Melissa Runcie | Madabella

Marie in the 1980's

Bold. Bright. Vivid. Pop. 1980's style in which every color was preceded by the word "hot".

(Source: Polyvore.com)

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Opulence. Ornate. Sumptuous. Luxurious. 18th Century French design and style found in Versaille's very own fashionista, Marie Antoinette.

 

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INSPIRATION

This project is a gift for my friend who made me fall in love with the color chartreuse. I knew she loved the decadent French style but I ditched the gold and muted hues and fused it with a twist bold colors thanks to BP.

I found this vintage-style frame at Big Lots (after searching a million antique stores!) and enlisted BP for some spray paint magic...

 

She also LOVES chandeliers and has a "vision" for a wall of various sized framed chandelier artwork so hopefully this will be the beginning of her collection!

 

I added a few rhinestones to the chandelier image and a strip of magnetic paper on the back of the artwork for small magnetic clips to hold photos. Voila! Se magnifique!

One All Nighter, Comin' Right Up!

(served with a side of Regina Spektor's new CD and a can of Red Bull, please!)

I have a love + hate relationship with deadlines and my overly ambitious intentions...

...tonight it's creating name card-thinga-ma-jiggers that will placed in CD cases for my co-workers as a present on my last day... After 13 years of working full time, I am leaving my current job at The G R A M M Y Museum to become a "hard-core-mom".....officially.....hmmmm...hasn't completely sunk in yet, but I'm excited (and scared for my life!!!!) as I embark on yet another new journey...

Somewhere along the way, it became a tradition of mine to always make something for my co-workers on my last day with a company... Thankfully, to "last minute" and "eleventh hour"...I will give these to everyone I work(ed) with...

 

Speaking of Regina Spektor...a nice dose of creativity on her website...

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Hoooray! Finished at 3:42 a.m.! To see all 20 names, click HERE!

Quote of the Day

This little ittle bittle one overflows with love and happiness it pours out and melts my heart even when she is miles and miles away at grandpa and grandmas talking to me on the phone...

"I hugged the phone...but not too hard!"

Pure goodness.

Broken Cisterns

Always inspired by music...this song is consuming me...and filling my soul...and dwelling on it's meaning...

   

Picture yourself swinging a pick, digging from dawn to dusk, chiseling a cistern out of the hard, unyielding stone. You stay on the job, working through the biting cold of winter and the blazing heat of summer. After years of strenuous effort you finally complete the task. Then you step back and wait for your cistern to fill—and it leaks. You discover—too late—that all cisterns, no matter how well constructed, will leak.

The story is a picture of the futility of our attempts to find satisfaction in life. It's an age-old problem. God told Jeremiah that His people "have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters." Instead, they had expended their efforts on "broken cisterns that can hold no water" (Jeremiah 2:13).

There is a spring of living water, rising from hidden depths, pouring into our hearts, satisfying us even as it makes us thirst for more. I'm discovering and rediscovering this every day...

Excerpt from Our Daily Bread

Spontaneous Art...

...for my art journal. In the midst of doing some "homework" (it really should be called "lifework") my mind and hands wandered to create...to subtly express what is on my mind at this moment in time.