If I had a store I would use the book ...and the Stars Go With You by Robin Brown of Magnolia Pearl, to get ideas on how to decorate & display everything! This is a table book for some and a wish book for me. The photos are amazing and there are wonderful quotes & stories. Oh my gosh, forget the store and just use these ideas to decorate your house!
If you like original and quirky you will love this book.
Magnolia Pearl is also a line of clothing. There are many samples of her designs in the book.

Yikes! Sorry I have not been posting lately! I have been working on some bigger projects. I should be able to post pictures of them in a couple of days. In the mean time, I am starting a new junk journal challenge. I decided to make my
September journal with inspiring quotes and motivational ideas that fit with my inspiration board. I love the beginning of a new month because it’s like a fresh start. Here is to a great month!
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I just got home from my trip to Wyoming! Loved seeing family, hiking and doing a tiny bit of treasure hunting. I found the cutest canister set ever! We were having lunch in Encampment, Wyoming and went to a little shop called Blue Moose. On my way out I spotted an entire vintage canister set, bread box & pie keeper from the 1930’s. It is so incredibly charming & I knew it would have to come home with me!! The flour canister is big and round and is very rare. I think this set will be so cute in my camper or in my art room holding supplies. I am a happy, happy girl.

I am on my first road trip by myself traveling to Wyoming to see my sister and nieces & their families. I stopped in Colorado Springs to see one of my best friends and now I’m off to Saratoga, Wyoming!! Tomorrow I am going hiking & camping with my sister & niece by Lander, Wyoming. You see, you can travel and still be safe during this crazy time. I love the beautiful state of Wyoming!

I can’t tell you how much I adore this picture of my niece Jennifer when she was a little girl. She just looks like she was born to wear wings❤️ I want to do a collage with each of my nieces & nephews when they were little. You can’t get much cuter than a little kid!

It all started with this hand carved iron purse! I fell in love with it the minute I saw it. I was in an antique store looking for old ledger paper and I’m pretty sure I heard something yell “Over here “. I went over and spotted the most unique carving I have ever seen. I admired it, then looked at the price tag and thought I better not. I went to pay for my items and I couldn’t stop thinking about the purse. It is truly a piece of art. By now you can guess that I bought it. I did!
This story brings me to my wood placemats. I decided to display my carving on the dining room table for now. I have a hand pieced linen table runner that works well with the carving, and I thought wood placemats would finish the look I was going for. I was going to make the placemats from old bar wood but I didn’t have enough. I had plenty of plywood and so that is what I used. I cut the placemats out, sanded them, then painted, stained and distressed them.
​Here are some ways I can use everything with my dishes.

I finally picked up my needle & thread! I wanted to make a little mermaid using muslin, colored pencils and embroidery floss. Once I finished her I cut her out to use in a mixed media collage. I probably would have left her alone on fabric but I drew her out too close to the edge of the material. I will most likely make another one now that I have her design down. Fun morning spent on this project!

I started a new challenge! I think I’m going to really like it because all I need to do is work on my art for 5 minutes a day. The thing is, once I sit down to work on something I loose track of the time. I guess that’s not a bad thing.
Yesterday I worked on a journal collage about my brother, Jay. A wonderful, wonderful brother.
I’m working on a journal that will have pages with my family members photos. I think they will all be in collage form. I’m going to write about each person and my memories of them.
The second photo is of my great-grandma, grandma and her sister at a ostrich farm in 1916.

I’m still having problems with my blog photos! They keep getting added to old posts and appear in the wrong spots! I keep fixing them, and don’t know what else to do! Please hang in there with me!

Today marked the last day of Junk Journal July on Instagram! I had so much fun creating my pages. I really like using photos and adding the different paper, tags and embellishments to the pages. I like to make the pages personal & fun to look at. Here are my last few posts.
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