Shelbee on the Rags: Patchwork Shelbee
After I had completed Découpage Denise, I loved her little rag skirt so much that I decided to make one for Patchwork Shelbee.
Patchwork Shelbee is an old mannequin leftover from the days when I was selling clothing on Poshmark. She had been banished to the back of a coat closet, hiding naked and alone in the dark for years. I was debating getting rid of her but then I decided to dress her up and incorporate her into my home decor instead. I découpaged her with some Mod Podge and scraps of fabric and wrapped a few strings of blue twinkle lights around her and she fits perfectly in my bohemian living room.
For the past few months, Patchwork Shelbee had been standing on a corner table in the living room in just her patchwork bodysuit with the blue twinkle lights. Then I made the rag skirt for Découpage Denise and thought Patchwork Shelbee definitely needed one, too.
I felt like she was still a bit incomplete, so I also made her a little raggy necklace. And now she is absolutely perfect just posing in the corner of my living room. I love her so much!
Patchwork Shelbee greets me every morning when I sit down on the couch with my coffee. She keeps me company during my daily yoga sessions. And she makes me smile every time I glance in her direction. And that is exactly what we all need surrounding us in our homes…things that make us happy and bring us inexplicable joy!
What special things do you keep in your home that bring you joy?
If you are interested in my other raggery projects, you can see them all here.
Keeping it on the rags,
Shelbee
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I am a midlife woman, wife, and stay-at-home mother of 2 boys and 2 cats. I have a passion for helping other women feel fabulous in the midst of this crazy, beautiful life.
2 Comments
Marsha Banks
Patchwork Shelbee has definitely been upgraded! I love her skirt and, especially, her necklace. Now, I’m thinking you should get a hat of some kind and decoupage it! Maybe get a wig form, first!
I am surrounded by lots of florals…in prints, arrangements, clothes, and then I also have the plants I haven’t succeeded in murdering yet. Those things all bring me great joy. What I really want is a room where I can just go wild with paint and have it be this crazy den of color. I could do that in my closet, but that would mean moving alllll those clothes out, storing them somewhere, and then moving them back in. I think once they were back in, I wouldn’t see the colors anyway! I miss my extra bedrooms where I could escape and just be present.
Thank you for always being you, Shelbee.
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Aww, Marsha, thank you so much, my friend. I am definitely going to be on the look out for a wig form now! That would be so cool decoupaged. Isn’t it wonderful to be surrounded by things that bring you joy? Color and prints bring me so much joy. I have had a special love for patchwork and creatively raggy things for my entire life. I feel like I have come full circle right to where I am supposed to be. I have not painted my closet either for the same reasons as you. You really can’t see the walls once all the clothes are in so it would be kind of fruitless to put all that creative energy into painting it. Plus moving all the clothes around in order to paint that room would be a giant pain in the arsenal and I don’t feel like doing it! Thank you for being awesome!
xoxo
Shelbee