Flea Market Studio

Come and Toast with Me and Mary.........

to the Location of the New Sweetpeas Store!!  I have not had such a better time and laughed so much!! We went to see the location in VENICE.....Oh my has this place changed! It has to be one of the most happening spots around. We were there from 11:30 till about 4:30. Walked up and down the street and toasted with some pink champagne...this woman brings the CHER out in me and even before the first glass. Not many people can do that! Mary is going to transform this place into a petite Palace fit for a Paperie Princess! Here is the before shot: Love it......Wait till those Shabby and Chic Mary hands get a hold of this place! I will let you know more details as they come.... but Venice? so cool. I Love L.A.!

While we were gone for the day, our little Girls spent some time together. This is what we came home to: Teacher Eliza's classroom. They were playing school. And look at one of the students counting the minutes until school is out!  too funny! The dogie sat there the whole time. So glad these girls like each other, because I have a feeling they will be hanging out alot more together! Here are some more shots of them and on the next post I will show you Mary's house. Soooo adorable you are not going to believe it!

Hello...

Hope everyone had a wonderful Mothers Day... the most underrated profession in the world..! Spent the day with My Mom , her husband and little D. My hubby had to work, it is the the busiest day of the year at the ChartHouse.  This is my Mom with little D. Love it when they snuggle! Made some Strawberry Shortcake... Good times. I am feeling like a Florist lately... I made the petite bouquets for the Flea Market Studio Shop . I am so into flowers these days. Must be a Mothers Day thing. I wanted to share a picture of the cutest little guy..his Mom said it was OK to post him. this is him at our Mothers Day tea at school.... Didn't I tell you he was cute?? This is my little guy Kevin. You know the one I told you about a while back, the one with the diaper? I adore this guy! He is too funny! Look at his Sears sucker suit! His Mom has him posing his "GQ Look" ....... He calls it "kids Q"....What a difference a day makes right?Love it. That is all for now, just leaving you with a book I am working on that is sitting on the top of my desk at the moment calling my name..... hugs

What Ive been up to....

Happy Cinco de Mayo... a little late. I know. Needed to rest and take in the fun times I had this past weekend. Felt like I took a trip around the world. Friday night was a blast at Sweetpeas! Kim at Artistic Bliss had the girls over and Mary put on a spectacular night! All India.... food was so delicious and the Mango Martinis......well you know they hit me when I started my ridiculous Cher routine! Woke up with Henna tattoos all over! So fun! Went to Kim's home and met some amazing and talented ladies! Wow, wish I could have taken some of those classes......they looked spectacular! Sunday we spent the day at my cousin's house celebrating Cinco de Mayo... the only 2 in the family that actually celebrate. and yes we are Mexican! She made the most amazing Sangria! As you can see this is 5 minutes after it was served! Viva Mexico! Not all fun and games, spent half the day in the kitchen making enchiladas....maybe 50?? My Mom laughed when I told her I was helping to cook, she said "its allot of work". I snickered at the time, guess she knows what shes talking about! Too many fiestas under her belt....you think?  Paying the price for the weekend.. how did I go to school and go out 4 times a week in my 20's?? no kid.... no hubby... no responsibility......I get it..    I don't want to grow up!

Ive been trying to get the studio in order. Having a little trouble. There is a huge futon in the office...... Hubby refuses to get rid of it. All it does is hold all our stuff! He asked me what I wanted for Mothers Day and I told him I want the futon out of the office....we will see if my wish comes true...    I played with a little Art tonight for the first time in a very long time........here are some things that I came up with......  

The first one is a bouquet of vintage and new millinery.... picked them up from all over the studio while cleaning up....came up with a little bouquet. The 2nd picture is of my "you little doll" book but in pink. I am selling it if anyone is interested. I sold 4 kits after my class and have 2 more left just e-mail me at lilializbet@mail.com. The 3rd photograph is one of my baby journal pages and the last one is of 2 dollar store journals re-done and decorated Flea Market Studio style. Gotta love that Dollar store! Bye for now.

Spent the day with much needed R&R.....

Spent the day at the beach on this hot day! My friends said we brought the AZ weather with us when we moved. Little do they know what hot really means! here are some pictures from the day.... so glad we moved to California......

