Inspiration Kit GIVEAWAY!!

I have been wanting to do a

GIVEAWAY 

for awhile now and I finally got a kit made

for one lucky winner. My birthday was yesterday

so I thought what better time to share my blessings with

you. I can't believe I am 55 years old! Where have the years

gone? I am sure I don't know! HA!


Enough about that...now on to the giveaway...

I painted a chipboard box in white and light gray colors

and  I filled it with pretty tresors. 

When you open the box the first thing you will find
is one of my very favorite tags.

 Then you will open a vintage white hanky that is trimmed in

luscious lace and embroidery to reveal all the tresors inside.

Lovely items such as:

a rose pin

a parchment rose

and trim that I hand-stamped with script writing.

a Cinderella card

an enamel number and a glittery metal tag

A sparkly butterfly

A number tag that I made along with some vintage 
buttons and a script heart.

a few tags...

some vintage lace and trim

on hand-stamped script tags

and finally
more old lace on a handmade card.



If you are interested in this kit and you have a

United States address,

please leave a comment

on this post

and you will be entered in the drawing.

For an extra chance to win share this post on your blog,

or on facebook.

Please leave a separate comment for each  entry

or your extra entry will not count.


I will draw a winner next Tuesday.

Good luck to all who enter.

UPDATE: I have made a new blog header as you may have noticed and the writing on it appears
blurry to me. I have no clue why. This has never happened to me before. It looks fine when I
made it, but now doesn't...please bear with me as I work on it. Taking a long break right now
though. lol

More Altered Bottles

I made a few more altered bottles and am so enjoying it again.

This one has a genuine piece of an antique ledger inside the envelope dated Jan 3, 1894.
I don't have very much of this ledger paper left, but I love to use it in special projects.

I love to leave the lace in the shape that I found it in. I feel it adds so much character to the piece.

I added a tiny collar to this bottle along with a vintage clip on earring.

I have listed these bottles in my Etsy store along with my previous ones.

I hope you enjoy your Wednesday! I will be staying in because Sandi did what she does best last night.

"FALL DOWN...GO BOOM!!"

It was dark outside and was in a place where the lighting wasn't so great and I totally missed the last step
 coming down off a porch. My body gyrated this way and that way and I finally ended up on my butt...
after twisting my ankle/foot.  It is a little swollen and sore ,but thankfully it wasn't worse.

Linking up today with Becky over at Timewashed for Blissful White Wednesday.
Thank you Becky!!

Creating altered bottles once again

I have been trying to stay out of trouble, so therefore I have been creating a few altered bottles again
and these are the result.


Remember the post about all the fabulous old lace that I found at a sale?  Now I am thinking that I may have
 posted that on facebook and not on my blog? At any rate, I found some gorgeous lace!

I am very frustrated lately at the lighting in this house. It is not good at all. So bad that I have to turn
on lights in the daytime. ugh. So to get any kind of decent photos at all , I sat some books up on a stand
in my living room and taped a white poster-board on the window behind it. Still not real great, but much
better than what I had initially taken. lol.

I love to embellish old bottles and have had fun making these. This one is in honor of
PARIS!

This photo does not show the true beauty of this old lace, but I did what I could. I love simple
bottles so I try not to adorn them too much. I also love to add the lace to the bottle in the form
that I found it...thus this one is a diagonal swoop??   {this bottle is now sold}

Beautiful bottle top

There are so many of us kindred spirits in blog-land aren't there? I know I don't begin to create as many
things as a lot of others, but I do love the kinship that we all share.

Another beautiful bottle top

Delicate old lace with soft netting on this bottle

...along with scrunchy ribbon.

The original cork stopper in this one. I tried to take it out to wash it and part of it broke off so I left it unwashed and
glued that part of the cork back on. A girl's gotta do what a girls gotta do right?

This will probably land in my Etsy shop soon.Thanks for taking the time to view my handiwork. I do appreciate each
and every one of you so much!!

Happy Thursday!

I have come to a realization...

...but we will go on  a side trip before I share that realization with you.  Remember my last post I told you
about my sick little car. Yep...it is still in the great state of Pennsylvania being repaired.  We have to wait
until next weekend to go out and get it because that is the only time it will work out so...being stuck
in my house day in and day out, I decided I better have something to show for it.

At least a *little something* anyway. :)  

One day this past week I noticed that one of my seam binding spools was empty so I decided
to utilize part of it and make my own smaller spools to wrap some of my vintage lace onto.

I love how they turned out. One of these days , maybe I can get myself together enough
to show you how I made them.  I think they turned out pretty cute , don't you?

I grabbed some tags that I had punched out long ago and wrote on the back how many yards of lace
was on each spool and then tied them with ribbon.

I have lace...lots  and lots of lace...you could even say miles and miles of lace...:)

I also wanted to wish each and every one of you a very Happy Easter! Easter is
what it's all about as we rejoice in the resurrection of our Lord and Savior.

Now...back to the realization...man I really got lost there didn't I? Being at home day in and
day out with no vehicle to travel around in,  made me realize just how much STUFF I have in
this small house and it is getting quite overwhelming. I wouldn't consider myself a hoarder
 by any means, but I have way too much so...if you notice off to the left of my blog I have
listed a few things for sale and will continue to add things periodically. Something has to
give and I thought I might as well share them with my online buddies if they so desire.
Just email me if you are interested in anything and I can give you the details. :)

Enjoy the Easter weekend!!

Spring in the linen closet??

Oh how I am longgggging for Spring!! YES...SPRING...full blown spring!! I know many of you
are as well so here's to hoping it arrives soon!!

Today I gathered up some of my supplies and my oodles of vintage flowers and made a
couple vintage flower garlands. The lighting still isn't all that great so I only have this
one photo for you. Hopefully more soon. I love how it turned out. 

I have held onto this fabric above for a few years and I am GOING to get something made
out of it this year. I WILL...I WILL...remind me of that later will ya?? :)

Stashes of my gorgeous lace that I had to share with you when I saw how pretty it looked stacked up
all together. This is a drop in the bucket of what I have and I love it all. 

More laces and doilies...in LOVE...Happy Spring my dear friends even though it has
not arrived here yet...hopefully soon.  If we keep thinking that,  it just may arrive and surprise us all!!