CAN YOU FEEL THE LOVE TONIGHT?

My daughter and her family and my hubby and I went to see The Lion King on Saturday in Portland. Boy was it impressive, the costumes, the music, and the lighting were unreal. I have never had the opportunity to see a Broadway show, (and probably will never even make it to New York). It is wonderful that they are taking these shows on the road so that people from all over can see them too.

I downloaded these images from the Lion King web sight because cameras were not allowed during the performance.

Picture below is the young man that played Simba.




Here are the two actors that played young Nala and Simba. They were awesome.

Of course there has to be a bad guy, this is Scar, the evil uncle to Simba





Pumba and Timon stole the show. They were HILARIOUS.

Here is my daughter, her sons and husband. We were patiently waiting for it to begin. I was able to sneak a couple of pictures before it started.

Here I am with hubby. We were just as excited as the grandsons. I even wore my animal print top so I could get in the spirit of things.

If The Lion King ever comes to a city near you it would be well worth the money to go.

IT WAS FABULOUS!

Today's Yard Sale Finds

I hit three yard sales today and found a few 'new to me' treasures.

First off I found this BRAND NEW purse with the tag still on it.
As you can see it was regularly $40 and I got it for $3. Woot! Woot!


I paid $1 for this set of 3 metal trays. These are so going to meet up with some spray paint soon.



One sale had tons of Goose Berry Patch cookbooks. I limited myself to just three at $1.50 each.




I found this adorable twin quilt for my granddaughters bed...$5 for it and a pillow sham to match.

And these three prints were $1 each. I probably will be painting the frames black and maybe covering the mats with some scrapbook paper. I may even change out the prints, who knows where a project like this might take me.
Not bad for about 1 hour of my time and $16.50.

I am linking up with the Thrifty Treasures Party over at Southern Hospitality today.

Hey all you bloggy friends over 40, there is a fun Follow party over at Never Growing Old. Hop on over and see what fun you can have making new friends.

Pretty Posies

After seeing flowers all over blogland I decided it was time to try my hand at making some.

There are many various mediums and techniques to use making flowers. You can use ribbon, fabric and even paper. I am sure there are more but that is what I have started with.

I went to Youtube and just typed in fabric flower tutorials, there were a gazillion videos to choose from.

For this one I used 1/2" wide wired ribbon (about 30" in length). This one is made from fabric. I just cut out about ten 2" circle of fabric then folded each on in half then in half again to form petals, using hot glue to secure the folds. I then glued the petals to a piece of felt about 1 1/2"around.

This was also from 2" wired ribbon.
This ribbon didn't have the wire in it so I just did a running stitch along one side and pulled it up. Then I just started rotating it until a rose began to form.
This small flower is actually made from card stock. I cut out eight flowers with a punch then misted each one with water to soften it. I then wadded each one up to crinkle it then flattened them out and layered them on top of each other. I then punched through the center with an awl, inserted a small brad, then pulled each layer away from each other and fluffed until I had it the way I wanted it. I then spritzed it with some antiquing solution. This one is also wired ribbon but only about 1 1/2" wide. I pulled up nice and tight.
So here are my finished flowers. I can't wait to learn more techniques to make some more flowers.

Inspired By Anthropologie Botanicals

I was looking at the Anthropologie Web site for wall decor and came across these two pen and ink sketches that were reproduced from an 19th century sketchbook. Well, they were a teeny-tiny little bit out of my price range at $498 each.

So I did what any frugal penny pinching woman would do, I made my own version.

I found some botanical images in my computer fonts and cut some out of vinyl. I applied the flowers to an artists canvas and put ribbon all around the edge to frame them in. I figured I saved about $981 by doing them myself.

{Sorry about the poor quality of the photo, I had to take it at night in artificial light.}

I am linking up with these parties: