Cottage & Family:
vintage lace

Here is a simple
Valentine's Day idea!

We found these hearts
at Hobby Lobby and
embellished them
with vintage laces,
vintage buttons
and crinkled ribbon ~

Super Simple & Sweet!

The very best part of
having a website is
getting to create!!
It is so much fun to
pile lace and stuff all
over the table and "play" ~

This is just a couple of
pictures of what we
have been working on while
we wait for Kristin's baby to
be born ~ 2 more days
until the due date !!

Today I got all of the
lace out of my flea market
shopping cart and got
busy tea dying it ~

The hot sun today was
perfect for drying the
lace fast :)

I needed a good drying
rack though and
remembered this ladder
in my yard ~

It worked perfect!!

The rungs gave alot
of area to drape the
lace over ~

After it was dry
and ironed I got busy
creating the bottles in
the picture above for
a shop in San Diego ~

My very favorite
part of what I do is
the creating part ❤

When I was at the flea market

last week I found these really

cool old leather camera bags ~

I am loving the look of leather

and lace right now so wanted to

embellish them with some vintage

lace ~

I think the two larger ones would

work perfect as purses and the little

one is just cute!

This is what they looked like

when I bought them ~

I can tell I will be on the

hunt for old leather bags more often now :)

I just adore vintage buttons and skeleton keys
so I collect them everywhere I go ~

Last year I bought one of Dawn from The Feathered Nest's tutorials,
I love them all !
I wanted to play with some of the vintage buttons and skeleton keys so I made
little picture holders using old salt and pepper shakers ~

This is also some lace that was added to my website last night~
It is wrapped around a tea dyed stamped tag that is ohhhh so cute !

If you would like to purchase the little picture holders or lace cards
you can find them in our Vintage Finds Category ~

I was so inspired when I went to the blog "A Storybook Life" and saw the post about creations under glass ~ The last couple of months I have just fallen in love with Cloches and Apothecary's because you can do so much with them ~ well after reading through the post and looking at all the gorgeous creations that other people have made, I decided to try one too with other ideas on the way ~

These are pictures of my first "creation under glass" ~