Win rubber stamps!!!!

It time for a sketch challenge over at Prickley Pear!

Please play along with us and get the chance
to win a 1/2 sheet of unmounted rubber stamps!

That is a wonderful prize, for such a fun sketch.

Visit the blog here.

Here is the sketch:
Here is what I did for the sketch. I love this retro
lady from Prickly Pear. You can buy her here.

Recipe:

{Paper} Solid Brown Paper-PTI, Pattern Paper-DCWV

{Ribbon} Thin Brown- Offray, Thick Brown- May Arts

{Stamps} 50's Girl- Prickley Pear, Small type letters- Provo Craft

{Punches} Edge, and Corner- Fiskars

{Ink}Pink Edges-Spun Sugar and Vintage Photo Distress ink,

Black-Momento, Brown-Momento

{Other}

Celebration tag-7 Gypsies

Small woman cut out-Leisure Arts (ATC Pattern small book)

Vintage Buttons

Brown and White Stripes Butcher String

Fabric-Moda

Lace- Unknown

Crown Gem-Darico

Pearl and Diamond Gems-Mark Richards

ScrapWorks-Rub on Brown Letters

Heart Pin-Fancy Pants

It's beginning to look a lot like a 50's Christmas

I love the 50's the art, the decor and the simplicity. It all started when my grandparents gave Jon and me their 1950's dining room table. Black and white, formica top with chrome legs and the leaf that unfolds in the middle of the table after you pull it apart. We love that table, and use it everyday. After we received that, I just knew I had to decorate 50's style. Most of the time it only comes out for holidays... but I am trying to gather more everyday 50's things as well.

I hope you enjoy looking at my 1950's christmas collection.

Please let me know if they bring back some memories for you!

Tree will be going up in front of the window you see in the TV's reflection.

(actually we bought it last night and it is up there, it just needs to acclimate before we decorate it.)

Magnetic Chalkboard Wall

Ever since I was little I've always wanted to paint a wall with the chalkboard paint. My dad even bought a can when it first come out (and it was only available in green). It still sits unopened downstairs with the rest of the paint (going on 23 years now). Now that I have my own home I can make that want happen. When we bought this house I knew EXACTLY which wall I wanted to paint. We have this narrow wall in our dining room that is on the side of our pantry, PERFECT for the chalkboard paint.

I went to the local home store to pick up my one can of chalkboard paint, to find out that now it came in Black, great, because our kitchen/dining room is 50's (I have an old chrome dining set that was my grandparents), and the black matched better. I also found (right next to it) a can of Magnetic primer. Oh... I was thinking.

So this is what I did. First I sanded down the wall really good, and then washed it. After it was dry I used the Magnetic Paint as a primer... UNDER the chalkbaord paint! So after the 2 coats of magnetic paint dried, I put about 4 coats of chalkboard paint over it. So I have a...

MAGNETIC CHALKBOARD!

I hope you guys find some great uses for this treatment. In a kids room (would be great on closet doors) or on the side of a old wood box.

Finds #2

Thrift store finds
This week my DH dropped me off at the thrift store while he went to a Sportscard Show. Lucky for me! and even more lucky the entire store was 1/2 off for Valentines day. Here are the finds I came home with (I probably would not have bought a lot of these things but at half price, could not pass them up). In the next few days I will add a lot of these items to my Etsy site.

• Awesome wool felt card table cover for bridge
• Beige thread (I think a lot of it is vintage)
• Vintage little girls dress-up white gloves with embroidered flowers
• Happy Holidays tray (I already have a matching metal covered basket)
• Huge box of paperclips (they have a unique shape)
• Unique zipper pin
• Vintage glass Mt. Rushmore coasters
• Very odd fully beaded bird wall hanging
• Funky paper w/envelopes
• and another wooded hanger for this project

Close-up of the paperclips and zipper pin



Detail of the beaded bird... isn't it beautiful



Awesome 1950's aprons! (mom found a couple for me too)



Vintage needlepoint dog and cat wall hangings, great colors
Kitchen prayer tray (I think I am going to hang this on the wall in my kitchen, so 50's)