Jeanne d'Arc Living Magazine

I am so excited to carry 

Jeanne d'Arc Living magazine

on my website!!

It has been one of my very 

favorites and is now more

affordable than it ever has

been~

If you have never seen one before...

the pictures are GORGEOUS,

the articles are so good and it

does not have any advertisements,

which is great !

You can get them in our shop

for $19 including shipping ~

Just click here to go there ~ 

 

Baby Shower Day!

We had my two daughter's baby shower

yesterday and I just wanted to 

share some pictures of the day with you ~

My son in law, James took them for us ~

It is awesome to have a
 wonderful photographer for

a son in law! 

Both girls love the vintage look

so that was the theme of the shower ~

That was fun because I love it!

I will let the pictures do most

of the talking :)

{ Stephanie and Kristin }

  

 There were little vignettes on the 10

tables sitting around ~

 These were the game winner gifts ~

 

 {Bethany, Stephanie,Kristin and me }

{Renee and I }

Thank you so very much to precious

Bethany and Renee for helping make

this a sweet and memorable day for 

my girls!!

 

Somerset Life

I was so excited to

open up the April issue

of Somerset Life and see

a couple pictures that I took ~

I love any of the

Stampington magazines

because they are all such

a wonderful quality and

always have great ideas

and tutorials ~

My pictures are the

open book and the other

book with fabric ~

Right next to me is

abbysgarden's tags ~ Abby's

blog is gorgeous!

Tomorrow is baby shower day so I will be
taking alot of pictures to show you :)

Vintage Lace Cuffs & Tattered Roses

I just listed, on my website,

some more

Vintage Lace Cuffs and

Tattered Vintage Rose Pins ~

I had to do a post on them

because I love them all piled

together :)

Leather & Lace Bags

I have done a post before on

leather and lace but I just

wanted to inspire you again on

finding vintage leather bags

and embellishing them with doilies

and lace ~

I found these at a flea market

recently but I have to say,

here in Texas, vintage leather

bags are very few and far between ~

I think they are kind of sought after!

It is fun to grab a pile of

doilies and just play around

with placement until you like

how they look ~

I glued mine on with Fabri Fix

that works great with fabric and leather ~

I also added a flower to the front

that was also created using

vintage laces and doilies ~

Here is how they looked

before ~

Burlap Banner Tutorial & Baby Shower Things

I just wanted to share with you

a little bit more of my girls baby shower

things I am working on ~

They are going to have a combined

shower so that will be fun!

I showed you Kristin's invitations

in a previous post and here

are Stephanie's too ~

It is going to be all vintage and

creamy tones ❤ ~

Today I worked on some little

burlap banners with their babies names

and wanted to show you the steps to

make them ~

They are super easy and can be

done any size ~

First I use Avery brand white

shipping label sheets ~

Peel

of the backing and stick it on to

a piece of muslin ~

Cut right on the edge of the sheet

and run it through your printer

(print on the muslin)

I just did the name in photoshop ~

Next cut out each letter and peel

off the backing ~

Cut out burlap triangles and pin

and sew the letters to them ~

Fold down the top and sew down

leaving the ends open to run a

piece of jute through it ~

I also zig zagged the edges all

the way around because I didn't want

them to fray away ~

That is it !

Here are some tissue pompoms that

I am also making but need to make

a few more ~ They are fun !

More shower pics coming soon!

Vintage Lace Flea Market Totes

Today I piled my dining room

table full of vintage lace,

ribbons, buttons and just stuff ~

It is so relaxing to me to just

sit and create ❤

This is a new rendition of my

Flea Market Tote that I did last year

and I LOVE it!! There is something

about laces all arranged together

that is so pretty ~

I am trying to play around with

PicMonkey too :) I am really liking

it alot!!

Pre PicMonkey~

and after PicMonkey ~

Ruffly Rose

Do you ever go through a day

thinking (obsessing) about

a project that you want

to do and as soon as you get home

you just have to try it out ?

In my mind I was digging through

fabrics that I have in my stash

and going through each step of

making these melted edge roses ~

Anyway in between making dinner

I was melting fabric edges ....

and then I had to finish before the

sun went down too far to take

pictures :)

I got it done in time

and I really like how this "sweet

in pink rose" came out and it

was fun too!

I would do a tutorial but there

are a gazillion already online ~

I am pretty positive I will

be making more for my website soon ❤

**** I have had tons of questions

so this is kind of an add on..

I used an old slip that I got at

a thrift store for the fabric :) ****