writer, editor, crafty gal
I desperately want to eat here. There’s almost nothing I don’t love about Wally’s House of Embers!
I love the groovy stone work, I love the entrance with the fake curtains, I love the neon signs and the entire front porch–not to mention the over the top white wire chairs that adorn the porch.
And I bet this neon sign looks like a real beauty in the dark! *sigh* It wasn’t open the afternoon I was there.
Wacky Ripley’s Believe It Or Not building in the Wisconsin Dells. There’s a large display on top of a strange storefront. I didn’t go in.
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This project was epic! I’d worked on it during the holidays for the last few years but last fall I decided to just work on it until I was done. I’ve been working on it so diligently since then that I don’t even know what to do when I’m sitting around watching a TV show at night. I can’t do just one thing!
A detail of Santa’s sled.
So, yeah, it’s bananas. I haven’t cut it up to be a tree skirt yet because Dale feels it should be a runner instead–there are instructions on how to make it either of those things. Dale thinks it should be prominently displayed and not have the risk of getting sap on it and ruining it. He’s actually quite impressed with it (I’m guessing he’s just humoring me because he knows how much time I spent on this silly thing).
Anyway, no more cross stitch for me! And no more Christmas themed crap!
My gal pals and I were on a paint-your-own pottery bender for a few months and this is one of the remnants from 2005. Two blue kitty “fish” bowls.
The water bowl is on the left–notice the fish floating in the bottom with a tiny paw print shadow over it! On the right is the food bowl–note the fish is only bones.
I’m a dork.
Fabulous neon sign in Belvedere, Illinois.
I loved this sign! Wisconsin is just littered with adorable vintage signs. Anyway, we were in Lake Geneva yesterday and I snapped this one up.
I made this bracelet! I took apart an old necklace because I really liked the beads but it was nothing I would ever wear. I strung the beads on wire posts and ended up with this!
It’s soft and girly but not too dainty. I like it! I know nothing about jewelry making or design so this was very by the seat of my pants and I’m happy with it. The beads came from some costume jewelry I have that belonged to my grandmothers. I honestly don’t know whose necklace these beads came from–I’d guess my great grandmother Mamie but I did get a bunch from my grandma Agatha, too, so I’m not entirely sure!
I forgot to fix the direction of the hangers before I took this photo. Oops! But they are still cuties, especially the flower girl card with its little ribbon.
You could say this dentist thinks highly of himself but I’d say he simply longs for his own Vegas show. I love this sign.