Meet Grace

So, as many of you know, we've added a little section of fun fashion accessories aimed mainly for the college girls, purchased and displayed by our own little Miss Sarah (check out Sarah's blog).  I've been wanting to find some funky display pieces for her to use in her little corner.  Thanks to our friend and neighbor Donna of The Grove Vintage for this great idea.  I had a blast making her so I thought I'd share!

I found this torso mannequin at a local second hand store.  I think she'll be great for Sarah's scarves, jewelry and whatever else she wants to put on her, but she's ugly!

Gotta love Target's back to school sales - White glue for 25 cents! and a couple foam brushes...

Thanks again to Donna for scoring a 1930's hymnal from a church rummage sale for me!  So I cut up the pages in random squares...(can you guess yet what I'm gonna do?)

...and started gluing!  (If you said decoupage, you'd be correct!)

...and gluing...and gluing...phew!...all the way around.

The curves were a little tricky to get completely flat, but small pieces help.

I finished with a final coat of glue to seal it all.

So this is Grace.  I really love the way she turned out...

...so much that I'm making her a friend.  Hmmm...she's gonna need a name!

Get your preschool creativeness going, play with some glue and start decoupaging!  Next thing you know I'll be making tissue paper twisties! jk

Have a great one,

Mary

Hi! It's been a while!

OK, so the latter part of 2011 and the beginning of 2012 was a little crazy...you haven't seen us around the blog much...why, you ask?  In a nutshell...

We got a wild hair...

   OK, I got a wild hair...(sheesh!  the look!)
   

Me...I got a wild hair...(Laurie never has a wild hair...literally...she uses really great hair products...anywho...)

 We found a neglected space that needed some Hen lovin...

 Could we do it?

 Would we be biting off too much?

 

 We took a gamble before...so what the heck?

 

 Kinda sentimental leaving our little spot...but excited to decorate the new one!

Packing was fun....

 Yeah...NOT so much! 
 (Laurie's gonna be sure she holds the camera more after she sees these beauties!)

So we signed the lease in January (that's my man...he's not really signing the lease...he's drawing a floor plan - the dressing rooms behind his head need to come down)

 Honey...come out of the closet...

That's better...no more dressing rooms!  We need a stockroom!

Boys will be boys...they still like to break things...and tear things apart...and make noise.  And they made lots of noise!

The stockroom takes shape...with a little help from our friends.  We fed them.  They'd do anything.

Laurie couldn't wait to try the new paint color. (see what I mean, still good hair...)

Just so there's proof I was there...note: not so good hair...yikes!  We look like we're having so much fun, don't we?  I neglected to have the camera the day we were curled up in a ball in the corner sobbing..."What were we THINKING?!"

My church moved us...God love 'em.  They were like little army ants...aaand by that evening everything was unpacked and put in beautiful displays...wait...that's not right...oh yeah, remember that curled-up-in-a-ball thing?  Yep, this is where it comes in.  Note the lumber?  That's right, construction wasn't done yet...product & displays were stacked everywhere...utter chaos.

The City wouldn't let us hang the awning outside...go figure...so we put it over the counter.  We like it better anyway!

It took almost 2 months but we re-opened the end of March, and we love it here!
So there you have it...that's what we've been up to.

Stay tuned for more blogging!

See you soon,
Mary