Be Sure To Wear Some Flowers In Your Hair

"For those who come to San Francisco

Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair"

(Scott McKenzie)

Look at these gorgeous hats I found at an estate sale last weekend.

The prices were ever so cheap, too.  That doesn't happen much anymore.

I love this nifty-roo cardboard box.  It has little drawers that I can pack with all of the treasures I've been accumulating.  The only problem is then I forget what I have.  Although the joy of that is 

it's such a complete surprise when I rediscover them 

when opening the adorable little drawers!

This briefcase is just pretty darn cool.  

My husband said, "How many suitcases do you need?" 

after I showed it to him.

Silly, silly man.  That question is totally meaningless and irrelevant.

Gorgeous winter white ribbon.  Some of it was velvet, and some of it was a heavy satin. 

 I also found a nice bit of Tiffany blue double sided satin ribbon.

I adore old ribbon.  The texture now-a-days is not as lush and dense.

Eeeps....my grandmother's voice just crept up through my throat

and escaped out of my mouth before I could snatch it back!!

This is an old copper clock face.  I also adore old clocks.  Clocks and watches are my  obsession.  I think it's because I feel a sense of time closing in as the years tick-tock quickly by.

Time is too slow for those who wait...  

Oh dear, now I'm channeling "It's A Beautiful Day." 

 Does anyone but me even remember that musical group?? 

 I did love that album cover art though.

Click on this link if you want to hear their song White Bird.

This is a bad resolution but it is the album cover.

Funny story about this album.  

My husband loves Elvis. Songs with meaning.  You know.

 I loved this album and songs with odd lyrics!

I had it on the s-t-e-r-e-o (remember those) playing one night 

when he was over at my apartment.  

I was listening to "The Girl With No Eyes."

With the blankest look on his face he said,

"Are they saying the girl with no eyes?"

Yes.  Yes they were.  

I'm telling you, they don't make ribbon like that now-a-days 

and they don't write music like that either.

The ribbon I miss.  Some of the lyrics....are highly suspect!

One last bit of 70's memorabilia for you.

I got this for free at the estate sale!

Yup.  It's going inside of my bug.

Stay away from girls with no eyes

and be sure that you wear

some flowers in your hair!

A Whiter Shade of Pale

We skipped the light fantastic, turned cartwheels on the floor  (Procol Harem)

I have skipped the light fantastic.  But honestly, I've never been able to do cartwheels.
Besides, I'm pretty sure this song was more about doing drugs than cartwheels.
 Another one of those songs that I understand a lot less now that I'm older.
 Beautiful tune - weird lyrics. But a great song.

I'm newly inspired by it and this new white kit by Holliewood Studios.

I've been playing with this new digi-kit  Stark.
Everything is white and it's been a lot of fun as well as challenging to create with.

As always, click on the picture if you want to see more detail.

Water Landing

The Great White

Heart Ache

Can I Keep It?

It's Because Uranus Is In Retrograde

I have no clue what that means.  I do know that if you walk up to someone who's complaining about something or having a bad day and say it with the utmost sincerity you will receive the most stunned reaction you've ever seen.

Works everytime!  AND at least for a while it's true.  Uranus IS in retrograde.  That being said I thought I'd make some tags 

with stuff I have laying around the house.

This is called Molly Sue and the Crystal Ball

If you look closely you will see a man's face hovering inside the crystal ball.  This is the man the psychic said would be entering Molly Sue's life.  Soon.  Very soon.  Molly Sue hopes so.  She's tired of surfing on Hot Singles.com.

This is titled Sea.

It really doesn't make a lot of sense.  This is what comes of me doing art too early in the a.m.

Without coffee.

It's my take on an ATC.  I made it on the back of an old playing card.  

I hope I don't forget that I did that.  

Otherwise my chances of winning at a game of  solitaire 

with this deck are really reduced.

It's pretty strange and I sort of went nuts with the gesso.

These are better.  This is a series of three I did.

I call it The Alphabet Tree.

I rather like the way these turned out.

Here are closeups of the three tags.

I actually liberally "borrowed" the idea for these tags from Tim Holtz.

He used Ranger ink to color the tags and then stamped images

 with his new line of rubber stamps.

