today. lol I got some card board at WM to put on the shelves. They are those boxes that they have under a display of cans, like soup, like these were. I just condense a couple so I can get the box. I said in my last post how I was going to use it. I am really pleased with it!

CART

PARK CACHE

THE CACHE WEATHER IN MELBOURNE FL. Weather today was not so good. Warm 70's but had storms with tornado warnings all afternoon. I think we got about an inch of rain.

The cache today was found last week in one of those parks that seem to be around every Conner here in Melbourne. I love them. You can stop and enjoy them at anytime. This day we went out caching there were 5 caches we found in these 5 little parks. There is one little park by WM that I stop at often just to sit and watch the birds and eat lunch. The other day (didn't have camera again) one brave little Ibis bird jumped right on my hood and was look at me face to face, I think he has a habit of doing this, as he was not afraid at all. He was a little different than the others as he had a lot of brown feathers.

Any way back to the cache this was an easy find, GPS took me right to it, but I had to wait out a couple muggles with kids playing on swings. But it is nice in these parks so Maggie and I walked around checking it out.

I really need to start taking my camera with me all the time. Like this am when taking Maggie out for her business walk, right over the tree tops in front of my face there was a large bird carrying a fish in his claws. Now how often do you see that while walking on your street. Not in Pa that's for sure. I can not tell you what kind of bird it was, 1. I don't know my birds, and 2. I could not see it against the sky that well.

Went to the gym today and really glad I signed up. I only have been going since last Friday and I already like the way I feel. Its great! I only live about 1 mile away so I think will go everyday. I do a 30 min work out that they have set up. Makes it easy you don't have to figure out what machines and what order to use them. It is all laid out for you. I just have to remember how many lbs on which machines.

Well that's all for now thanks for taking a look and come back soon.

Blessings to all

Donna & Maggie too

PAINTED PAPER, SIGNED UP, CACHE OF THE DAY

SIGNED UP !

PAINTED PAPER

TOY CACHE AREA

TOY CACHE
WEATHER IN MELBOURNE FL. Nice today. 70's sunny and warm.

Well I finally did it! Signed up at Planet Fitness on Friday. I have been wanting to do this for a very long time, years in fact. Back in 03 when I was in auto accident and had to go for therapy I

just continued on with the gym for about a year. Then for some stupid reason I quit. Dumb, because I never felt better as when I was going to gym. LOL , boy did I notice a big difference from before and now. Big fat belly gets in the way when on some of the machines! Any way I am committed for 1 year. Losing weight is another goal for this year. But need to get this going right now. By the way this place is really cheap ! $10 a month, back in PA where I lived it was $55 a mon. and that was a senior discount! Not a Planet Fitness there.

Been working on my art every day, here is a pic of some painted paper I made this week. I just use my acrylic paint I had from before, and made it using the Best By add in the Sunday paper.

I learned that from ready my art blogs, you can make hand painted paper for your altered art using any kind of paper. I made a few more pages in my Junk Journal, I will post soon. I found a rolling wire cart at a yard sale yesterday 5 bucks. I plan on using it to go back and forth from Florida / art room to my room in the house. When its too hot or too cold I can not work out there. So I will take the cart to where ever ,filled with what I am working on. I would love to have A/C out there because its more hot than cold. A few days in Dec. & Jan. that's all the cold here.

I went to an art show this AM over at the beach. Lot of nice booths, forgot my camera. After that I walked on the beach for awhile, seen a guy using a metal detector and stopped to talk with him. As we were talking I was not paying attention and big wave came in and got me wet from the knees down, was a little cold but not bad. The guy was telling me he just got started beach combing not finding much .. But he did say a fellow out there yesterday found 5 rings. I have always wanted to do that. When my kids were little I got them one for Christmas one time, we had fun with that. I think that will be something for the future when I have "EXTRA" LOL money.

The cache of the day is one found last week at a toy store. Was pretty easy to find, had to wait out a employee muggler, gathering up shopping carts. My GPS was off a little but I found it!

Off to watch my STEELERS Beat the crap outa the black birds LOL

Well that's all for now thanks for stopping and looking.

blessings to all

Donna & Maggie too.

MY ART PROJECT, HOW I FEEL, FRUIT

CHRISTMAS PRESENT NEW PAGE

CLOSE UP

EVEN CLOSER
WEATHER IN MELBOURNE FL. LOW THIS AM 58, CLOUDY HIGH TO BE 74 WITH SUN LATER.

