Pink studio sunday

I love pink.   Pink, pink, pink. 

I recently finished some projects.  The images are from The graphics Fairy.

 Beautiful pink ballerina box.

Pink ballerina frame

Pink princess bucket

And last but not least pink dream sign.

Don't forget to enter my giveaway.
 

Linking this post to Studio Sunday with Rebecca Ersfeld

Have a nice and warm weekend!

Ido
 

First giveaway!

I'm so excited to have my first giveaway!.  Since I can't stop painting and creating new things everyday, I've been thinking seriously about opening an online store, but I'm going to need your help! Here's what you have to do to enter my giveaway:

1. For a chance to win leave me a comment on this post (If you have an online store/etsy store tell me about your experiences, whys, dos and dont's, if it was easy to set up your account, etc. Doesn't matter if it's a long comment, the longer the better, any advice would be much appreciated).  Also you need to choose 3 scents from the list below and tell me which ones you like in your comment, if you win, those are the scents of the soaps you will be receiving (That way I know what scents people likes the most and which ones I don't need to make anymore)

2.  For a second chance to win, become a follower of my blog, leave me a comment letting me know you follow.

3.  For a third chance to win,  post about my giveaway on your blog and please let me know.  You can combine #2 & #3 in a single comment.

Okay, so what is the prize you may be asking, well, here it is:

Three hand made (by moi) soaps and a box covered in old book pages (I hope you like the prize)

These are the scents you need to choose from:

Scented soaps (These scents are not natural, the rest of the ingredients are):

Black Raspberry Vanilla
Simply Lilac
Snowy Forest (fresh pine scent)
Sandalwood
Sweet Pea & Violet
Apricots & Figs
Coconut Creme
Chocolate Cake
Coconut lemongrass



Natural Scented Soaps:
Frankincense & Myrrh
Spearmint & Eucalyptus
Ylang-Ylang
Cucumber, aloe & lime
Patchouli
Lavender
Rose, Jasmine & Sandalwood
Citrus & Chamomille
Spiced coffee (smells mostly like orange, clove & cinnamon)

You have until March 31st to enter the giveaway, I will announce the winner on April 1st.

Thank you all for your support and good luck!

Ido

SUNDAY STUDIO

Today is Sunday Studio  and I'm linking this post to Sunday Studio with Rebecca Ersfeld 

I made some natural soap, the following pictures are of Sea Salt Spa bars:

Here are all the ingredients ready to start the process.

Using the stick blender to incorporate all the ingredients (all natural of course)



Here the sea salt is added.  The scent is lemon verbena which is a combination of lime, grapefruit, lemon and litsea cubeba essential oils.

In to the mold it goes.

After 24 hours the bars are cut and unmolded.  After that they need to be "cured" which means "being exposed to the air" for at least 4 weeks.  Salt bars are commonly used at spas due to their high content of minerals (fron the sea salt) which is wonderfuel for your skin.  Some people ask if they don't dry your skin due the salt, but they don't.

The lather is lotion like and leave your sking soft and refreshed.

These aren't salt bars, just some facial soap, the purple is ylang-ylang and patchouli and the green/pink pumice and grapefruit (wonderful for dry heels).

That's all I have for today.  Hope you can join Rebecca for Sunday Studio.

Ido

TIME WORN INTERIORS GIVEAWAY!

The Sweet Theresa AKA Tot  of Time Worn interiors is having a giveaway because she reached (and passed) 400 followers.  The giveaway is one of her beautiful creations! A purse made with her own hands!

If you want to enter her  giveaway make sure to visit her blog (and tell her I sent you!)

Thank you Tot!!!!
 

Some antique finds

These are just some items found at the Acorn Antique show last weekend

Ahh, there's nothing like an 1891 book, old scale and rusty lamp, love them!

We are still in winterland, dreaming of spring, this is how our back yard looks right now....

With another storm on the way. 

Are you having a white wednesday too?

Tray fit for a Queen

I've had this tray for a little while, but the color......ugly.  Here I started the transformation



Here it is looking better, still too white though, needs some antiquing and something else.

And voila! completely finished! I decided to put it in a little vignette just to show it off

The crown image is from The Graphic's Fairy which I mod podged it after the antiquing glaze.

Until nex time mon amies!

Don't Know what to do...........

I painted this rooster 2 years ago, yes two years ago, the surface is MDF and it needs some moulding or border around the painting to be completed.  I really want to finish this project because is sitting in the corner of the computer room.

The thing is, I don't know what would go with it, black, green, brown? any ideas would be much appreciated.

Have a great day.