Would love to claim that body of the girl holding D from her feet, but sadly it is not mine.... one of my best friend's. Hope you had a great Sunday....

Just a quick Friday post.......

Happy Friday ! Wanted to put some pictures up from the Long Beach Flea Market finds the other day and give a BIG update on the Flea Market Studio Shop. Lots of packs for Mothers Day and lots of Mini muse packs. Here are some of the finds from The Flea Market.......... This little doll was on the floor... dirty and uncared for poor thing! Love the little outfit! Those Little Miss Peachtree undies are in pristine condition and the box of 2 were 5 dollars...lots of Victorian scrap...couldn't leave that booth the guy kept giving me deals, Alice had to drag me away! anyways wanted to share and Hope everyone has a Happy Friday!

So much to share........

Had one of those weeks.... you know the kind . One day fantastic, one day horrible , one day calm , at this point I want off the ride. Well, it ended great...... This is what is sitting in our driveway as I write... Had to turn our ex-terrible in because it was a lease. Horrible experience with that thing. Not looking forward to wheeling and dealing for a car. Started the week with some awful offers, by Thursday I didn't care what I got as long as I could rely on it. I was not going to do another SUV with the crazy amount we are paying at the pump. Well lets just say we got a great deal! 2008 Chrysler Sebringconvertible. Paying wayyy less than we were with the old car. I must say, pretty fun to have the top down in Cali. Love it. Who wants a ride?  Lets see, spent the day at the Long Beach Flea Market with my friend Alice.. had to share something she made! It is a brilliant idea!  It is a plate with a glass candle holder on the bottom. Isn't it beautiful? She gave it to me, and I thought wow, I wonder where she found something so beautiful and she told me she made it! OK, adding that to my list of things to make. Thanks Alice. Love that lady. I will share what we found at the Flea in a later post. Also had to share what my friend Mendy made for me for Dariannes Birthday... She is getting so good at soldering! I am terrible at it. It is always so rough around the edges. Hers is so perfect! I have some very talented friends. Thank you girls! 

So about a month ago this German magazine contacted me to do a article on my website. I had to share, because I cannot understand a thing. too funny. All I can read is my name. They are very generous people though and so nice to work with, so don't turn down international magazine offers.... you just wont be able to read the article.

I had a funny story to share about my cousin Claire. Made me laugh so much. She was at Starbucks Saturday morning. She was in line 6 people back, she sees this guy in a wheel chair having a hard time trying to open up the door to get in. My cousin cannot believe no one is helping this poor man. So she goes and holds the door open for him he says "thank you, God bless you" and goes in with the wheel chair. At this point my cousin is feeling real good about herself for doing this. That is until she sees the man park his wheel chair by the side, stand up and walk over to order his coffee!! She cannot believe her eyes... and feeling so dumb she is trying to figure out if anyone saw the whole thing and the funny thing is no one was even paying attention! .... Too funny!! I laughed so hard..... I am wondering if it is one of those shows where they set people up like that and film them.... I would have said something to the man. She is still confused at what happened! Well, I am off to spend some Sunday night dinner with my little family.... here are pictures of the pages in the book class at Sweetpeas this Saturday.

Sunday already?

How can it be Sunday already?? I cannot believe how fast the weekend goes by. Too fast! Spent Saturday morning Thrifting with my favorite Thrift Partner little D. I scored again! The same ones we went to a couple of weeks ago. Its funny the places we didn't find things the last time, I scored at and the ones I did find things... nothing. Like a box of chocolates you might say...never know what your gonna get.  I finally put some packs that Ive been owing forever to some web friends! They are going out tomorrow. Spent the day with my Sister in law and her husband. They were in town and we had so much fun! It was 92 here in Cali! Had pitchers of margaritas and took a stroll down the beach..........how can you go wrong on the beach???? Love it. Here are some finds from the Saturday

