Bloggers Bodega, Vintage Marketplace, Thriftshare Monday, White Wednesday

3 More Days!

Well, I am trying my darndest to get this post up but I think blogger may still be having issues!
I am sooooo excited to be vending at The Vintage Marketplace at the Oaks in Rainbow, Ca this friday and saturday!
I have put my etsy on vacation, only to fill it up soon, I have lots of goodies to bring you...some homemade and some wonderful vintage goods. I will open up again around or on June 5th so come by for a visit!
I wanted to share with you some of the things I am bringing to the show: Some are handmade, some thrifted and alot are white so I thought I would also join the wonderful parties put on by Apron Thrift Girl- Thrift Share Monday
Faded Charm- White Wednesday
and Capers of the Vintage Vixens- Bloggers Bodega

We added a skirt of vintage linen and a vintage millinery flower to this wonderful Mary Santos.

Here are some art kits made up of vintage ephemera and millinery and vintage quilt squares.

Some wonderful white purses...lucite, basket with millinery flowers, beaded and woven.....

And an array of sweet treasures...a baby shoe and sweet yellow booties, a heart pinkeep, a crown box and a fun vintage picture....

Here are some of the sachets I made....

And some whimsical tins for good measure!

Sooooo...if you are in the San Diego/Temecula area...please come and visit! If you want to go for a drive...I would love to see you! If you can't come...I will miss you....send me a comment to say hi! I probably won't post until after the show so I hope you all have a great week! karen....

A few new Pretties in the Shoppe

I am still busy making, fluffing and shining new goodies for my etsy shoppe, Hope you like the eyecandy! Happy Wednesday! karen....

Treasure Hunting.....

I had fun this weekend in search of treasures.... this little lady is one of my favorite finds. She is a Santos cage doll but not the wooden kind. She is molded I believe and is mounted on a wire tripod. I am going to make her a skirt that will be open in the front. I am probably going to make it out of burlap or linen with a millinery flower....then she can be used as a proper shrine... When I found her she was in an awful flowered bag with a cheapo hawaiin lei wrapped around her. I have seen her 3 times and passed her up until I picked her up yesterday and realized that she was on this wire armiture ...

Sorry these pictures are so poor, I wasn't able to photograph anything until the sun was almost down tonite...but I was so excited to share some of my finds, I will show you better pictures later.....

A child's tool box, an Uncle Sam mechanical bank, some wire pieces, a 3 little kittens board book and a sweet cherub....


A newer charlotte, a cute old clock (not working) that sweet cherub and another basket purse....

I will have some new goodies listed in my shop by the end of the week including these almost finished sachets and tile magnets with some wonderful vintage images and frenchy themes...

Here are some of the last batch of sachets that I took to Glitterfest...they went fast so now I will have some to share with you! Come back and visit soon, I will have more to share!

Have a great Tuesday! I am participating in Bloggers Bodega at Capers of the Vintage Vixens, go visit, you will find some wonderful handmade goods and fun blogs to visit!

karen....

A Tisket a Tasket

So it has been awhile.... life has kept me busy, but in a good way! I have been working on some Saturdays (SAT and ACT testing), Robin and I did a little handmade and vintage show and then last Saturday my friend and I went scrapbooking, which was long overdue! Also, my best friend from childhood was out and we spent time whenever possible together...fun!



Well, with all the excitement, I haven't had a second to think of a decent blogpost, let alone take pictures! But this will change soon! Robin and I will be vendors at the Vintage Marketplace at the Oaks on June 3 and 4th and I am so excited! We are gearing up, creating, buying wonderful vintage goods...doing all the fluffing and after we have finished, I promise to have lots of fun posts for you!!!!

But! Don't fret! You haven't come in vain!!!!!

I have pictures from the Easter basket swap and May Basket swap that I gave....

Okay, a little lame this late...but it is something!!!!

Here goes!
This is the Basket, still packaged for Karoline my Easter basket partner....

a vintage bunny and vintage chick egg holder to add to her basket.... At the bottom is the fabric cuff I made for her....


This is a little velvet egg I found....

Some treats for her darling girls....




That velvet egg again! (Okay, I really am lame....I posted it twice and don't know how to unpost! ) Just pass on by and look interested okay? Pretty please....




Then, there was wonderful Lorraine...here is her basket..... (I embellished each of the baskets)



Here are some of her goodies......

We decided to do mostly thrifted and handmade. I found a darling cherub plate and added it to a candlestick then added a nest. She loves vintage linens so I wrapped items in her basket in vintage doilies and hankies....

I also made her one of my lavender sachets in a frenchy theme and a recycled sweater pin....

