Today I got a couple of pocket pillows made out of some vintage fabric ~ I used some of the photographs that I showed you yesterday to put in the pockets ~
I just can't pass up baby shoes either ~ I actually used this oval frame just to take the picture for my website but I love them hanging in it ~
Here are just a few things that I listed at Katies Rose Cottage from my recent finds ~
I am off to Canton tomorrow to find more treasures ~ I cannot wait !!
It is time to get back to work after a long weekend so I have listed
two little Altered Baby Shoes and some Vintage Cottage Pillows
on my website, Katies Rose Cottage ~
Tomorrow is Canton !! WOOHOO !! I love love Canton ~
I am in need of more lace and always on the hunt for silver so that
is my goal tomorrow ~
I have been having a blast at Photofunia ~ it is kind of addicting !!
I was so beyond thrilled to get to be one of the featured
artists in Sew Somerset magazine! Oh my goodness each and every one
of the Stampington & Company magazines are just so very
beautiful with amazing photographs, ideas and articles ~
I have had so much fun making
Vintage Pocket Pillows and they
are what are in the magazine ~ WOOHOO!!!
I just listed the featured pillows at
Katies Rose Cottage for sale ~
I hope you are all having a wonderful
Christmas season so far ~
Chat with you soon!
I have a confession to make ..... I am not a yard sale shopper ~
A flea market shopper but not a yard sale shopper and it is all because I have already been there done that on the Little Tykes stuff ~ I have friends ( Pat and Lisa ) that live close to me that always find treasures at yard sales ~ not me though ~
But ...... when Dorothy at the Shabby Y emails to say she is having a yard sale I am there with bells on (really flip flops) ~
She has the most amazing studio in the back that she even opened up to the shopping gals ~I pretty much drooled over her neat as a pin studio stuffed with awesome treasures ~
Here are the wonderful things that I got from her that will be on my website soon ~ well, except the oval frame ~
I also went to a tiny little flea market and found these old photos and sweet baby shoes ~ I am going to use the pictures for pocket pillows ~ My daughter was with me and we just cracked up going through the boxes of pictures ~
This girl's bow is so fun ! I can't imagine wearing a bow that ginormous :)
People did call my girls bow heads though when they were little so maybe I can imagine it ..... hmmmm
When you go out junkin' do you
collect things to sell ~ to recreate
something from the past that
becomes a new treasure for someone else ~
I love to get things for my home
but I can only have so much before
it becomes hoarder status ~
So.....I am mostly on the hunt for
things to put on my website ~
While I was in Kansas I got
two Bibles that I thought would be
awesome to take the pages from
and use in pocket pillows or for
who knows what else but they are aged
so perfectly!
As I took them out and really looked at
them (which I don't really do
when I am on the search) .....
I started to think about where they have
been ... what stories they had to tell...
Was this little Bible carried
to a church like this ~
or this ~
Was this larger Bible in a families house
out on a prairie somewhere ~ Did they
find comfort in its pages during
hard times ...
Where have they been through the years
to end up in a flea market in 2011 ~
Precious treasures from the past
are the things that we collect ...
whether to recreate with or to
cherish as they are ~
So suddenly ( well not so suddenly, I guess ) I realize
that fall is here and winter is coming~
I am not like 99.9% of the world who love
cold weather so I am somewhat disturbed by the thought ~
Today I had plans to take some new pictures and it POURED
along with thunder, lightning and the tornado siren ~
I remember when we first moved to Texas from California .... we
would get in the bathtub with a mattress over our head for
every siren ~ It was so exciting !
That passed after the first couple of years of life here and instead
I made pocket pillows during the possible lurking tornado ~
The lighting once again stunk so I had
to take these pictures with a flash which is a TOTAL no no !
Anyhow here are some pictures of things I made and
listed during the hubbub of my workshop
flooding and the sirens blaring ~
( I don't sew in my workshop )
You can find all of this at Katies Rose Cottage ~