This is a new page in my learning journal. It reflex how I have been feeling about myself. Always hungry, over weight, more like "FAT". I am 65 and can not go on like this. So to start I put in a page for my journal. ( We R what we eat. ) First off I tried a technique from the Internet painting the back ground with acrylic paint. I used lime green. You just kinda slop it on. Its not ment t o be perfect. Then I used a couple of my new stamps I got at a yard sale and stamped all over the green. Also learned about putting a border around your page from cut up papers of any kind. I used some magazine pages, some strips of paper I cut from a paper I painted, and even some ribbon. Then I gathered up all the food clippings I had and just started applying them. I am still working on it. I wonder when a page is considered done? I put the big lips on the pizza head, considering that might be my big mouth, lol. Wanting to be filled with food.

I went to Goodwill and found some ephemera. An old stamp wholesale catalog with very nice colored pic's of the stamps. an old library book, about a bunny cut plain graphics. I found Goodwill a wealth of books for altered art. Especially kids books.

All for now thanks for looking

Donna

MERRY CHRISTMAS !

TAGS I MADE

TAGS FOR ESTY WEATHER IN FLORIDA TODAY: Some what cool with rain. I guess most everyone is going to have a white Christmas, that would be the only time I miss the snow!

Merry Christmas everyone!

Not much going on here, today. I thought about going to the beach for the sunrise but not a good weather day for that. I did get up and take a look at the eclipse the other nite. The pic's I post today are some tags I made for esty, speaking of I did get registered and started my store, they are made with my new tag punch that I got on sale at Michael's last week. Forty % off plus another 15% with coupon from paper. They were made out of an old world atlas, really old, an old sheet music, and old book. I will post a link for my esty store as soon as it is up and going.

All for now thanks for taking a look and come back soon.

Blessings to all

Donna

MY JUNK JOURNAL & SOME LOOT

LOOT I GOT AT YARD SALE: This was a great find of, old Christmas books, early 1950's very cool. Then I found some old doily's round ones, and a few in the shape of hart, diamond, spade, really nice fun ephemera. And a couple old books to alter. I loved the old library pocket! These will all be fun working in my altered art projects. MY JUNK JOURNAL

JUNK JOURNAL STANDING ON END

A PAGE IN JOURNAL

ANOTHER PAGE

MORE

THE BACK
This is my first attempt at making and altered art journal. So I decided to call it my junk journal, and fill it with things that I have and like that are lying around with out a home. Just being moved from place to place. First of all I altered the pages in side making them ready for the new occupants. I used some of the techniques I have learned on the Internet and used in the journals in the last post. One of the techniques was to wrinkle up a page then smooth it out and lightly rub a ink stamp pad over it. In the next to the last page on the left side, I tore up paper and glued it on the page, in one part I tore some tissue paper up and glued it on, it has the gold stars on it. Each page then is distressed with an ink pad. I will show you before and after pic's of some pages as I add to them. This book was a composition book, that I got at the dollar store. The front has a couple pieces of paper added to it, but had some decoration all ready on it. I will be adding more to this front as time goes on and I see something I like. The same with the back it was all red and I put the heart paper on. The ribbon serves a purpose besides being decorative, they help hold the book together as it gets heavier when you add to it. I am having fun working with this book. I have a few things here with me to put in it, as I still have a lot of stuff in PA. I have a few things the G-kids made for me when they were little, and a few cards the kids send me on BD's and Mothers Day.

I would love to join in a few swaps, if anyone reading this knows of any swaps that I could join in please leave a comment! I know its close to Christmas, so not much going on right now with this type of thing, but I would love to join a Valentine swap.

Thanks for looking and come back soon

Donna

JUNK JOURNAL

JUNK JOURNAL'S

INSIDE PAGES OF SMALL JOURNAL

CLOSE UP OF PAGE

MORE

AND MORE

In the first pic is both the journals that I have been working on. The big one was made from a note book that I got at the dollar store. I am making this one for me. Since I really didn't know what I was doing, did not want to put it for sale. A junk journal is, from what I can figure out, is a journal that you make to put things in that you want to keep and don't have anywhere to put it. like maybe things collected on a vacation, a day trip to the movies, any kind of outing that you have picked up some unique things and ideas. It can have things you have seen in magazines, books or photos and want to keep them. Things that make you smile, pleasing for you to look at, keepsakes, and a multitude of other things that I cant think of right now. I guess that it can be made from junk, such as cereal boxes old used books, magazines, the small journal in the pic is a kids chunky book, you know the ones that are made with the thick card board. I forgot to take a before pic, but I got a couple mine chunky books that I will do before pic so you get the idea.

