Swaps! Destash! Yellow!

Hello Friends!

I have a wee bit of catching up to do,

as I have received some lovely things from my swap partners this month.

This beautiful tag is from Marti,

made for a fabric and lace tag swap in the

Marie Antoinette MailArt Group:

 Isn't it lovely?
Thank you Marti!!

My swap partners from the monthly  A Swap for All Seasons swaps
continue to delight me!

This lovely card and tag for February's RED swap
is from Linda:

And her sweet red destash items:

 March's swap had a yellow/Spring theme.
My lovely card and tag from May:

And look at all the fun goodies from May's yellow destash:
Thank you so much, ladies, what fun!!

I will post my March creations once my partner,
who just happens to be Marti ;) receives them!


These next three ATCs I made for a swap hosted by
Kimberly of artJOYstuff.
The challenge was to use ONLY vintage materials.
Sooo these were made with vintage photographs,
vintage postcard and flowers cut from vintage greeting cards.
The backgrounds are made with vintage ledger paper (1850!),
vintage letters and music paper.
Buttons, vintage tatted lace, seals, millinery flowers
and random bits were used to embellish the cards.
I really had a lot of fun dipping into my stash to create these:

Since I have been working with yellow this month,
here are some sunshine-y yellow images for you:

 
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More Friday fun to be had at Fabulously Creative Friday!  

Lots of great ideas at Show and Tell Friday!  

Lovely blues at Anything Blue Friday!

Lots of links to lovely pinks at Pink Saturday!

Creative living, decorating, and craft ideas at Inspired Sunday!

Lovely tablescapes at Seasonal Sundays!

Cute and crafty stuff at Make it Monday!

Vintage creativity at Knick of Time Tuesday!

Be inspired by Inspire Me Tuesday!

For links to lovely, shabby, chippy whites, stop by Blissful Whites Wednesday!

Lovely, cottagey links at Feathered Nest Friday!

  ♥♥♥ Thank you so much for visiting and for all your lovely comments!! ♥♥♥
Have a great weekend!

Vintage Marketplace! Freebies!

Hello Friends!

I think I will wait 'til next post to post my
"Les Douze Jours de Noel" aka
Twelve Days of Christmas gifties
to give my swap partner a few more days to open her gifts.

Meanwhile I shall dazzle you with my photos of
"Vintage Marketplace", held Dec. 5 & 6 in Rainbow, CA:

This was the photo op:

Love these adorable stockings:

A true vintage aluminum tree from the 60s:

So pretty and pink:

Stay tuned, I have more!

And some freebies for you:

 

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More Friday fun to be had at Fabulously Creative Friday!  

Lots of great ideas at Show and Tell Friday.!  

Lots of links to lovely pinks at Pink Saturday!

Creative living, decorating, and craft ideas at Inspired Sunday!

Cute and crafty stuff at Make it Monday!

Vintage creativity at Knick of Time Tuesday!

For links to lovely, shabby, chippy whites, stop by Blissful Whites Wednesday!

Lovely, cottagey links at Feathered Nest Friday!
 

  ♥♥♥Thank you so much for visiting and for all your lovely comments!!
♥♥♥ Have a great week!

MORE Fifty Shades of Pink and Freebies!

Hello Friends!

Are you ready for more pinkness?

As promised, part deux of my photos of the
fabulous Vignettes' "Fifty Shades of Pink" Valentine soiree:
 
Fabulous metal wings:

 Oooh, those shoes:

 



   

Ooooh, time to say "au revoir".
And pay up ;)

Since we actually went on the day before the fete, we had to miss out on Kaari Meng, who was appearing the next day.
And the champagne.  :(
But it was so, soooo lovely.   A dear follower has told me that although she doesn't speak French she has been to my blog enough times that she now knows the words to my first song and can sing along! I thought that was so cute!
  Je ne veux pas Travailler by Pink Martini   The lyrics:  

Ma chambre a la forme d'une cage

 Le soleil passe son bras par la fenêtre

Les chasseurs à ma porte

Comme les petits soldats

 Qui veulent me prendre

 

Je ne veux pas travailler

 Je ne veux pas déjeuner

Je veux seulement oublier

Et puis je fume

 

Déjà j'ai connu le parfum de l'amour

Un million de roses

N'embaumeraient pas autant

 Maintenant une seule fleur

 Dans mes entourages

 Me rend malade

 

Je ne suis pas fière de ça

 Vie qui veut me tuer

 C'est magnifique

 Être sympathique

 Mais je ne le connais jamais

 

Je ne veux pas travailler

 Je ne veux pas déjeuner

Je veux seulement oublier

Et puis je fume.

 

The translation:

 

My room is like a prison
The sun's rays shine through the window.
Hunters are at my door
Like little soldiers
Who want to take me away.

I do not want to work
I do not want to have lunch
I just want to forget him
And so I smoke.

I already knew the scent of love
A million roses don't smell as sweet.

Now a single flower in my presence

Makes me sick.

I am not proud of of this life

which is killing me.
It is wonderful to be nice, friendly, cool

But I’ve never know how.

 

Interesting, yes?

My apologies for the font changes,
I have been on this computer FAR, FAR too long this morning
trying to fix it.
And it was scary at times...
I lost everything on my sidebar!!  :O
I got it all back,
but I did lose all the comments so far on this post :(
so now I think I am just...going to...leave it as is :)
 

 Next week I will be going to the Vintage Marketplace in Rainbow, CA, and will have more fun pics for you!

Freebies!






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Lots of links to lovely pinks at Pink Saturday.

For links to lovely, shabby, chippy whites, stop by Blissful Whites Wednesday!

Lovely, feminine things at Pearls and Lace Thursday!

Lovely, cottagey links at Feathered Next Friday!

Party on at a very pinteresting party at Tutus and Tea Parties! And for all things lovely and vintage, visit Knick of Time!

♥♥♥Thank you so much for visiting and for all your lovely comments!! ♥♥♥ Have a great weekend!

Whimsies and Freebies!

  Hello Friends!

I'm still here!  I didn't really mean to disappear. 
I'm just slowly getting back into the swing of things...
a little thrifting and a little creating.

I don't have photos of my thrifty finds yet, but I do have pics of my newest creations. Now, you may or may not know that I sell collage sheets on Etsy.
See my little shop over there on the right? :)
So I designed a few new collage sheets,
and then I started playing with them,
and then these little cuties came to life!

   So I thought, hmmm.. I haven't sold any crafty things on Etsy or Ebay for ages, maybe I'll just give it a try! I'll be adding some new ones later in the week, if you'd like to take a peek :)   I just love vintage valentines, especially the whimsical ones from the 20s and 30s.    
I also like the corny phrases on them as well :D

I think this is adorable:

 

I love these traditional romantic valentines as well:

 

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Then go make some hand made valentines!! :)
  Lots of links to lovely pinks at Pink Saturday. For links to lovely, shabby, chippy whites, stop by Blissful Whites Wednesday!   Lovely things at Pearls and Lace Thursday.   ♥♥♥Thank you so much for visiting and for all your lovely comments!! ♥♥♥ Have a great week!