Flea Market Studio

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.   

Easter hangover.....

seriously, how many deviled eggs can one person eat? If I don't see a egg again that would OK with me. Had some family over yesterday for brunch. The rest of my family spent the day with my very sick 92 year old grandmother . She had a stroke over 2 years ago and has never been the same. Very hard on the family. 

It was such a beautiful day here in Cali. Took lots of pictures. Went to download them and realized I forgot to put the CF card in my camera. Great. Perfect ending to such a wild week. Got one of those calls , you know the kind you dread, From my daughters school telling me I need to pick her up because she got really hurt. I was not prepared to see the Mango- sized lump on her forehead. Took her to the hospital. We are so lucky is all I can say. She has a concussion, but nothing more than that. She looks like she did a couple of rounds in the ring. So I am quite sure she is the one who took the CF card out of my camera. Oh well. I hope everyone had a nice Easter. If you live in Arizona, I miss you. This is the best time of the year there and I have been missing it so bad it hurts. Miss my Mother in law and my husband's family.

I work with the little ones at a Montessori school I worked at 12 years ago. I have never been with children that are not potty trained. but had to share this story of the cutest little rascal in my class. His name is Kevin. He is one of the most confident, adorable, witty 2 year-old Ive ever met. He is not at all interested in getting stared in potty training. So he comes up to me and says " Umm I go poo poos ......sorry" so I say to him " Umm I am not going to change your diaper......sorry" he walks away from me looks back at me and says " umm YOU WILL" and keeps on walking. Stinker!! well needless to say 10 minutes later I am changing him and in the middle of it he says "See".  too funny.

The only other thing I have to share are my new Delicate pretties........... In the Flea Market Shop. Handmade using vintage crepe paper. Bye for now...

I interupt the last post to bring you this......

Dariannes Birthday Tea Party Invitations.... Love this image so much! I used vintage soft pink crepe paper at the bottom as a ruffle for her dress. Well, those are done! Let the work begin! This brings me to something Ive been thinking of doing for a while. I am going to start doing custom order Invitations on my ETSY Store. I love doing invitations! I wanted to show you the little Flea Market Finds...... from the other day...... There is more but I will post later because I also want to share some Easter inspiration ........ I found this wooden 99cent store Easter Egg and just made it my own with My little Girl's picture on it. The last picture is a new store find. There is the prettiest new sage green crepe paper and two beautiful shabby chic looking garlands. Love them! That's about it for This year's Easter Decor. hugs-Lilia

Happy Spring......

I had to share this picture of Darianne picking flowers in the backyard. Just love it. Where did the time go? 6 years old. Makes me tear up a little. She cracks me up. She has the best sense of humor. The other day she picked a dandelion in the back. She knew her Dad was going to be home after she went to bed so she left him a note: it says "don't blow my Dandelion"  too funny. She is also a little turkey, I caught her putting her Teddy's arm on a lit candle. It scorched the arm and she was hysterical. I was more, she could have caught herself on fire! The candle was on top of the counter, but no lit candles  around  her anymore. Well, after I calmed her down. I fixed Teddy's arm : All is right with the world. Heading to The Long Beach Flea Market with my little family. I don't know about you, Love my family but would rather go alone. I can't think. My husband says he wont get in the way. We will see.... Tell you more about it later. Working on D's Birthday invites. I wanted to share some things in Flea Market Studio: Well thats pretty much it for now. I have a update on Flea Market Studio Etsy. Hope you are having a wonderful day!

Class at SweetPeas..

I had to share the great day I had yesterday! Wonderful class. Wonderful group of women. Great conversation. Cupcakes. Oh yes, we did some Spring Journals. Here is a peak at Sweetpeas and Snapshots.

Wow, so fun.  Thank you Mary. Next class is April 26. It will be the You little Doll book. I haven't been doing much Spring Art lately. I usually make a piece or two. I found this cool white metal tree with a birdie on the top, for 2.50. I have been meaning to fill it up with some Easter Art. Maybe this week. I got this egg shaped wood basket at the 99 cent store and made it Flea Market Studio style. That is pretty much all  I have to share for the day.