My Wonderful Ebay find~Vintage Batiste 1950'S Baby Dress

I adore vintage baby items and I'm always on the look out for them, especially 1950's Batiste hand embroidered baby dresses. I watch Ebay pretty regularly for some good deals. I found this one a couple of weeks ago on Ebay for $18!!! I couldn't believe it and snatched it up. It's in excellent slightly worn condition, but that makes it vintage right?. 

This little dress fits my reborn doll perfectly which is such a nice way to display my growing collection of baby vintage.

The hand embroidery detail is just exquisite and

delicate.

I love the Batiste cotton they used. It just irons beautifully and

holds it's shape.

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Vintage Valentine Gifts for ME!

I need a little cheering up! I haven't been blogging since December. I have been in and out of the hospital this past month having had two surgeries on my right kidney. This month has been like a blur to me. Now I am nearly completely recovered and back on my feet. Yesterday I was looking at all my blogging friends blogs and was so cheered up by all the red, pink and darling Valentine gifts and decorations. Everyone has done such a good job!!! One blogger in particular inspired me to go shopping on Etsy. I did and found these two darling Valentine gifts that I bought for me.

I found these little vintage cuties on Etsy at Vintage in Colour. Aren't they the sweetest things.

This darling kitty pincushion just spoke to me. I kept going back and back to check it out and then

bought it. So different but so happy and that's what I need now, something bright and happy.

I found this darling little gift on Etsy shop at therootcellar.

I look so forward to getting them home and on display.

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Sharing my beautiful Secrest Santa gift...

Oh my, oh my look what Santa sent me!!! My Secret Santa really knows me!!

I love vintage linens! She found this at a specialty store in the Ozarks. It's vintage alright and perfect.

The linen is top quality and the hand embroidery is exquisite. 

It fits my table perfectly. When I get Christmas all packed away this goes right on my dining room table. I will take some more pictures then for sharing.

So who ever you are my dear Secret Santa 

THANK-YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is all hand done!!! No machine did this that's for sure!!!

The center is crochet. I can't imagine how long this took.

This is an heirloom that I will treasure forever and pass it down

to my daughter!

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Cardinal Red for Christmas...

I've had more fun with my embroidery machine this Christmas! I have been embroidering 4x4 designs and inserting in photo cards for my favorite people.

My step mother loves "Red Birds" as she calls them so I found this beautiful Cardinal design and created this card for her.

The Chick-a-dee is for my sister in law. I think they just turned out wonderful!

Christmas in a bag...

I made a few presents for my friend in another state and wanted to

be creative in how I sent them to her. 

I found this canvas tote at Walmart.

She loves cats! I found this kitty printable transfer on Etsy

and the transfer paper at Walmart. It was so easy to do. I printed

the transfer out in an 8x10 format and cut around it and ironed it on.

That easy and doesn't it just spruce it up a bit. It's personal now.

The tote was deep enough to place all her presents in! I just finished it off with a plaid ribbon. I am very pleased with how it turned it. Took it to UPS this morning and sent it off to her. Very convenient to! All this for under $10. Total cost was $7.50

I am going to do this for all my girlfriends and daughters this Christmas!

Autumn Come Lately...

Where I live in Southern California up next to the San Jacinto Mountains Autumn comes late and lasts about 6 weeks. It's beautiful. We are just now getting into the real colors and it will go on like this until mid December. I love it. These are pictures taken this past weekend around my neighbor hood.

A Vintage Halloween!

I have decorated for years for Halloween. I love the colors, etc. Now I have tailored down my collection to vintage inspired items that I have been collecting for awhile. Here are just a few favorites. I try and add something unique every year. This year I found a vintage embroidery pattern that I dearly love and created these flour sack t-towels. These are my favorite t-towels of the season. The pattern is so unique and whimsical.

There were only three designs in this collection. I hope the designer will have a new collection available next year. They are just so neat.

I also dearly love Bethany Lowe vintage inspired decor. I found this bowl years ago at the Pharmacy in Pasadena and have cherished it ever since. The colors are so vibrant and the design so whimsical. 

One of my very favorite things to do is create little Halloween gifts for friends and family and attach one these vintage inspired tags to the gift. I also use these for postcards and they make great decor mantle pictures. These are just a few of my favorite tags from my collection.

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