Blue and White Ornaments

A Blue Sharpie, a smooth, plastic ornament and some basic shapes make for a pretty ornament. As seen on Pinterest, wipe the ornament with some rubbing alcohol, use a pattern or make one up, take your marker and start drawing.  I sealed mine with PYMII.  

The mirrored balls are on a timer.  I mixed 2 strings of battery operated lighted mirrored balls in with the ornaments.  The glass vase and crystal pillar candle holder are from Goodwill.  I'm so happy with this arrangement.  It's also my nightlight. I love how soft the lighting is.  I'm going to hate to take it down.

Holiday Decorating

The small tree in my master bedroom is decorated with vintage rhinestone jewelry and jeweled fruit.  Can't wait for the holiday trees to go on deep discount so I can get a larger one with a revolving stand.  They need some room to sparkle.  Some pieces were my grandmother's, some my mother's, some my friends and the rest I couldn't pass up.  Hope your holidays are going well and you are staying warm and cozy.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Feeling so blessed.  Grateful for my loving family and friends.  Wishing you a Happy Thanksgiving.

Riding Along

 

"Just Riding Along".  Polymer clay figure dressed in air dry polymer clay sitting on a purchased animal.  Kind of like me just riding along everyday still recuperating from a knee revision and a hip replacement and have 3 more weeks of physical therapy.  Now have a new issue to deal with; a blood clot in my left lung.  Ya know, it's not the way to start out the New Year! 

Beaded Spiral Icicles

I have made close to 40 of these beaded icicles.  Some for hanging on the tree, some on the chandelier and some on me!  The Beads Knees has graciously provided a free tutorial HERE.  The pattern was removed from the internet a few years ago, but is now back up.  Enjoy!

Mermaid on Red Vase

 Translucent polymer clay sculpted onto a crystal vase.

Detail of vase.  I ended up removing all of the first layer because it felt too busy.  I ended up with the swirls of seaweed and liked it better.

Floating Tree

I "finger painted" the translucent polymer clay onto both sides of this leaded crystal vase.

Mermaid

Translucent polymer clay sculpted onto glass vase.

Another Mermaid

Translucent polymer clay sculpted onto glass vase.

Translucent Polymer Clay

Translucent polymer clay sculpted onto blown glass.

Polymer Pansies

Translucent polymer clay sculpted onto glass vase.

Polymer Clay Coral

I found this beautiful blown glass piece at Goodwill.  Several chips and small cracks in the very bottom, but easy to cover up.  Time consuming layering the translucent polymer clay, but worth it.

Mermaid Vase

 Translucent polymer clay sculpted onto glass vase.  While I've been recuperating from a knee replacement, I've been busy claying.

The End of the Washington Trip

 After Solvang, we returned to Flying Flags RV Park and started packing up for our trip back to Sun City West, Arizona.  We were going to split it up by stopping in Desert Hot Springs, California, but we could not find the RV Park.  We found out later it had changed its name but had not changed their signage.  So it was a long trip home.

The top photo is of some faux plants I purchased in Twisp Washington.  The middle photo is of a Chestnut seed.  We saw so many chestnut trees.  The seed is so beautiful. Crack it open and there is the chestnut.

I was inspired by this succulent arrangement and collected faux succulents all throughout our trip.  They took up no room at all and I can't wait to make an arrangement with them.  So, all in all we were two months away from home.  It was wonderful and we are already planning next summer's vacation.  Thanks for viewing.

Solvang

 I LOVE dipping dishes, dipping oils and tapenade spreads.

 Solvang had many "olive" shops so I was in heaven.

Solvang, California

 Solvang, California is a small Danish village full of anything Danish. [Source]

 Galleries, Restaurants, Motels, Inns, Gift Shops, Antique shops, Bakeries, Snack Shops and...

 Christmas Shops!!!  A huge tourist attraction.  It was fun.

Family

 They had fun at the resort with Grandpa.

 Made a few crocheted pumpkin hats for our 3 youngest grand kids.  They all loved them so I will make more.

All of us together at McDonald's.

Buellton, California

 Flying Flags RV Park & Resort was great.  Spacious RV sites, security, three pools, cabanas and a kiddie area.  We stayed here four days and nights.

 From here we visited with our grandchildren, went shopping in Solvang and Lompoc.

Thanksgiving Turkey

 This big wild turkey came into our camp making all kinds of noise.

 He wasn't afraid of people at all.  He was magnificent.

El Chorro Regional RV Park

 After camping here for two days and nights, we headed on to Buellton, California.