Amy Hanna

Inspired!!????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Creating Memories.......................

 

 

 

I am trying to remind myself that the holidays are a great time to introduce creative ways to make wonderful memories for children.  I  purchased tickets for our whole family to see the Grinch play at the Old Globe Theater in San Diego.  I am super excited about it.  I am embarrassed to say I have never taken my kids to see a real play.  Another idea of mine is to each write 25 things about each other on a small piece of paper.  Just a good thought or memory about the person, and then make a simple advent calender with the kids and put the paper written about them in the calender so they will get to read a message a day until Christmas.  A sweet message would be a great way to start the day.  Let me know if you have any special traditions to share.

I have shown some photos of some pieces I will be loading this week.  They are all pretty special and the earrings are all made from beautiful vintage pieces. 

There is nothing like a good carnival!!

 What a fun filled day, Sunday was!!! It was great to see old friends and to meet new ones.  Thank you to all the gals who came out to play with us. We had a blast!  Here is a group shot of us at lunch time.  I am sorry we missed some of you in the photo.  It is always so much  fun to be surrounded by other creative women. Heather,Jenny,Pam and I were smiling ear to ear at the end of the day!!  Thanks so much to the gals who drove so far to share in the fun.  You guys all Rock!!  xoxo

 

 

 
ps. if you were wondering why my head was glittery that day,it is because I was at my neighbors daughter's birthday party the night before, wearing a disco hat similar to this.  Can you believe she had a carnival themed party by coincidence!!  Here is a photo of my son wearing one of the hats. I was the photographer so I have no pictures of myself.  That boy of mine scares me, he loves a good  party just like his momma does.

It was my dream come true, Julie rented a photo booth for the kids to take pictures in.  I could hardly stay out of it.  My dream is to own one and have it in my living room and take family photos every day!!  My family hates them because I am always looking for them every where around the country and I make them all cram in together to take photos when every I come across one.  Ha Ha!

 
My daughter Bella looks like she got into some green candy!!

I love this photo of my neighbor with her son's.  She is in the booth with one of them.  It catches such a special moment in time.  That is what I love so much about these magic machines, for some reason everyone who enters feels like being silly.

Last but not least my favorite photo of Bailey with the birthday girl!!  Happy Birthday Callie!! 

Beauty

I just wanted to send a reminder to all you gals going to Rose Bowl on Sunday to join Pam, Jenny, Heather and me  outside the main gates at  9am.  We will be having contests for the most fabulous handmade apron, cart and tote bag.  Somerset Studios will be photographing the event for Somerset Life Magazine.  Remember goody bags go to the first ones there!!!  We welcome everyone and look forward to seeing you there!!!

Persnickety3

Isn't this vintage French fan fantastic!!   Please come take a look,  I have added a couple more pieces to my other site.  I feel like I should be wearing a Santa Elf's hat right now.

I am always trying to find something different and interesting to use in jewelry pieces.  There was something that spoke to me when I found these vintage souvenir pieces with the hearts.  I am not sure where the pictures are from, but they are marked Germany on the back.  Of coarse the Versailles piece is from the home of Miss Marie Antoinette.

 

The combination of the brass piece next to the perfectly patina rhinestone piece, makes my heart jump for joy.  My favorite new stone to work with is this gorgeous Moss Aqua.  These stones are heavenly.

 

Speaking of heaven, I have added a little bit of it to Persnickety 3.

 
 

Stiches

This fabulous French piece is for all of the sewing extraordinaries.  I could not believe this amazing piece when I laid eyes on it!!  It is carved out of ivory and it is a tape measure.  The coolest thing is that it is also a stanhope with images from the Exposition des Arts Decoratifs.

I have added one of my favorite cameo buttons to the piece along with a jet black button.

I have not forgotten the bird lovers out there. I will be adding some more bird pieces. The great thing about buying this month and next month is that  all jewelry items purchased in the month of November and December will be gift wrapped for Christmas. Can you believe it, it is that time of year already.  I have some special vintage boxes that I just found for the first 18 items sold.  Please check in regularly, I will be uploading new pieces every week on amyhanna.etsy.com.

Hope you had a spooky Halloween!!

 Thought I would share some fun photos from Halloween night.We had a surprise visit from Sarah Palin herself!! 

When I opened this picture up on my computer this morning I had a good laugh!  Looks like my husband actually turned into a vampire Halloween night.  His eyes were so freaky in this picture I had to share it!

 

 

  

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love the creativity that comes out in children when they make their own costumes.  Actually, what I should say is, what they ask there parents to make. My daughter Bella had me take back her store bought costume because she wanted to be a pilot and carry her airplane around.  My husband and I frantically hunted for boxes on Friday and my husband built this beauty.  My other daughter made a stencil for her t-shirt and she was Super Sophie with her side kick a rubber chicken.  She must have lost the chicken somewhere between home and this photo.  Love the twister custom that our lil' Jilly came up with.  They are all so precious!!

 

 

This wig is a reminder why I never wear bangs!!  Me, and my lil" goblin!!!  

Now look at the teenagers how they turn into such pretty lil things so quickly.  I remember them all being babies! 

I told Phil if he loses his day job I am sure he could hook up at Disney Land!!  He was one awesome Pirate!!

 
This outfit is classic, our friend Dave, is a one night stand.  I donated one of my eyelashes to his table of contents after it got stuck on my camera when taking an earlier photo.  

The night was over, and by the look of things it was a good one.  Todd had lost his teeth and I had lost my right eyelash that was shown earlier on Dave's table.  Good times!!!

Are you ready for Halloween???

Here is a peek at some of the things I am going to be listing over the next couple of days. 

 

Absolutely fabulous vintage scapulars that I have had for years.  They dangle from vintage religious center pieces.

Another child 's purse to store your thoughts and dreams........................
 

Vintage pearls,rhinestones and medals.

 
  
  Last but not least is this amazing small velvet heart pincushion from the eighteen hundreds.  A Victorian velvet cameo perfume button hangs from the top.  This is a really special piece.

Color

 I think I am going through a mid life crisis!!  My husband came home to the house torn apart and three paint cans opened in the living room.  Black, Grey/Blue and Canary yellow...................  (the yellow was for our office). "Have you lost your mind?"....is what I am sure went through his mind.  My house is very muted and well, I was sick of it.  I craved something dramatic to shake it up a bit.  And let’s face it, paint is a cheap makeover.  First, I couldn't wait to paint the wall of my fireplace black.  "Yes, black!!!"  Yep, your first reaction was right, it was awful.  It was not at all what I had envisioned.  There is a very cool shop in Ballard, WA called Lucca that has black painted walls. Ever since I first went there six years ago I have wanted to paint a room black. After painting the wall, I felt like maybe my kids would be seeing a therapist throughout their adulthood if I kept it that color. Although, I must admit, I do secretly wish the color would have worked.  The grey blue on the other hand turned out very nice, which then made me start looking at my armoire in that room and realized I had to paint it a different color too. One thing always leads to another. 

 The crazy (yellow/green) canary color that I picked out for our office looks like one flew over the coo coo's nest. I just bought the sample; it came out really uneven, as you can tell by this picture. I think I will like it for this room, I just need one more so I can apply a full coat. Hey, why not it is just paint right! 

 One more new change is a great new lamp............

 The world is a great big place and this great lamp will always remind me of that. The vintage European fabric is cut out to look like a globe.  Thanks to some of my best-est girlfriends that bought me this beautiful lamp from Anthropologie for my birthday.  Wel,l actually, it was suppose to be a pair of boots that I wanted but when I found this lovely in the sale room at Anthro it had to come home with me instead of the boots.

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