thinking ahead

I know it's too early to talk about Christmas. It always is, every year! But since my retail stores wanted their Christmas items in August, posting Vintage Christmas photos in November seems not only timely, but rather late! Pictured are a tree garland and card crafted from old, beautiful postcards which I collect and love. The garland is strung with vintage seam binding, and is a great way to keep and display your favorite old Christmas cards!

I was on Etsy's Front Page!

I was so excited to see my work featured
in three different etsy Treasuries this weekend!
Here is a favorite that was on etsy's front page Saturday night,
showing off my Paris Office Girl journal
(second down on left.) The Treasury was curated by 3Squares.etsy.com
and the journal is for sale at VintageScraps.etsy.com

Rocks Papers Scissors

A sample of fun!

Vintage Miniatures

In the early 1970's my mother and her best friend were part of the growing frenzy of adults collecting miniatures. Over the course of a year or two, they each collected and furnished a two story house complete with electricity! Being in grade school at the time, I was enthralled with this mini world and began a modest collection of my own, ranging from tiny hand crafted wonders to inexpensive hobby store finds, some of which I kept and (finally!) turned into these trinket boxes. And if my parents had a computer (how is not having one even possible?!) I would have had my mom send me shots of her mini house, which she still has, and into which I still gaze, pretending I'm small, wandering around its wonderful treasures.
(Okay, so maybe I don't do that part of it any more, but it sounded so blog poetic!)

Midnight Snow Flurries

It's becoming delightfully chilly here in North Carolina! I'm just not a hot weather person, having been raised in the Chicago suburbs and all. So to celebrate the end of Hot, I picked some favorite, dark and snowy looking art pieces from a few beautiful etsy.com stores. (Please contact me if you would like more information on these pieces.)

VOTE!

Election fun from etsy shops MinorThread.etsy.com, RememberMeEmily.etsy.com, and MullishMuse.etsy.com

Some Vintage for the Stamp Art Crowd

I didn't even know that "Stamp Artists" existed until I began to collage a year ago, and what a creative world it is! Check out the popular Stampington and Company some time if you, too, are in the dark regarding this art form. And if you lean more toward the chunky, vintage look, check out Corrabelle.etsy.com, the source of the stamps pictured, and go have some fun!