Pure Inspiration!

When I first came upon these gorgeous pieces at Shabby Fufu, I was in awe. What a creative use of vintage buttons! And the fact that they are all in shades of white made them all the more appealing to me. I have a vast collection of never used vintage white buttons and love to have them displayed in platters and jars around my home. But to incorporate them into a mosaic was just too ingenious for words.











These pieces are just a sampling of the exciting things at ShabbyFufu. Janet has a way of finding the newest, freshest products on the market to offer to her customers on her fabulous site. Many of the items she offers, are born of her own creativity. I admire her ability to discover or invent new, fresh product ideas in an otherwise stagnant market fraught with replication. ShabbyFufu is an original, and I cannot wait to see what she has in store for all of us with the upcoming Holiday season!

Do You Ever......

....get the feeling that you are a little off-kilter? (not sure what that really means either?) It just seems to sum up how I feel some days, when I am not really on top of my game. Today was one of those days. Wait, who am I kidding...this was one of those weeks. I wish I could isolate it into just 24 hours. Now maybe I am being a little hard on myself - it has been said you know. But if I am not hard on myself then how can I hope to achieve the things my soul needs me to achieve and in the time frame my head is dictating.

I am working on quite a few projects. They are a still in the creating phases where I am gathering all of my thoughts, notes and sketches. But I have been working non-stop on these projects., and when I work like this, I feel like I am neglecting other things (like maybe laundry and grocery shopping?) lol. So I feel "off-kilter". Unbalanced (of course that may have been said before too, lol) I so wish I could find a balance. Balance could free my mind for more creativity. But alas, no balance - no "kilter".

I also put some time into getting my ideas together for a banner for this blog. It is not totally finished but I will leave it up for a day or two just to "live with it" so that each time I post I can look at it and critique. Once it moves past the critique phase it goes into the "tweak" phase of making any minute changes to what is "off kilter". And I DO know that the banner that I have up now, is in itself "off-kilter". I will try to correct that as soon I can figure out where in the world to begin. HTML and all of that crazy googaly moogaly fries my brain and in itself throws me "off-kilter". So please bear with me as I move along on my never-ending quest to finding my "kilter". And, if anyone has seen it, or has found theirs, please contact me! :O) I could really use the help.

Inspiration

Sincerest Thanks to Irene for giving me the information to upload my mosaic. Irene, you were so kind to help me. Please email me your home postal address so that I may send you a Thank You gift!

I Could Use Some Help

White Lace
Originally uploaded by jeenybeen

I have collected quite a few amazing photos from Flickr and was so anxious to post them on my blog for you to enjoy, however after spending many hours trying to save them as favorites, I cannot for the life of me figure how to get them into a gallery. I think my first problem is that they need to be tagged. But, you see, I can't find the info on Flickr that I need to get this job done. If any of you know how to do this and are willing to help me, I would be more than happy to send you a special gift! I so what to share these inspiring photos with you, so please help!

By the way, this lovely photo is from jeenybeen and was taken in the French Quarter in New Orleans.