Prior: May 2011

Sunday, May 29, 2011

Creating Things: Restoration

A Framed Button Bouquet

God's Word...

Blues..

Old Bottles

and

Vintage buttons...

Tattered bits

and pieces...

5 Sisters
Lezlee

PS...I found my camera, my grand baby hid, lol...

Joining the Frame Party
and wow us on Wednesdays...

Restored
Lezlee

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

oH hOW i WISH i COULD gO, iF YOU LIVE ANYWHERE NEAR HERE, Australia, gO, AND iF YOU DON'T JUST FOLLOW tAMARAh'S GREAT ADVENURES ON HeR bLog.

wISHiNG
lEZLEE

Friday, May 13, 2011

Went to Prarieville, pronounced Pruvulle, well that's not exactly the way to say it, but I'd have to speak it to you for you to know...I took Moma, today, some old time folks were having a sale, in a barn. Moma didn't really recognize Prarieville, like she used too. It has for ever been a special memory place for Moma, stirring deep love, this land she was born on... and she made all of us kids and Daddy love it too, with her stories, along with our own memories, mingling together. Daddy wasn't born there, but you would have thought so. He spent much time there fox hunting and in the old home place, turned hunting shack~ doghouse...swapping stories, playing dominoes, and of course, listening for the dogs' bark. Mabank and Prarieville breathe, to us, like only places that hold memories for one can do. Places having names for their bottom lands and pastures, some still called by the names of people long gone.

This is Prarieville for my moma, her memory land...

We pulled up some Black Eyed Susans, by the roots, the ground being soft from recent rains, she is hoping to replant.

Replanting Memories

Lezlee

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Mother's Day Display

My teacup gardens are displayed on this sweet, two step white washed ladder; Suzette bought from "Girls Gone Junkin'", when they were at The P, one day. You can catch them at Canton. I stapled a "grow" light fashioned from a bed spring and small light, similar to the ones that go in a Christmas village, to the underneath (top). Really makes it SHINE OUT, lol.

Each little teacup has a tiny tea stained sign saying...
Tea Cup Garden...and the name of the particular flower or plant...

William and I drilled a little hole in the bottom of each cup for drainage...

Also, a larger sign advertises, "Tea Cup Gardens ~ Great for Mother's Day!"

Later on I'll change the sign to,

"Tea Cup Gardens ~ for the "little" gardener in us all..."

me on Mother's Day with my Five kids...1993

Happy Mother's Day!!!!

Moma with Jacob, 18 years old, now...

Growing
Lezlee

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

5 Sisters are at the Tea, Again...

Sandra, our friend, had an idea to create some art from burlap and wood. She cut the board, stretched the burlap, and made the wooden vase...Suzette, Sister #1, made the gorgeous flowers...and I broke some branches and did some arranging...

Here are the results of our efforts...

I love the little bit of bling to set it off...

We've sold some and added more and changed it up a bit, since this photo was taken...

Mabank Website for Details

and at the bottom of the page you can even spot Moma, she is the one in the hat!

Come on and say, "Hi"!

lots of browns in my White Wednesday, but hoping it still qualifies!

At the Victorian Lady Tea Room it's...

tea time
Lezlee

Monday, May 2, 2011

5 Sisters are at the Tea!

Bed Spring Wreath ...Spring has Sprung!

I have had some exciting things going on around my junking world...First...Round Top, then meeting Ki , of Flea Market Style, this past Friday, to name a couple...
another is a little more close to home...

decoupaged eggs for Easter and a little birdy

Janice, friend and owner of the delectable Victorian Lady Tea Room on Market Street in Mabank, Texas, let us help her with the displaying of some new Spring items, she recently received. Since the New Year's Day fire, a couple of stores down, she'd had to give her place the once over for smoke damage, and hadn't had the chance to spiff up for Spring....

So...while we were at it, she graciously allowed us to bring in some of our creations to sell, as well! What fun for us! And right up the alley we had been thinking...

seasonal sales and possibly a store front someday.

For now, we are thinking and planning a Fall Sale ...

The 5 Sisters Fall Fling and Christmas Thing!

Reviving Moma's old "Smidgen Shop"

and spilling out under the trees...

We are starting off small, so we can style it just so...

finalizing exact date...more info to come.

You know there were 5 girls, in Moma's family, and 2 boys,

then Moma had 5 girls and 2 boys, us,

I am daughter number 5 and I have 5 kids, so I like the number 5!

Here's just a little Smidgen of what the Victorian Lady Tea Room has to offer...