Meteors, Mice and Memorial Day

Happy Pink Saturday!

Did you see the meteor shower last night? It was visible from 10 p.m EDT until dawn if you looked toward the North Star. 

These new meteors, called 

the Camelopardalids, are dusty remnants of a previously unobserved 

comet called Comet 209P/Linear which was discovered in 2004.

Meteors occur when Earth’s atmosphere strikes the dusty trail left by comets as they pass through our solar system. The trails contain particles, which when enter our atmosphere, vaporize creating bright streaks in the night sky.

This morning I'm sharing musical mice in teacups! This little doily covered tea table is a music box made by Enesco. While the music plays, the saucer turns and the teacups spin. 

The boy mice are dressed in blue, while the little girl mouse wears pale lavender and has a bow on her head. The table is draped in a pink tablecloth and there are two teabags resting next to each other on the saucer.

Notice the dangling teabag strings?

 The unofficial beginning of 

summer - Memorial Day - has arrived and the school year is over for many, or will be soon. This weekend I'm thinking of all the men and women who've served in our military. I'm grateful for their dedication, honor and sacrifice.

On the first Decoration Day, General James Garfield made a speech at 

Arlington National Cemetery, and 5,000 participants decorated the graves of the 20,000 Union and Confederate soldiers buried there. 

Wishing you a rosy Saturday!

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Prom~

It is after 2 a.m....what am I doing up!?~ My daughter went to her Prom tonight, and we are up late winding down from the full day of activities and hustle and bustle. I took a few quick photos of her before she left the house and thought I'd share. I foresee several layouts in the future, and just loved the color of her dress!

May Bella Muse Challenge~

I had such fun making a shrine from a match box for the May Muse Challenge. First step, empty a matchbox and make a cut lengthwise up the center of the sleeve. (box I used is 4.5" x  2.5 ")

                                Paint any surfaces that won't be covered with paper or cardstock.

Once painted, replace the box into the sleeve but bend the slit cover (top you cut) outwards, like wings. You will have a box with wings, and this is what you will attatch to the shrine front after you cut a central opening.  

 Using a separate piece of thin cardboard, cut a house shaped piece 5" by 7 and 3/4", which will give you about a 1.25" side  to which your box will attatch from behind. NOTE~ the top will be where the peak is, so if you want your shrine to sit horizontally instead of vertically the peak would be on the west or east side, not north. Cut a central opening for the box to be seen inside.

I wanted my shrine to be horizontal, thus I cut a piece that looked like this~ above! Just trace around your matchbox and leave a border. A quilters/sewer ruler comes in handy.  I used the Muse image from Bella Creations and placed it inside the box. Next, I covered all surfaces with G45 Curtain Call.

I decorated the front of the shrine with Tim Holtz filmstrip, punched paper, feathers, ribbon, a metal charm, and a The Journey stamped car. I stamped the car on cereal box cardboard; next I stamped the same image on the striped g45 paper and mounted the cardboard car with foam dots to the striped paper which gives a nice 3D shadowing from underneath.