I may not love to cook, but I do love this domestically sweet image of a woman making custard. It was from a 1910 advertisement for Kingsford’s Corn Starch sent to me by Audrey @ Timeless Treasures. I liked it so well, I decided to create some recipe cards and a flour sack towel with the image. The background for the recipe cards is from an antique ledger page. I’ve removed all the background from the image, so it can be {Read More}
A Theme for Thursday – {banners}
September 13, 2012 by 10 Comments
I said last week that I planned to choose a theme that would somewhat dictate what projects I would work on, but the theme for the week just seemed to come unplanned. I showed you this spur-of-the-moment banner I made for my family photo shoot. And I had already made this bunting from some antique pages. Then, I had a request by a customer to create a word banner for a baby shower. While batting around ideas with her, I found {Read More}
A Few Little Scraps
September 3, 2012 by 17 Comments
“Stop hoarding and start using”, was my motto over the weekend and it was raining anyway, so I got busy. My house isn’t much cleaner, but I did come up with some projects to make a dent in the fabric and paper scraps that are threatening to overrun my house and office. I love fabric scraps and save nearly all of them, but I don’t own a sewing machine. I needed a project that didn’t require one, so I made {Read More}
Antique Graphic Pillows
August 30, 2012 by 28 Comments
Every week I share antique images and graphics with you, but I rarely get around to actually doing anything with them myself, so I asked my mom if she would sew some pillow covers that I could add some images to. (Thanks, Mom!) It was fun looking through the images I’ve posted and selecting a few of my favorites. I don’t recommend using regular iron-on transfer paper like you get at craft stores. I experimented with it before putting any {Read More}
Another Bud Vase Garland
June 24, 2012 by 13 Comments
A few weeks ago, I showed you a bud vase garland I created out of vintage apothecary bottles, and I made another one yesterday. I found a few blue bottles last week, and like how they look paired with the clear glass ones. I love making these – they are so simple, but they look so charming filled with some dried flower sprigs.
Just 5 Minutes to Spare {Industrial Bling Hardware Necklace}
March 1, 2012 by 13 Comments
I’m all about quick and easy projects, because 5 minutes is about all I have to spare lately. Today’s project is a hardware necklace, created from 3 galvanized metal washers. You can buy the washers in any hardware section, but if you’re like us, you may have some galvanized washers in your junk drawer. These washers are dirt cheap though. The largest washer cost .10 The middle washer was .04 and the smallest one was .02. You can use all 3 sizes, {Read More}
{Vintage} Metal Stencils – My Restoration Hardware Knock-Off
February 12, 2012 by 60 Comments
Last month when I did a post called, “Think Big“, I showed you a terrific industrial-looking display of metal stencils from Restoration Hardware that I love. At $16 per letter, I didn’t love the price. Getting the whole alphabet would have cost $416 + tax and shipping! I don’t think so.{did anyone else notice that the the “K” appears to be upside down?} I spotted a set of paper stencils with a similar look at Staples for $3.99 -that’s more my {Read More}
Chalk It Up – Repurposed Baking Pan into Chalkboard
February 10, 2012 by 29 Comments
In its younger days, this was a regular silver cookie sheet, but it had browned as much as the cookies that had baked on it and I loved the way it aged.I planned to use it as a magnet board in my kitchen, but alas, it wasn’t magnetic. I knew I could still bake up something with it – just not cookies. It just needed that chalkboard ingredient! When my youngest son saw it, he said, “You haven’t baked cookies in forever.” {Read More}
Cute as a Button Garland
December 15, 2011 by 26 Comments
Did your mother have a button jar or tin? If she didn’t, your grandmother probably did. In their day, when a shirt or coat became too worn to wear, you saved the fabric for rags or a quilt, and the buttons were saved in the button jar.My mother’s button jar was like a little treasure chest for me as a child. I loved looking through her bounty of “jewels”, and the bigger and gaudier the button, the more I liked it. {Read More}
A Cozy Sweater & Candlelight
December 3, 2011 by 34 Comments
If I had a fireplace mantle, I’d be lining the whole thing with these! A few months ago, I got a bunch of fishbowls, glasses and vases at an auction. All you auction-lovers out there, know how you can come home with oodles of things you didn’t want, but they came with something else you did want. That was the case with these glass items. It was finally time to do something with them. I’ve been wanting to make some {Read More}
