simply vintageous...by Suzan: silver shoes

A little before Christmas I was looking for a particular dress -
I searched everywhere a dress of mine could be - I searched high and low - I searched for days - to no avail............

Suzan says - John have you seen my black beaded dress by any chance?
John says - I have no idea what you're talking about
Suzan says - you know, the black one with the diamond pattern sparkles on it
John says - I have no idea what you're talking about
Suzan says - It looks exactly like this one - except it's black

John says - Oh that's a nice dress - when did you get that?
Suzan says - 5 years ago
John says - You're kidding me! How come you've never worn it?
Suzan says - I've worn it a few times actually - with you -
John says - and the black one is identical?
Suzan says - Yes! Have you seen it?
John says - why would you have 2 identical dresses in different colors?
Suzan says - you have polo shirts in every color
John says - that's completely different
Suzan says - of course it is, have you seen my black dress or not?
John says - No...............but you should wear the red one - you're always in black

I wore the red one - half heartedly.
And that was that - until last week - when I was putting something away in John's closet ( the only place I didn't - wouldn't have looked................
And there between his shirts was this

Suzan says - Do you have something you'd like to tell me?
John says - No, why?
Suzan says - Do you like slinky - soft - black sparkly dresses by any chance?
John says - Yeah I do
Suzan says - Well next time you want to borrow one of mine - COULD YOU LET ME KNOW?
John says - What the hell are you talking about now?
Suzan says - Are you a cross dresser? Because if you are, it's OK - I won't judge
John says - Go paint something please - leave me alone
Suzan says - ( as I open his closet door like inspector Clousseau ( ita ) AHA !!! - look what's hanging in there all tucked away between your shirts !!!
And I whip out the black dress and dangle it in front of his face
John laughs - It must have been put in there with a pile from the cleaners
Suzan says - Where's the plastic then?
Suzan says - It would never fit you, you know
Suzan says - I really wanted to wear that over the holidays

AND IT GETS BETTER FOLKS

Suzan says - and why, pray tell, are some of my shoes on the floor of your closet?
John roars - don't you remember? we had to make room in the foyer over the holidays - so I just
grabbed a bunch of your shoes from the shoe rack and threw them in the bottom of my closet
Suzan says - hmmm you seem to be using your closet for my things a little too often
Suzan says - my shoes would never fit you, you know
John laughs - Please, you're feet are almost the same size as mine
Suzan says - Very nice John - thank you ( I do have big feet )
Suzan says - and by the way I wanted to wear the black dress - with the silver shoes

John says - Oh their nice..................

ANYWAYS..........................WHATEVER............................

We have a bunch of pallet wood left over from the Christmas Pallet Trees - so this weekend I made these

Just a quick little tutorial on how I place the words on my signs - it's a shortcut like everything else I seem to do lol

First I dry brushed each slat white and then I placed my stencils ( again these particular ones are from the dollar store - I've used them too many times to count - ) where I want them to go

The best part is that they come on a perforated sheet - it makes it so much easier when stencilling with words if each word is individual! AND these ones are sticky on the back - which means they stay in place without you having to hold them and worry that your hand might slip.
I simply outline the stencil with a sharpie pen -
I find the best one to use is this one

it has dual tips - one of them I use to outline the letter

and the other I use to actually fill it in ( I dry brushed a little pale blue on both signs )
the slats from the pallet are the exact same width as the cupboard - no sawing!

excuse the mess in the middle of the photos - my bedroom's in a transitional stage at the moment lol

John says - I don't like them
Suzan says - You don't have to - they're strictly utilitarian really - just make sure YOUR THINGS go in your closet - and MY STUFF go in mine
Suzan says - Thank you very much
John says - Can you get out of the way with the camera please - I'm watching hockey

The mystery of the missing little black dress is now officially

However, my favorite jeans went missing a few years ago - hmmmm - wonder where they could be
( as she ponders the possiblities - nah - he wouldn't )
but I'm definitely going to hide my jewellery ( just saying )