What I'm Grateful For This Week

Thought I'd try something new. This is an amalgam of all the things I'm grateful for this week--some has been posted to IG, some to FB, some right here and some nowhere at all until now. As you'll notice, they aren't "prettied up". I want this to be more spontaneous.

This pretty lady turned 98 this week. I'm so grateful she's my mother-in-law.

This is a wire sculpture I started of the Nelson-Atkins Museum here in KC. Grateful to live in

such a cool city with a museum like this.

It was BEAUTIFUL here all week long and I loved it-last Saturday we took our dog to the dog beach at a park and then had a picnic on a blanket. 

I finally got my studio organized and hung all my work on the walls. That made me feel really accomplished!

Finished the wire piece of the Nelson. Grateful I had the time to do it. Wire is my first love.

Packed a BIG order for Uncommon Goods website. Love working with them and am grateful for em!

Finished a piece inspired by a friend's wedding dress that I'm going to give her next time I see her. Grateful for inspiration.

My new hydrangea tree is starting to bloom--and just when I thought I didn't have a green thumb. Grateful for a gardening miracle.

Made some KC blank cards this week and got them to a local shop, Shop Beautiful. Happy to have some of my work here in my hometown.

            Friends came over and we sat on my porch and talked until I got to light my chandelier. Grateful for friendship and for Studio M, who made my chandelier a reality.

Saw this GORGeouS car today. Know what it is? '46 Caddy. So glad cars like this

are still around.

So that's it. The week in gratitude. It's been a great week for more reasons than just this though. Hope you all had a good week too! What would your week look like?

"Mod Lodge" Studio Nook Complete!

I am SO happy to announce that my studio remodel is finally completed! This project was going to take 5 weeks but ended up taking 4 months, which I know is something one should expect when you do any remodeling but it wasn't the remodel that took the longest time--it was the reupholstering of my two Hollywood Regency chairs. I underestimated the time and expertise it would take to recover these two beauties, but if I HAD known, I probably wouldn't have taken the project on and I learned so much from it and met some wonderful people! Since I've already posted several photos of the earlier process, here are more recent ones of the finished project.

Completed faux trophy wall

Completed wire wall

Here's how the chairs turned out. (Don't look too closely or I'm sure 

you'll find sewing errors:)

Side view of the painted wood base and inset panel.

The finished nook by day

And by night

Fun Faux Photos!

Recently my wonderful friend Katrina Revenaugh let me use her beautiful home for a quick photo shoot of my faux taxidermy pieces along with my newest upcoming shop item: a DIY faux taxidermy embroidery panel. Soon you can stitch a pillow to go along with any of my faux taxidermy pieces!
I will be putting this in my Etsy shop by the first week of December and will post a link to it then.

Wire Art Prints

I have now added PRINTS of my wire art to my online shop--and you can choose the size and color! Click on link to the right to go to my Etsy shop.