Thriftshop Goodies !

More wonderful thriftshop finds from Thursday :) My mom has plenty of the porcelain flower arrangements but these ones had several chips, missing flowers and one was loose so i gave it to my friend. These particular arrangements will be used in my art. The other porcelain item is a vintage perfume bottle with 'Mother' written on the side. It says Japan on the bottom and the inside still has a fairly strong perfume odor --another item to be altered. The flattened box will be used for one of my moms birthday gifts on Christmas and I've already found one birthday gift for her, the pretty golden pendant with purple stones shown here. My mom is rather partial to larger pendants so I'm sure she'll enjoy this one.

Okay, I really should be doing my art right now but it looks like another lazy day. I've become addicted to a newly downloaded game called Shape Shifter, you put shapes into the right places and boy oh boy I've spent 2 hours at a time playing it !

What I'm doing UPDATED for Aug.11:

Here's another look at her. She's slowly coming together, much more to go but I first have to wait until it all dries before attaching, grrrr. Elements used so far: stars, more stars, tin star bits from a candle holder, watch bits.

I've put myself on holiday from Etsy and I'm making myself work on some new art projects, etc...

So far I've made up a couple of 'destash' packages --so many bits and baubles, I figured it would be nice to share some and put them in some reusable boxes too ( to use as shrines, frames, whatever strikes the buyers fancy ). I've another atc card and a sweet whimsical picture telling us not to be so serious ( ! ). Above is another project I've just started, using a rusty old spring I found off a local beach. The doll is vintage plastic Made in Hong Kong and has the closing eyes. She's going to be adorned with lots of goodies. You'll have to wait for the after photo in a few days. And yes that is my messy desk lol !