You can cover your pages or any collage projects with old paper of any kind, flash cards, scrap booking paper (this is what I used for these) calenders, text from books, sheet music, junk mail, etc etc you get the idea. Once you start this you will come up with all kinds of ideas and will be hoarding every piece of paper that comes your way.

I covered each page and the front and back with paper. I have some designer clips and paper clips that I picked up at WM on sale. They are to hold things in your book until you get around to pasting and gluing them in, or just to old something that you don't want to glue down.

I did not call this a Junk Journal because I want to put it up for sale and you could very well use this as photo album as well. So I did not put anything on the front, like I did the larger one.

I had so much fun doing these, I got two more chunky books, and a note book to make more. I will be looking at yard sale for more chunky's. I will post on the bigger journal next time and tell you about some of the techniques I have learned and used in it.

At a yard sale this weekend I got 8 stamps for $ 1 each, the total retail for these like new stamps, was over $90 some of the prices were still on them and I know about how much they cost because I have been pricing them at Micheal's. I was doing the happy dance the whole way down the street!! I love yard sales!! I'm a "yard sale gal" !!

I will take some pic's of the paper clips and li'l plastic clips for next time.

Well thats it for now thanks for stopping by, and be sure to stop again

Donna

OLD CABINET CARDS MY VTT & ALTERED LUNCH BOX MINI

"OLD PAPER" EPHEMERA

LI'L LUNCH BOX ALTERED

A BUNCH OF LI'L BOXES

TAGS INSIDE LI'L BOX
WEATHER IN FLORIDA: Temp low 32 with high of 60 sunny and some what cool. Nice.

Today my VTT is some old cabinet cards and photo's I picked up at a yard sale. I could not believe my luck....there were about 14 of them and only 50 cents ea. That was a great deal! They usually go high and they are in great demand in the craft/art world. I have already taken them to staples and copied them on to card stock to use in my altered art projects. Also in the pic are some vintage S&P shakers, that I am going to use to put my glitter and German glass glitter in. Much better than plastic tubes that it comes in. And also a box of card with butterfly's, and again for altered art.

I noticed going to yard sales here in Florida , there is not much in the way of old or vintage things.

Not like it is up north. Might be hard for me to get things to post here. Might have to go to antique stores and take pic's to share. Would that be cheating???

Now for what I have been working on. I got the little mini lunch boxes at WM last year after Christmas sale. They and candy in them. Collaged the out sides, and made tags for the inside. The tag was made to hold a small pic and an area on the back for journaling. I have done them with a theme, the one on the right of pic 2 is Easter theme titled "EGG HUNT" spelled out with little beads on the front with a pic of a puppy with bunny ears on! Too cute. I have a couple Christmas ones, one for babies, and a sort of generic one. I did not embellish the others that I have done, could not make up my mind if people wanted them embellished or would they want to do it.

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All for this post thanks for stopping.

Donna

COLLAGE PACKET TAGS CRAFT ROOM

PACKET FOR ESTY

TAG I MADE

NEW CRAFT ROOM

MORE CRAFT ROOM WEATHER IN FL: Temp 55 this am - 60 afternoon, with clouds and some rain.

Today's post is about my new found paper crafting. The first pic is a packet I put together for my soon to be esty store. It is an ephemera of old game parts. Very cool in collage work. Its nice to have a bunch of a few different things, that way you don't have to buy a whole game to get one thing. That is if you can even get the older ones, they are not always available. I am going to sell these packets and other crafted things by me and vintage findings. The store should be open by Jan. 1. If you see anything on the blog you might want to buy just contact me. I hope to have a new computer by then, that is what is holding me up, as I don't want to list then not be able to take care of the site, because of computer problems.

The second pic is of a Christmas tag I made this weekend. In the pic I put some of the things I used to make it. The tag itself is one I got in a bag of 10 at the after Christmas sale at WM last year. I knew they would be great to use in altered art. The other thing in the pic is a vintage Christmas card. I used parts of it. Old sheet music, vintage buttons, tea dyed old lace, some stamping etc, and my tag is done. I did add one more thing and that was a vintage hair pin to use to hold a pic if you want to add to the tag. I have fun making these tags! Oh, also on the back I did some stamping and added a small piece of vintage school tablet paper. Remember those old tablets?

And last is the "craft room" a small area in the Florida room. I am not sure how this is going to work out. There is no AC out there, only a fan to keep the air moving, don't know if I can work there in the summer or not. Some times now it's a problem. With the heat and all. Anyone else out there living in Florida, give me any hinds on how to do a craft area? Will things get mill dew in the summer ?

