Ooooo! What You Can Do With A Little Stucco and Paint!!

             Today I was planning to tell you all about a package I received in the mail, and about my 'Date Night' trip this Friday...that is until I saw 'yet another' fabulous vase in the Etsy shop ArtByKristin! The Red Vase with White Stripes in the header photo!..The other stuff will have to wait until tomorrow!
         Yes, this is the very same 'Kristin' of the blog  My Art and the Mom in Me. I started following her blog recently. But I've been ogling her vases for even longer than that!...{Oops! She may not have known that! O_0....Shhhhh!}
        Whenever I was doing an Etsy search for something, I would inevitably come across one of her beautifully unique vases and get side-tracked from whatever I was searching for! ^_^ After I show you a few of her vases you'll see why!...But first let me share with you part of what she says in her Etsy profile, in her shop:
           She says: "The idea for my vases were born in September 2010. My husband bought me flowers for our 10th wedding anniversary and after my flowers died, I was left with a nondescript vase...after a few months of trial and error, I discovered a love of creating these vases with the addition of Stucco and Paint...I hope the love for what I do comes across in my shop.. and I hope you will find something that you will want to call your own or gift to someone you love..."
        Well Kristin, I can see the love for what you do in each and every vase and pencil holder....

 (Blue and Green...Beach and Sea)

(Autumn Colors, Pencil Holder)

(Black and White Thumbtack Holder Desk Art)

(Pink Sweetheart Bud Vase)

(White...Blue Yellow Green Whimsical Leaves)

(Turquoise and Brown Textured and Hand-Painted)

(Country Cottage Blue and White Stripes)

(Harvest Colors, Pencil Holder)

(Large Ivory Yellow Green Hand-Painted)

         Aren't they beautiful?!! And have you ever seen a prettier glass place to stick some stucco?! ^_^ I just love them!!!...And believe it or not, these that I've shown you here are just scratching the surface! You 'have' to go and check out her shop yourself...HERE!

      And since (for right now anyway) most of her vases are between $12 and $25, I think it's a great place to buy a gift for a friend, or someone you love...just like she said in her profile! :-) 

       I mean...couldn't you just see one of these colorful little vases sitting on your kitchen counter, or on your child's desk, or on your living room fireplace, or on the bathroom sink?!! They can brighten up just about any space with all of that gorgeous COLOR!! And you know how much I'm a sucker for color! ^_^

      And in case you're wondering....No! I'm not getting paid for saying this. I haven't gotten anything free for it. And I'm not trying to bribe her into giving me a deal!! LOL In fact, I asked her if I could feature her shop...simply because I love it!!...You can see why, can't you?!! :-]

      Of course, it could just be that I might, or might not, be partial to anyone with the good taste enough to put pretty little white and yellow flowers on a bright blue pencil holder!! :-)

        Okay...now that I'm smiling, let me go and do some more crocheting. And maybe 'one of these days' it'll stop raining enough for me to be able to hold the camera button down so I can photograph what I've been doing!...O-U-C-H!!!!

       Oh! Did that sound like 'whining'?!....Well, it was!!! I've been a 'Whiney Mama' about this weather for the last few days. My poor hubby. *smh* But that's alright. I'll stop whining when I'm sitting in the sun on our trip this weekend! :-) I'll tell you all about it then!...Have a good day everybody!!

Whining

I'm cold. I'm hot. I'm helpless.
I don't want to eat that stuff!
I'm hungry...full..exhausted.
Why does life have to be so tough?!

I'm lonely...tired of people,
Need to find something to do.
Why doesn't someone call or text,
or email me...But who?!

I'm whining all the time
about one thing and then another.
If I had a dime for all that whine...
I could be rich just on the weather!!

No, I'm not a little kid.
I am a full grown "Whiney Mama"!
And I can whine, and list and list,
comma after comma!

I don't like waiting. I am bored.
And I've got so much to do!
Did I encourage you to whine?!
Don't want to hear it...Mine is through!