Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Who knew I'd fall in love with pincushions?


After Christmas I went antiquing. There is this one vendor who always has a sale going on and always has something that catches my eye. I visit this vendor every time I visit. I must have looked at these milk glass jars a million times but never thought they were anything special. They are old jars that face cream and lotion used to come in. I love milk glass and get excited at just the sight of it.

On my most recent trip, these milk glass jars called out to me. I had a vision of adding a velvet pincushion to them all. I wanted pink or light blue velvet but red was the best I could find. Over the past few nites I made them up and set them aside to dry.

I've been in a pin topper kick too. Found a whole bag of tiny doves for a DOLLAR! Rock On! SO I made up about a dozen or so of these dove pins and they look fabulous on these new pin cushions.

The only delimma is that they look unfinished. I've tried a few things to finish them up but none of those ideas look right. I'll spend another day or 2 at most to figure it out. Otherwise, they are going up on the shop as is.

Any ideas?

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Monday, December 11, 2006

Up for trade!

Do I have to say it? BH&G stikes again...funny story about this one.

I saw this book on Dirtnapdesigns' stream one night and got totally jealous. I went right away and bought a copy on ebay for .99 only to find out that Leanne offered to trade. Well she wanted to trade one of my prized possesions and I already purchased a copy. Needless to say, i am not trading, but I'm scanning the mag for Leanne and now this copy is up for trade because 2 days after all this drama, I found a copy at the boutique outlet. LOL

Any one interested in trading for another vintage craft book?

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Thursday, December 07, 2006

My Vices

My Vices Originally uploaded by SewcialButterfly
My apologies for being so negectful over the past few weeks. I will post updates soon. I just wanted to share this lil blog since I had a moment to spare.
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Over the past few weeks I've been shopping at the Goodwill Outlet because I discovered the large selection of vintage books. It being the outlet, you never know what they are going to have because they bring new stock out every hour.

I've been lucky enough to get a generous size book collection started. I am totally diggin' the vintage books from the early '60's.

I went to Ikea last nite to buy some magazine boxes and bought some storage boxes because I have fabric out the wazoo. I was organizing, sorting and storing the fabrics that have been living on my couch. I cam to realize that I am addicted to fabric, books, buttons and my crafts.

I was organizing my Flickr sets when I realized this. LOL So I created a little mosaic to celebrate my vices.

Enjoy!

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