Mammabellarte : October 2009

Oct 31, 2009

BOO's b-day

Happy Birthday Boo!

This is our Boo, she was born on Halloween. We think she is 17 years old. Very gentle and sweet. She still plays ball and chases squirrels.

Ciao Rita

Oct 27, 2009

"Snow White Wednesday"

What's in the box?

Originally this box was a silverware box that Dean and I brought back to life. It was brown and with a velvet purple liner inside. PURPLE? not for me. We took out the velvet liner , sand it and re-painted with a coat of primer and two coats of white paint. Finished with an applique' just for the usual extra cottage touch.

The Christmas white trees, my favorite. I love the silver and white together, easy project. Hot glue gun to attach the silver balls and lots of white glue to attach the German glass glitter. If you are working on your dining room table like me, yes I do have a huge workshop but it's already full of projects! So, if you are working on your dining room table and using German glass glitter, remember it's real glass, cover the table with plastic and I use a large shoe box so you can collect the left over glitter and re use it.

More gluing, this time for the Vintage White balls I used decoupage glue for the glitter drops and a two part epoxy to glue the rhinestones, and finished them with lace.

I have few ideas for this millinery leaves, oh..they are velvet and pure white, the truth they are to beautiful to glue or glitter up. And I am planning to glitter up this creamy white cabbage rose too.

No plans for the white pearls, they are always pretty just the way they are.

Never bought snow flakes before, I am hooked now. I have been using it for the "Vintage Jars".

Never enough white lace, I use it to embellish the soldered bottles, charms, jars.

I filled the Vintage Jar with some of the snow flakes, a white tree glittered up, a guardian angel girl and each jar that I put together has a different word for the soldered bubble "hope", "vintage", "sweet".

There is still room in the jar to add personal messages too.

Now, how am I going to close the box?

Arrivederci Rita

Thank you to Kathleen for hosting another "bellissimo" White Wednesday.

Oct 25, 2009

It arrived! I've been waiting for this moment!
I decided to send June the "Atelier" sign for her beautiful studio, no giveaway, no birthday.... Thank you June for been in blogland to keep us smile and for following all my progress. Enjoy
Please stop by her amazing blog "laughingwithangels.blogspot.com"

I finally have something to show for Halloween!

We played Monopoly Saturday to keep Raffaele entertained.( Swine flu) Of course I got the camera out, Alan said: "Are you going to blog this?" so he tryies to cover the board. Creepy, looks like he is missing one finger!

Ciao Rita

Oct 24, 2009

The Attic girls are having a GIVEWAY!

To celebrate their 1 Year Anniversary!

You don't want to miss it.

Have a great weekend

Ciao Rita

Oct 23, 2009

Kay Ellen's muffins

I did it Kay Ellen!

I am a baker because of you.

Kay had a "Chocolate chip pumpkin muffin" recipe on one of her recent posts , sounded delizioso, but my baking skills are not the best.

Any way not a good day for us, I was suppose to load up the truck and go down to Chula Vista for the Vintage Vixen Vendor Sale. Raffaele, my 13 year old was getting a cold a couple of days ago, in the middle of the night is temperature got pretty high. Swine Flue of course is the first thing we think of...

Dean takes Raffaele to the Doc. first thing this morning, what do I do....BAKE Kay Ellen's muffins to keep my self busy.Well Raffaele has Swine Flue, il mio bimbo...but as soon as they got home the smell of fresh baked muffins put a smile on Raffaele's face. Thank you Kay Ellen

"Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Muffins"

3 cups of all purpose flour

2 cups of granulated sugar

2 teaspoons of baking soda

2 teaspoons baking powder

1 15oz canned pumpkin

2 cups of chocolate chips ( I did 1 cup of white and 1 cup of semisweet)

4 eggs

1 1/2 cups oil

1 teaspoon of salt

1 teaspoon of ground cinnamon

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Mix all the ingredients together

Preheat oven 400 degrees

Bake 16-20 minutes

Oct 22, 2009

12 Days of Christmas

Giveaway!

Day SIX

Canela is having the coolest Giveaway ever, we are at day six. Check it out, you could be the next winner of this skirt and for a daily price one of Canela wonderful necklace.

Ciao Rita

Oct 21, 2009

12 Days of Christmas GIVEWAY!

Day Five

Dana from tutumonkey is up

She is an amazing Mamma, Wife and artist.

Her giveaway is a you design it Tutu.

and Canela is giving to the winner of Day 5 this beautiful bracelet. So hurry up go visit Cinnamonstick s and say hi

Still White Wednesday is going on so please scroll down and enjoy it.

Arrivederci Rita

Oct 20, 2009

white wednesday at the Attic

Happy White Wednesday!

Thank you to "The Attic"

in Coronado

Nancy, Jane and Kandy are amazing ladies. Check out their store next time you are in the area.

Thank you to Fadedcharmcottage for another fabulous White Wednesday.

Ciao Rita

12 Days of Christmas! GIVEWAY

Day 4

Stop by Canela's blog and say hi.

Ciao Rita

Oct 19, 2009

12 Days of Christmas GIVEWAY!

yes another one and this could be yours

there is more.....please visit Canela and say hi to her from me and leave her a comment to be part of the GIVEWAY!

Ciao

Rita

Oct 18, 2009

Thank you Kay Ellen, your peeks of the Barn Sale are Fantastico. Bloguettes stop by Kay's blog and say hi to her from me.

Happy Monday!

These are few of the signs and charms I have been working on and as some of you noticed I started selling on etsy. OK, it's time consuming and a lot of passion to be in etsy but I am going to give it a shot. I admire all those etsy artists that work on every detail to showcase their pieces.

I will be working on Christmas ornaments this week and I am honored to be part of the "Vintage Vendor Sale" this coming Saturday in Chula Vista/ East Lake

Arrivederci

Rita