Today at 4 pm I am going to Micheal's, with their 40% of coupon and other specials I am gathering up things needed for collage, and paper crafts. Today they have punches for 40% off and another 15% off from 4to 9 pm. This is the only way to get this stuff when its on sale!! I was there Sat after black Friday and got some great deals at 50 % off plus 20% more of from 12 t0 5 pm. I will show you my loot on next post.

Well as I am sitting here blogging, the sun has come back out. That is one thing great about FL when it rains or storms, as soon as its over the sun is out. Not like good old PA where it stays cloudy and dreary for days and days.

I am making an "Art Learning Journal" I will show you and tell you about it soon. It is fun thing to do, I am making pages on all the things I am learning about collage and paper techniques. I ran across a Utube video on how one women does it and I sure learned alot, cant wait to try all the things she showed. I really want to do some swaps and trades, hope to get into that soon. Not sure how to go about it.

Well that's all for now thanks for stopping by and come again

Donna & Maggie too! PS: Click on pic's to make them bigger.

VINTAGE WRAPPING PAPER FOR VTT

VINTAGE PAPER

VINTAGE PAPER

MORE VINTAGE PAPER

PAPER DOLL VINTAGE PAPER Hi all, I am still working on my craft - art studio. It is coming along very slow! I will post some pic's at some point but it will still not look done. I am still working on the ceiling, working over my head is slow going. And I still need storage thingy's. Found a wrought iron mag rack at a yard sale this weekend and put it to work already. I needed more table space so I got two of my 6ft.

1x12 boards out of my truck and my metal pipe saw horses and made a table out of those. Worked out pretty good. I use these boards when I take items to flea markets. I will not need them till summer. I still have several totes sitting around about 1/2 empty.

This week for TTT I want to show you some vintage wrapping paper that I unpacked this week.

I don't remember where I got it, I have had it so long. It was like Christmas when I looked at it all! There must be at least 75 different kinds of paper. All very beautiful, and in great shape for its age. I can't wait to start making things using these. You can click on the pic making it larger and get a great look at the detail. In the last pic, the paper is paper doll's how cool is that!

I did get some time to start working on a few things. I will post pic's soon.

Well that's it for now...thanks for checking out my blog and come back soon

Donna

ADDING NEW TO BLOG : ALTERED ART& VTT

INSPIRATION BOARD TOP HALF

INSPIRATION BOARD BOTTOM HALF

ALTERED DOOR HEADER Well , I was trying to decide what way I wanted this blog to go, keep it vintage or art/craft blog.

Finally figured out that it could be both because with with the altered art , I use a lot of vintage and antique things doing this type of art. I think some of the things I did in the past were altered art, such as the rehab furniture, and the decorative painting on the "junktique" Check the archives to see these things. Now I will be doing alot with other old and vintage things, ephemera, (old paper) collage, embellishing, stamping , sewing, journaling or doing anything else to a book or other items to reflect a creative idea, theme or narrative. This form of art encompass soooo much, that's what I like about it you can go to so many places with it, unlimited fun!

In future post I will share with you the techniques I learn and all the mistakes I make along the way, but the way I look at it, nothing is a mistake in this form of art. lol

The first thing that I have been working on is an inspiration board. Not sure if that is what it is turning out to be. It is an old cork bulletin board, I painted it pink, cause that is what I had handy, then I started picking out some things to decoupage on it. I had a lot of my stuff packed up so I used what was still lying around, just so I could get started. First added a piece of vintage dress pattern, then some old sheet music, scrabble tile my DlR , vintage wall paper a couple faces of women I drew in pencil, a tag in the upper right corner that I made a couple yrs ago, just fooling around trying something new, the gold circle on the tag is an old earring that you can cut a pic out and put in place of the vintage girl, and you can journal on the back, the flowers in the middle right are first time trying the box tape method of transferring images. Kinda cool. Maybe I will fill it up with different techniques I learn. Anyway that's what I have done so far.

The other pic is of an old woodwork door header that I took out of a 100 yr old house that they were demolishing . I gave two of them to my dd and she made a sort of head board for her guest room. The theme in the room is beachy/ocean , really turned out nice. She glued on sea shells, put on that fish net and a few other beach findings and hung them above the twin beds in the room. So see you can use anything for altered art!

You can click on the pic to make them larger, now I am off to do more cleaning and packing up.

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Blessings to all

Donna