Thursday, January 14, 2010

Valentine’s Day and Chinese New Year are coming up and Mardi Gras is just around the corner…

I’m either a holiday junkie or a garland and lights addict. When the Christmas decorations get packed away, I start to pine for Valentine’s Day…the house looks so bare and forlorn. I either want new paint, a new bedspread, or an early start on Spring Cleaning, yeah, right…Usually I’ll drag out Valentine decorations, but this year it’s been so cold and gray that I need sparkle and lights. So I set up a Chinese New Year tree! It’s the Year of the Tiger which falls on February 14th! So I can get lots of mileage out of this bright tree and I won’t go into holiday withdrawal…

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The ornaments come from a vacation in Vancouver, my sister-in-law, Rose, and a couple of Christmas stores. I set it up some years and not others…this year it stayed packed away …but post-holiday blues sent me up into the attic one rainy day when I needed hot tea and bling…

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Just what the doctor ordered…perfect to lift my sagging spirits…little Chinese children and glad tidings.

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Then I set up Kimono  Coats over lighted wine bottles…

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I listed them in my etsy store and then I made a series of Chinese New Year Gift pockets from recycled-upcycled vegetable cans…

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Each one is covered in red tissue(recycled, of course) and all sorts of Chinese ephemera…and firecracker package art work. The little bells jingle so they even sound happy.

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Look at the gold foil lanterns…I just got them from Two Palms Trading Company on Etsy… they were so perfect that each gift pocket got a set.

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Yep, that’s all it took, a little bling and some gold foil and the New Year is looking bright. It doesn’t take much for some of us…thank goodness.

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2 comments:

Sue McPeak said...

Goodness, Laverne...You have just lifted this GRIT into the Glittery World of a Chinese New Year, and I didn't even know it was one. We have talked about Texas weather before, so I won't even go there, but can you believe it? I'm gettin ready to have a week long Birthday Bash starting Tomorrow with Pink Saturday...hope to see ya there!

January 15, 2010 at 9:08 AM
randi said...

I cant stop thinking about this adorable pocket art piece...wondered if I could talk to you about it off line. randifw@gmail.com.......thanks.

January 18, 2011 at 11:26 AM

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