Just Getting Started

This is the little cottage we set up to teach girls domestic and creative arts.  

     It is always hard just to get started sometimes..and then we try and run before we walk.  That's what I do anyway.  I love anything that allows me to create.  Unfortunately, it keeps me from choosing just one outlet for my creativity.  I sew, paint, crochet, cook, write, refurbish, etc.  I've tried knitting, but for some reason I just can not get my head around it.  Lots of folks say, " Oh it's easy." Well..I say.."Not so much."  If I mess up, it's over.  Besides..I'm kind of an instant gratification kind of person.  I tend towards impatience and if something takes too long, I'm over it. 

    To give you an idea of a few things I like to do I've posted the VirtuousHearts cottage above.  In the picture are things I have done.  This cottage was a run down little house with lots of potential.  I pulled up the olive green carpet and found lovely wood floors which I refinished.  I painted drab, dirty walls this really pretty robin's egg blue.  The pretty little yellow chair came from a thrift store.  It was covered in a 70's eagle holding arrows, on what I believe was suppose to be a beige background. I found a little fabric store that sells fabric by the pound.  I fell in love with the yellow shabby chic fabric.  It was just so cheery.  I used it to recover it myself, and it is one of the brightest spots in the room.  I repainted the side table, and the two chairs on each side of the computer cabinet, which by the way, I picked up at a yard sale for a steal at just $50.00.  The two floral prints above the chairs were just $5.00 dollars each at a Goodwill store.  The dolls on the left hand side I picked up from a little thrift store for $5.00 to $10.00 each.  I love decorating on a budget and as I go through the cottage each day, I want to share how I found each of the items and where you might find some of the same things.  The only thing I think I paid full retail for were some of my tea pots, a few bath items, and the little setee you will see later was not full retail, but the most expensive item in the house.  So while I'm not really just getting started when it comes to creating and art, I am new to blogging.  I have an Etsy store to sell some of the things I crochet, sew, or some of my vintage finds. I'm fairly new to Etsy too. I hope to be able to sell furniture and other items I redo or recycle.  Funny thing is, I want to keep it all, but if I do that, well...I can't keep creating.  Therefore, I must keep it moving.  Finally, I want to post about the different things I create each week.  I will try to post a how to for some of them. So that's it for now.