Some fun 2012 COPY CATS.....♥♥♥

Hey, everyone... 

I sure hope everyone is recovering from the busy Christmas season.

I have not quite recovered......

but, I will...............I will. :)

As most of you know...I really, REALLY love doing

knock-off COPY CATS.... so I wanted to re-vist a few of 2012.

PAT of ON CROOKED CREEK fame did that cute basket on the left
and I just HAD to do one like it...I already had the basket...the labels AND the flowers..
just didn't have enuf STYLE about my silly self to put them all together and hang them

ON THE FRONT PORCH.

Thanks for the inspiration, PAT. :)

One of my most fun copy cats, I think....

I copied

HOBBY LOBBY

on this one...

such a simple copycat but so fun..and I really enjoyed it on my dining table all thru fall.

We both had a blast working on this
COPY CAT
STORY TABLE....

my inspiration coming from
DONNA at
 FUNKY JUNK INTERIORS..

I bought 
a tiny, beat up thrifted little $5.00 table and it became one of my favorite furniture pieces...
mainly because
IT'S GOT SOUL.....

I'm pretty sure THIS copy cat will become an heirloom for my family.
I hope so, anyway...
it has reference to my Grandpa Jackson,
his saloon in East Texas,
one star for our LONE STAR STATE of Texas,
and Mr. Sweet's mother's birth year.
I really love my STORY TABLE ....and so does Mr. Sweet.

 and then came THE SHELF....

OOO MY....I was and still am soooo proud of this 

MACKENZIE*CHILDS  $1,000.00 WALL SHELF KNOCK-OFF.

I helped making it....and painting it...a little........I really did...

but MR. SWEET gets all the credit....and he absolutely OUT-DID 

his sweet, talented self on this one.

This is the only DebbieDoo CopyCat that
 I DID FIRST ...hahhaa

She didn't see mine and copy it, tho...
no siree....
I actually did this one years and years ago.


I've used several of these wooden appliques on different pieces of furniture...

and even on a dining room door.
They are fun and just give a little pizzazzzz
to your room.

SOME of my copy cats were TOO SILLY TO EVEN POST....

 ...for instance, THIS pretty lady was in COUNTRY LIVING
and I just wanted to copy her so baaaad.
I didn't have a hat any where NEAR the quality and cuteness of THIS one...
nor did I have an awesome necklace made from GOLF TEES....
so whimsical and cute.....

BUT....

I did have a big, ole TEXAS
BLACK COWBOY HAT....

that was a TAD TOO LARGE
for my bronzy bust...

 and I had a MAGNIFICENT, silver and turquoise necklace...
sooo....
LET THE COPY CATTING BEGIN....

hahhhaaaa......what a hoot.
Too silly to post to the world but I see I kept it all,
so,
here 'tis....silly or not....
Tooo fun....

Can't remember for sure which magazine this was in but I loved it...

I REALLY had fun doing the
FRENCH TABLE...

I think I did this copy cat in 2010 but liked it enuf to add it to this post.

 Now, THIS copy cat took longer to do than any of the others, I think.
I had a blast gathering everything up to try to come up with a photo
that was close to the inspiration photo.

When I bought these two TALL brass
candlesticks, I had no idea what I wanted to do with them....

but then, POTTERY BARN
came along and "showed me the way"....

 A favorite copy cat was done several years ago...

when I saw the WELSH HUTCH, on the left, in a decorating magazine, I sweetly asked  Mr. Sweet to build a hutch to go over a vintage HARVEST table...

thus making the perfect
WELSH HUTCH
for our dining room.

 A friend gave me this ziplock bag FULL of the most delicious
Chocolate Toffee and I fully  intended to get a photo of it for you.
Well, by the time I thought to take a picture, I had just about eaten
THE WHOLE THING.

She tells me this is called
SALTINE TOFFEE
aka
CHRISTMAS CRACK.

O MY GOSH
it is so delicious, I can't find words.
I didn't get her recipe...all she said was "PINTEREST"
so I intend to do a SEARCH on Pinterest

and, THEN, BABY...
I am going to do an awesome
COPY CAT. !!
♥

This is such a simple
copy cat...

but I loved the idea of using a little bit of Fern in Bottles....

 just plain FUN...:)

One of the fun parts of doing knockoffs or copy cats....

you come up with ideas that you might never have thought of on your own....

I think this tabletop arrangement looks better with the little bottles of GREEN....

I remember, when I did this table, that Mr. Sweet made the remark,
" Of all the things you are having a hissy fit over on this table,
the BISCUITS and GRAVY
look
BEST OF ALL !!
hahaaha...you silly silly man...:)









NEXT....

LAST BUT SURELY NOT LEAST....

MY FAVORITE COPY CAT OF ALL TIMES....

I have to say....THIS COPY CAT picture was the MAGNIFICENT work of my daughter, STACY LEIGH....

Isn't it so funny !!!

I laugh sooo hard every single time I look at it...

I think it's the most ADORABLE thing I've ever seen.

One of the cute things about it...

that's 10 year old DEEDS, holding her 15 year old sis, BRYNNA.

Waaaay  too  cute, girls.
WHAT A HOOT.......

♥ ♥ ♥

I'm pretty sure THIS PHOTO has to be enlarged, framed and hung on the

wall of our new home....

HAPPY NEW YEAR'S EVE....
Have fun tonight but stay SAFE...:)

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