Chelle Ellis

How can someone be so bad at hanging wallpaper, yet so confident to glue the hell out of it. I’m removing wallpaper from the upstairs bathroom this weekend. My mood won’t improve. Update: March 27, 2019 After six weeks of...

In the middle of making this rag doll (my first ever, don’t laugh!) for our youngest granddaughter, Isla. Talk about unrealistic body expectations! Thank goodness she has a long skirt. Her crotch literally is right above the hem! ? I...

So excited! The cat tree arrived yesterday for us to install so Sophie, our 18-1/2 year old Siamese, can officially ignore it. I knew to install the thing next to the vent, since Sophie has always been a heat seeker....

Happy New Year! Here's to a great 2019: The Year of the Pig.. I'm feeling confident I can live up to that! We rang in the new year with the addition of our daughter, Ashley, and her babies/our weird grandkids,...

A couple of years ago, I made a removable desktop to cover the sewing machine cabinet my maternal grandfather built. I just finished covering that top with the well worn leather and hardware of an old suitcase. ?...

I've mentioned before that we live in the migratory bird path, and we get a ton of hummingbirds in September. In fact, 40 miles East of us in Holly Springs, Mississippi, is where the Hummingbird Festival takes place every September...

I got a quote this morning to install the giant picture window I bought in November (where the middle door is in the carriage house), in my future art studio. I prematurely present to you: Moosh Print Studio. Named appropriately...

Besides being Sadie's slave, I am a painter, print maker and sculptor. One of the very cool things about moving to Coldwater was we live five miles north of my super bestie, Dana, who is an artist and art professor....

I created two Frankenlamps this week: A floor lamp and a plugin ceiling light Floor Lamp: I bought this old green slag glass shade on Ebay and retooled a newer floor lamp I had hanging around, to accommodate it. I...

I made these Frankenlamps this week, using a pair of lead crystal trophy lamps and pearl glass globes that I really loved and wanted to use in my lighting somehow. I added new brass lamp parts and made cold connected...