A Spoon Full of Sugar

Beware, this post contains high levels of sugary goodness

So this week was a roller-coaster of one crazy event after another. 

Friday afternoon I bursted into this crazy rage of laughing and crying uncontrollably simultaneously

It seems when it rains in my life it pours! 

Saturday I had the pleasure of visiting a good friend 

whom I have missed very much

This little visit brightened my spirits 

and I went home ready to wipe my hands clean of last week

But oh-no! I woke up Sunday terribly sick

as if my whole body was on strike.

I could not stand up straight

and every time I coughed pain radiates down to my toes.

Anywho~ Today is Monday and I have a busy week a head

so I must put on my happy face and my makeup too

and face another week and hopefully a batch of good weather

Figuratively! Although sun would be a great start :)

but oh goodness time to get back to the candy and sugar I promised. 

The winner to the Easter Bonnet Parade will be announced sometime today.

I'm crossing my fingers but either way it was super fun

Contest and exchanges are a great way to tap into your creative self and try something new

if it weren't for contest there would be no Lollipop Lane or Little Easter Chicks

and as promised here are two child size easter bonnets 

much like my original hat but a bit smaller in size and price :)

Also, just in time for spring is this Easter Egg Hunt Keepsake Teacake.

These sweet gift packs are part of my Baker's Dozen

Cottage Style Craft supplies.

Each pack is carefully coordinated by theme and color 

with 13 new and vintage crafting goodies. 

Here are the packs currently available in my shop

Kewpie Doll 

Baby Doll

Pink, Purple, and Mint

& Raggedy Ann

Make sure you stop by Wednesday for 2nd Vlog entree

I'll be showing you all a few of my favorite toys

and Friday I'll catch up with Project Dress Up

Have a  happy merry week everyone!

Easter Bonnet Contest and a day with my Pals

1. Fancy Hat, 2. My Daughter wearing her Vintage Easter bonnet........., 3. Cute Little White Bunny, 4. Woohoooooo!, 5. Vintage Easter Chick Faux Cupcakes, 6. Beach Bun Belly Flop, 7. F. Stocks May, 8. Announcing_A Party!, 9. Springtime Mushroom House, 10. My Home, 11. Untitled, 12. bunny from Cotton and Paint #5, 13. The Cute Chicks, 14. minty duck, 15. Mucky Duck, 16. My Home

Seems I have a long list of things to do before easter comes

I just love easter, it may just be my favorite holiday

no, that can't be true 

I LOVE CHRISTMAS MORE!

But Easter is so sweet and pretty

I especially love to see how spring and easter 

inspire the such pretty new things

from sweet cookies and cakes

to little stuffed creatures 

and pretty colored eggs!

Last Friday my gal pals

Ashlee & Alissa

came over for a little girls day fun

We played at the fountain

and when the sun peaked out from behind the clouds 

we snapped a few pictures

I so wish the sun would come out more often!

The constant grayness makes me tired and lazy

What do you think of my easter bonnet?

made with yards and yards of sweet ruffly goodness

atop a vintage straw hat that I purchased at a thrift store

 months before I ever knew I would be entering a Easter Bonnet Contest! 

I call that some kind of magic, for I'm always picking thing up here and there

and I then giving myself little lecture

"why did you buy that Chelsea Ann"

"What will you possible do with that!"

but lately I've been finding all sorts of nifty ways to use my oddities

and this makes me very happy indeed :)

Voting for the Easter Bonnet Contest begins tomorrow and ends at midnight on Sunday

Please, Please show you support and take a moment to vote!

There are so many lovely bonnets just in time for Easter

My bonnet (hat) is available in my shop

and hopefully very soon I will have a few more

I'm working on a batch of small child size hats inspired by my big one

that I think you will be perfect for little flower girls 

or perhaps special tea parties

but once again we have so little sun 

and I can not properly photograph them at present :(

But I must figure out some solution this weekend

and I will have a whole batch of easter goodies

 to add to the shop by next Monday at the latest!!

ooohh and look what I found!

Chelsea Ling, my best internet gal pal 

interviewed ME for her new blog

Paper* Cakes Finds a few weeks ago

and now there is this pretty button on the side of her blog

I feel so honored to be in such good company as

Lorie Marie, Craft Pudding, and LoveleeSoaps and now Tim of Fantastic Toys!

Happy Friday everyone!

May you all be inspired by SPRING!

My Life This Week

Hey everyone!

Thank you so much for all you sweet words you left for me on my last post

As much as I embrace my goofy silly nature

it was a real leap of faith 

that you would all accept and love me just as I am!

So onto this week

actually the picture above is from last week Project Dress Up Wk 10

This red dress is one of my personal favs

I adore wearing red and it's so comfy and even has polka dots

I'm also always cold and having to hide my outfits 

with sweaters so I just love that this dress has long sleeves :)

I think it was just last week that I promised 

I would take pictures of my estate finds?

Well here are a few

I found all three tins!

I've always wanted a start a tin collection

I think I will limit it to flowers only

I love the bright happy colors

This is the little spring vignette atop my dinning room shelf 

Do you see a new Teacake?

I will show more pictures on Friday

oh and reveal my bonnet for the easter bonnet contest

(you can find the link at the bottom left sidebar of my little blog)

The house is no longer with me

in-fact just yesterday it arrived in it's new home

Miss Sadie Lou Who and I did a little swap

well really it was a really big supper sweet swap

the best swap ever!

I've also been super busy working on a super duper

 large gingerbread house custom order

11 HOUSES!

woooohooooo!

I'll share my progress on the project soon :)

Last but not least

I've been baking Cake Cookies like a mad woman!

For friends, family, and coworkers... and my hubby too

These yummy cookies are sooooo easy to make

and so super yummy and moist!

