Decisions...decisions!

Back on October 28, I won a blog giveaway from High Street Cottage for 100 free postcards. I have spent many hours days trying to get one designed that I was happy with! {no easy feat on dial-up internet I might add} When I wasn't cleaning, cooking, shopping or playing I was trying to figure out a design that I really liked.
I put together this collage...

and this one...



yet another one...



and this plain photo and guess what????
 I ended up using NONE of them!! Oh heavens...I love to win things and believe me I am so grateful, but this about drove me to the madhouse. hee hee. I am not a postcard designer and we will see how they actually turn out. They may not even be fit to look at, but hey I tried.
I know this lace and spools photo is an old one, but I am still in love with it and it is one of my most favorite photos ever so I will tell you that it is part of the design I chose, but otherwise it looks nothing like these. Keeping my fingers crossed that they will turn out okay.
{I hope to get back to checking in with more of your blogs soon since I have this behind me now}

Bouquet of Spring French love letters

She was told there is nothing like being in Paris in the Spring.

How true this came to be. She fell in love that spring,

he would leave her little post cards of love in her hotel mailbox.

Soon it was time to leave,

but she kept the memory of that spring fresh in her mind.

All the post cards tied up with ribbon

and the hotel room key inscribed with the numbers

that she would never forget

{copied from Vintage Market Place}

After reading the above description on an Etsy listing how

could I not purchase these neat remade book covers over

at Vintage Market Place.

I scooped them up for a mere $5.

Six of them came tied together like this with the key and

vintage carved earring attached.

I stole the old bracelet on my travels this past week for

1.99. I really did purchase it, but it kinda felt like I stole it.:)

I was also thrilled to find a baggie full of old keys when

we were in Shipshewana...another $5.

I haven't even taken this stack apart, but I did peek in

enough to see that they all appear to be stamped alike.

Wouldn't they be great for displays?

I am constantly amazed at the items that my heart is

drawn to these days.

I used to be a *pink* gal through and through.

I still do like a touch of pink every now and then, but I

am definitely leaning more towards creams and neutrals. Who would have ever thought?? Blessings~

Vintage Paris...city of love

What better time to share my vintage postcards from

Paris

than Valentine's weekend.

I found these a couple weeks ago at the antique mall where

I have my booth. $5.00. Yes, I did take them out of the book

because otherwise how could I enjoy them.

I wanted to make them higher resolution so you could

use them in your artwork, but my internet would

not cooperate today. Sorry.

Note the Eiffel Tower wayyy in the background.

I do hope you enjoyed these wonderful pieces of history.

I do have some more that I will share another time.

Blessings and happy weekend ahead~