Mosaic Monday

Sounds like more like the title of a book than the last hurrah for a great birthday. 

A book that goes on something like this...

The past few years had been systematically going through her mind.  Each accomplishment, each disappointment, relived again and again as she sat in the window seat curled up with her favorite blue afghan.  Slowly she'd been savoring on the last piece of birthday cake and with the last bite she resolved that today would be a celebration of what's to come not what was.....

Now, I've made you roll your eyes again! LOL!  Just for fun, how would you start a book titled The Last Piece of Cake?

This cake was from my son's birthday at the end of August and I took the pictures the next day. The cake hasn't been sitting here since then! He put a sign on the cake that he called the last piece. :)

I'm linking up with Mary again for Mosaic Monday.

White Wash Wednesday

True, yes?  discovered on pinterest.

We are really having fun around here with the glass picture marker boards that I first posted about here.  I picked up this wood frame at a garage sale and painted it white. I didn't have a piece of burlap big enough to go in it so....I used mod podge to adhere book pages to the backing of the frame.  Then I used a combination of matte medium, water, and white paint to white wash the text.  

I chose a book with fairly small text and then trimmed all of the white borders off so I'd have a pretty solid background of text.  I'm really happy with how it turned out.

**Note:  Washable dry erase markers do not work very well but the brand SRX are so nice.  They just  wipe off so easily with a paper towel.

This board is now in my 11 y/o daughter's room.  I was planning on putting it in the laundry room...need to go to more garage sales :) or look in the barn :)

I'm linking up with Kathleen at Faded Charm, for White Wednesday.

Texture Tuesday...with Tea.

A tea sample from a little shop we saw on our vacation this summer.  The tea was very good and beautiful! 

For other tea posts, visit Kimmy!

We celebrated my son's 17th birthday a couple of weeks ago and my sister in law showed up with flowers for me from her garden!  I felt like the birthday girl!  (No, my son was not jealous, LOL)

The challenge this week for Texture Tuesday with Kim at the Cafe was to use either her scripted autumn texture or be inspired by the word "do".

The tea mosaic above is textured with scripted autumn and well, my sister in law "did" and it inspired the second photo! It is textured with Kim's simplistic texture.

Thanks for stopping by....may you have a blessed day!

Jonesing for Simplicity

And, this is pretty simple. 

Jones soda (occasional treat for kids) = vases for me.  

Filled with just a few easy to grow blanket flowers and it's lovely.

The mosaic...not so easy, but I'm learning!

Linking up with Mary at the Little Red House.

Happy Monday!

Ok, I know "jonesing for simplicity" is a little extreme, but I just had to use the word play, thanks for not rolling your eyes. You didn't, did you?!