Tag you're it!

I've been tagged by Alisa at Life is a Beautiful Place to Be to provide five things weird about myself. That should be easy.


1. I have a ritual when getting dressed up to go somewhere nice and if I don't do it in that certain order it ruins the way I look (or so I think).

2. I've never let my dog or any dog officially lick me. I shiver to think of a dog licking me.

3. I love to eat apples lately but when biting into them it's almost like nails down a chalk board, the texture freaks me out a bit.

4. I'm scared of the dark.

5. I can bend my fingers back on my right hand so far that people get sick looking at it.

So far I've tagged...

Tiff at RicRacSally

Mrs. Antoinette

A lovely customer of mine inspired the making of this sweet little sign. She purchased four Marie Antoinette Fact card sets from my Etsy shop only to have the fourth one eaten by her dog. To repay her for her losses I made this little sign and stuck it in her package with her cards as a surprise. I do hope she enjoys it. Plans are are in the works for something snazzier when time allows me to create. Stay tuned for a lovely little paper mache box I just made that reminds me of confectioner's sugar, that is how sweet it is.

A Marie Antoinette Swap

I am going to do it! Recently I participated in two wonderful swaps to prepare for hosting my very own swap. A swap about who else?... but Marie Antoinette. I would love to have 10 ladies to join me in making a "Let them Eat Cake" Marie Antoinette paper mache box. I have not worked out all of the details yet and will but would first like to see who is interested.

If you are interested please send me an e-mail at hjcompton270@yahoo.com

From there, I will get everything together and send out details. Once I have the 10 ladies I will set a date. I would love for us to have a little more than a month to complete our projects.

Finally!

Even though these handmade gifts are a bit late getting to the birthday girl, I'm hoping that my hardwork makes up for it. I really wanted to make this little girl something very special to which I think I accomplished.

S is for Sarra, who turned five this past February. I'm very pleased with how this turned out. Decoupodged with a vintage look I found in scrapbook paper. Modge Podge added the seal and sparkle. This letter is adorned with a sparkly teal blue tulle hanger for her room!

"La petite de reine drame " means little miss drama queen in French of course. What little girl isn't a drama queen? This turned out a little differently that I had hoped but still very cute. The next time I make it I think I will just change a bit of the embellishment.

Finally, I really love this Marie Antoinette box and plan on selling this in my Etsy shop. However, there will not be a cake on the top. The next one I make will be completely Marie Antoinette with some vintage buttons or costume jewelry, and feathers too! I used bubblegum pink paint and sparkled each individual portrait or Marie. I think the cover would look great in a pink german glass glitter, which I will do next time.

D'avec sa tête ! (Off With Her Head!)

Where in the world did I get this Marie Antoinette doll? My friend Jenny purchased her for me last fall on her trip to Salem, Ma. Where else in the world would you find something like this but in Salem, home of the infamous "witch trials."

Marie gets a ton of laughs from friends. They are completely stunned when her head flies across the room. That head does fly!

My son, Christian, loves to get a hold of it. One morning when getting him out of his crib, I held up a headless Marie and said,

"Christian, where is her head?"

Being not even two years old, he looked at me then to her, and smiled. He led me to her head later that day where I found it sandwiched in our couch cushions. Poor Marie!

One more not so lovely option for this doll is to strip her down to a shaved head and Bastille clothing, her pre -guillotine appearance.

Needless to say, she is one of my new favorite things! I especially love her les cheveux font (hairdo).

Trading is so much fun!

I was contacted by a fellow Etsyian (I say "Etsyian" like we are from another planet) to trade an item of mine for a fantastic item of hers. Scarlet Beautiful has this amazing photo of Venice that she took while visiting. Needless to say, I didn't hesitate a moment to partake in this trade. My hubby and I went to Venice and many other places in Italy for our honeymoon so this became his Valentine present. It is in her shop on the second page. The color is outstanding in this photo.

Memories etched in my mind...

My life was in slow motion once. I stood before two closed wrought iron doors holding my father's arm. It was almost as if I was no longer inside my body but floating above. Beautiful music echoed through out the entire Cathedral Basilica. I tuned in just as I heard the most angelic voice singing, "Ave Maria." Was she really singing this for me? I was to glide down the aisle in this most serene place, the place he propsed to me because I loved it so much. He waited so patiently at the end of this long aisle. Soaking in every single moment of this journey, this walk to marriage, I didn't take even a second for granted. Never will I forget this dream like moment in time when my Father needed my tissue more than me, as he handed me over to my love, my husband.

Another memory I savor that is so fresh, so vivid and brings such amazing warmth when I recall it belongs to Christian and I. Yes, my amazing husband was there the entire 17 hours but for this one moment in time I felt as if it was just me and my brand-new son. After such a long and tiring labour, they placed this amazing creature onto my breast. Truly, he could have had a third eye ball and I would have thought him to be the most beautiful baby ever created. It is impossible to describe, with words, the birth of a child when it is your own. In that moment you have no idea how much you will love this child and how much you will worry about this child because he is everything and I mean, everything.