~Tea Cup Lite How To~

Good day girls, I have had a few emails asking me about how to make these sweet little tea cup night lites so I thought I would show you once again...

These really are so easy and make such GREAT gifts...Gather up your supplies, you can use a tea cup. gravy boat wherever you like for these...I even made a little vanity lamp for a gal from her wedding shoe and used dried flowers from wedding and lace from her dress for the shade...Just let your imagination work on these...

Now this is a piece of lace that I cut to fit the bottom of the little lamp shade...

just glue the lace all the way around the bottom of the shade..You don't really have to do this I just like to give each shade a special little look...one of a kind thing..

I just love these little shades... the satin ribbon and satin bow with the tassel ...just darling...I got these shades at Jo-Ann fabric store like 5 years ago...I think I bought 30 of them..differ colors I have a home based business making Victorian Lamp shades and lamps that's why so many shades...

Now take some foam..this you can get at the Dollar store....cut it with a knife to fit the tea cup... then take your Glue gun and glue the foam inside the cup...

Next take your light and press it into the foam...I twist this around so I can get the imprint I need in the foam...

Now here you can see the imprint I made in the foam...

Then I take my knife again and cut out the imprint and made the hole deep enough to hold my light...Now for those that can't find the light's like I have...You also can get the candle lights at Dollar store and use them...if you use the ones with the brass stand on them you don't need to do the foam part...just hot glue the brass stand in the bottom of the cup...then add your moss around it...if you use a deep cup I suggest adding a small piece of foam at the bottom of the cup to bring the light up abit with...I have used both lights but these are my favorite ones to work with...

Then glue the light into the hole...Glue the saucer to the cup...Now see what you have so far...its starting to look like a little lamp

Then to cover up all the green foam...I take moss and glue it on top of foam...then I give it a hair cut to get rid of the moss hanging over the edge...put your light bulb in..

Now the next time I do is add some sweet little birds, flowers, eggs etc what ever you want you can add or just leave it with just the moss around the cup....I love to add a little spoon this also is hot glued right onto the saucer...

Now this is the finished tea cup lamp...these are so sweet as night lights in a bedroom or bathroom...I have one in Blue Willow in my kitchen that I leave on at night...

Here's what it looks like all lit up...isn't it cute ....of course it is ha ha!!
I Hope all of you have a GREAT day remember to take the time each day to say a kind word to someone or send them a smile it just might be the line life that person needs....
I try to remember each day that " Life is like a roll of toilet paper the closer to the end it gets the faster it goes"
Until next time from my mountain to yours,
Hugs and smiles Gloria

~Blues that make me Happy on a Winter day & Ramblings~

I hope all of you had a GREAT New Year's...Mine was very quiet just the way I like it ha ha!! This was the first time in 5 years I even stayed awake to see it come in...We have once again had our fair share of snow up here on my mountain top...Lost of power nothing is under ground here but our septic tank ha ha!! So every time it snows trees break and it takes forever for the power company to find the problem...I'm so glad to see yet another year...I love be able to just get up at my age and see all this beauty that God has created...
Now I also love coming into my kitchen each morning and seeing my Blue sink..doesn't everyone has one ha ha!!
20 years ago I seen a blue sink in Country Living magazine and just knew it called my name LOUD and Clear...So in 1996 I got my dream sink...There is just something about Blue/White in a kitchen that I love...

This sweet little Toile lamp shade makes me happy to be each day...

and my blue gum ball machine....A crock pot cooking with a warm pot of stew...YUM!!!

Severed in Blue/White dishes...OMG I just realized I'm right up there with BJ, from " Sweet Nothing's " I'm now showing food ha ha!!

I think one of my best finds from 2010 was this beautiful Blue/white soup tureen with the ladle for $ 10.00 from Second Sunday swap meet...Did I do great on this or what??

Hospice find S/P shakers for only $2.50

And a cold glass of 2% fat free milk in an vintage Blue Willow glass.

Needless information about me:

I was born in Des Monies, Iowa but have lived in California since I was 5.

I don't drink milk and haven't since I was about 6.

I only eat one meal a day.

The most I have ever weighted is 118 lbs and that was when I was pregnant.

I stand tall at 5'1 and has maintained 103 lbs for over 40 years.

I wear a size 4 in a kid's shoe..But can wear a 5 in a ladies...depends on the style.

I wear a size 4 petite in pants and the only ones I can find that fit me the way I like them is Gloria Vanderbilt..

In my twenties I worked as a cocktail waitress.

I had my own business for over 32 years, making Micromaniputlor's

and Mechanical stages for microscopes...for yeast and DNA...

I got married the first time in 1959 when I was 15 and had my first child Barbra 11 months later, she was a breech birth born Butt first, at that time they didn't do allot of C-sections I had no drugs all natural can you say OUCH!! ( I still walk funny ha ha!!)

I had all 3 of my daughters by the time I was 20.

I was a grandma at 36 and a great grandma by 62. I now have 8 great grands and another one on the way...Kyra's is going to have a little sister come May...YIPPEE!!

All of my grand kids now also have kids...So all 3 of my daughters are now grandma's...tell me that's not funny when I see them and realize their all grandma's now...

I was married to Wally for 31 years until he died of a heart attack in 1999 right in front of me...I tried giving him CPR for over 40 minutes waiting for help to arrive sighs...He was my life's love.

I got my pilot's license when I was 30..But never drove a car until I was 25...Can you believe I was afraid to drive?? So from getting a driver license to a pilot's license was a really BIG step for me...

I was Lioness International District 4-C3 president by the age of 40.And really enjoyed working at the Blind center, I taught a sewing and make- up class.God has a way of making you humble working with the blind..These women had no sight but could look within your heart.. 

This marks my 23 years up on this mountain top...And loving every minute of it...If I hear a car I know I have company coming ha ha!!

This also marks my 16 th year of being Cancer free YIPPEE!!...Boy God has been so GREAT to me..I think he knows I'm not done here yet.

God has always watched me over my shoulder, I'm a firm believer to always be kind to people, as what goes around will always come around...It's so much easier to Love than to hate...In fact HATE is the dirtiest 4 letter word I know...

OK now you have read the "Ramblings" of an old but grateful Happy To Be mountain woman...

I Hope all of you have a GREAT year

Until next time from my mountain to yours,

Hugs and Smiles, Gloria