WOODLAND WHIMSICAL

I've just got to share my plans and excitement over planning for my Figgy's baby girl shower.

I will share more as time goes along.

The shower is for October 8th.

This is the invite, without the text, so cute hah??

The plan is to recreate this little baby out of paper and have her floating around on balloons all over the rooms.

I found this image of the bird on the Internet, sorry can't remember where or who it belongs to.

I will be making birds like this, some of them will be tied to the balloons as well.

The theme is woodland whimsical; woodland baby creatures.

I will be using pink and magenta balloons along with same color flowers, moss and trees made from tree branches and twigs for the woodland part.

Some fun baby girl card stock papers for making tickets for a drawing in exchange for a package of diapers, love this.

Moss

I will post again as my plans progress.

I love pink!!!

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Michele

I LOVE THIS!!

I found this on Etsy the other day.

I love this and think I will....Make a box just like this with yard sticks.

What do you think???

Here is the link to the owner of the box

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Michele

GUESS WHAT!!

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Michele

RECIPE MINI ALBUM

I wanted to share with you my latest recipe mini album.

This I made for Lacee over at Bella Creations.

If you like to make mini albums and like swaps you can join in on all the fun.

This album is made from brown paper lunch bags.

The album is covered with a dish towel with roosters.The little copper pans I found at AC Moore. I used al ot of items from my collection of vintage cooking, baking and advertising ephemera.

I found on the Internet the canning jar images, enlarged and grudged with shoe polish to use as recipe cards. I love these.

I used vintage rick rack on some of the pages. The paper pockets have many surprises.

My collection of baking ephemera was purchased several years ago at a barn sale. All of it was from one women's kitchen.

This woman cut out and saved what seems like every recipe she ran across.

Recipes from side of boxes, recipes from newspapers, recipes from cans, etc. All of it is a great collection to have. Using these cutouts I have tucked into the album hoping Lacee can/will use as recipe cards for her own recipes.

Here is an advertisement for bread, it opens up into many pages.

This is a copy from newspaper on different cuts of meat, dated 1932.Another little booklet about Jello.

This is a page of copies of items.

I also included in the swap two matching dinner napkins.

A different style of blank recipe cards with the same canning jars.

Lots more goodies to share with Lacee.

I didn't want the post to be to long.

This is the back of the album.

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Michele

SURPRISE BOOKS

Look what I found. These books are... actually file holders. These still had the file tab pages. I think these are soooo neat. I will be storing my special ephemera in these and will be putting in my creative space.

I LOve these.

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Michele

BIRDS AND FROGS

This past weekend I found some items for my creative space, and a baby shower.

The pottery birds I found for 60% off at Michael's. Mother and baby bird.

The large basket was on sale.

I will be using the basket for my vintage trims and lace.

I have been busy with a large project, wrapping all of my lace and trims around post cards so I can see what I have instead of these trims in the bottom of a tote.

These little papermache frogs I found at Michael's, in the dollar bin.

I just think they are the cutest things.

I will be painting these for my Figgy's baby shower, probably pink with green spots. I will be posting about plans for our baby shower soon.

I think I will keep one or two for my creative space.

Have I ever mentioned, I love birds!!! ;)

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Michele

FESTIVAL OF THE ISLANDS TREASURES

This past weekend was an event called "Festival of the Islands".

Each year residence and business owners get together and participate in this event by offering an event, a free item at their business, a yard sale, etc.

I enjoy the yard sales, go figure right...

So Mr. Nook and I headed out for an adventure.

Here are some goodies I found.

Decal, special hah?Vintage dish towel and very large doily. Love a vintage dish towel. A pair of vintage drapes, $2.00 These are so fantastic!!

A cute jewelry box for my space.

Look at this lovelyness...

$2.00

Little bottle for buttons.

I think I scored...

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Michele