Retro Goodness - Chevelle SS

Scratch another project off the list!  I've finally completed another customer order that has been hanging out in the workspace this month!  I had lots of time to play with this one.

I gave you a quick peek back {here} and for some unknown reason, I see the photos from that post have disappeared much like the pics in my PB Train post did.  Maybe T&B is haunted!  I know what I'll be working on this weekend... hmmmm

For this order, I was given two small snapshots of a Chevy Chevelle SS and was asked to just paint it.
                                                                          So I did! 

This custom canvas measure in at 30X28 unframed.  Since she was local, I had the hubs construct a simple wood frame which I painted out in a dark Seal Grey.  LoVe it!

Wanna know a simple trick to taking a small photograph and enlarging it to any size...even if you can't draw a staight line?

WithOUT the hassle of paying a pro?

I'll share that trick with you... next time here on T&B.   Why not go ahead and follow, then you won't miss it!

                                                                          Retro Style

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Strange Saturday 'Stuff'

Today has been a strange day to say the least.

Still feeling a bit down...

So I carved out some me time and painted these mini birdhouses

Not what I originally had in mind when I bought them...

sTrANgE

I was in a pinkie pie

shabby chic kinda mood

with a bit of ZeBRa thrown in!

Here's another view

Think they will be listed in my Zibbet shop tomorrow.

Unless, you are interested now...

$3.50 each

$9.50 for the set of 3

Then... still feeling 'OfF'

I grabbed the fabric samples I bought a while back 

Two bucks a square...I think I got a good deal considering

the cheapest yard of each of these was about $60.00

Most were Laura Ashley and Waverly

My favorite are the two embroidered peices

I backed one with a remnant from the bench fabric used here.

It was from the velvet curtain panel.

The other is a seafoam green and carmelish gold velvet stripe...

I even attempted to add fringe to that one!

It was backed with a dupioni silk in seafoam.

 

Hubs laughed as I drag out an old couch pillow I had stashed to reuse the stuffing.  That stuff can be expensive!  I saved it when we got rid of the couch to originally made the dog a bed... sorry Stasha.

Here is the finished pillow with the teal back on the couch.  The couch is a rusty colored old set, but in good condition.

I wasn't sure if I could pull off adding the pops of blue to that living room because of the couch...

until I found that fabric!

The other photo didn't upload.  I'll show you that one later.

I've got some more stuff coming up for ya,

but for now

I think I may just go to bed.

Maybe tomorrow will be a better day!

Hugs,

Kim

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