These Babies Won't Melt

Hi everyone! I wanted to show you my Christmas "icicle" and "snowflake'' ornaments....

You remember? All those hot flea market days, collecting little bags of cast off vintage treasures....

Vintage chandelier crystals....

and drops....

Rhinestone bitsies.....

Old keys....

And vintage postcards and sepia photos of other peoples' relatives...

Here is the result...my Crystal Icicles and Snowflakes for your /their/ whoevers' Christmas Tree!

some are diamond drops...



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These are large prisms with reverse decoupage scenes (I love these!)...

 



'Real' icicles. I choose the crystals that are carved within the glass shank, for extra sparkle and charm...

  

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A rare star...with an unusual Lucite bead....

   

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Amber and amethyst drop....





Rhinestone 'snowflake'...

Another snowflake with a wonderful round magic crystal ball drop!



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Yet another snowflake and diamond...

 

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Huge cut crystal faceted ball, rare treasure that can be a sun catcher year round. It will send rainbows into your home...

 

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Shabby chic, urban decay skeleton keys with vintage bauble snowflake tops.....

All have neat "S" wire loops carefully aged and distressed by me in a concoction of who knows what! Nice patina though, in the end result...

A rhinestone frame ans sepia child's portrait.[I also make these custom with clients' own pix]...

  

Aren't the tiny glass encased scenes, just...magic!?

These are tiny Victorian images of Pugs!

And this is my Christmas label, courtesy of my friend Lisa who allows me to rummage through her family archives. Her pix are just the best! Colorized by me, and then hand stamped "Gone to the Beach" of course. Santa is smiling cos he knows where he's headed....



Merry Christma! Gone to the beach.....
ho ho ho....



enjoy!

my etsy shop Gone to the Beach

love

              lizzy

gone to the beach.....

         

PS More crystals and Holiday hearts in the next week or so....come visit!

Thanksgiving-The Feast and Frills

Hello! Did you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving Day?

Are you exhausted form Black Friday or did you stay home?

I have to say---my dinner was amazing, the food came out great. A friend gave me a coupon for a fresh Butterball turkey, oh they are the best! And the new oven performed admirably.

Sorry, Margaret, no pix of the food at all! We were very hungry after all that prep work and a long walk on the beach. Wasn't it a spectacular day!

I don't usually show my house, but here it is, Thanksgiving, 2011:

(The house is usually blue and white, except at the holidays (and yes there's a pile of beach junk and golf clubs in that corner, sigh): )

Sometime the bright oranges or reds and greens give me the creeps, I long for my blue. But it's pretty, just for a change?

Browns and autumn transferware....

Our Thanksgiving table....

And these are the pumpkin cheesecake cupcakes.

                        

They were pretty, but the taste/ texture just so-so.

Give me a good pecan pie made with my cousin Elaine's recipe any day. Yum! No more experiments in the pretties for me. (The filigree cupcake covers are surprisingly hard to work with too--the frosting gets all over the place!)

  

And here I am feeding my gulls!

They were happy with their bag of bread! More goodies for them tomorrow....

love

lizzy


                 gone to the beach.....

PS Today's sunset [Friday] was sooo long and spectacular that those pix will have their own post in a day or two!

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