Those elegant vintage lady images were the best find! 17 of them for 2 dollars! They can be framed and will be for my vintage shabby bathroom! I also love the vintage card game!  Well I am loving it here. Found a friend that I adore. Her name is Alice. Ive known her on-line for a while and met her back in Phoenix. Well, I just adore her! She is the sweetest person. I also enjoy her company. She is so giving. Next post I will show you what she brought to me and for Darianne at Dariannes Tea Party. Yay! I miss my friend Kat so much... but so happy I have a new Art friend to hang out with here in Cali. Next week we are headed to the Flea Market. My friend Lia and I are doing another book together and a big swap. Love to do art with this girl! Here is the cover of the book I am working on for the collaboration:  I know what you're thinking... birds birds birds. Well just cant help it I love birds still! Little black and white pictures sewn on to the side of the book. I also wanted to show you what I bought for 1.50 when I went to lunch with my friend Alice the other day..  Isn't she Lovely??? It did not come with the millinery flower, of course I had to add it! Added lots of things to the Flea Market Studio Shop ..... and thats pretty much it. I got me some Baby back, Baby back ribs for dinner that are calling my name!  Hope you are all having a wonderful Sunday Evening with your families. hugs

More Tea Party photos....

Wanted to share some more of the Tea Party.... Details Details Details..... Lots of things going on here.....The water bottles are decorated with vintage wallpaper and have Alice in Wonderland stickers on them.... the vintage milk glass bowels are filled with pink bubble gum balls and pink malt balls.... the chairs have pink tutu's , princess wands and vintage hats to play dress up... The silver tray held items for them to remember for a game we were playing....played musical chairs to "Be Our Guest" from Beauty and the Beast.....one of the best things to do at a party is to have take out boxes or bags so the guest can take leftovers home (less for you to clean and take home with you) Love this picture of one of my Best friend's little girl drinking from her Tea cup.....Also took a picture of all the dolls that were brought to the party....so fun!

Magical Tea Party...........

I found my calling...... Can you believe this place? Sweet Peas and Snapshots you are the best!!! Mary and I have our party ideas ready....... Are you ready for your next Tea Party at SweetPeas?? I am so filled with this Party....A Dream Come True and I think my Little Daughter's face shows that it is for her too!! Thank you Mary. This business is going to be fun! XOXO More photos to show on the next post....and details but until now.... So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, adieu
Adieu, adieu, to yieu and yieu and yieu

Getting ready for The Tea Party......

OK Ladies (tea pots) Start your Engines........   These are the Tea Pots I have collected over the years for the Grand Tea Party. Of course It's more for me than Darianne. We all know where she had it last year (ugh!) at Pump it Up. This magical Tea Party is so much more fun to put together. All the Tea Pots are going to have tags that say "Drink Me" and the pastries are going to say "Eat Me" just like Alice in Wonderland. All mixed-matched Tea cups and saucers, vintage of course. Each girl will be getting one of these. Scrumptious bracelet's

I was not going to make a hat this year because I am having the girls wear all of Dariannes vintage Hats. She asked me if she was getting something made for her.....ok, ok already. I made one on Saturday night, not anything like the pretty ones I see in peoples blogs, but this is it girl.. I got a party to put on! Not leaving husband out of the work either, sorry honey. I have a list of songs for him to download, including the music that is played at The Tea cups ride at Disneyland. Reminds me of when Me and Dede were there last year and Darianne was breaking her neck just to say hi to Alice.

Here is a picture of a Lollipop center piece :  They can pick one and take home. I am telling you, it is too much fun.... I am dreaming Alice in Wonderland every night.  I spent the best Day with Darianne on Saturday. The night before I mapped out some Thrift stores in another town. I felt like I was back in Phoenix. Cheap, and I cannot tell  you the luck we had, I will just have to show  you. Darianne and I call it Treasure hunting. She had 8 dollar for the day. I had 40...and this is what we found........... Darianne found a Victorian doll (in the Box) for 5 dollars. I found lots of vintage trims, antique beads, a vintage flashcard game, 2 vintage English tins, a pack of vintage math flashcards, antique gold stars, vintage  books,  antique Chinese lady postcards,wallpapers and much more with a great lunch to end our day. Love that girl... she is so much fun to Thrift with. Here she is back from a day at the pier. See the last little sign of the accident on her forehead? Thank God she is alright......more pictures after the party.