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Check out my newest little ghoul... Little louie...

He started as a snowgirl...but took a really strange turn...hehehe guess this speaks volumes of my mood this week!!!

Also made a pumkin girl and a cat...

Back to school...

Well, My little Victoria Rose is actually in kindergarten... where did the time go? I miss my little helper... but she is smart and learning so fast... And now I am faced with the challenge of what to do with just me...

I am nesting again...Browsing through a local antique flea market I came across this great old chair with the best shade of Robins egg/Aqua paint with that perfect patina that only a little grunge can add...Just the inspiration I needed to take the plunge and finally repaint my kitchen...

So, I had my hubby haul it into Lowes Grunge and all... to have the paint matched... The paint mixing lady gave me the strangest look as she reached for a cleanser to scrub a clean spot to match and I shreaked "NO!!!" I want it exactly like it is, dirt and all... As the other ladies waiting to have their paint mixed looked on, I wondered could they be thinking that "is her house as dirty as this chair?"...but I was not going to budge on this perfectly shabby color...

When a woman approached me with my chair in tow I suddenly felt a little unsure of what I had thought was so beautiful only moments before...until she said "OMG!!! I love that chair and the color is incredible... What it would do brighten up a room"... She looked down at her recently mixed paint of almost the same antique cream that I was going to paint over at my house with disappointment in her eyes... I was suddenly glad that I had been brave in my color choice... And realized that next time she would be also... A fellow shabby lover at heart... Eventually you just have to give in and not do the normal and expected but surround yourself with things that make YOUR heart sing...

My kitchen is painted now... (mostly by my hubby as I'm just not able to do what I'd like to anymore) .. The whole lightness of it changes my mood and I find myself spending more and more time in there... A few peices of newly painted trim and it will be finished... And now I am surrounded by the color of that dreamy little chair...Realizing that life doesn't have to be just "Beige" can make a huge change in every aspect...not just in paint colors and I plan to apply that principle more often...

I love the country

Living rurally is such a blessing...

My kids looked out the bedroom window today and it was like a regular petting zoo...

Five rabbits , two groundhogs, and 5 deer were all just hanging out in the yard eating apples from our tree...

One large buck actually went into our old 10 x 10 dog pen, looked like we had him penned up...

and Momma doe and her spotted young fawn looked just like Bambie...awww

My love of Dolls

Okay Ill admit it I am a doll addict, have been for as long I can remember...Funny thing is I hardly ever played with them, I just sat them up in all of their glory and looked at them...and even though I had the Barbie townhouse the cardboard box version with magazine cutout decorations was more homey to me...(trash to treasure even back then)

Now, I can understand my daughters who have countless Barbies and cannot bear to part with even one, but We differ in that they put theirs in the tub, the pool, and to my doll lovers horror, even the mud...lol

In my early teens I didnt want the things that other kids wanted I wanted porcelain dolls and teacups... Hence the beginning of the romantic shabby lover in me... My tastes have changed over the years though I now prefer the antique versions with their gorgeous bisque skin and dripping french lace, budget doesnt always allow for that...

So, I started designing and making my own... Here are a few pics of just some of the hundreds of dolls that I have made... Some are cloth and some are sculpted... All are made from scratch without a pattern and a little peice of my heart goes into eveyone...

Just recently, my ten year old (former mud Barbie player), got a doll just too beautiful to put in the tub... and I have seen her just staring at it...lol its in her blood, after all...

The Perfect cake!!

A moment on the lips a lifetime on the hips... Nope not this one... this Faux cake is gorgeous to behold, lasts forever and is completly calorie free... In the Newest creations section www.romanticrosecreations.com

I had so much fun creating this new lovely lady, she is called Marie in Decadence... She is just smothered in vintage trims and laces... She is on her way to an Art Gallery in Seattle Washington...I will miss her!!

STILL SNOWING

HI EVERYONE,

JUST GOT MY COPT OF VICTORIA, AND WERE IN IT! YEAH!CHECK OUT THE SHOPPE AS I HAVE TONS OF GREAT STUFF!, BLESSINGS, JEANNINE