~ VINTAGE HEARTS ~ and a birthday winner!

I heart you!!! Just so pretty!

See below for details!~

Thank you all for the lovely birthday wishes!!! I heart you all!!!I have been busy working on this vintage hearts tutorial! I hope you'll join me in making something pretty! This is a 3 dimensional heart you can hang,fill with candy and really can be used all year long!You can purchase the class on the right sidebar.Full detailed instructions with pretty pictures . After buying the tutorial you will receive an email with a link to the tutorial.

Here is a button for your blog!!!!So grab it!!

Also for everyone who does join in the fun I will be having this for a giveaway at the end of the tutorial which is february 14th! Some pretty fabrics !

And the birthday giveaway !!!!!!!!!!!!!..................

The winning number was 12. which is Deb Garage Sale Gal ! Please send me your addy Deb! And congratulations!!!

A birthday giveaway

YUMMM!!!!!! Who doesn't love cake??!!!


And roses ~

I love flowers , sometimes I really miss working at the flower shop.I love these spray roses I got for my birthday today , they looks so much prettier when there in little old creamers rather than just a vase.Then I can put them all over the house in little places.I picked up the two old hats at the goodwill last night, I just love the shade of cream that they are, they were only 2 bucks, so that made my day!!!We have a new goodwill by my house and I am in heaven!! It's like a treasure hunt for me!!

This came in the mail ,I won this from Fifi's Ohh Laa La contest where my little chair I redid won. This is so pretty and a great addition to my home!Thanks FiFi!!!!

I made this bracelet last night , I have been wanting to make one for awhile and finally did, it has little old rhinestones, old earring pieces,buttons,pearls and a little key .

I am so grateful for all my sweet blogging friends, so I wanted to give one lucky winner a little birthday present from me!Starting with a awesome little bundle of these vintage fabrics, aren't these just so pretty!!!!

And a vintage ledger birthday pocket that says " It's nice to be eating ice cream " which I'll be doing today along with confetti sprinkled cupcakes with princess rings. I have 3 little girls so i thought it would be fun to have a little fun with the cupcakes!

And this print here ,tavern on the green, I think it's called?

And one of these little folders to hold all your little scraps of paper................Made with a copy of one of my favorite sheet music books. It has the sweetest pictures of little girls on it!

And this sweet little frame with a old picture inside and dressed up with old millinery flowers.

And one of my little trees decorated with vintage glass mercury beads!These are lovely!

I am going to have a good day and not sit and think that I am old, yah I am not in my twenties BUT I am not in my 80's either!!! That puts it into perspective a bit!!!!!!!!!!!!

Leave a comment on this post to be entered and the winner will be posted next Monday ! So I am going to wish you all a MERRY CHRISTMAS now! And for an added entry you can post about the giveaway on your blog and come back and post the word BLOG for an added entry!!AND OF COURSE I ALWAYS THROW IN EXTRA GOODIES!!!!

Happy Birthday to me!

No, it's not my birthday yet ,it's on dec 21st and I'll be the big 3-0 oh my gosh did I just tell everyone how old I am going to be!!!! :), but I did get this for my birthday early!


It's Rachel Ashwell's Simply Shabby chic dish set from Target and right now it's on sale! That's why I got it early becasue it sells for 70.00 but right now you can get it for 50 bucks so don't walk to target, RUN!!


They are so pppreeetttyy!!! It's a 16 piece set with plates ,mugs and deep bowls that I love with a scalloped like edge on the bowls and plates too.

The food just looks so much prettier on these, it really does.Pretty like these sweet roses . A new goodwill opened up near my house so I have been there quite a bit as well as trying to finish up the christmas shopping and decorating. We are going to take the kids to see santa on the 19th, hopefully I can get some cute lil pictures of all my little tarlings!
I do like to pick out my gifts because I like things that are functional like the dish set, I had been using all my vintage dishes till now, but I thought if I ever wanted to use my dishwasher now I can with these dishes as I don't think you can put old dishes through the wash ,nor would I want to take that chance.Anyways ,I can't believe it is almost christmas already!!!Where does the time go??


xo Andrea

I heart christmas

I love christmas time, it has a special feeling to it , listening to Christmas music, the red cups at starbucks and snow .My sweet friend Jenny from the barn gave me this Merry Christmas and I think it looks so pretty hanging on this very old picture that I just love. I really love how all the colors go together.

And of course the chandelier got the Christmas treatment, I went with blue,pale blue's and silvers. All old ones of course. I don't even own any new ornaments .


And the other chandelier has a few reproduction ornaments with one I made, it is the sheet music one in the back with old tinsel, this pretty hangs in the kitchen window.

And i couldn't help but add something to this Simply Shabby Chic Toile rose wreath that I love with a few of my favorite old Christmas cards and an old little bird. How is your decorating coming along??

Well a little slow on the tree part of it, but I do have the ornaments out, I just have to go get some more white lights before I hang these on my fake white tree. I love my fake white trees because every year when I was little we would go to Grandma's and she always had her fake white tree up with old ornaments and colored lights.

Hopefully next time you'll actually see these ornaments on the tree!!! I love to hear about your home and come by for a blog visit to see if you've posted any pics, let me know!

xoxo Andrea

P.S( Stefanie At Rose Petals and Rust is having a cute pink giveaway!Be sure to sign up here!

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!

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

Just Pretty

Just something pretty~

And a peak at my Christmas ornaments for this year~ These are just so whimsical,I can also do plain ones for use all year.I just love how these turned out, I added a few here .

The front and backs are covered with vintage sheet music, they hang from seam binding ribbon and are just so pretty! A little peak of what I have been working on!

A short post but I'll be back with more! xo Andrea