Well, I hope you enjoyed the pictures.... I will try to take some time to take pictures for you because I have so much to share with you! Hope you are having a fun Spring (and a sunny one!) karen.....

Happy Mayday!

Okay, for some of you...May Day has passed, it is now May 2nd on the east coast but I am always a day late and a dollar short! (but loveable....I promise!)
I participated in the May Basket swap put on by Kari- Artsymama...it is a fun swap and I had a
wonderful partner...Lorraine of Over the Rainbeau blog fame.
She was a wonderful partner and only lives about 3 hours from me so we are going to meet in person in June...
We decided to do mostly thrifted and handmade for each other and boy did she send me some wonderful things. Above is the darling banner that she decorated the wonderful wall tin with... It is already hanging in my living room!
Above is a wonderful Marie Antoinette shoe that she made...she sells them on her etsy... I love it!

My basket was filled with lovely handcrocheted doilies and vintage crepe paper in my favorite color, a darling journal and tag, a sweet hydrangea flower wrapped in a paper doily a wonderful flower pin, wallpaper and the cutest flower candlestick holder...

There is a bird in a birdcage stamp, a vintage postcard, a pretty white hand towel and some yummy candy! It was great fun, Lorraine is so talented and I made a new friend to boot!

hope your may day was fun too! Thank you so much Lorraine, you were a wonderful partner! Yesterday, my friend Robin and I did a vintage and handmade show in Huntington Beach and I am still tired! So.... I am off to bed! zzzzzzzz.....karen.....

Happy Easter!

I hope you all have a wonderful Easter Day! Life has kept me very busy lately but now it is settling down and I am happy! I participated in Cerri's (Little Pink Studio) wonderful Easter Basket Swap and had the most wonderful partner- Karoline. She is so sweet and has 2 darling daughters and you will see by my basket how talented she is!
Here is my basket before I opened it:

And here it is with the cellphane off: (oooo la la!)

Isn't it the most darling thing? She made the basket from a vintage hat (be still my heart) and look at those cute critters peeking out at us! The bunny has a delicate layer of glitter on it and the chick is fuzzy!

This is a paper mache nest filled with chocolate and a darling bird.... loveeeeee it!

And here are some of the contents: A chocolate bunny and jelly beans, 2 cute vintage cardboard chicks ( memories of my childhood), seam binding in pretty pastels, beautiful vintage buttons, a darling egg cup, velvet lace wrapped so cute and a spool of lace and 3 vintage postcards....

She also made me 2...count them2! of her cashmere flower pins, some vintage millinery and these darling vintage Japan bisque dolls (be still my heart)

I am sooo lucky! Thank you Karoline, it is all sooooo wonderful.....

We are having a quiet Easter, just the way we all wanted and I will just enjoy all my sweet goodies and my wonderful family and good friend and yummy food!

Have a Lovely day my friends! Easter Hugs! karen.....

Ps....I also participated in Kari (Artsymama's) May Day basket swap...I had another wonderful partner and will be sharing her basket on May 1st! Hi Lorrraine!

Lucky Me!

Beware! This post is filled with photos! Hubby and I took a little one night getaway in Ventura, Calif. It is a fun place if you love to thrift because there are about 20-30 thrift and consignment shops to visit. The last two times we were there we saw them restoring this Victorian Church to make into a Bed and Breakfast and so we took a flyer and called and were lucky enough to get a room! It is called the Victorian Rose and the Inn Keepers, Nona and Richard and their cute Yorkie pup Teddy were wonderful! I took a bunch of pictures but they didn't all turn out too great but everywhere you looked, there were treasures. They were able to save some of the tin ceilings and added them to a bathroom ceiling and a cabinet. There were also chandeliers everywhere (pitter-patter)

This was the main part of the church and if you look at the top, those gold swans are the entrance to one of the rooms. You have to climb the spiral stairs to get there, I opted to stay on the ground. This room is now the sitting room and dining room and Nona is a wonderful baker!

Here are some beautiful french lace curtains in our room and one of the cherubs flanking our door to the patio....

We had a wonderful time and would definitely recommend a visit if you are in the area!

Now.... I won a giveaway and today I got it in the mail..... (yipppeeee!)

I was the lucky winner of Judy of the French Laundry Blog's giveaway!

I have wanted this book by the fabulous Fifi O'Neil since she talked about writing it, I have followed her blog for a couple of years now and if that wasn't enough, she also added in one of her beautiful sachets! (which she also sells in her etsy shoppe!)

This is how it came wrapped! See.... Lucky me! I feel so happy!

Tuesday I am participating in the Blogger's Bodega on Capers of the Vintage Vixens

Here are 2 new goodies I have added to my etsy....

A darling new shadowbox:

And a pretty dresser set...

I hope your week has started off great! Mine sure has! karen....