Poodle Love For A Special Friend

My dear friend, Carol, is a collector of all things poodle; broaches, spaghetti, paintings and even the live variety (and I do mean variety!).  Naturally, I keep my poodle radar tuned in and on the lookout for something new for her collection.  This was her Christmas gift this year and it is safely delivered so I won't spoil the surprise now.
I found this sweet vintage planter several months ago.  It took me a while to figure out how to fill it then I noticed the amazing Christmas reflector flowers in one of Magpie Ethel's blog posts.  She is a local creative so I headed out to one of her Christmas shows in search of the perfect flowers for a poodle planter.  Love these!  The three flowers are Ethel-crafted and the I made the filler stems of blue pipe cleaners and my stash of vintage glass Christmas garland beads.  I inserted them all in floral foam and filled in around them with silver tinsel garland.  The result is made of Christmas decorations but not so "Christmas-y" that it can't be enjoyed year round.
Thank you Ethel and Merry Christmas Carol!

Crafty Wonderland and Sparkly Pink Goodness From Ethel

 I went to Crafty Wonderland yesterday.  This was my first time and it was AMAZING!  If you are in the Portland area I highly recommend it.  This show is what America's Largest Christmas Bazaar was "back in the day", before it crossed over to the dark side.  There were over 250 artists and craftspeople selling a huge variety of goods.  I was looking forward to seeing Magpie Ethel's booth because we have become blog friends but I haven't seen her in action.  Oh.My.Gosh.  All I had to do was look for the sparkle!  It was so crammed with people I could barely wiggle my way in to shop.  I was able to get three of her stemmed reflector flowers that will be part of a Christmas gift for another friend and the reflector clip above for my little pink tree.

 She gifted me with a pretty little box containing three new additions for my pink tree. 

All three are vintage, which is exactly perfect.  A little pink pine cone and even an indent. Happy, happy, happy!!