Happy New Year to one and all

 I just can't seem to wrap my mind around the fact that tonight is New Years Eve... WOW.... 
Happy New Year 

I have had a really wonderful year... and so many happy memories... I have met so many more wonderful friends on line... lost a few too... hope all is okay with them... Sometimes time catches up with us and we have to change our ways... so hopefully they will come back once and a while for a visit...  

Our Farm has grown and prospered this year... and things are going smoothly ... love the idea of this way of life.  So very grounding...  no pun intended...  Some of my New Years feelings are that I need to spend more time creating, having friends over, and planting more plants around the farm... around the house and playing in the soil... hopefully I will be able to get these things done this year.  

I also have had a wonderful year, winning challenges, and enjoying sharing with all... that is such a wonderful feeling when I get a comment or an e-mail letter from someone that has been inspired to create from something that I have shared...  so GREAT...  a magical feeling to say the least...  I personally love to create and hope that everyone can feel that love when they do too... 

Okay... so on with todays blog...  I wanted to end the year with some fun type of project... so I made these hat boxes for a guest room in our home...  I just love them... I also wanted to enter one more time on Grungy Monday...The challenge this week was to use tissue paper or tape .... soooooo....  as I loved Linda's flowers and had to make some tissue paper flowers from Tim's Musical paper... I created these for my boxes...   love that stuff... if you dont' have any yet... make sure you put that on the top of your list for the first of the year... a must have product... great for so many uses...  

 

 I used My Minds Eye to cover some the places on the boxes... and then used tissue tape to add some embellishment to the lids... On the top lid, I went a little further, as I covered the entire lid... so I edged the lid with tissue tape... 


Making the flowers... oh I think it is my favorite thing to do .... I have bins of flowers in the studio... all ready for a perfect project... but these I had to make especially for this project... as I did use the tissue paper... musical!!!   Love it...  I made the leaves from some scrap My Minds Eye paper and then used weather wood Distress stain on them to give them a little more color...  I wanted to keep the colors very light and demure  on these boxes...  the room that they will be going in is a light peach and turquoise... so I wanted the 'blue' light...  so as not to clash with the turquoises in the room... 

 Another view of the top... I added some small blossoms made from the tissue also... I used the smallest flower on the Tattered Floral Die ... and just made about 30 little blossoms... each one is 3-4 flowers.. and I used a thin dowel... and a little glue and these little ones were a snap... love the look I got with them... they are so precious...  A few pearls and it adds to the shabby chic look. 

 Of course I had to add a few bows too... so using my seam binding tape, and a little Weathered wood reinker... I had pretty ribbon to play with... made a dozen little bows and started to glue them on... 


Oh I forgot to mention the 'vines'   I used a spellbinder die for them... but the paper I used started out as always as white card stock... and I 'inked' it... then added some perfect pearl mists... and then a little of this and that... love the delicate look that they give the boxes...  of course each 'vine' is a little different color as I did each strip of paper a little bit different... but used the same colors... well sort of , kind of... 

 As you can see this one is a little darker... but generally all the same tones...  


The papers add to the look I wanted for these boxes... a little bird and bird cage here and there... flowers, pearls, bows and leaves... wow... I can hardly wait to put this into the back bedroom... 

Love it...  

Hope you create things for your home... it adds just a nice touch to everything...  

Have the best of years coming up...  and thanks again for all the wonderful comments and love that you leave behind when you go blog hopping... My neighbor just told me some really great news yesterday... and that is that we might have available to us real soon a satellite that will give us HIGH SPEED!!!  Keeping fingers crossed... wow... what a new year present that would be... love it... 

Have a Happy New Year... may it be healthy and happy in all ways... 
Love, Light and Peace... Bonnie