My Gnome Little World

Okay, We Did not Do All 690 Miles from Addison, MI to Gadsden, AL…
But We Did Check Out Some Ohio Bits.

I Would Like to Say We Covered a Lot of Ground…
But Stopping Approximately 10 Times a Mile Made That hard!

We Did Make it Around 34 Miles…
In Around 11 Hours on the Road. That is around 3 Miles an Hour! Hee Hee!

Such a Scenic Drive, So Going Slow was Easy!

Barns Filled With Love Stuffs for The Hub and I do Go Through!

Beautiful Old Barns!

And Cool Old Boots and Bowling Shoes!

Bikes Too.

Blue And Green.

Without Motors And With Motors Too.

While The Hub checked out the below BMW Beauty…

I Checked Out This Even Older Whizzer!

Awesome Bike…But it Was Not For Sale!

Let’s Get to the Items That Were For Sale!

Chairs, Cute Cute Chairs.

Retro Chairs.

Chairs that Need to Be Sat On, Now!

And Then Let the Good Times Rolls!

Speaking of Rolling…
This Radio Flyer Will Get You There!

More Time for Wheels?

How About These Wheels Too?

You Must Be Tired.

Have a Seat…
In A Little Blue Settee!

Pull Up a Seat, And Read a Book or Two!

Here’s Some of the Fun Stuff We Brought Home with Us to Our Own Big World!

Literally, those are Going to Our Mid Century Gnomad Pad for the Christmas Holidays!

This Very cool Retro Ceiling Light Will Soon Be Up For Sale on Our Etsy Shop!

Oh, for the Love of Vintage Pyrex Coffee carafes…
Yes, I bought All Three.

And 1 of of them Will be For Sure Up For Sale Soon!

This one Interests Me.
I have a small collection of Hand Made Wire Flexible Vintage Baskets, But None are Shiny.

They are all browned or rusty.
This One is Very Very Very Interesting!

These Cuties will Both Be Up for Sale.
The Hub and I Both Had Napkin Holders In Mind!

Speaking of Cuties….

I will End this Blog Post with a Cuteness of a Different Kind!

These Two Cute Buddies Were Laying About Together Not Too Far From One Barn Yard Sale.

The Scenery, the Weather, the People, the Items and the Junk were All Perfect On our Bit of the World’s Largest Yardsale.

They were Two Perfectly Junky Days!

Check Into the Esty Shop to See What Else We Found to Sell! OUR OWN BIG WORLD!

Come Back Soon to See What We Have Made or Picked Just For You, You and You!

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BELTS AREN’T JUST FOR PANTS ANYMORE!

Posted: August 14, 2015 in Art
Tags: Buckle Art, DIY Arts, DIY Crafts, DIY Decor, DIY Toilet Paper Rolls, DIY TP, DIY TP Rolls, Leather, leather belts, Old Leather Belts, TP Art, Upcyc, upcycle, Upcycle art, Upcycle Buckles, Upcycle Container, upcycle crafts, upcycle home decor, Upcycle Old Leather Belts, Upcycle projects, Upcycle Storage, Upcycle Wall Art, Upcycle Wall Decor

If You Have Seen Any of my Other Posts, You May Know I Like using Od Leather Belts in some of my Projects.

DON’T MAKE ME TAKE MY BELT OFF!

And

BELT CHAIR

Well, I have Not Stopped. Actually, I have bumped it up some.

We moved from a house in rural Georgia to a tiny apartment in the Loop in Downtown Chicago. I could not bring many craft or art supplies. I grabbed what I could, and that was belts.

You can Take me Away from All my Supplies, but You can’t Take Crafting Away from Me!

We Moved into said Tiny Apartment with No Art or Decor on the Walls.

ChicagoLivingRoom

What is a Craftsy Artsy Girl to Do? Make her own Decor and Wall Art Pieces!

And All I Had Was Belts! So Belts I Used!

There are the Buckets for my Jewelry!

And the Bathroom Cotton Ball Bucket!

But all These Buckets Did not Help Decorate My Walls.

So, I had to Up My Belting Game!

Bam! Belt Art!

The Above One for the Living Room.

And This One for the Grey, White and Black Bathroom!

Oh yea…I Was on an Old Leather Belt Art Hot Streak.

