Alpha Balls, Hutch & More

Edited to add: I'm linking with:

I've liked head planters ever since I recall seeing them, which I think was a few years ago in the Ballard Designs catalog.  This little guy (girl?) was a terra cotta tea light holder that I found at the thrift store awhile ago, I think for $1.  This is what it looked like then.  Not really very lovable.

With a little doctoring-up, he now looks like this.  I wanted to put more drapey plant/hair in it, but I couldn't find what I had in mind, so he got some succulents that I already had hanging around.

Since you bloggy buddies keep me on my toes, I had to rearrange my hutch again.  This time I used a lot of my feelin' blue items, and moved them over here.

(Um, yeah, with my awesome new tripod I can get a shot of the underneath, unpainted side of the shelf, which I  knew you were hoping to see.)

I am so glad I did!  It looks so much more nice and cool (as in not hot) now.  Usually I leave this area "as is" I'm very frolicking-around happy about this change - Ahh.

Did you notice my newest cheese dome turned cloche? 

I took my candlestick re-vamp:

But, wait, there's more!  I just smoochy-loved the alpha balls Courtney at Red Heads Craft More Fun did, so I had to copy them.  I purchased 1 1/2" wooden balls from Micheal's and some alpha stamps.  (Note:  I did not like this set of stamps, because what I didn't realize is each color is a different style, so I don't have A-Z of the same font.)  Being, uh demanding, discriminating, exacting, finicky, fussbudgety, hard to please - you get the idea...  I wanted them a specific shade of white, which is my trim color, Rice Grain (SW), so I put them in an egg carton and painted them with a brush, spray paint would have been easier.  Oops, a mishap with the "K" - do over!

This is a dozen, and I have a dozen more in the egg carton works using the lower-case letters.  (Yep, I'm experimenting with my macro setting, too.)

I didn't shoot the top of my hutch 'cause I didn't get it done, yet.  I have an idea or two, that I think you will like, that will take a little more time than I have right now.  So, next week, 'K?  I'm linking with:  Table Top Tuesday's with Marti at A Stroll Through Life.