Gifts and fun

I hope everyone had a wonderful Valentine's Day!

My Brother gave me a lot of vintage valentines! Yippie!

what cute candy bars!

This beautiful Tanzanite ring was at the bottom of the bag of valentines.

My Mom made this precious pair of house shoes with yoyo's and buttons




This weekend we went to flea markets and thrift stores. I can't believe what wonderful treasures I've found!

I got this bookcase for two dollars at flea market.


Five yards of vintage fabric


These little lovelies I found at a thrift store.





My witch hats were only forty-nine cents each


Vintage wrapping paper

A little heart


Vintage Barbie patterns



Vintage tablecloth

Vintage coloring books




vintage lithographs




Vintage apron



A little tin basket


Thanks for lookin' at my goodies, Lindsey

Valentines and Thrifty fun

It's almost here! I am so ready for Valentine's Day to be here!
I have been having so much fun making decorations and wall hangings.
I love looking for all the bright colorful vintage Valentines at flea markets.
Here is my little vintage valentine inspired mailbox I found the mailbox at Target in the dollar section.




Here are my newest wall hangings I've made.




Saturday, Mom and I headed to our favorite flea markets and I found a whole basket full of valentines. I wanted all of them but unfortunately being individually priced I can rack up quite a bit very quickly so hopefully they will still be there next week and I can buy the rest of them!




Wow for the first time we went into our local thrift stores and we had fun! We had thought about going but just never did and now it will most likely be a weekly stop on our Saturday shopping trip!
I guess the last time I went in a thrift store I thought it was full of junk and old clothes but I hadn't really thought about the treasures that were hidden amongest all that dirty junk. I am very happy that we finally know what we have been missing all these years.

Cute Halloween fabric!
Vintage books!

pretty little ornaments!

Vintage 60's and 70's patterns!
lots of goodies!
A French music book!


Last but not least I thought I would share this little picture of a crochet heart Mom (Twyla) made several years ago. She made a set of four and I think it is so precious!



Okay I am off to bed. Hope you all will have a wonderful night's sleep, Lindsey

Love is in the air!

Here is my newest Valentine wall hanging. I love Martha Stewart glitter!!! Such shine and color.




I found these vintage inspired Valentine's at a flea market for only two dollars each! I also found this vintage music sheets and vintage magazine for fifty cents!






One of my new loves are vintage dress patterns. This new love could definitely be costly but worth it!


Twyla (My Mom) made me this beautiful pillow in my favorite colors!
I love how she combined knitting and stitching and felt together.









She also made this beautiful felt pincushion with 3 granny squares wrapped around it with a cute little yo yo on top!


Have a lovely day, Lindsey

I love my stuff!

We had a very successful shopping and crafting week!
I first decided that I was going to learn how to sew and I do so love vintage styled fabrics. On Saturday we went to a quilt shop and they had two baskets full of fabric scraps. All you can fit in a ziploc bag for $2.50. So I was going thru one that had some strips of vintage looking fabric and I started finding these little triangles of different fabrics sewed together and I was so excited I started stuffing them in my bag. We were both down on our hands and knees going thru the baskets. I finally counted a total of twenty one of these beautiful triangles! I don't know why they would have put something like that in the basket that they took the time to sew together but I was thrilled to get them. I also got several fat quarters in vintage style.

After I had picked out my others thinking I was being good not over doing it I spotted the most beautiful fabric I have ever seen in my life! I am smiling right now thinking of how gorgeous it is. It makes me so happy! The whimsical style and colors are so me! It's Halloween fabric which is sad that I didn't have a few months ago but at least getting it now made it 25% off! I have been looking it up on ebay and looking up the designer to see her other work. I bought 1 yard of each although I would have liked more, it was still about $8.00 a yard and there were four different designs to get.
I talked about my gorgeous fabric all night showing my brother how lovely it was. Today I stayed home to craft while my Mom and Brother went shopping. When they got home my Brother said he had a surprise for me and turns out they went back to the quilt shop and he bought me the rest on the bolt of my favorite one! What an amazing Brother! I'm tickled pink! My mom had also dumped out the scrap basket out on the floor and found me three more triangles giving me now a total of 24 triangles! My plan is to make them into a banner to hang in our craft room. I have lots of ideas for my Halloween fabric including a quilt. So watch for that to be posted somtime in the future cause remember I don't even know how to sew yet!




After that we went a few Flea Markets were I found more vintage Valentine's to add to my ever growing collection. I also found a 1984 Cabbage patch child's sewing machine never opened for $12! I also picked up a vintage dress pattern, a Vogart embroidery pattern (cause yes, I also want to learn how to do embroidery) and a couple wooden spools. I also found this old picnic basket. I love that it looks so beat up and that it went on many picnics back in it's day.





We went to Hobby Lobby too and I was looking at their Valentine section when I found these bags and cupcake picks. I love them!



I don't know why but ever since I was a little girl Valentine's Day has always been one of my favorite holidays. I have been busy since the first of January coming up with Valentine crafts. Here is my newest creations.









Have a good week, Lindsey