Chrismas 2012 ~ Pink Candy Cane Tree ~ #1

 My Pink Candy Cane Tree.....Inspired by all the gorgeous candy trees out there, I came up with this one for my sewing/art/dollhouse room work table....it's a sweet little round patio table in the center of my room that is so cute and practical, the best combo! (won't get ruined by paints, etc. while I make my artsy-crafty-creations messes....lol).....usually it has projects, decorating magazines and the like all over it....but now it's spic-n-span (threw a lace panel over the mess, lololol heheheheeeee)....the base of the tree is a vintage lamp shade that I kept for the pretty bell shape, so I'm thrilled to have found at least a place to store it for now, lololol...

 The Pink lucite cupcake on the right,  was found at K-mart's Christmas Section last year for $1.  I wrapped a piece of vintage yellow lace edging around it to cute'n it up, and it holds my Christmas ornament hangers (which i keep out all year since i seem to constantly find uses for them!)......the clear container holds my thumbtacks....my sewing room is on it's way...I'm trying to decorate it in a ''shabby chic ice-cream shoppe-meets-french patisserie-meets-couture-meets-baby shop-meet-this southern girl who's sewed some stuff-meets-painted some things-meets-glued some junk-meets-dollhoused up the joint and gone-fishin" motif!!....lol....

I love pastels in ice-cream colors....pink is my favorite color.....i have attempted to do my sewing/art room in shabby chic all white...i have clearly failed!! lololololol.......i think i'm too cheerful for all white, which i love, but i think it's too subdued for me in tone...i try to get there.....but cheery pinks and pretty hues just seem find their way in any room i do.....so for now, my all-white-big-girl-grown-up-soooooo-sophisticated-elegant-glamour-lady sewing room is still a dream, lol...... 

Welcome to Susie's pink cotton candy brain!....anyways.....there is a pink/green/white vintage crochet'd doily over the lampshade on the bottom....then i put the glass and it evolved from there..........did i get to cover it with lollipops and santy clauses?? apparently not yet! lol....and i think it's fine the way it is.......i was going to do more....but then i got tired and figured less is more ;0

can i go back to my small case ''i'' yet? this capitalizing things is exhausting!!!!!! ......who has time to do this and dream all day ??? lol.......that's one extra button to push and ya'll  know grammer by now, who am i to tell you how to talk when all i do is drawl???????? 

The whole "icecream shoppe'' idea came from my love of ice-cream and all sweets....(i worked at carvel as a teen)...my daughter painted that beautiful lavender icecream painting when she was 13, and my mother gave me that striped pink 'n cream vintage fabric and the little white vintage napkins that are under each end by the roses.....the roses fabric were pillow cases, given to me by dami's mom, so i combined our 2 moms and sewed their contributions into the perfect icecream shoppe valance.....insto-presto: Little Susie's Cottage Sweet Shop Icecream Land Sewing/Art/Dollhouse Room!......thanks women who love me! <3.....the wall paint is presently white, i bought the Behr's "pink feather" color of paint at Lowe's,  it's a GORGEOUS frenchy-looking pale blush hue....have i done it yet? ...uhmmm that answer would be ''nope''....lol

But i did do this......lolol...and this was fun:

Breezy painted the icecream girl when she was 13 and i think it's quite splendid...(i put some wedding appliques on her head to make it look like an iridescent sequined cap which is not showing up in this photo, and mounted the entire thing on to some polka-dot fabric taped to a piece of cardboard)..this is why dami call's me "Susie McGyver''..........anyways....

i drew that blue charcoal of Breezy on the left of the ice-cream painting she did....we tried poitraits of each other one day in about 30 minutes and i thought mine looked just like her so i kept it......she however, dumped mine in the trash...why? because she was 14, heheheheeeeee.....brats! i have 2!.......so that is bri, me and on the left on the sewing machine cabinet, is a little ble pitcher my great-grandmother painted in ceramics class in her 90's....my grandmother gave it to me.....so there is 5 generations of art right in that corner from the women of my family......all of whom taught me to sew and be creative, a legacy i have instilled in both my (brats) children sweet angels of mine...lolol

 
i love these colors...and i love circles....so i'm very happy with this lil' Pink Candy Cane Christmas Tree...i was going to add ornaments, but i think it's just fine with just the little pink bows dami found for me at a garage sale, i love pink bow surprises and sweet thoughtful men who encourage me to create & craft to my heart's content ....dear god, maybe he loves me....let me know tonight in my dreams...oh, dami also surprised me with that adorable little yellow pie on that wire stand in the back on the left...it's a vintage sewing pin cushion holder, you open it up and the cushion holds your pins, i'll do a post on it sometime, it's adorable...ok, fine, so he does love me.......do i still have to make dinner, can't i blog instead? lol.... <3

Thank you for coming bye to see my lil' pink candy cane tree...i hope you enjoyed all the pix...~ susie <3

SHE SAID YES!!!! i'm a happy mama! my son is officially engaged!