Just buy already made frosting and confetti cake mix

the directions are on the side of the box

:) mmmmmm!

MY 1st ever V-log! My Record Collection

This is perhaps the most excited and nervous 

I have ever been before I send a blog post out into the world

I know Mondays are for Project Dress Up

but I was too excited 

for

my first ever

V-log!

I'm sure most of you know by now that I am a giant dork

but still I wonder if you are all truly prepared to see the "REAL ME"?

Well here it is

My first ever video made just for you!

I had NO idea what I was doing. 

So I pretty much just let the camera roll and just kept on talk'n

Wasn't quite as hard as I thought

I'm a natural born Chatty Cathy after-all

but geez is it strange to see myself in all my dorky glory

messing up lyrics, titles, and that crazy lip of mine going all elvis on me

It was actually a blast to make.

I'm not much for typing anyways

I figure this way I could show off my thrift store finds

and my works in progress

hmmmm.....

what do you think?

Bra Shopping... and bunnies

Ugg bra shopping always makes me grumpy.

I always put it off until the point 

that I'm wearing a bumpy black bra under everything I own. 

This time I decided on the cheaper route and shopped at Target.

Victoria Secrets never has anything in my size

well if I'm lucky I can choose from white, black or beige in one or two styles

Not having too much need for a bra 

is probably where this whole hatred for them began

As for VC - I ordered a pretty dress slip 

from their catalog a while back that my hubby liked

I cried when I put it on!

Nothing like looking like a rag doll 

or a little girl trying on mommas slip to make a girl feel "pretty"

Well I'm sure we all have body issues

and I know I am very blessed to have the figure I do

but ladies I just have to know 

am I the only one who would rather strangle themselves

 with an old bra strap than spending the day trying new ones on?

By the way the pretty bra up top is from Clare Bare.

Wouldn't work under many t-shirts but it sure is BEAutiful!

So any-who at Target today they have their 

new Easter advertisements hanging from the ceiling

and I am in LOVE!

I tried researching them on-line so I could show you all

but Target has let me down on this one! :(

After 20 minutes of searching these are the only two images I found

The images in the store are so whimsical. As soon as I saw them I thought of my favorite childhood movie Here Comes Peter Cottontail. Here is a video I found.

If anyone finds out more about Targets Ad campaign please let me know. 

It really inspired me and I would love to know more about the artist :)

Hope you are all having a great weekend

Jim and I also purchased some flowers for our yard today

I just about choked on the price for 7 perennials and a bag of fancy dirt

I'm not much for yard work as it it 

Luckily for me it was raining by the time we got home

but I guess that just means those silly flowers are going to be hanging over my head

but I better get back to cleaning my studio. 

Hugs~

Chelsea Ann

Something Blue

1. Haberdashery Blue Gift Tags, 2. Snowbirds, 3. Paper Mache Cake, 4. Time for blue necklace, 5. Fairy's Treasure Keepers: Enjoy, 6. Robin's Egg Earrings, 7. amelie, 8. Butterfly Pillow in Blue, 9. Glittery Blue and Silver Church Cottage, 10. Letter M monogram in cottage blue, 11. Goodies from Twigs and Feathers!, 12. Lollishops Preview , 13. Shadow Box Frame, 14. blue flowers, 15. Sassy Blue Barbie Necklace, 16. Something Blue Cake

Something new, 

something old, 

something borrowed

 and something blue. 

I am sure I covered all the basis with this mosaic. 

Such pretty things and almost all of them can be found at Lollishops

So you know me 

No topic is started with some really spiffy reason

...well usually lol :)

So here it is

NEW items in my shop!

Perfect gifts for a frou frou bride to be!

Have a happy happy weekend!

Why I Love my Mail Lady

I've been supper busy as of late.

With a new job, custom orders, new project ideas for Keepsake Cakes, 

an endless list of chores and my commitments in blog land and so on and so on...

My little blog seems to be growing in popularity!

This is very exciting but I'm straining to say hello and thank you 

to each and everyone of you who share in my silly happy world.

Thank you new followers and all of you who take the time

to write a little note- 

they mean soooo much to me and I wish you all the best

I will try my darndest to visit you all when time becomes available.

So anywho~

todays post is about boxes, packages, and pretty things wrapped and tied with a bow!

Yupp I'm talking mail! 

and boy has my mail box been busy lately

with gifts, giveaways, and the occasional naughty purchase on my part.

sssshhhh don't tell my hubby!

The first box was a GIANT package full of endless treasures from my best pal Sadie Lou Who.

The goodies just kept on coming and I shrieked with excitement with each item I unwrapped.

I wish I had time to photograph them all but among them was the giant green gingham cake and a really special doll banner - a special hostess gift for the All Dolled Up party. 

You can find more of  Sadie's creations in her shop or check out her photo-stream

this gal has an amazing creative spirit! 

She is a true inspiration and such a dear dear friend!

I've also been receiving packages from Lollishop vender Artful Memories

I just love her supply shop!

I've always wanted to buy these sweet little mushrooms...

so when I started making my Little Fawn Teacake I just knew what was missing

and where to find them

I won a gift card to my pal Evelyn's shop!

I've had my eye on this piece for a long while... so I snatched it up.

Now I just have to decide if I am keeping it for myself or giving it to my sister who is studying equestrian something or other in school. 

I also received this sweet little aceo from Jennifer of Mouser Kins

jennifer is a supper talented artist and I guess this piece came about because I was encouraging her to do something for the All Dolled Up party.

Lastly I thought I would share something else that makes me very giddy and happy...

Lollishops new front page!

Every day the front page will have featured items much like etsy treasuries does

& I've already been featured twice!

Yippy!