A lot got accomplished here at my cottage today. All because I had to get up at 4am to get my husband to the airport.
I don't want to make a habit of getting up THAT early, but it sure does get a jump start on the day when I do!
After listing wallpaper art journals on Etsy, and priming the little toy hutch I bought for Sugarwings (last post) I sat at my desk and fairyed up a bunch of stuff that had been laying around.
I'd bought this old music box (it plays "Always") at a flea market for a couple of dollars.
It started as a simple ballerina on a gold base.
I foofed up the dancer, gave her wings and a garland of flowers that holds a sugared birdie perching at its peak.
Then, I covered the gold base with 3 different old papers, including pink flocked wallpaper, and then gussied it up with millinery flowers (wasn't I generous with them?? I used a TON). I added a poem, part of it on a banner under the bird and the rest on a brass plate that I painted and sparkled up with rhinestone jewels.
Then, I found these adorable little pink high heels, and had to add that too.
Over the top? Why yes!! Of course!! A big change from how she looked when I got her at the flea market.
I had a wide range of dolls to work with today, and all became fairy babies.
I snipped at their clothes and sprayed them with glitter mist to make them shiny and foofy and more fey.
All of the little sprite-lets got more millinery flowers and some glittery wings.
This Sugar Baby is an old chipped chalk piece that was pretty ugly .
To transform her into a sweetly sugared fairy, I gave her a coat of pale pink crackle paint, then glittered her up with Martha Stewart crystal glitter. After that, she got some wings, and a hat made of a brass wreath, velvet and sheer petals and leaves from an old hat and a few crystals.
I wish I'd taken a before picture. She was dark green and cracked and not at all adorable. No wonder I got her for 50 cents.
This brunette beauty started the day as a bald bride in a crumpled dress. Rough ceremony?? A drunken binge after being left at the alter? I don't know what happened to her, but she needed a rescue, for sure.
I found some hair (well, you know how a studio can be, you buy this odd stuff here and there and stash it away, never knowing when you'll need it), glued it in place and tied it back with an old pink ribbon.
Then, I added pink rhinestones and teeny old posies to her hair in a ringlet, steamed her sullied dress and gave her a belt of pink velvet.
I'd thought about restoring her bridal finery, but she had been through such a rough time, I thought she'd be happier starting over and putting all thoughts of the ceremony behind her.
One more fairy, I turned a salt shaker into a button jar with a crown and a ballerina fairy on top. It is filled with old blue buttons, and I hope to get it listed on Etsy, along with these other gals soon.
The decorated bottles are for my real life, NOT virtual, bloggers tea party tomorrow.
If you are in the KC/Lawrence area, please contact me if you'd like details about coming to visit!
Speaking of the party, I need to go and clean my house up for it. the helpful guys from Home Depot came today and replaced all of the windows in the ancient farm house side of the cottage.
So, I have to put all the furniture and knick knacks back, then hang curtains.
Geesh, did I mention that I got up at four am?? I am starting to feel it.