I painted water color paper with paint.  

Cut out the tags, and drew on my own tree.  

The little birds are cut out of an old children's dictionary.  

Inspiration in it's finest form.

Have a great day.

And remember the retrograde thing.  ;o)

If You're Happy and You Know It Clap Your Hands

Are you happy?  What makes you happy?  Can you choose happy and does the "bluebird of happiness" have anything to do with it?  Is happiness really a constitutional right or is it merely the pursuit of happiness?
Is there a happiness gene?  If you don't have it, are you doomed?
These are the things I think about late at night when the television is off.
Me?  I'm pretty darned happy most of the time. 

Susan over at A Circle of Buttons is happy more often than I am.
The bluebird of happiness looks for her when he has a bad day.

The only time Susan is not happy is when Blogger doesn't play fair.

Then she calls me for help.  

I know just enough to be dangerous.

Because I help Susan with her blog 

when IT'S not happy,

she bought me these as a thank you.

Nothing makes me happier 

than a friend 

who wants to see me get blood poisoning.

I can't seem to find the records for my last tetanus shot.

BUT - I know that the sight of rusted, sharp metal objects 

(and the possibility of contracting lockjaw)
 makes me swoon!!

What is all this rambling about?

Kane County Flea Market.

Just walking around the flea market makes me VERY happy!

And no, I have NO idea what these rusted things are.

They are just cool and groovy.

Saying cool and groovy makes me happy.

I bought some pretty lace.  Lace makes me happy.

If Stevie Nicks redid her song "Leather and Lace" to

""Rusted Blood Poisoning Stuff and Lace" I'm pretty sure she could have sold a few more record albums.

This was a pretty lace collar, I bought.  Unfortunately for the lace collar

I'll probably cut it up into bits. 

 I don't think adding it to my Miller Lite t-shirt with the paint stains on the front 

will help to gussy  up the shirt any.  

So, instead I'll chop this gorgeous lace collar

 and make something with it.

Do Ya Feel LUCKY??

Now, THIS was cool. And groovy.

  It's in really good condition and I just love the box it came in.

I'm a sucker for a good box.

Actually, I'm a sucker for any kind of box.

I'm in therapy for that now.

All of  the pieces are there.

My lucky number is right up on top.

Thirteen.

That is my lucky number.

If you aren't feeling happy 

here's a quote to inspire you:

Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness 

or have gone stark raving mad.  ~Norm Papernick

Now go out and start smiling at people.  

It makes 'em wonder what you're up to!

and...BE HAPPY!!

WINNER! Mad Tea Party Giveaway

Let's get ready to

ruuuuuuuuuummmmmbbblllee........

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnddddd

The winner of my Alice pendant 

for the Mad Tea Party Giveaway

 is:

The Quintessential Magpie!

please visit her blog at http://thequintessentialmagpie.blogspot.com/

(and the crowd goes crazy)

VUVUZELA  sounds erupt from the stands

Hip Hip HOORAY!!

CONGRATULATIONS!!


The tea party was so much fun.  
Thanks to everyone
who dropped by to visit! 
A BIG thank you to Vanessa at
A Fanciful Twist
for hosting the event.

Just we three for the fourth.

Saturday Morning. 8:00 a.m.
It's flea market Saturday!  Yay!!

It's a beautiful 4th of July weekend.

Nothing special planned.

Flea market, maybe swimming.

Definitely grilling outside.

Fireworks.

Spending time with my husband and daughter.

Just we three for the fourth.

As Craig Ferguson says, 

"It's a great day for America!

Happy 4th of July!

Giveaways

Look at this mountain of beads
that Denise
is giving away
on her blog.

Go to Denise Yezbak Moore's site to sign up!
You still have time to sign up but today

is the last day.

I just love giveaways.

Thank you to everyone for visiting my Mad Tea Party this past week.   It was such fun to make and more fun to visit all of the

parties getting to know new bloggers!  I started out with a plan

and ended up all willy-nilly wandering down the cobblestone path of Wonderland. I'm still visiting parties, as I know there are some that I've missed.

I'll be 
pulling the winner 
for the Alice pendant 
on Sunday.

Have a wonderful day!