Michelle Legler

All kinds of GOODNESS!

I want to share something with you that I'm very excited about. I will be teaching a mosaic class at Artistic Affaire in Los Angeles on May 30th. Kim of Artistic Bliss is the hostess with the mostest of these events and although I have not been lucky enough to attend her previous fun~filled artsy parties, I have heard and seen pictures that have totally blown me away. My excitement bubbles over in anticipation of this event. I guess she sells out quickly, so if you are interested, hop on over to her site and click on the Artistic Affaire Button on her right sidebar. I hear that she is already more than halfway sold out and she just announced it today. So FUN!!!! Hurry on over!!! Don't miss it. She won't have another one until the Fall.

Next...

I've been busy in the studio creating some new items. I just listed these new little wall hanging cakes in my shop. These look great hanging in the kitchen :-)

 

I'll be making more of these in different colors. If you are wanting specific color, feel free email me. Also, I have a few other projects in the works and I should hopefully be able to share them with you next week. :-)

Still working on the BIG MOSAIC....It's HUGE! I'll share a little of that in my next post.

That's about all from here.

Have a very FABULOUS weekend!!!!!

Hugs!!!!!

Michelle

Cakes and Cupcakes make for a GREAT party!

So, I thought I'd share some pics from my sweet grand-babies 1st birthday. She loves Elmo and grandma made sure she had plenty of Elmo :-) Sorry the pics are so small. I snagged them off my daughter's face-book.

I went and bought her a pink Elmo shirt and a cute little tu~tu to wear to her party.

     

My friend Regina made this absolutely FABULOUS cake!! She has a little side business doing this. If you are local and you need a cake, I highly recommend her. Here is her website www.sweeticakes.com

 

This picture gives you an idea on the size of the Elmo cake. It's almost as big as my grand-baby. She was soooo excited about her cake!

 

Tasty! Want some grandma

 

 

Here's the little happy family.

 

A new friend and a chunky pug enjoying the party.

 

As for cupcakes, these cupcakes are on their way to Buttercake Bakery in Los Angeles. There are two locations, so if you are in the area, go and check them out.

 

That's all for now. I'll be working in the studio all week on some new designs and also working on a large mosaic on the outside of my studio. Excited about this!!! :-)

Hugs!

Michelle

Don't be scared....

I've been tagged by my friend  Carlene (I'll get you my pretty!). The rules of the game are to take a picture of yourself this minute AS IS...and then post it on the Internet for all the world to see. So, don't be scared, but this is me with no make-up, hair is not combed and I had just finished chasing a HUGE Heron out of my pond by waving a big stick at him. He ate 17 of my goldfish!!! I don't think he is very afraid of me (even in my current condition) as he landed on my neighbors roof and looked at me like he was saying "Bring it"! Well, I bring this!! ;-)

Anyhoo, I must tag 5 others and you can be mad at me if you like, but I choose Ruth, Kathy, Stephanie, Pam, Tamerie. Ha!

Hugs!

Michelle

Just taking it in....

Look Deep into Nature and then you will understand everything better.

Albert Einstein

 

 

 

Yep, just taking it in...............

Hugs!

Michelle

Kitchen Update with Anthropologie Goodness

  First off, I'd like to start out by saying THANK YOU to those of you who left such kind and encouraging words about my current situation. It helped more than you know and the little ugly cloud above my head is starting to lift. I am so GLAD that I have this blog! You people mean the world to me :-)

Okay, now to share some creativity.

Remember way back when I was adding wallpaper to my kitchen cupboards and painting them white? Well, that is ONE of the projects that I am trying to finish up.

Here is the picture I shared with you awhile back. I had painted the cupboards white and added textured wallpaper to the centers of the cupboard doors.

 

Here's a close-up of the wallpaper. You can purchase it at Lowe's for under $15 a roll and one roll will probably cover all of the kitchen cupboards.

 

Back in November, the hubby gave me an Anthropologie gift card for my birthday. I FINALLY got over to Anthropologie to spend it. These awesome knobs and my favorite number came home with me.

 

Here's a pic of the knobs in my kitchen. I also wanted to show you that I added molding to the drawers. What a big difference that made. You can also purchase the molding at Lowe's and it is less than $1 per foot depending on the molding that you choose.

 

Just a reminder of what the cupboards looked like before.

 

I decided that I wanted to remove the cupboard doors on some of my upper cabinets. As you can see, they look very blah~blah and kind of "garage" like on the inside. We can't have that.

 

So, I found this lined textured wallpaper at Lowe's. 

 

and added it to the inside of the space. I painted it and then rubbed antiquing glaze on it.

 

I filled it with my hodgepodge of glasses. One of these days I get around to cleaning some of those out. We don't need that many glasses. That's not even all of them....brother!

I wanted to show you that I also added molding to the edge of the opening to make it more interesting. Again I painted it and antiqued it.

I antiqued the other cupboards and drawers as well.

 

 

Loving my new knobs!

 

These are the fake drawers below the sink. I removed the knobs and added these wood medallions. I like how it turned out. Who needs knobs when the drawers aren't real? 

 

 

I need to head over to Anthropologie and buy 1 more knob for the upper cabinet above the stove. I really like how the kitchen is turning out. It has really brightened it up!

 

I still have more work to do on the kitchen and I'll share the updates as they come along. :-)

Hugs to you all and Thanks again for your support!!!

Michelle

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

So sorry for the delay in posting. It has been one of "those" weeks. (Sigh)

Let's start with the GOOD

All of my girls were here to celebrate my little grand baby's 1st birthday :-)

 

We had a wonderful birthday party for the sweet little angel. I'll post pics soon. :-) I just adore her! Another piece of good news. Daughter #2 had found a lump in her breast (2nd time) and I just found out that is just another fast growing cyst which she will have removed next week. :-) whew! So, so thankful about this piece of news.

The BAD

This yucky economy has landed at our doorstep. The hubby and all of the employees at his place of employment are having to take a HUGE pay cut in order for the company to survive. I am thankful that he still has a job, but I am a little scared at the same time. I may have to pick up a part-time job (if I can find one) to help out and I'm hoping it doesn't hurt my mosaic business. Of course, what I produce is considered a luxury item and there are not a ton of people feeling confident right now about purchasing luxury items. :-( My business is still steady, but the income is so unpredictable that I'm afraid to count on it too much.

The UGLY

Is the economy so bad, that people have lost all self respect and turned into ugly thieves??!!! Since all of my family was going to be together this week (which hardly ever happens), I made an appointment for us to have a family picture taken at a photography place in one of the malls here (of course, the appointment was made before I found out about big pay cut!) Anyway, there was just our family and 2 other men who I'm sure were related to each other. One of my daughters used my phone and instead of putting it back into my purse, she set it on a shelf next to some of our other belongings. Well, guess what just happened to disappear into thin air? Yep, my phone. This happened within 20 minutes of the phone being used. It was only us and them in this tiny little area, so there is no doubt that they took it. I'm just glad that we had our purses in the actual photography room or who knows what else they would've taken. We first asked them nicely if they had seen the phone and of course they denied it. We thought it weird when asked about the phone that one of the guys pulls out his front pockets to show us it's not in there. That's when I knew. The manager called mall security and they said that because we didn't see them actually pocket it, that he couldn't search them. We had tried to call my number as soon as we noticed the phone missing and what a coincidence that it went straight to voice mail. They had already turned it off. Jerks!!!! Anyway, Karma has a way of catching up to people like this so there is my piece of mind.

So sorry that I wasn't able to post anything creative today. I just really was not feeling it. Maybe in the next day or two.

Michelle