Miss Elly's Atomic Adventures!

Thursday, January 17, 2013

Vintage greetings from Alaska and more...

Since I'm not able to upload photos at the moment, I thought I'd share some out there in the google universe!

Monday, January 14, 2013

Baby, it's cold outside

All this snow has inspired me to do some online coat n glove shopping! Here are some beautiful things available on etsy.com. Follow the link for more info. :)

Saturday, January 12, 2013

Yes I have moved a lot, yes I did it again. My hubby recently acquired a great job in the great state of Alaska, and I joined him here a few days before Christmas. My blog has been slow going without Internet access for the last several months, but I found a quaint little coffee shop round the corner from my pad that has the net, so I'm back! I couldn't bring my beautiful things with me, so I'm starting from scratch...again. On the bright side, I love decorating and I love treasure hunting for beautiful vintage things, so all is well.
Living here in Alaska has already been an adventure; I spent the first week without anything but the clothes on my back after the airline refused to take my bags because I was late. My husband and I don't even have a can opener and we've been waiting for the rental company to fix our washing machine for a month. Yesterday we found out we weren't getting our mail after two weeks of waiting, because the mail boxes are privately owned and if we want one we have to buy it and install it in zero degree weather. That's not all, we were told by three companies that they couldn't provide Internet to us at our house because apparently there isn't enough Internet to go around...I didn't even know that was possible. Oh, and today I got stuck in the snow:)

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Halloween Festivities!

Well I did it. In spite of my tiny house I hosted a fabulous Halloween Costume Party!

Here are some pics from the event...to protect the privacy of my guests I am only posting pics of myself the food and the decorations until I can get permission to ad costume pics:) Enjoy!

The cat-o-lantern idea was stolen from a magazine but I can't remember which:(

The eyeball garland is an original. It turned out to be the perfect place to photograph my guests!

My eyeball wreath is also original, but made with a store-bought wreath.

It's all about the details...

My brain cupcakes were made with red velvet cake:)

Miss Ella was a rainbow unicorn inspired by our favorite show, Mighty B!

My deviled eyeballs.

I was a black cat hostess...

...and here's my tail!

The mantel.

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Miss Ella's room

My daughter's room in progress...

I painted her room a lovely vintage turquoise shade to compliment our barkcloth curtains (an ebay find) and found her a retro hide-a-bed to give her more space to play and entertain guests. I love this room, it gets the morning sun.

I've had the red vintage flower pillows for a long time, they've looked good with every couch I've owned, and that's a lot of couches. They also have silver threads in them that you can't see in the pictures.

I painted this retro chair with plastic spray paint, which works really well by the way...still have to find rubber feet and paint the legs black...or white.

I stole the lamp shade from this vintage atomic lamp for anthother lamp, and found this new rectangular one at the local Goodwill. I painted one side of it for kicks...not sure how I feel bout' it yet.

The hide-a-bed couch combined with Ella's retro play kitchen makes her room feel like a groovy retro studio apartment...Miss Montana was a yard sale find:)

I've been collecting paint-by-number horses for almost a decade and I have several, but years back I decided to get rid of all their frames (which I totally regret) so I've been framing them and puttin' em' up one at a time.

I found this giant atomic fiberglass shade at a yard sale for $5, it didn't fit any of my lamps, but it suited my dress form nicely, so I decided to turn the dress form into a lamp, future DIY project...