enchanted tiki room inspired embroidery

giving "new life" to old leather jackets tiki room style. as I've mentioned before I absolutely love the enchanted tiki room at disneyland so I decided to make a couple of pieces for my daughter's room. I used recycled leather and mixed that with embroidery for detail.

my first attempt at paper art

I loved making this little 8x8" paper picture. I was amazed at the different looks I could achieve with the photography. for these photos I used my iphone with the lomo lomo app.

doll bed

Emily got a maplelea doll for christmas. the beds on the maplelea website were a little too pricy for my budget ($90!!) so I decided to cut down some tree branches and make her a miniature log bed.

I also made a little quilt to go along with it.

welcome to my living room

I got this teak table from a garage sale. unfortunately the top was in pretty bad shape so I spray painted it orange.

one of my many embroidery projects, this one I actually finished!


I got the fiberglass lampshade for $3.00 at a flea market and made the tripod base myself.
...love tiki mugs
my mom bought this painting for my grandparents probably 40 years ago. I love it!
this painting was a $12 score at a second hand shop.
this fiberglass lampshade was given to me. I used a candle holder as the base.

the sugar skulls came from musink
I thrifted this magazine holder for $2...what a deal!
tiki farm cookie jar

disneyland girls trip

so these are some pictures from our second 2010 trip to disneyland. this time it was just me and emily. we had so much fun on this trip...6 days in disneyland and could have done more!

here we go....


the hollywood sign. picture taken from the plane.

we got to the hotel, dropped off our bags, and took the next shuttle to disneyland.

we went in october so we were able to enjoy some of the halloween decorations in disneyland

am I getting taller...or is mickey getting shorter?

on this trip emily decided to brave splash mountain again (she did not enjoy it at all during our february trip) and she absolutely loved it, we went on over and over...

I love the face of the woman in the second seat!

it rained a couple of days while we were at the park (we had no rain gear) so we bought matching pirate hats to keep dry.

I just love this!





one of our favorite rides!

mmmmm dole whip!

I really liked space mountain ghost galaxy... emily prefers the original

ok so im not the biggest fan of the california adventure park but I loved the world of color show! I ordered the world of color picnic so we had a decent view of the show, the food was not so decent (yuck)...
I don't know what it is but for some reason disney always seems to be able to bring tears to my eyes. this show was fantastic! I also loved the pixar parade at the california adventure.. I believe it was designed by the incredibly talented jody daily.

during our trip to disneyland in 2005 we saw the parade of dreams, this parade was so beautiful. it really captured the magic of disneyland.....

I was not all that impressed with the new parade: celebrate a street party. it really didn't feel "disney" to me.

we had such a great time! I can't wait until we can get back to the happiest place on earth!