The Rosette Swap Reveal!!!

Hello My SpaRkLy Friends!

Do you know what Wednesday was???

Well, besides being the most embarrassing day of my life, it was the

Rosette Swap Reveal!!!

So WHY you may ask was this day a day of high level embarrassment

Tobi??

Well my sparkly friends, here's the lowdown...

I entered the 

Rosette swap

and 

Guess who

sent me my

Rosette???

JILL-

yes-

  Gypsy Brocante herself..

QUEEN of the Rosettes!!!!

Boy was I blessed!!!

I ripped into my package like a kid at Christmas to find a

BIG PINK GYPSY ROSETTE

pinned on a

GYPSY 

VINTAGE

PINK

TIE DyED

Slip DRESS!!!

"OHBOY OHBOY OHBOY!"

I exclaimed as my daughter

Ashley

came running in to see what the commotion was all about.

"Oh my gosh MOM, that is beautiful"! 

she said as she gently plied it out of my clenched fingers.

"Of COURSE it's Beautiful...

It's a GYPSY SLIP DRESS 

like in her shop!!!!

"Mom- LET GO!  I just want to see it I won't hurt it!"

"OK, I said as I let go of my prize still in disbelief that

my swap partner was 

GYPSY JILL

who sent me one of her 

FAMOUS

Slip Dresses!!

"Try it on" 

I said as I pulled out my iphone.

"I need to take pictures for my post"

So we did a mini photo shoot, and I wrote a killer post all about my beautiful

 Rosette Gypsy Slip Dress

and

tonight when I went to post it

IT WAS GONE!

Now normally that wouldn't be so bad, I would just re write it

except for 

one BIG problema-

Um.....

The slip part is in 

AUSTRIA

with my daughter

ASHLEY.

You know, 

the one I have been crying over for the past week?

So now all I have to show everyone is

my

Beautiful

Gypsy

ROSETTE.

So I did another photo shoot

but 

this time 

I used the

PIXIES.

They have all been fighting over it anyway,

So here it is in all of it's

ROSETTE GLORY!!!

Just look at the detail!!!

So a HUGE 

Thank you

to Beautiful Jill!!!

To see other beautiful Rosettes hop on over to

GYPSY BROCANTE!!!

and

Please be sure to visit all of our lovely ladies today  at 

Miss Beverly's

How Sweet the Sound

for 

Pink Saturday

And have yourself a very sparkly, blessed weekend!

Pink From the heart and the Miracle of Forgiveness.

Image from http://www.jellydesigns.com/photography/flowers-nature/pink_sunset.html

Hello My SpArKly Friends, and a joyous Pink Saturday to you all.

As you know, this Pink Saturday is a day of sharing things that inspire us in order to celebrate Colette's Miracle makeover. 

Today I would like to share the miracle of forgiveness, in which an ordinary man in extraordinary circumstances chose to become and empty vessel in which to let God touch people's lives and help them heal.

I turned off the Pixie music temporarily for this weekend so you can hear the video.
(After this weekend, just click on the video to have it take you to youtube so you can hear it)

I found this quite by accident... while fretting over what to post about for this Pink Saturday! Although I am not a Mormon,  I am now sure it wasn't an accident finding it...
 it was an answer.

I hope you find it as inspiring as I did.

Dear Father, please keep my  heart always open so that I may be a worthy vessel for you to use to spread your message of love.

So for this special Pink Saturday,
if you go to Kellee's site you can see the reveal for Colette's Bedroom Makeover.
WWW.KATILLACSHACK.COM 
It is such an inspiring story, and if you like,

Here's what you can do to make a difference for another!

-TELL YOUR READERS: ABOUT COLETTE AND HER MAKEOVER--GO TO WWW.KATILLACSHACK.COM 

FOR ANY DETAILS YOU NEED. 

