Mom



Mom and Dad's Engagement Photo



The blog has been a bit quiet lately as I've been mourning the loss of my Mom last week. She passed on peacefully after a few years of health issues and is now reunited with my Dad who passed 15 years ago. It's been a rough few days.



Me and Mom--Aren't all babies bathed in a mixing bowl?






 I love you so much Mom. Until we meet again...I will be missing you.

Valentines Day Wreath--2013

This was posted 2 January's ago and since it is right now my most view page thanks to Pinterest and Google, I thought I had best be re-posting it in the event you wanted to make one of these beauties yourself! I have an urge to make a few more for Memory Lane...



I am rawther pleased with how this turned out. So pleased that I decided to make another one:





And now I have TWO wreathes hanging by the front door! I think I will keep the first one (Hubby's favorite) and the other will be heading off to Memory Lane today.




To make these, I used a heart shaped grapevine wreath from Michael's and then wrapped it in some tinsel garland bought at Target during their 75% off after Christmas sales:







And of course dipped into my stash of vintage red and silver balls to go with the pink yummies:



And then I fired up that high heat hot glue gun, went into a trance-like state and stayed there until every last ball was glued on...it is never good when you come out of that that trance like state and start thinking about home improvement projects that you might be able to do using a high heat hot glue gun. Just Saying.

I have one more wreath and one more strand of garland and many, many boxes of red vintage balls left...so there will be an all red heart shaped wreath in my future!

Back At It...

It has been a wonderful Christmas break with a whole lot of time spent in front of the fire, reading, hanging out and watching the snow falling. The past couple days I have actually picked my hook back up and am continuing making the squares for the elusive blanket dream. Getting there, slowly but surely!

Days Filled With Snow

FINISHED Little Golden Recipe Book (sort of)

This is where I am at so far in the Little Golden Christmas Recipe book designed by vintagestreetmarket.com. I thought I was done. I am so not going to be done with this for awhile. Mostly because there are still a lot of recipes to add. And pictures from Christmas' past that will be added. And kids artwork. And some vintage bling. So it'll be one of those projects that will continue to evolve! But for now, it is bound and ready to be used...



On the inside cover I put an old coloring page from a book that was actually saved from my childhood!





This page made me chuckle because it is sooo beat up. It is the actual notebook page that I wrote on when I had my sister in law make these while I was writing down every.single.step.she.did!




Let me know if you end up making one and I want to see pictures!

Crocheted Blankets {Collecting}

 When one takes up a new hobby that is supposed to reap tons of wonderful handmade goodies, but one sort of drops the hobby over the summer months and doesn't take the needle back up and it fades into oblivion, one has to get one's crochet fix somewhere.

Cue ones favorite second hand store coming to the rescue.

 I came across this wonderful Christmas-y blanket and swooped right on in to bring it home, wash it in the sanitary cycle of the laundry (alwaysalwaysalways) and add it to my little collection:

 Somebody is loving the newest addition to the collection.

Creating A Little Golden Book Recipe Book!

While looking around Pinterest yesterday, I came across THIS PIN (click on the link and then the Pinterest picture to go to the wonderfully inspiring website of www.vintagestreetmarket.com ) and then nearly fell running down the stairs to the Studio to get one of my many copies of Twas The Night Before Christmas Little Golden Book to start ripping it apart and glittering the pages. What a fun way to use an old copy of the book and make it into a family heirloom recipe book! This is what is happening so far:

 I removed the pages and started glittering using chunky vintage supplies I had on hand as well as some wonderful yellow extra fine Martha Stewart glitter.

 Then I gathered up some little trinkets:

 And tiny amounts of tinsel garland:

 More Glitter and red and white vellum paper:

 Red, green and gold sequins and some vintage tags:

 This is one recipe I am using that my Mom had written out for me years ago. It was glued onto some red vellum and outlined using that wonderful tinsel garland.

 But this? This is the thing that makes it all come together. An early Christmas gift to myself: A Zutter binding machine! Worth everysinglepenny:

It Makes Holes So You Can Bind Things! And yes, I SHOUTED that at you!

I am really excited about this project and am still in the process of writing out our favorite Christmas recipes and finding some more vintage tiny treasures to add to the book. Will show you the finished project once it is completed, which will probably be within the next few days.