I hope you all had a wonderful Memorial Day weekend! I did, but I’m exhausted and stiff. Last weekend we drove to New Mexico to attend my oldest niece’s high school graduation celebration, and we just got home a little over an hour ago. My husband did all the driving, bless his heart, but I’m still wiped out from being in the car all night, and a good chunk of today. I loved spending time with our my families, but it’s {Read More}
Vintage Postcards Images
May 17, 2015 by 3 Comments
It’s been awhile since I’ve shared any vintage postcards images, so today I have 5 of them that I found at an antique store recently. They all have blue text and great fonts. These would be wonderful for invitations and announcements, and if printed as wallet size, would make unique gift tags. {right-click on the full size images below, and save to your computer} {MORE PRINTABLE VINTAGE POSTCARDS CAN BE FOUND HERE} Blessings,
Printable Antique Milk Caps
May 4, 2015 by 6 Comments
When I went to Arkansas last week, there was only 1 antique store in the town where I visited, but I found some goodies to bring home, including quite a few antique milk caps. This grouping all have green in them. I’m working on a project right now with one of these images, and hope to get it finished to show you later in the week. Wish me luck because I’m only about halfway through, and can’t tell how it will turn out {Read More}
repurposed Starbucks bottle … because it’s cute, right?
May 3, 2015 by 21 Comments
Am I the last person in the world to realize that Starbucks bottles look like old pint-sized milk bottles? Well, they kinda-sorta do, right? Okay, it might be a bit of a stretch, but if you have a good imagination, and some white paint, it could pass for a milk bottle right? Actually, that doesn’t really have anything much to do with my post today, but just play along, okay?
Cow Vintage Tin Can Label
April 29, 2015 by 13 Comments
Turn this free printable vintage can label into charming kitchen wall art!
1800’s Fashions Summer Gowns
April 27, 2015 by 8 Comments
It used to be a normal thing for me to stay up nearly all night working on projects, but I think I may have crossed some midlife age line, telling me all-nighters are a thing of the past for me. My oldest son and I spent the weekend in Arkansas, where we visited my middle son and they both attended a special college event, then we drove through the night to in order for him to get to his 8 am class {Read More}
Dancing around the Maypole
April 25, 2015 by 3 Comments
Since May is less than a week away, I wanted to share this sweet illustration of children dancing around a maypole that came from an early 1900’s children’s encyclopedia. It instantly took me back to my school days. The younger grades in my school always got to go out to the playground and wrap streamers around a pole (I think it may have been the tetherball pole). I don’t think we danced – my recollection is that we really just sort of {Read More}
Vintage Advertisement Buttermilk Soap
April 11, 2015 by 10 Comments
A few months ago, I purchased a lot of late 1800’s magazines, because they all had beautiful illustrations on the covers and were filled with wonderful images like this vintage advertisement for Buttermilk Toilet Soap. This would be a perfect graphic to put on a glass jar to hold bath salts, cotton balls etc. (image transfer on glass tutorial here). It would also be pretty as an iron on image on a towel. Here’s the full advertisement the image came from. {Read More}
Antique Tin Can Advertisements
April 6, 2015 by 4 Comments
I was looking through photos and images that I’ve saved on my computer a few days ago, and discovered several antique advertisements that I’d edited, but never shared before. Old food advertisements make wonderful vintage style wall art to hang in the kitchen, or you can use them as an image transfer on flour sack towels. This one is a Heinz strawberry preserves tin can image. This advertisement is for Dr. Price’s baking powder. Here is the tin can image by itself. {Read More}
DIY Clay Tags with Graphics
April 1, 2015 by 12 Comments
I’ve been slightly obsessed with image transfers lately. I’ve done transfers on wood, canvas, and glass, but there’s another medium I thought I try – clay. I just finished painting a basket to hold hand towels in my bathroom, and thought a clay tag would dress it up a bit.
