Vintage Flair

My uniform for the past week

 

My uniform during the ice storm.....

1.  Yoga  pants (I still have lbs. to loose and they are so much more comfortable to wear than my fat pants)

2. Baseball hat (I switch between U of M and Razorback's....A girl needs to switch it up a bit)

3.  Long sleeve tee shirt (I have been wearing my bright colors so I feel some what cheery)

4.  Ugg boots (OMG...I have not taken them off my entire maternity leave)

5.  This crafting apron I made using old linens.  I have been wearing this apron I made all week and I just love it.  I have been lugging the baby around the house with it on and some how it makes me feel so pretty even though I am not looking my best.

Here are some more photos.

   

My daughter snapped my photo wearing it.  I made the ties really long so it would wrap around me and tie in the front.

 

How about that....new posts for 3 consecutive days!  Well, don't get use to it, I only have one week of maternity leave and then I go back to work full time.  Where has the time gone? 

Oh....I almost forgot to mention to check out Stampington's premiere issue of Apron-ology.  My found vintage aprons are on page 31.

Fun stuff at my door step

 

I have been receiving some fun packages in the mail.  This one is from my swap partner Andrea we both participated in Dolly's  vintage heart swap.  This was the outside of the heart shaped box and in the inside it was filled to the brim with goodies.  This isn't all of it, I couldn't fit it all in.

 

I did my own swap with Mendy and this is what she sent me.  I opened it so fast, I forgot to take photos.  Oops!

When I saw this, I had to buy it right away. I love it!  I am amazed at her little creation. 

I also bought this and I love all of the images on the CD.  If you are like me, I have images stored all over my computer and I thought it would be nice to have a CD with a ton of images on it.  I spent one day cleaning up my computer and storing my many images on an external drive.  I feel so organized!

I am off to make breakfast for my kiddos (who are OFF of school yet again due to the ice storm)

Take care

Altered heart candy box

 

This is going to be quick due to the fact that my kids have been off of school since Monday due to the BIG ice storm here in NW Arkansas.  My husband has been working from home and the kids are keeping me VERY busy.  They are getting ready for bed and I am going to sit on the sofa and watch my new Netflix that came (Tudors season 1 on Showtime...OMG it is so good, check it out). Anyway....sorry I am rambling.  I bought this heart shaped candy box at Wal-Mart for .97 and with a little vintage papers, hot glue gun and my sewing machine...look how good she looks now!  I made a bunch of these to give to a few friends as well as the kids teachers.  Have a great night....I am HOPING for  a nice quiet one.  Please Miss Lucy sleep through the night!

Vintage Valentine wreath

 

I made this wreath for Valentine's day for a special friend.  I hope she likes likes it.  For the base of the wreath I used an old cellophane Christmas wreath.  I thought it would be perfect to use for Valentine's day.  My favorite part of the wreath is the paper ribbon I made using old scraps of paper and sheer fabric I had laying around.  I always save every single scrap of anything....you never know when they will come in handy.

 

Here is a full view of the wreath.

 

I am going to keep this short...the kids have been off school yesterday and today due to an ice storm.  There is ice EVERY WHERE.  Look at our tree in our front yard.  There are power outages and I am HOPING it will not happen to us.  Have a nice warm day! 

P.S. I need to figure out how to keep these kids of mine busy.

Peace and tranquility

 

Over the weekend we packed up the kids and rented a cabin in the woods (I should say not in the woods but on a mmountain) at Mt. Magazine (in Arkansas) for my husband's birthday.  Just look at the sunset.....isn't it beautiful?  My daughter told me to send in that photo to the local news channel to get a free coffee mug and they broadcast your photo.  She is funny.  Our cabin was so nice (leather sofas, cable TV, new appliances and an amazing stone fireplace).  I told my husband that I was in deed a nature girl at heart.  He just looked at me and laughed.  Did I mention the awesome jacuzzi on our deck?  The kids had a great time and here are a few more photos.  Look at our view off of our cabin's deck.

   

Look at what I was doing.....Oh I had a good time! 

 

Happy birthday John...I love you.

Some fun finds

 

I went to the antique shop yesterday afternoon and look at what I found.  A photograph of this sassy lady and a big cream floppy flower.  My favorite is this below....an old soap box.  I LOVE the image on the front. 

   

This is short and sweet today...I am off to do a little creating while Lucy sleeps.

A long lost treasured scrapbook

My girls figure skate and their coach (Jennifer) is a lover of things from the past just like me.  I wish I would of know this earlier.  I didn't find this out until she came to my house to pick up the girls to take them to the rink for their lessons.  My girls showed her my craft room and the house and when I picked up the girls I found out how much their coach loved my craft room.  It is so nice to hear that someone loves it, my husband always tells me it is a fire hazard and it miffed on how much stuff I have crammed in that tiny space.  Anyway...sorry I am digressing.  She told me last month that she went to the antique store and bought two fabulous scrapbook's from the the early 1900's.  Well she finally brought them to the rink and I flipped out.  They are so wonderful and it is so sad that someone would get rid of these snippets of history.  This scrapbook is from Miss Beatrice Cochran and it follows her life through school (she went to Baylor) and she even married a professional baseball player Ray Benge.  There are love letters and a ton of telegrams from her husband.  There is a passage about when she got married to her beloved Ray and how it was the happiest day of her life.  How sweet is that?  I told Jennifer that she and I are going to have to get a bottle of wine and sit and read each of the letters and look in detail at all of the wonderful ephemera.  My poor girls...at their skating lessons I didn't look up once to see how they were doing, I couldn't stop looking at everything on each of the pages.   Here are some of the pages and there is so much that I am not showing you.  Stuff is literally falling out of the scrapbook. I hope Beatrice is looking down on Jennifer and saying thank you for taking care of my treasured scrapbook. 

                                                       

 

Valentine crafts

 

I have been working on some Valentine crafts for a few swaps.  Oh, how I love Valentine's day!  Pink, red, love, chocolate and hearts.....what is not to love about it?

Shadow boxes

 

I made these shadow boxes the other day with one of my favorite images. I printed out a copy and used coffee to give it an aged look.  I had glass glitter every where in the kitchen and a screaming baby.  Oh my!

  

I am going to give this one to my oldest daughter for Valentine's Day.

 

This one is going to go to a friend.

 

I sewed some paper ruffles to go around the edges to give them both a finished look.

 

I had a great time making them (minus Lucy crying) and I hope to make some more.  I have to go....have a great day!

So precious

   

I love it when my children give me their artwork from school.  Just look at this....it makes my heart so happy!  (I am the one in the middle....don't you see the resemblance?)