Project Numero 1

Bonjour! Sorry I've had this urge to speak french lately.  I speak french, you know.
  So anyway, after having an itch to be creative but sadly having no time to scratch that itch, I found some spare minutes over spring break to start on one my mom had been asking me to do.
  With the excessive proofs of senior pictures that I had taken in July (here's where the procrastinator in me makes it's appearance) my mom was determined to display as many of them as possible in order to showcase her wonderful daughter.  **Eyes rolling**  However, I'm not sure where I got the creative gene because she definitely doesn't possess it therefore leaving me to do the showcasing.
  Luckily we recently kicked out a tenant from one of the apartments in a complex my parents own.  This tenant was a schizophrenic hoarder.  From my mother's point of view, she was a nightmare, leaving mountains of smelly junk piled to the ceiling for her to clean out.  From my point of view, she was a handy helper and supplier of those vintage fandangles that I love so much.  We really hit the jackpot in the jewelry department and I saw an opportunity to showcase some of the unique pieces right along with my senior pictures. 
  We'd bought a shadowbox a month or a few ago so all I needed was to find the right things to display in it.  Surprisingly not as hard as I thought it'd be.  Since my mom wanted to display it above my piano I found anything and everything musical/creative that I could to make it look as pretty as possible :) I found some vintage looking sheet music at Michael's, some old awards I'd won at Solo and Ensemble, a couple pieces of the hoarder's stolen jewelry--a vintage broach and a chain necklace that I cut up to make work, a corsage from my freshman year Homecoming and some other cute embellishments.
  Basically I just dove in and started hanging, pasting, pinning.. and BURNING things :)  I felt a little bit B.A. doing it.  AND it turned out really awesome looking.  I found a simple way to make some homemade paper flowers on Pinterest (my favorite website!) so I whipped one up out of some music-note paper then burnt it to make it look more antiqued like the rest of the shadowbox. 




  It took about two days and I made a bit of a mess.. But here's what became of it!  :: 
(not the best quality photo but oh well!)