-POST ABOUT IT ON FACEBOOK

-1) LINK TO:   WWW.KATILLACSHACK.COM  SO YOUR READERS CAN WATCH THE INSPIRING MAKEOVER VIDEO REVEAL

-2) LINK TO: WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/GUIDEPOSTS  PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT FOR GUIDEPOSTS THANKING THEM FOR CO-SPONSORING THE MAKEOVER STORY AND THE VIDEO.

And, guess what!  Pink Saturday was named in the video credits!!!  Now, let's do use our pink fellowship to do it again.

-$1.00 Donated for EACH and ALL COMMENTS: 

RECEIVED AT THE

KATILLAC SHACK,

PINK SATURDAY, SPIRITUAL SUNDAY &

COUNTRY WINGS IN PHOENIX

EARN A $1.00 DONATION IN YOUR NAME EACH PLACE YOU COMMENT FOR THE NEXT MIRACLE MAKEOVER FOR SOMEONE IN NEED!

-GIVEAWAYS TO WIN:  

• NEW Janome Sewing Machine
• 
  
• Erin Houghton Roses Painting
• 
  
• Guideposts Magazine Subscriptions
• 
  
• Penny Carlson Mosaic Cross

The Pixies and I would like to 
donate a
Guardian Angel Tree
to the 
next
Miracle Makeover.


Please be sure to visit all of our lovely ladies at 

Miss Beverly's

How Sweet the Sound

for 

Pink Saturday

and help celebrate

Colette's Miracle makeover!

And have yourself a very sparkly, blessed weekend!

I miss my little munchkin!!!

I said goodbye to my daughter Ashley this Tuesday,

she moved to Strobl, Austria (Pictured above) to start a new chapter in her life.

She has been staying with me for a month now, so it has been really hard to stop crying because everything I do now reminds me of her.

I am so happy for her even if it is sad for me cause I miss her so much.  That is why the video in my Pink Saturday Post (The next post after this one) was so inspiring for me.  It really put things in perspective and helped to remind me to not get so caught up in my thoughts and to really appreciate that I still have her even if she is so far away.  I talk to her on Skype and see her little face so very happy to be there and her beau so happy that his love is now with him.  I try to get myself excited that I will get to visit her in her new beautiful country! 

 I am still feeling a little blue though, I think I may be starting "The Changes" as they say cause I am such a weepy Pixie.  Does menopause make you an emotional train wreck? I will be 50 this January 21st so I guess it's about time.

 I am hoping that I can use that as excuse for my..

um... "Colorful Mood Swings?.. .

I am so very grateful for all of you, my sparkly bloggy sisters.  In the few short months that I have been blogging, I have fallen in love with having this "bloggy family" I honestly don't know how I managed before!

Thank you all for being out there, and being my friend.

Pink Halloween!

Hello My SpaRkLy FrIeNds!

Happy Pink Saturday to you!

It's a well known fact that

me and the Pixies

love

to create

Pretty, sparkly, frilly,

frou frou

things

here at the

Pink Pixie Forest.

My daughter Ashley inherited mom's creativity and

love of all things

PINK...
with one exception-

Ashley likes to take pink pretty things

and add her own

UniQue, Special

Twist...

She likes to make them scary.

Ok, Let me "splain"!

Ash is a huge fan of classic

Horror Movies.

Following in my footsteps, she trained to be a

Special Effects Makeup Artist.

When she asked me to help her open an Etsy Shop

for her

New Line Of

Vintage Inspired Aprons...

I was thrilled!

We went and got cute Cherry Fabric with a

Pink Background,

and that night I went to sleep while

she was downstairs busy on the sewing machine creating her

first Apron!!

It was a classic hostess apron

with a red ribbon edging and cute bows and

that Pink Cherry Fabric.

When I awoke the next morning,

I ran downstairs to see her creation

and much to my surprise

Her apron had a shocking and unusual twist...

Here's how the conversation went:

me: "Um, Ashley... why are the Cherries bleeding?"

Ash: "Because it's called "Cherry Pie Massacre"

me: "Why would anyone want to kill a cherry?"

