Flea Market Studio

Playing dirty..

Playing with Dirt that is... Planting new flowers and herbs. Planting  a new and exciting business and going back to school. Its time to finish what I've Started. At 40 I will be a student again. Kind of weird to me. Such a great time for me. Things happen for a reason. Got it.. Embrace it... 

A little hint about the business..... doing what I love... Here is a picture from the Scrapbook class I taught on Friday night... too fun!

The weather has been Fantastic! Its not even right... Cali thinks its Summer.. We spent some days at the Beach..  Sad looking boogie board though.. time for a new one...

   

Here are some shells we collected in 1 day..

Just living in our Bathing suits on the weekends...  and spending time with great friends. Some sadness has happened once again with people I know and  love. More loss More bad news. I am sorry to say that I am getting used to it. Part of Life. Its still hard... I will never be good at handling loss. 

I am working on a Art Journal from my trip to Portland . It is a Altered book this time.. Here is the cover and some of the inside pages.. Its getting ready to be put in my Beach bag with a pen... will finish writing in the pages in the Sun.

  
 
 
 

That is pretty much what has been happening at the moment.. also still working on the Baby Book for Baby Simone.. here is what is sitting on my table at the moment...

 

  

  

Lots of new Art to share....

Auntie Lilia has been busy making Simone's baby book. This is the cover of the book. I am planning on making a page or two each week.. and I will share them with you. Its really fun to make this book for my Darling niece.. I took so many pictures and have so many ideas....  We had my in-laws visiting the past two weekends. I love it when they come. I am one of those lucky people that adore my Husband's Family. We love to entertain them.. and show them around The Beach.  My hubby is great at the grill.. here is where he is the happiest...

   
 

 We love to BBQ carne Asada tacos and make Sangria.. The garnishes are fresh limes, cilantro, onions, homemade guacamole, Mexican ranch cheese Yum! 

Notice the Tropical shirt.. he wears them all the time.. he says it makes him feel like he is on vacation.. Oh well, it makes him happy so I wont say anything.

I have a project that I am teaching for some ladies... It is a chipboard Spring book.... 

SPRING BOOK:

There are more pages, but wanted to share just a couple. This is the first Scrapbooking thing I have done a long time... I took out one of Darianne's vintage suitcases that contains her mini books... WOW. I am obsessed with mini books!  here is one that I did in 2003.. it makes me laugh.. what was I thinking? using a dollar store flip flop for a book? Oh well, it is Dariannes favorite... 

   

      

Makes me want Summer to be here.....I need to make more Scrapbook mini books... There are a ton of events and pictures I  keep neglecting and they make me happy. I am working on some books for some clients and it has made me miss scrapbooking a little. too fun. I also did something for Artful Thursdays.. We needed a dishwasher sign...  My husband is notorious for sticking dirty dishes in with the clean ones.. a sign  one that says CLEAN on one side and DIRTY on the other... Found these large magnets at the Dollar Store:

This is what I came up with:

Just turn it over when they are DIRTY....   

Thats all I have for now..  Here are some more Feather Hair pins that I made, I went a little crazy...

They remind me of Alice in Wonderland for some Reason... will probably go and see The new Alice movie... maybe will have to call my good friend Alice to accompany me..