More Christmas

Another sweet vintage tree topper to add to my collection~

I love displaying these on this pretty green shred in a pretty silver dish. I found this at the

thrift shop today for $1.50 . This little thing made my whole day! Also picked up some white vintage damask napkins. I just love them and feel like I can never have enough of them .

I also made a bunch of these for the barn sale next weekend . I took old vintage reflectors and added some sparkly tinsel with vintage images and they turned out so sweet and christmasy.

I also added some pretty things like this old satin ribbon pin cushion here in my shop along with a lot of other pretty findings like old doll dresses,vintage wallpaper and craft bits to make things with !!! Now wouldn't this make a lovely christmas present! Especially for the sewer or shabby person in your life. I would pin on a little message with a pearly corsage pin.

Will be back with pictures of my nearly finished all white tree with all vintage pale pink /silver ornaments! Hopefully I'll get it photographed this weekend to show ya!

xo Andrea

Christmas Ideas Pt. 1

I came up with these sweet little christmas gift bags using some vintage muslin I had and a few old christmas postcards.

First, I sewed on the old postcard and then stitched down each side of the bag, pretty easy peasy!~Then the fun part was finding embellishments to add to these .The blue ribbon is an old taffetta with a vintage milk glass rhinestone broach attached.The other has a pale pink crinkled ribbon with a velvet flower with a rhinestone in the center.

Just something so pretty and simple! Check back for Christmas Ideas Part 2.!!!

xo Andrea

I've been a busy girl!

I've been a busy girl filling apothecary jars with mercury glass ornaments and old shiny brites in my favorite colors...Also the winner for the Audrey Bag is # 3 Lori Karla! Congratulations Lori!The one thing about giveaways is that i wish everyone could be a winner! And you all are winners to me! xoxo

Pretty~Pretty~

My sweet bought me some roses. They help my calm my nerves since next Thursday I'll be going in for a little surgery! Yikes! Makes me nervous!!! My hernia needs to be repaired , right now I can't lift anything more than 10 pounds and it's driving me nuts!! Considering my little baby doll who's two now weighs about 30 pounds so I can't even pick her up for a huggy!

Anyways ~ I did a small makeover to my studio ,after seeing pictures of it I wasn't happy with the way it looked. One thing I have realized is that taking a photo of your room and then looking at it that way can really make you see things you may not see otherwise.

A sweet little glass cake plate full of some of my prettiest old earrings,I just can't get enough of !! And my favorite candle holder ,this sweet angel, it makes me happy looking at it, so I keep it in my studio where i do spend alot of time.

Has anyone else started bringing christmas stuff out like I have?? My husband was making fun of me saying " we don't celebrate 25 days of christmas ,we more like celebrate 100 days of christmas!" I just told him it only comes once of year and I LOVE christmas!!! On Thanksgiving I am already planning our trip to the tree farm, the tree will officially be up that day!

So I have been fixing these sweet little trees up! I practically got robbed when my Mom came over she loved them, so I let her have one, but only one! I am a hoarder, don't you know!

And a picture of the studio,Instead of a L shape for the tables,I changed it to tables down both sides with a shelf down the middle. I do really like it better, what do you think? Also for some reason my camera is on the blink. The picture is so yellowy!So I told hubby that would be a good birthday present for me since my birthday is coming up on dec 21st.

It's messy but a good messy! Any who will be back with more!!! xoxo Andrea

As lovely as Audrey Hepburn Giveaway!WINNER WILL BE POSTED ON MONDAY!

An

other inspiring issue from Stampington, I love the little purses on the front!And here is what I created for this special issue. I just love Audrey Hepburn, her style is so elegant.She was wearing a black cocktail style dress and I gave her a soft vintage prom look ~

With old rhinestones,lace and trims and a bouquet of millinery flowers.

AND TO CELEBRATE I WILL CREATE ONE LUCKY WINNER THERE VERY OWN AUDREY BAG SIMILAR TO THIS ONE OR I MAY JUST GIVE THIS ONE AWAY!!!!!! ~~~ALL YOU HAVE TO IS LEAVE A COMMENT AND FOR AN EXTRA ENTRY BLOG ABOUT THE GIVEAWAY AND POST HERE AGAIN FOR TWO CHANCES TO WIN!!!
I actually made this with a Simply shabby chic white ruffled pillowcase so that the ruffles would hang at the bottom of the purse.
I also made this one too FOR THIS ISSUE with a pretty velvet bow from an old millinery hat,pretty fabric that I wish I had more of and lots of stitches on worn tea stained linen fabric.

I really love this bag ~old buttons trim and stitches~

AND FOR A THIRD ENTRY TO WIN THE AUDREY BAG FOLLOW THIS

BLOG

AND POST AGAIN FOR A THIRD

ENTRY! WINNER WILL BE RANDOMLY

CHOSEN ON OCTOBER 29TH!

XO ANDREA

I love fabric

My fabric addiction has been getting worse this week. Te he! So a trip to the fabric store helped a little . I picked out these pretty fabrics and really like the vintage style in them , they have the cutest little vintage style feed sack reproduction prints.

I love pretty stacks fabrics I am going to make the girls some pants using this favorite pattern of mine.These Portabello pixie pants made by Sandi Henderson are easy peasy to make , they also have cute tops which I have yet to try but soon I will give it a shot.I have only made the single ruffle but want to try the triple and I think it would be super cute with some of these fabrics.

I also picked up some pretty embroidery thread and here is just a sneaky peak of what I am working on.I have started stiching and can't seem to stop as it is really addicting!

Will post finished project soon! xo Andrea