FAIRYTALE ROMANCE!!...GIRL's DREAM COME TRUE PARIS PROPOSAL!!!...MY SON DID IT!!! they are engaged!!....i've been about to bust for weeks!!!! SHE SAID YES!!!!!!!!!!!! my son wisked his girlfriend off to paris last night ''pack your bags we're going to paris''...surprised her by booking them a GORGEOUS room in the hotel Francais on the Champs Elyssee (i spell like crap but whatever!!! lololo...you know what i mean).......FAIRYTALE ROMANCE...took her to dinner, then just proposed to her today, on her favorite bridge in the world, spanning the Sienne River overlooking the Eiffel Tower and all the beauty of Parie!!!! I'M SO HAPPY!!! he hired a French photographer to capture them for an hour, so we should get to see pix of him down on one knee and her bawling like a baby soon !!! hehehhehehehe, i love romance!! ♥ ♥ ♥ https://www.facebook.com/PontAlexandreIII

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Mother's Day Roses

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 I promised Dawn from Shabby Chatue that i would show her the bubble gum pink roses my sweetheart gave me for mother's day.......needless to say, i went into the bedroom to open the window for light and lo and behold there was the empty vintage replica stroller i'd bought a few weeks ago.....seems someone needed a pink rose baby.......lolololol.....how adorable is that?   ya, not as adorable as your own babies, but mighty aweful close eh?  <3 <3 <3  what else is a mum supposed to do when they grow up?  : )

 well, ok, i'm a chocoholic and i could not wait to take even one photo before i had to eat a one of the gorgeous little dark chocolates which was shaped like a shell in all it's glory..calling my name .......center was razzmatazaberry too!....my fav combo!....go son who sent me these with the lililies :)

One of my favorite knocknames for my daughter was "Powder Puff Cheeks"...soft as a, well...babies cheeks! lol.... nothing more delish than kissin those plump little baby cheeks.....Children are like a dandelion puff ball........soft, delicate, the sweetest flower in the garden......blow on them softly and their love will fill the world with hope as they go on their path as god intends for each of us.......dreams.....they are ours for the asking......and yours to hold to your heart until they come true......that, my fellow humans, is ''faith''......grace upon our souls is from our one god........anyways......more chit chat to come........lol....

 this is what princess does while waiting for me to stop typing and pet her to purrrrfectioin........like a mother, she is loyal and steadfast.....always waiting for the babies to call that dang phone, would it keeel you to pick......oh wait........reverence on mother's day for my oh-so-perfect children;who only live to talk to mom 24/7 ;00-;)

 flowers cycle like a child........we wait, we water, we let them open and bloom........now you've bloomed, get back in your cribs!! loololol....

 stop staring at me lady!!............. i love your face close up........sweet kisses dear "flower face" on mother's day.......how many names of love did we make up for our sweet children as we kissed their cheeks full of our grateful spirit that god brought such beauty into our hearts and souls....

 Lawd after all this typing and talkin i hope this post works: :).......again.....flowers blooming, children growin........hearts a workin.......love at play........

i love you sweet lillies.......my son gets me lillies every year because my name means ''l;lilly".means liliies

 New hutcharoozi.....and my mother's day fleuers........spoiled rotten i am.......love will dot that for a gal........bought those baskets for my sweetheart's underwear and sox.....of couse he's still got them all over the place but my flowers look swanky in them; ; )

Well, here goes the test to see if i can actually blog!...lol.....hmmmm seem hampered already trying to remember to capitalize and punctuate my typing after lazily skimming along with all small case in my usual social medai non-stop chatterboxing :).......

Happy Mother's Day to one and all......most know that my favorite color of all is pinks....soft, bubblegums, brights....soft and cheerful bubblegum pink is my fav shade........ok......i'm going to keep this one short to see if it even works..........

I hope you enjoy the humor of the poignancy of my roses in the baby carriage for an empty nester mama...lol....come back little babies, stay in mama's crib forevah and evah........lololol.....or just forever in my most cherished memories and sweetest part of my heart and joy of life.......<3 <3 <3