So Don’t Stop Me Now Lord!

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I Needed something More Flowing and Organic-like to hide the spread out holes in the Wall.

I Put my Mind to the Test and This is what My Mind Did…
With the Help of some Recyclables!

Two Belts and Cut Up Toilet Paper Rolls!

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My husband LOVES this one. I Love the Other Two Wall Pieces.

And I am Not Done There.

Yes, More Belt Decor!

This One Has a Purpose!

One Day I Got Sick and Tired of My Knotted Tangled Up Necklaces.

I Had the Wood Board already, but Could not Find the Right Hooks, that Weren’t Hooks.

And Then It Came to Me! BUCKLES!

I Have Lots and Lots of Buckles!

My Necklace Problem is Solved.

And I No Longer have a Blank Bedroom Wall!

Although It Seems like we are Crowded with Belt Decor…it is Spread Out enough Not to be Overwhelming.

This is Now how the Couch area Looks, Minus the End Tables and Lamps that have been Added!

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Not a Belt to Be Seen!

Mind You Guests do Not Miss the Old Leather Belt Theme We Got Going On Up in Here!

Wait!
I am not Done with My Leather Belt Upcylcing Art Extravaganza! No, I Am Not.

There were Bits and Pieces of leather Belt that I Did not Want to Waste…
So Here Is What I Did with Them!

Yes, Greeting Cards. The Above is My Dot Dot Dot Collection.

And That is My Dash Collection of Greeting Cards.

And with that, I will Now Sign off…
But Before I Go, I Must Inform You that All of This is For Sale.
And If Anything Above is Not on my Etsy Shop Yet, Just Let Me Know!

OUR OWN BIG WORLD!

Good Day to You.
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OPERATION SANTA’S GOTTA’ BRAND NEW BAG!

Posted: August 6, 2015 in Crafts, Uncategorized
Tags: Christmas, Christmas Decor, Christmas Decorations, Christmas Elf, DIY Christmas, DIY Christmas Decorations, DIY Holiday Decor, Elf, Holiday Decor, Holidays with the Family

Alert Alert! Christmas in August!

Big Move to Small Place in January Has Had me Way Off My Regular Blogging Schedule…
But I’m Back at it Now.

Sooo….

I LOVE Christmas. And I LOVE to Decorate for Christmas.

We live in temporary places most of time for The Hub’s work.

Last Christmas we were packing during the holidays which is a very sad sad thing to do…

For Yet Another Move.

So I Had to Make My Own Happy…

Literally, I made my Own Happy…

Happy Signs…That Is!

We were going to spend most of Christmas Eve and Christmas day with my parents, who no longer put up a Christmas tree.

I was prepared to be bummed about the lack of Christmas Decor that would be around me on Christmas Day.
So I decided to do something about it.

Let me go back a bit here, the name of the blog is from a scene in the move ELF.
That is all I will say about that, if you do not know ELF by heart by now…you better get started!

G.R.E.A.T Movie!

I went into DIY Christmas Elf Decoration Making Overdrive!

Besides the Red Felt and Vintage Sheet Music Garland I made Ornaments!

Star Ones!

Ones from Old Wood Thread Spools!

Snowflake Ones!

And Speaking of Snowflakes…

And This One!

And This One!

Let Me Not Forget This Garland Too!

And Signs…I made Signs!
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<<<<And That Way!

And Trees…I Made Tiny Little Christmas!

I Made It All, Packed It All Up and Off to Momma’s House We Went for Christmas Eve Dinner!

My Mom Has Had that Christmas Table Clothe Forever and It Just Makes Me Smile!

Full Bellies, We All Went to Bed.

And Then The Hub and I Got Up in the Middle of the Night!
Shhhhh!

And Went DIY Christmas Elf Decor Cray Cray!

Quietly, Like Little Christmas Elves!

The Parental Units Did Not Even Wake Up with Our Elfing Shenanigans!

Even When We Dragged the Tree In From Outside!

No Space Was Left Un-Decorated!

Even The Wrapped Presents Matched!

If You Ask Me…

IT WAS MAGICAL!

The Best Christmas Gift Ever Was the Look on My Parents Faces on Christmas Morning!

And Now I Bid Holiday Adieu to You, You and You and You!