A beautiful little dress

My wonderful friend Sabiha sent me this gorgeous little 1:12 scale dress. She made it from silk that came from one of her husband's old ties (now that's recycling at its best!) and it is the most beautiful shade of blue.


The dress is so spectacular that I wanted to do something very special with it. I've had this frame for many, many years and that sheet of scrapbook paper for a few years, lol!


Put them all together and volia! How cute is that!! Even hubby thought it was cute!

And here it is now in my bedroom. I have far too many picture frames and I don't like making too many holes in the walls so the other day I decided this might be a good idea. A sheet of soft board covered with fabric. And now I have a sort of picture mosaic and they can easily be changed around.

The little empty frame is waiting for me to find a baby picture of Noah, maybe I should do that right now.

And that's another designer fabric sample covering the board and the chair. That was a great big sample piece just the perfect colour for my room, I love it when things just happen to work out!

Mercedes

Fleamarket Style in my house!

After I showed the mini version of the Flea Market Style magazine in a previous post I was emailed by several lovely people offering to send me the real magazine.

And here it is in my 1:1 house for real!! Sent to me by the Flea Marketeers themselves - Linda MacDonald and Matthew Mead!!!! I still can't believe it's here, I never dreamed I would actually be able to read the real magazine.

The magazine is a visual delight and truly inspirational. See that sack cloth cushion on our (brand new) 1:1 couch...well, I got that idea from the magazine.

That sack cloth I've had tucked away for years. It's real designer sack cloth which sells for hundreds of dollars a metre here, it already had the crowns printed on it. But I found a very upmarket shop that sells off their discontinued fabric samples for a mere $5 each (that's even less in any other currency!). I'll have to show you another day what I've been able to do with other fabric samples.

Thank you for the magazine and all the wonderful inspiration Linda and Matthew!!

Mercedes

Little 'metal' tables

I've been having quite a lot of fun making these little tables.

Slightly rusty.

Galvanised.

Rusty.

And a big brother to go with the rusty one.

I think the slightly rusty one looks like it belongs here in the shabby house. The little 'Statue of Liberty' came from a tiny snowglobe that belonged to Liberty. She was absolutely heartbroken when she dropped the globe and it smashed into a million pieces...I, however, was rather happy to see that tiny little statue.

I've had a LOT of computer trouble in the past week which is why you haven't heard much from me. Of course having no computer has meant that I've had more time to make things...more to show you soon!

Mercedes

Some shabby details

I've been making a few little things for the shabby house.
A very shabby book.


A shabby magazine. The title of the magazine is 'Flea Market Style' (a perfectly shabby title!) it is a new magazine and is unfortunately not available in my part of the world. Linda MacDonald is the editor at large of the magazine, her wonderful blog 'Restyled Home' I have followed for a long time, plenty of great (inexpensive) decorating ideas there! And here is the Flea Market Style blog.

I asked the super-talented Rosanna to embroider me a piece of fabric that I could make into a shabby footstool and she sent me this exquisite piece (quite some time ago I should tell you!).

Last night I finally made it into this.

The shabby house is nearing completion. Once I've finished all the little details (ha, ha! will I ever be finished?!) I'll take you on a shabby tour!

Mercedes

More mail from Sylvia!

You can imagine how excited I was to find this pile of packages from Sylvia in the mail!

Sylvia sent me some of her fabulous 'brocante' style enamelware, I LOVE these things! And just look at those tiny onions!

Also in the package was this crocheted bedcover and cushions, just beautiful, I love the colour! The bed and mattress were made by a lady at our club, alas they have no home yet but I just love the style.

And would you believe Sylvia also knits!!!! Is there anything that woman can't do, lol!!! How cute is that little jersey?

Thank you Sylvia!

Mercedes

Mail from The Netherlands and Spain!

These pretty little things are gifts sent to me by Sylvia last week. A gorgeous tiny angel ornament, a beautifully painted candlestick and two tiny Paris postcards.


Sylvia also sent me this fabulous frame.


And especially for Liberty there were stickers and the most fantastic house shaped lollipop. Liberty said it was the BEST lollipop she had ever had!
Click here to pop over to Sylvia's blog where she is having a giveaway - it is in two parts and you could win something made just for you by Sylvia!


I was very lucky with the mail once again last week! This beautifully knitted little dress came from Meli who lives in Spain.


Meli also sent this fantastic pair of little tiny slippers, they are so beautifully made and look so real!! The slippers match the dress perfectly. Meli is such a lovely person, I told her once in an email that I would love to hear someone Spanish say my name and she rang me!!

Thank you Meli!

Mercedes