Welcome to day 2 of our mermaid intros... Today I'm happy to introduce Simona to you. Simona is my brother-in-law's sister who also lives in Italy. We met her when my sister got married, but unfortunately haven't been able to return yet to see their girls. We had such a nice time with her and her husband even though we didn't speak a word of Italian!!! Simona didn't speak much English but her husband did, so ended up translating for us most of the time. The weird thing is we ended up getting pregnant and having our daughters only 2 days apart!
So this image was named after Simona- Hi Simona! Hope you and Angelo are doing well...
Now for a funny story. I had an idea stuck in my head on a project I wanted to make using one of the mermaids. So I hunted high and low at our local craft supply store. I really wanted to make a treasure chest!!! So I combed through every aisle, but couldn't find anything.. until I came upon a display that was set up in one of the aisles. It was mostly beach themed stuff, and right on the shelf was this small treasure chest.. the perfect size for my mermaids. Unfortunately, it didn't have a tag, so I asked one of the girls if they had any more or if I could buy this one. So they checked and that was the last one and they had already damaged the item out of their inventory. But they were nice enough to sell it to me at a reduced price. Yay! That made me happy. Poor girl had to dump out the beads they had inside as their treasure.
So after I got it home, I gesso'd it then painted it gold. Added on some large gems by Kaisercraft that I had leftover from a few years back. They were the perfect size to match the chest.
Then I colored up Simona.. she looks so happy yah? The fun thing about mermaids is that you can color them up any color!!! I decided to go with purple hair this time and some blue fins. So liberating to play with my other colors.
And every treasure chest should have treasure inside right? My daughter had these gems (she loves playing with them), so I "borrowed" them for this photo.
Ok Sister Stampers... if you want to win a Simona of your very own, here's all you have to do:
1) Leave a comment on THIS post by 05/31/13 11:59 HST.
2) Tell me how far you've gone to get a craft item you needed badly?
I just love Simona's happy smile---she is adorable. I was in line at a local scrapbook store that was having a used stamp sale. I noticed that one of the items in the basket of the customer ahead of me in the checkout line was these large paperclips in the shapes of cats. I asked if I could buy a portion of them from her after she paid for them. Problem was I came into the store with only my credit card and no cash. I had to plead with the others in line to watch my stuff and allow me to go to my car to get my purse and save my place in line. I got back only to discover I had only $1 in small bills. The lovely lady with the cat clips then graciously gave me several sets of the paperclips...she asked for nothing in return. She was still in the store waiting for a friend to check out when I left the store. I rushed to my car where I had left some lovely designer papers I had purchased the day before. I made up a stack of the paper, waited for her to exit the store and insisted she take it as my gift to her .
ReplyDeleteLove the treasure chest and story. Simona looks so happy! Back in the day when people swapped, I drove 40 miles to a not so local LSS to buy three sheets of paper so I could finish my swap. It was the only place that had that paper and I just *had* to make sure every swap piece was the same. ParkNSlide, love your story; it just shows how kind crafters are. TFS!
ReplyDeleteOmg woman! Love Simona! And I love the treasure chest! Great job sister! Hugs, Kimmie
ReplyDeleteOh this is Adorable too!!! Love your story Parknslide. Hmmm I made my husband take me to small scrapbook stores i searched out in the towns we were visiting on vacation! !
ReplyDeleteHoly cow this is stinkin cute! What a great idea and kudos to you for finding such a treasure.
ReplyDeleteI went to Black Friday @ midnight in Tulare, Ca to buy the limited edition Cricut Expressions in black and I dragged my cousin with me. Sad part was I only used it 4 times so eventually I sold it to the same cousin! lol!
super cute! haha, i search hi and far for crafting supplies...usually googling it online. happy weekend! much aloha, steph :)
ReplyDeleteAll three mermaids are cute, but I think Simona is the cutest one. I think the farthest I've gone is to get some thing crafty is what I did to get an Asian Stampin Up stamp set that was a hostess exclusive set. I asked everyone that I knew that is interested in stamping if they are interested in purchasing anything. Thankfully I was able to reach the $300 to get the stamp set. Now when I think back about it I don't know if the set was worth all that hard work or worth $300 even though it is a cute set.
ReplyDeleteYou mean besides hiding the red tag stuff all over the place so I can get it when the sale starts? I had four friends all over the world watching different ebay auctions so I could get the Create a Critter cartridge for my Cricut. I figured one of us was bound to win the auction and I'd send whoever won the money and they could send me the cartridge.
ReplyDeleteHa! Love your treasure chest story Jenny... I'm so glad they let you have it because Simona looks so happy to have her treasure!
ReplyDeleteI've made a couple 300 mile road trips to get some JoAnn's exclusive paper lines and I don't regret them at all, LOL!
Paid a lot for the shipping fee to get certain stamps.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful chest!
ReplyDeleteThe most out-of-the-ordinary thing I've done is go several days a week, for several weeks, in a car-repair facility, until they did have a to repair a car aisle so they had to dump the box that the new aisle came in... It was made of corrugated cardboard that was both solid and large enough to make furniture out of it :)
Love the chest!!! It's very cute!!! Good job.
ReplyDeleteHmm... I haven't really any great extent craft stories to share... I'm very fortunate that I have some really great friends that have been my main source of pick up of craft goodies!