Vintage Pattern

 

 

This weeks vintage pattern is  chartered designs for cross stitch, for family heritage samplers.  It was my intention to make a sampler of my husband and I years together  to celebrate the wonderful events that have happened throughout our marriage, but other things have taken over and it never got done.  Maybe after the next major event, our daughters wedding I will have more time to focus on things for myself and the family heritage sampler can begin.

 

The pattern was printed in 1976 and was brought in a Thrift Store on a trip to Florida some time ago.

 

There are graphs for Marriage: we have been married for 32 years and celebrate 33 years in November.

 

Birth: we have celebrated many births 3 of our own daughters and then grandchildren.

 

Homes: of which we have had many due to moves whilst serving in the military.

 

Family and Pets:

 

Sports:

 

Occupations and Professions:

 

 

Hobbies:

 

Travel:

 

The perfect combination of events to make an amazing sampler that covers many years, I look forward to sitting down and planning it all out, I certainly have my purpose so that is where I will start.  The graph paper is ready...

 

This is the view out of my dining room window this morning, a little fox wandering across the field.

 

 

Hope you have a wonderful weekend, it is bank holiday here in the UK I have visitors and a craft fair.

 

See you soon.

 



Yarn Along

I am still plodding along with preparations for the wedding, crocheting flowers and sanding coasters.  Slow but steady I am certainly under no pressure yet.  The wedding is at the end of November so still plenty of time.

 

I am also attempting to get everything prepared for Christmas so that I am under no pressure.  I have crocheted some washcloths ready for little stocking gifts and for the guest bedroom.  A fun easy make which will make you smile.

 

A reindeer and a cracker have been done so far, who knows what else will appear.

 

I have been browsing Wedding Details and Christmas Details, both by Mary Norden.  Both books are quite inspiring, they are not makes just elements of a Wedding or Christmas to add classy finishing touches that enchant and impress.

 

I have just started to read  Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller that has had good reviews, but it is early days yet so I haven't formed an opinion.

 

I am once again joining Ginny over at Small Things for the yarn along.

 

What are you creating and reading?

 

See you soon.

 

 

 

The Ugly Duckling

On our visit to Florida we often look at Antique Malls and shows, we visited the Garden Show earlier on in the year at Renningers Mount Dora and found some of the creations quite inspirational.  A picture frame caught our eye which had been painted and had chicken wire added to use in a shed for storing seed packets. We thought this would make a great noticeboard.

We had some old window frames in the work shop and some wire that had been taken from an old aviary from my parents garden.

 

Some beading bought for £2 and a paint job turned the ugly duckling into a beautiful swan.

 

Now I have the perfect notice board for my craft room.

 

A perfect addition, perfect to display photographs or my collection of vintage cards.

 

See you soon.

A Shift in Seasons

Apart from a walk around the car boot sale at Stickney Saturday morning, the rest of the weekend was spent down at my parents home, decorating the bedroom and cleaning carpets.  Only the kitchen left to do down there and we are on top of the jobs at that house.  My house is a different story...

I did manage a few quiet moments to make an arrangement in preparation for my nieces new baby girl expected shortly. I used a vintage holder and pink roses to make quite a statement piece.

 

Finished off with luggage tag and sparkly butterfly. 

 

The view at the back of my house is looking quite stark, a sure sign that Autumn is on the way.  The harvest done and the field empty.  Why is it the seagulls always follow the tractor?

 

There is a definite shift in the seasons, already the evenings are getting darker, there is a nip in the air in the morning and early evening.  Time to think about warmer clothing, throws and knitted socks...

Car Boot Treasure

First of all I would like to say a big thank you for all of your comments on my recent posts and also to welcome my new followers.  Yours comments are always appreciated, any questions I always try to get back to you personally.

The weather was looking a little overcast so not too sure if it was going to be a good day for car booting, but we decided to take the chance, I am really glad that we did.

We managed to get some glove puppets for the grandchildren for £1.

Children's books for 25p each, I say this every time I buy books, it never ceases to amaze me how little value is placed on a book.

 

£4 secured me a whole box of dressing up clothes, including masks and wigs.

 

Finally we managed to get our next project for a mere £20.  A solid wood piece of furniture for a bedroom, cupboard with drawers.  Watch this space.

 

All in all a very successful walk around the boot sale.  Anybody else manage to get some bargains?

 

See you soon.

Christmas Fabric Stash Busting

I always try to buy fabric after Christmas and in the sales so that I can be generous with the crafting projects.  I have managed to use a fair amount this week with lots of things been accomplished.  I have completed the throw for myself, which match the 2 fleece backed throws for the chairs.

 

The overall effect of them is quite pleasing.  I have put some gingerbread fabric onto a kitchen towel and added a gingerbread cutter for a gift. 

I intend to use the towel to line a Christmas hamper.  For Bertie my eldest Grandson I have made a cowboy boot fabric backed with dark green fleece throw for the end of his bed.  A perfect addition for his cowboy themed room.

 

Lily and Daisy have matching throws for their beds, using the fabric I used to make their Christmas sacks last year.

 

A pleasing overall effect bound with an added TY Jingle Beanie.  I have already embellished towels for Wilbur with some Christmas Mickey Mouse fabric and I have made him a shelf elf out of a kit that I bought from Mount Dora.

 

I also bought some vintage tree decorations that are yet to be made up from the same vendor at Renningers Street of shops, Mount Dora, Florida.

 

Slowly but surely I am getting through the Christmas fabric stash and making some lovely stocking gifts which is quite pleasing.  How are you getting on with Christmas preparations, or is Christmas in August too early for you?

 

See you soon.