Ronald McDonald House Redo

I was recently asked to be the design lead on the redo of a couple of rooms in the Ronald McDonald House here in KC.  The themes I chose were camp - Moonrise Kingdom style, and "under the big top".  Here's the camp room!

I love this old oil painting.  Perfect for the room.

This dresser came from River Market Antique Mall in Kansas City.  What a home run!  Vintage for sure, but very, very clean.

 There were no drawer pulls on it when I bought it - there are places to pull the drawer out under each one.  But I thought these twig and leaf pulls were just the right touch for the room.

Owl from Greenwood, Missouri.

Cool old camp photo.

My buddy, Val, gave me a box of goodies a couple weeks back and this little fox was in perfect condition and was right at home in the room.  Val, know that your fox went to a very good cause!!

I cut these canoes out with my beloved jigsaw and had a great time painting them!

Really fun green accent wall.

I cut out and painted the campfire.

Letter from home.  This was my friend, Karen's idea.  She spotted the mailbox on a recent shopping trip and thought of the sign I made to put above it.  Cute!!

I had very little time to do any mosaics for the room, but I did finish this cute little pine tree.

Raccoon.

 I found this awesome shower curtain on the Cafe Press website.

You can see part of it here with the rug for the room.  What a find!

Next, under the big top.  It was harder to find vintage circus than camp stuff, but I did find some great finds at the River Market Antique Mall.  I also painted a few pieces for this one.  Here's the awesome shower curtain.  Once again, found on Cafe Press.  This kind of set the mood for the room!

This is one of the big top pieces I cut and painted.

Fabulous circus prints.

I painted the peanuts and the elephant

Here's the other circus tent painted by someone else who was helping out with the room redesigns.

Runner from Target.

Carousel is from River Market Antique Mall.  I love, love, love the suitcase shelves!!

Antique vintage circus lithograph.
 

Another cool print.

Old metal garden-like piece from River Market Antique Mall

I found the horse in the River Market Antique Mall.  It was a great idea to mount it on the lamp!  It looks very carousel this way

This is the main living space in the suite.  The rug is from target.  I bought several rugs for this space and they all came together really well.  Whoever does their buying is brilliant!  The pillows really warm everything up.

I learned a lot doing this job.  Most of all, that I really enjoy doing this type of design work!

Copper Watering Can Covered in Cream Mosaic

I was shopping at the River Market Antique Mall the other day with my father-in-law and ran across this great watering can.  It's copper and has such a cute, oval shape.  I decided to cover it in cream mosaics.

I got this cream earring at a recent estate sale.

I love the nostalgic feeling of pearls.

Leaf.

Star.

Eccentricities Mosaics at River Market Antique Mall

I've been thinking it might be fun to have a few of my mosaics in my booth at River Market Antique Mall in Kansas City, MO, #690, second floor.  I don't have it in me to put them in unprotected, so I found a small display case on Craig's List and away I go!

I don't have much room, but I have a nice variety of brooches, magnets, 3D and 2D pieces.

You never know until you try.  This will be a nice, manageable space where I can move things in and out to keep it fresh.  I may be able to get away with some funkier pieces, so I've included skulls and nudes in and amongst the broken goodness.  We shall see!

Favorite Haunts

I went to a baby shower this weekend that just happened to be across the street from the River Market Antique Mall. Yeah!!!

I couldn't shop for long, but managed to hit my faves.






I loved this unusual dress form.




I also hit a yard sale and found some treasures. The tree is very "Nightmare Before Christmas".

Sweet paper mache parrot.


The frame below and the cows above came from the same booth. The dealer was there and said the frame with the great patina had been in a fire.

The banged up pressed wooden piece will go into a picture frame.

And as I was driving Brendan someplace today, I passed another yard sale and stopped to pick up this great garden piece. It used to be part of a water feature. Isn't the blue fabulous?