Tag! You're it!

I have been tagged by Backwoods Creations to list 7 little known facts/habits about me.

People who are tagged write their 7 things on their blog. Then choose another 7 people to get tagged and list their names. Don't forget to leave them a comment and tell them they have been tagged and to read your blog. So here goes:

1 ♥ I have a motorcycle license,
2 ♥ was potty-trained before my 1st birthday,
3 ♥ have been to Hawaii 5 times,
4 ♥ am deathly-afraid of heights,
5 ♥ swam with sea turtles,
6 ♥ wash my hands SEVERAL times a day,
7 ♥ can't start my day without coffee.

I have tagged the following 7 people.
Swoon
Flea Market Studio
Slackstitches
Boxwood Cottage
Helene of Norway
Blissfull Elements
The Sparrow's Nest

Hopefully, they will participate in this fun little game :)

I made the front page!

I am still walking on air. I made the front page of Etsy yesterday! I didn't get to see it myself because I was out all day with a doctor's appointment. (I wasn't at the doctor's office all day. I HAD to do some shopping while I was out. . .) It's just as well, because if I had, I would have probably wet myself! Gerry from Scotland created this wonderful treasury. Her name on Etsy is Swoon. Be sure to look her up!

Dust fairy

Dust is a protective coating

It would be foolish to remove it

This tongue-in-cheek saying was my inspiration for this piece. I created it using a reclaimed frame and a digitally reproduced picture of my Great-Grandpa's sister. The picture was taken in approximately 1908.

Raggedy Ann trunk

This weekend, I found this vintage trunk at a moving sale. Fact is, they had 2 and I bought the both of them! They shouted, Buy me! I couldn't wait to get them home and paint them up. Since I love Terrye French's patterns, I chose this darling Raggedy Ann penny rug. I made a few changes to the pattern to make it more "mine". Since I do not have a place to put it OR girls, I took it down to my local consignment store so someone else can enjoy it. I'm still trying to decide what I want to paint on the other one!

Functional art

I am a woman who uses power tools. I used to be terrified of the noise that powertools make and wouldn't go near them. When I was a little girl, my Dad could set the circular saw in the doorway and I wouldn't dare go in the workshop to bother him while he worked. It's taken quite a long time, but as long as it is me making the noise, it doesn't bother me too much. I went out to the workshop and built this little shelf. I added a digitally reproduced collage that I had done. The woman in the collage is a distant cousin of mine and the picture was taken in the 1920's. I have renamed her Madeline and have used her in several pieces. I like her saucy attitude.

Girls are smarter than boys

This original collage features a girl explaining to a little boy that girls are smarter than boys and is done on an old blue chalkboard. He just thumbs his nose at her. The collage is made with a page from a vintage dictionary that has been aged and stamped with ink. The key word on the left column is intelligential which is quite fitting to the piece. I have also used a reproduction vintage postcard and scrapbook paper. I realize the quote is stating the obvious, but it's not obvious to EVERYONE!

Chocolate-stealing fairy

For the life of me, I couldn't figure out where all of my chocolate had disappeared to. I was almost certain that I had not eaten it, but it was most certainly GONE! Since I did not think I had eaten it, I figured that someone else had. I looked closely around the chocolate bowl and saw tiny footprints. I could see the footprints because they were all chocolaty! I decided to set a trap to catch the little beggar and wouldn't you know, I caught this adorable little fairy. Of course, she denied steeling my chocolate, but I caught her red-handed, or should I say chocolate-handed. Truth be told, this little fairy is really me when I was 2 years old and, yes, I am a professed chocolate thief. Guard your chocolate!!