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Affordable Style, custom pillow, custom textile -

Typically my textile designs feature children or animals playing out side. My color palette is always bright and cheerful. Last week I decide to try something a bit different  - but I wanted to stay true to my vibrant color palette. [caption id="attachment_118" align="alignnone" width="405" caption="Zebra pillow"][/caption] Imagine it sitting on your chair, couch , love seat or on your bed - better yet, imagine it in you kid's room, its perfect for a boy or girl - OK , I am rambling. [caption id="attachment_123" align="alignnone" width="360" caption="Insert chair here"][/caption] Here is my version of a Giraffe print - note...

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digital textile, Home and Garden, Silk ribbon embroidery -

Happy Friday - it has been an exciting week. I hung out at the out at the 5 minutes for mom Ultimate blog party. It was my goal to read all the blogs listed, but I was only able to read about 200 - well the links are permanent, so I will keep going back. I was happy to meet Shay @ http://designsbyshay.blogspot.com/ , Keonte @ http://www.mommy2k.com/ and Maria @ http://mgdezigns.blogspot.com/. I wish them all great luck. Thanks for the party 5 minutes for mom. Today's Share form my craft archive [caption id="attachment_110" align="alignnone" width="326" caption="Silk ribbon on B/W image"][/caption]...

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Inspiration, poem, school -

School wakes up a feeling inside us To form cliques, as a response to stress. Low self esteem forces people to act, and thus we conform to ridiculous styles of dress. There are hipsters, rednecks, emo's, and others who use their music as an accessory, to be considered hip. Congregation provides safety in numbers, like being brothers, to stimulate relationships. Your group will think for you, as obnoxious as these thoughts may seem. A fake, bespoke life or doom for all of the desperate youth in need. But if you need a herd to feel contentment, then who am I...

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custom pillow, custom textile, Home and Garden, pillow, pillow cover -

[caption id="attachment_95" align="alignnone" width="360" caption="Girl blowing bubbles"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_96" align="alignnone" width="418" caption="Butterfly Pillow"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_97" align="alignnone" width="450" caption="The Family"][/caption]

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Affordable Style, DIY Tutorials, Garden, mod, terrarium, topiary, trash to treasure -

What would you do with and abundance of air plants and a burnt out light bulb? Here is what I did. [caption id="attachment_80" align="alignnone" width="410" caption="Light bulb air plant topiary"][/caption] I removed the top as well as the internal portions of the light bulb - (Click here for how to) - blinged it up a bit, etched some daises on the top portion and added some crushed shells and pebbles. I live on the beach in South FL. so shells are in abundance.   I grabbed some air plants from a tree in my back yard - another plentiful material...

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