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What I've been up to...

19 years ago

Well, started tidying up my place and planning a fun afternoon at my place when the gals arrive:so found some extra tools we might need at a fleamarket, scored some awesome slate for my front door patio project, a globe to make my own concrete bb, real ones have the possibility of cracking here, dollar store flowers and vase for birdbath project, and a gorgeous 3 bowl blue glass flower to do something funky with! Scored 3 green marble ft sq pcs for $2!!! Just spent the sat scrounging, was sooo fun! Here's the pics of my treasures...







A vase from dollar store: nipped and tumbled








Tools$2each, .25 globe, metal birds .50








Huge blue flower!!! $1








slate, marble, porceline tiles, all for $60!!! 33pcs








9 glass flowers $1 each




Comments (11)

  • 19 years ago

    Wow...what treasures! I love love love the blue flower! And the yellow flowers are wonderful too. But, what do I see in the background of the yellow ones? Looks like stained glass panel in the works. What is it?
    Good for you on getting such great deals on such cool stuff!

  • 19 years ago

    OHGOODGRIEF! What a FIND on those glass flowers. Yeah, lady, what's in the back - you holdin' out on us??

  • 19 years ago

    calamityj
    I am curious what you have in mind for those glass flowers?

    I have a bunch of them that I've had for years, and never thought of using them in a project. Would be cool to see them in a piece.

  • 19 years ago

    Love the flowers ..you sure have better gs..then we do where i live...They would be $5.00 each here IF i could find them...great find.....

  • 19 years ago

    WOW...you got all that stuff from garage sales?....my kind of garage sale! I love the flowers too. Can't wait to see what you do with them.

    Addisue

  • 19 years ago

    Here's what I would do w/them. Can't quite get a feeling for this flue tile yet, so have drawn out the diamond shapes. I was thinking of filling it in w/mirror, then putting a big flower in each of the negative corners, and filling in w/high-contrast shards, but that's not what REALLY strikes my fancy right now, so I'm gonna take a rest/nap maybe to "dream" up an idea. Something like those glass flowers w/be great for those negative spaces outside the diamonds. Why don't you build yourself a column and put them in it, for a really cool 3-D piece?

  • 19 years ago

    I have a lot of the glass flowers. I bought them at a Freds store over several weeks.They were $1. each. I had originally wanted to do an "all glass" garden with them and some stepping stones. Now they are just stuck in the ground around a turtle planter I had.
    I really like the little birds! I can see them swirling around a column!!

  • 19 years ago

    I plan to nip off the flowers from their stems and glue em onto something, maybe I'll use my newly scored 5"round drain tiles and make a Totem with the big blue glass bowls/flower on top!kinda like the totem I'm working on now....and that background is the layout of my infamous peacock, that now that I will have some more time, maybe I'll get done!!! Right now I have a whole list of things I've started that I haven't finished that I gotta deal with, even a bunch of stuff that I haven't sealed the grout on yet....

    Here is a link that might be useful: {{!gwi}}

  • 19 years ago

    Wow, Jane you did good! LOVE that blue flower!!

    Maria

  • 19 years ago

    Janie, you got some great bargains-- LOVE that huge tile stash you got.

    Nancy

  • 19 years ago

    WOW! You are such a good shopper, you never come home empty handed. I love finding new stuff, sometimes just a plate or vase can get those creative juices flowing!

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