Link Parties!!

Come join in the PARADE then do a little Blog HOPPIN as well!!! click the buttons below for rules and FUN!!!

                                           

  

Today it was actually HOT outside!! Just in time for me to take pictures of my baby girl wearing a couple new things from ~Couture Unraveled~

The *new* garden party flower clip...

This flower has 6 pretty petals with a pearl accented rosette...It can be worn clipped to a hat OR as a hairclip alone!!!

New hat!! I am going to call it the "Lazy Dazy" hat...

 

I am in LOVE with B & W photo's right now!! They are just so old fashioned!! Sometimes I think it would be nice to live in a day without all the mumble jumble that goes on now a day's...to live in a more "plain" time...these pictures bring me to a place I have never been before.....

ONLY in B & W can you take a picture of  a little girl standing beside a road blocked sign and have it be CUTE!!

and...that concludes the photo shoot/taking a walk with Cienna

The End!!!

I hope your day was filled with greatness and Blessings!!

Victoria ~Couture Unraveled~

Lampshade Refab

So....

I was garage saleing and i saw this lamp(for $5.00)...thought it was cute, even though the lampshade was a bit..."tattered"...i thought to myself...as long as it lights up...I can always "buy" a new lampshade!!...I mean surely they sell this style of lampshade in the stores?!...I've seen them before!...right??

WRONG!!

They do not!! well not that I could find anyway...so I sat with this lampshade for a year...tattered and broken(my kids helped tatter it more...and now the plastic stuff that lined the fabric was chipping off!) I was at the end of my rope and told my hubby...that lamp!...has to GO!!!(like he bought it...right!!heh)

but...

something stopped me...I am very frugal..well...I think I am anyway!!

I couldn't get rid of it!! Well...not without first TRYING to do SOMETHING with the lampshade...

So....

I started with a sheet...I no longer used...

 My excitement at finally decideing to take the plunge and do SOMETHING, prevented me from getting a before picture of the broken tattered lampshade... so...here is the frame of the lampshade...down to the bare minimals!!hehe! and a picture of the lamp with no shade...not cute..at ALL!! LOL!

so... I cut a strip off one of the finished edges of the sheet and hot glued it around the top of the frame...and one on the inside...did I mention I LOVE hot glue guns?!

so...then I took 2 LONG strips from the sheet...about 3" wide(mine wer far from perfectly straight...I love projects where un-perfect is perfect!!)

I attached one end at a corner with...yep...you guessed it....HOT GLUE!!

then started wrapping...useing glue wherever I felt it needed to "stick" mostly on the corners but sometimes in the middle too...

Here it is all finshed being wrapped...yes it looks cute now...but i felt it was lacking character...

so...

I cut another strip about 1 1/2" wide and made a ruffle...

unfortunately I did have to break out the sewing machine for that. =(

but...put a smile back on your face =) cuz i hot glued it on!!YAY!!!

all the way around the top...

it's starting to get CHARACTER...but...still not enough...

I LOVE THESE flowers right now...they are everywhere...on your clothes...in your hair...on your pillows...pillows?!hmmm......

anyway...

why not on a lampshade?!

to do these I made 3 ruffles again...useing my sewing machine...sorry!!

oh...but...WAIT...we get to GLUE them in the circle and onto the LAMPSHADE!!YAHOO!!

and...glue some little pearls in the center...

VOILA!!!

see...the light works!!hehe!!

This was SOOO much fun...and I am very happy =)

that I didn't throw out this lamp...

so...even though this has nothing to do with my ~Couture Unravele~ stuff...the edges of the fabric are Unraveling.........

Blessings to you all!!

Victoria West ~Couture Unraveled~

Ashlynn wearing some ~Couture Unraveled~

A friend of mine recently had a baby girl named Ashlynn...she is BEAUTIFUL!!! I asked Mom if she could be my model!!! and she said YES!!YAY!!! as much as I would like to be a photographer...i'm NOT!!! even though I TRY!!! HAHA!!! Here is my mini session with Ashlynn Ray...