Christmas Ornaments for the Kitty Tree

Well I decided I just couldn't leave the tree with a fabric garland. So I figured I would use what I had and started hauling out the glitter, glue and any bits and bobs I could find. Truthfully I didn't know how these would turn out so I used all the left overs of other projects and just winged it. The kittens were ALL OVER it and it was all over them! The baby stepped in the Tupperware container of glitter and dumped it all over her and the floor. She jumped which gave the room a shower of glitter that I have yet to get all cleaned up! Then the other one stepped in the glue bowl and glued all her whiskers together!

I have never had children but I now feel like I had decorated a tree with two insane toddlers!!! OMG how do you mom's do it? I was so stressed out by the end of this project I thought I would lose my mind. Then you look at them and think, oh yea you're cute all right but, "One of these days Alice, Zoom to the moon!!"

So, I'm done with decorating!! I will end up re-decorating this tree over and over again anyway so it'll be like I did more. It felt good to start and complete a project. I have found myself starting a project, becoming unhappy with it and throwing it away! So frustrating!
The good news is that I have a class with my partner in crime Charlene, this next week with KC Willis !! I'm really excited! Cross your fingers  I can crawl out of this black hole of a creative port a potty and get back on track!

I'm Late to my own wedding!

I had this nagging feeling today that I was forgetting something..then the lightbulb goes on  at 10:30pm, I'm late to my own Wedding Party! I am so excited to join angelicaccents.blogspot.com for this wonderful party!

I think I have collected about 100 vintage wedding photos from the 1900s to the 1960s. The earlier ones are my favorites.

You can go to the header above and click on Vintage Wedding Photos and t will take you to my Flickr account and you can download anything you want! I have collected these for several years and I am addicted!

I always look at these photos and wonder what were they  thinking? Did they love their spouse to be or was it an arranged marriage?

The different styles of dresses and even how they are posed have changed over the years. These flapper brides are just beautiful! And look at the flowers!

You can tell that this bride came from money by the size of the bouquet and the gorgeous  lace her gown is made from. Plus, ah, to be a little catty, this is not what I would call a beautiful bride so I have a feeling her dowery was very large!

This couple looks Greek because of the high crown of her veil. Neither look to happy about the upcoming nuptials!

This is one of my favorite photos because the woman I bought it from  said it was her daughter,"She was a beautiful bride, but she married a rat bastard!" I laughed so hard I almost got the vapors!

What an adorable flapper bride! Now I want to think that these two are in love, they just look so young and innocent. I think she looks like a fairytale princess with her flowers in her hands and surrounding her feet.

OK, nobody looks happy in this photo! The bride looks like she wants to say, "Help, get me out of here!"

This is a terrible photo but I wanted to show you my latest prize. In the middle is a music  box with the bride and groom on the top. Of coarse it plays,"Here comes the Bride." My friend Charlene saw it at Canton this past week, I had walked right by it! Way to go Charlene, she is truly my partner in crime!

I found her all by herself in the top of a closet at an estate sale, she was only $10. That makes it even more fun when you find a deal on something you love!

Again a bad photo but this is a wedding shadow box that I found in the Junk Gypsy booth in Round Top, Texas. Once again, my friend Charlene dragged me back to the booth when I started hemming and hawing bout the price and said, "Buy it!,NOW!" SO I did. Thank you again Charlene!!

This is just part of my collection of cake toppers, like all my wedding items, it's an obsession that I adore!

OK, can you guess what this bowl is filled with? Cupcake toppers. I bought everyone that I could find...this is only part of them!

I need to take a photo class this photo looks pretty poor. The lace everything is sitting on is one of the many tea stained wedding dresses I have. I have a tutorial on how to stain a wedding dress on this blog if you want to learn how. :)

These headpieces are from the "Holy Grail of estate sales. It was a woman that owned  a wedding dress shop!  She owned a shop!! I was there and hour and a half before the sale started and took my own big bags to pile everything in. As it turned out, the estate sale people gave me a CLOSET to put everything I was buying in!

These were sleeves from that same estate sale, they were only $10 a pair. I went back on Sunday morning, early of coarse, and swept EVERYTHING into my bags and everyone was whispering as I walked by,"There's that girl that bought all that stuff on friday, yesterday, and now she's back today!" I didn't care, I just wanted to pour it all over the floor and wallow in it!!

So maybe you're wondering what I do with all of this wedding lace and beaded sleeves? I made tops like this one! The beading was really hard to sew on so I've only made a couple.

A close up of the beading.

This is the back of the top. The layering is from the bottom of a wedding dress, it's my favorite so far. I think because it took me s long to finish it! I won't wear it this Texas heat, I'm afraid to get to hot and ruin it. SIlly I know!
Thank you for joining me for the wedding party. Sorry I showed up late to the party but I made it in time for the reception!

You've been invited to a mystery wedding!

You've been invited to a wedding full of mystery and doubt, the poor bride will soon find out the groom is a lout!

The bride dreamed of big dinners and picnics in the park, pleasing her husband and keeping that spark!

The groom had charm and a wicked sultry smile, he'd fooled everyone because of his style.

He thought she had money, why else would he bother, little did he know the butler was her father.

So at the alter they met with false expectations, the

exchanging of rings, both imitations.

They spoke their vows and were about to say "I do," when all of a sudden he was whacked with a shoe!

From the back of the church stood a girl, skin alabaster, "This wedding is off, this man's a disaster!"

The groom was already married and deeply in dept,
He thought with this new bride his life would be set.

The bride's withered mother, a woman challenged in grace clocked the groom right there and he landed on his face!

The bride stood in horror, then smiled at her mother, let's get started now and find me another!