Our First Ever BOUTIQUE-Lila

Today we featured our product for the public to view. We had a positive experience and most of the children not only looked at the paper dolls but also played with them and took the clothes off and on. One seven year old said she was going to bring her mother next time so she could bring one home. Barb and I did have fun. That is Barb in the picture. She is a hard 'behind the scenes' worker.

Embellished paper doll - Lila

If you have followed us along through the blog pictures, you may recognize the collage above. Mary had embellished fairy angel #9 from the collage page, with a sunflower skirt. Scroll back through the pictures. See how one person, starting with the same pattern can make a 'OOAK' (one of a kind) look. Look at the fun detail. This angel was made by one of the creative ladies who told me today she has caught the 'Mary fairy fever' ! How fun is that.

Collage creatures come to life - Lila - part 2

I thought the baby was so cute I had to share it. So is the little doll.

The collage fairies Mary created are even more sophisticated.

The blue braided hair fairy above, is the one I embellished. She is collage fairy #6 on our web site thingsaltered.com. Check it out! We love what we do. We want you to have some fun too. The fun thing about these faires is that they have jointed elbows, shoulders, knees, and hips, held together with brads of your choosing. It makes them so fun!

Bunny Rabbit - Lila

This is the cute little rabbit. I didn't show you the little pink baby doll collage because she is still faceless. When our baby is here, we can take a picture of her. Then her precious face will then go in the pink bonnet and it can be completed! I will have to show you that in a month or so.

Collage creatures come to life - Lila

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Last week at Mary's house 9 or 10 of us got together to put together some of the recent collage fairy pages. It was fun and each person made their fairy so unique. Because we had so much fun I decided to make some more collage critters. In the picture here, I took card patterns #15 and #16 of the dancing collage patterns, glued the pattern to light weight cardboard, (about like the weight of cereal boxes), cut out the pieces, punched little holes for the brads to go through, and put them together! The nickel in the picture is so you can get an idea of how tiny the patterns are. They will look soooo cute on the scrapbook pages we are putting together on saturday for my daughters baby shower.