Ash: "Who says anyone "Killed them"?? 
 Maybe they just got together and decided to dress up for Halloween!  
You know Mom, even sweet cherries like to dress up.
Besides, you have no idea how many people out there LOVE this kind of stuff! There is an entire subculture of horror movie fans that will buy anything having to do with it."

me: "Are you kidding me?? More people like pretty girly things... and making sweet cherries bleed is just... wrong. You are starting to scare me!"

She just rolled her eyes and went over to her mac and googled "psychobilly" on Etsy which I guess is Rockabilly people that like horror movies.

To my surprise, there were THOUSANDS of products and hundreds of Etsy Shops that catered to lovers of horror movies and Monsters!

To these people,

Halloween is All Year Long!

Go figure.

Here is another one of her 

creations...

A

Scary

Cherry

Apron.

Although I would never think of making a Cherry

 "Scary"

I do think she is really creative... even if she doesn't put glitter on things!

And she will absolutely make a regular Pretty Apron special order

sans the frightful stuff!

Her Etsy Shop is called

Miss Frankee Stein's Deadly Designs

Go visit her and see her other 

Ghostly Creations

for 

Halloween!

And as always, head on over to

Miss Beverly at How Sweet The Sound 

for more

Un Scary Pinkaliciousness!

Painted Roses, Vintage Vargas Girl and Pretty Pink Makeup

Don't you just LOVE

Vintage

Painted

Roses

??

I just adore the Green and Gold Background

And this is one of my footed Rose Bowls

with a Pixie

peeking out from

Behind!

Hello My SpArkLy FrIendS!!

Today I am posting a Picture

from my

Makeup Artist side.

You see, before I started blogging

and

creating with Pixies,

My day job was being a Makeup Artist...

and still is!

I go out on shoots,

make people beautiful-

both

regular people

and

Celebrities.

This picture was from a series of

shoots

where we recreated

Vintage Vargas Pin Up Girls.

I did the model's Makeup and Hair

to look like the original Vargas pictured here,

Staying with the

Pink Theme,

This shot was one of my favorite

Beauty Shots

from my

portfolio.

So now you know...

When I am not

Hot Gluing things on

Bottle Brush Trees,

I paint faces.

Hee Hee,

Life doesn't get much better than that!

Now

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE

leave me a comment here,

and THEN

get your lovely booties over to

the home of

PINK SATURDAY-

Lovely

Miss Beverly at

How Sweet The Sound

And visit all my Pink Sisters!

My Featured Blogger this week is

Nerina at

Nic Nac Maniac.

Just look at how beautiful she is!

She is a sweetie and could sure use some cheering up,

so make sure you leave her a

sweet comment!

Now have yourself a

BEAUTIFUL DAY!

I am also linking up to

Frugal Friday

at the Shabby Nest

Photographer credits:

Vargas Girl- Howard Huang

Beauty Shot- Andrew Matusik

New Blog design!

Hello My SpaRkLy FriEndS!

Welcome to the new look of Pink Pixie Forest! It was designed by the uber talented

Karen

of

Valentine Design

and we are just thrilled!

Please leave us a comment

and let us know what you think!!

Driftwood Frames, Fabric Flowers and Chandelier Crystals

Hello my SpaRklY FrieNds!

How much do you LOVE this driftwood frame

against the pink wall??

The picture is from a BH&G Do It Yourself magazine from 2006!

This is why I can't bear to throw my

precious idea mags out!

Here are a few Rosettes that

I have been working on.

They are so much fun to make!

My latest obsession is making pretty

ornaments

out of

Vintage

Chandelier Crystals-

Here are two...

Here is one hiding on top of my latest

Bottle Brush Tree

in my

Pink Pixie Forest Shoppe

at

Make Mine Pink

Well, I hope you all have a lovely day filled with Pinkness!

Make sure to stop on over

How Sweet The Sound

to visit

Miss Beverly

Our gracious Hostess,

and all of the other sparkly pinkies!

We are so excited to be featured this week!!

Thank you Miss Beverly :)

And thank you all for stopping by

our sparkly little world!