I warned you a few days ago that I’m a slow learner, and all the troubles I had with my bakery sign didn’t teach me my lesson not to choose elaborate fonts to cut out on vinyl with my Silhouette machine. I truly expected this project to be a failure and probably be a total waste of time, but I felt compelled to try it anyway. Here’s why. I bought an adorable 1895 school primer. It is filled with some {Read More}
Thursday’s Theme – {Tattered Antique Book Stacks}
March 7, 2013 by 15 Comments
Last week, I brought home the most beautiful box full of extremely old German books. They didn’t look all that beautiful as I found them, because they had extremely dirty, torn up covers, but take off those old covers and brace yourself for a real vision of beauty. I get a little giddy when I discover the binding of the books covered with book pages. I’m not sure why some books have this, but I’m so glad they do. I’m {Read More}
How do you DRESS your Drawers?
February 23, 2013 by 11 Comments
Crazy busy day here today, so you get photos and that’s it! Tell me what you do with drawers in your house. I love creating vignettes inside them!
Farmhouse Dairy Sign, a Mini Version and Some Silhouette Tips
February 22, 2013 by 22 Comments
I enjoyed creating the Milk & Cream Co. sign so much, I thought I’d create another dairy sign. I decided to look for another design to put on it. I searched the internet for inspiration and came across this antique business card. I love the various font styles on it. {source} Once again, I removed the background and removed some of the wording, to come up with this image. This design proved to be very tricky for the Silhouette {Read More}
Antique Graphics Wednesday – Vintage Luggage Tags
February 13, 2013 by 15 Comments
I’m sick of the cold and am ready to pack my bags and head south until spring comes, but since that’s just a dream, instead I’ll share some vintage luggage tags with you today, so I can pretend I’m heading off to some warm, happy place. {CLICK ON IMAGES TO ENLARGE AND SAVE} I love the bright red logo on this Railway Express Agency tag. I removed the images from the tag on this one. This is the back side of {Read More}
Sunday – {Walk in Truth}
February 10, 2013 by 15 Comments
Have a blessed Sunday! {CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL SIZE PRINTABLE WITH WATERMARK OR BORDER}
Antique Graphics Wednesday – Early 1900’s Ivory Soap Ads
February 6, 2013 by 8 Comments
Ivory Soap used to produce some of the most beautiful advertisements. Part of my fascination with old advertisements, is seeing which companies have stood the test of time and are still in existence, as Ivory Soap has. This image came from 1908, although I’m not sure which magazine it was published in. I also find it interesting that they didn’t create so many products to do every single household chore. The same soap you could use on your body, you {Read More}
Easy-breezy Clothespin Bag
February 3, 2013 by 28 Comments
Last summer, I was on the lookout for some easy-breezy kind of summer clothes. You know…a gal standing on the beach, wearing crinkly, lightweight white cotton, blowing-in-the-breeze kind of clothes…and I didn’t want to pay more than $5 for it…because I’m that cheap and I ruin clothes quickly. One thing I found that had that look was a pretty, simple sleeveless shirt. It was light, it was comfortable, it was stand-on-the-beach breezy looking – so I bought it. What I {Read More}
DIY Apothecary Jars – Cheap & Quick!
January 26, 2013 by 31 Comments
DIY Apothecary Jars Recently, I shared several antique apothecary labels with you, for Antique Graphics Wednesday. I have lots of old apothecary bottles, but sometimes I’m hesitant about altering original bottles, but I love using new jars and bottles, that might otherwise be thrown away, and altering them to make them look old. So when I stumbled across some cute little candles in jars with lids at Walmart for less than $1, I knew I was really going to get {Read More}
How to Make a Perfect Book Page Bow
January 25, 2013 by 28 Comments
How to Make a Perfect Book Page Bow It all started with a book page bow banner I made and sold in my Etsy shop…. Another customer saw it and asked if I would make her 100 really small bows that she planned to use on baby shower invitations. “Oh sure – no problem!“, I responded. I do enjoy making them, but my kitchen counter is now decorated with spiderweb-like strands of hot glue, I burned myself a few times, and I {Read More}
