Flea Market Tote Tutorial

It is Flea Market time !!!

I love big flea market totes

but having your money

at quick and easy access is a

really good thing :)

This is a tutorial

on making a little bag for just that ~

The first step is to buy a tote which

can be found at most craft stores ~

Then, I am a ruffle kind of gal

so I used my ruffler that

I just love ~ I got mine here ~

This is my sweet sister's shop :)

It is easiest for me just to ruffle

a bunch at a time making it

any width you like ~

Then I used the Citra Solv transfer method

to transfer my image on to the tote ~

You have to use a printer that uses toner

to print out the image or it won't transfer ~

Then I cut my ruffle to the size

I wanted and you can either

sew or glue it on ~

I love to use Fabri Fix because it dries fast

and is washable ~




You can add any embellishments

you would like ~ I added a

little rolled rose that I glued on

and an old key tied to the top ~

That is all !!

Have fun flea marketing !!

If you don't want to make your own,

I will have them for

sale on my website here ~

Added later today :)

This is just another example

of one without the

transfer but more ruffles ~

You can get the little charms here ~

Avalon Rose Market Square

I just wanted to thank Cathy at Avalon Rose Market Square

for featuring our website and

one of our products on the home page ~

WOOHOO !!!

There are some awesome shops

there so make sure and check it out ~

This is the sweet necklace Cathy featured ~

It can be found on my website here ~

Canton Trip

A couple of weeks ago Lisa and I went to Canton

for First Monday ~ Oh my gosh !! I am so very

much addicted to that place ~ I LOVE it !!

Our first stop was LaurieAnna's Vintage Home which

was pretty much to die for amazing !!

It is beyond anything I can even begin to describe

and words and pictures are not enough ~

Another place we had to go was to the

Girls Gone Junkin shop ~ It is also just awesome !!

I am constantly amazed

at the talent of all of these ladies ~

I really loved this coat !

Thank you Lisa for all of these pictures

you shared with me :)

I wasn't going to post this one until I read the sign in

in the background and had to ~

It is perfect !

Girl's Trip

I just got home from having a wonderful long weekend

girl's trip to Southern California ~

My two girls met my mom, sister and niece

and we laughed, shopped

and ate to our heart's content ~

We all used to live in the same town

but now my girls and

I live in Texas and they all still live in California

so it is great

to get together and do trips like this ~

This is Chelsey (my niece), Kristin (my oldest daughter), Kim (my sister),

Sue (my mom), Stephanie (my youngest daughter) and me ~ We are

at the Orange Coast Swap Meet ~

What is a girl's trip without chocolate :)

This is one of my new favorite shops ~ It is called the Daisy Shoppe ~

Their website truly does not show how soooo yummy it was ~

Their clothes were awesome, girly and lacey ~ I loved the decorations and

accessories too ! It was me all over !! This is my daughter though in the picture :)

This is my mom and my two girls at the Irvine Spectrum ~

It was a glorious sunny day to shop at an outside mall ~

This is my sister, Kim and I ~

It was the end of the day and it looks like we should have

been getting our makeup done with my mom :)

My niece must have been hitting the shops since

she wasn't in any more of these pictures ~

It was a fun time and we can't

wait to meet up again soon

for more girl's weekends !!

For the Love of Lavender

I LOVE Lavender !!

Every time I go visit my family on the Central Coast

of California I drag them to a Lavender Farm ~

There are certain things I just love to do when I am there and

totally took for granted when I lived there ~

Besides the lavender farm, the ocean is a must :)

My mom's friend grows lavender and she saved just

a ton of it for me ~ I was soooo excited !!

Here are just a few of the pictures of the lavender

I am totally hoarding but ya know there are only so many

places I can put lavender in my house ( I guess.... )

I actually do make sachets for my website

and had a tutorial here if you would like to visit ~