just pink

very vintage

the American tourister

My yummy new vintage bag...
perfect for stuffing crafting goods and parcels and books into...



I think it is supposed to be a piece of luggage, it's heavy.

Vintage Paper Lace Ribbon

I *love* this trim.
It is vintage, and the colors are wonderful.

millinery bits

lovely millinery bits and pieces

pink and red vintage millinery bits

These are some of my favorites, and ones that I am unlikely to part with anytime soon...

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a vintage flash card...

a-little-paper-sunshine-on-a-cloudy-day

the ornate and the smooth

I love these beads. They are from my hoard of vintage things and treasures.
I'm still trying to decide what to make with them.

Wrap love: graphics fairy wallpaper clip art

I *love* vintage wallpaper, I'm working on wrapping Christmas parcels, and will probably plaster clip art bits all over everything.
These and several other clips of vintage wallpaper can be found here:
http://graphicsfairy.blogspot.com/search/label/Vintage%20Wallpaper

(p.s. there are lots of other tasty bits of art for experimentation available on graphics fairy)

Pinks and Creams Czech Velvet Millinery Flowers

I just recieved these in the mail.
These are smaller than I thought they would be when I purchased them---I think that they are so pretty.

Velvet Millinery Trimming

I have been drooling over some vintage and repro velvet millinery flowers and leaves for a while now. This week I decided to get some. They are just gorgeous.
I have some projects in mind for these, and will probably post pictures in the future ;)

Deepest Red

These are so pretty.
I have no idea what they will become.
I will save them for something interesting.

Some Vintage Buttons...

I regularly collect vintage buttons from antique shoppes.
Here are some from a favorite button bin and a few pink ones that were a gift.

a Vintage Altered Book

I started this project some weeks ago.
This notebook was inspired by these:
http://lovelydesign.blogspot.com/2010/07/edition-of-books.html
I took the page block out of one of my salvaged vintage books and made a new one, with lots of interesting papers.


Two points on bookbinding that I've learned:
* Use a flexible glue--and enough glue, one my first books had a problem with splitting along the spine when the page block didn't have enough glue
* It's extremely important to be a perfectionist with measurements. I ran into trouble with pages falling out due to misalignment.



I added lots of pockets and envelopes. The green floral is made from some special vintage paper I've been hoarding.
I used some of my trims from Tinsel Trading co. and thick twine to form bookmarks.


Patterned papers designed by moi. There are cardstock pocket/pages spaced throughout.



I added a bunch of vellum pages too. Esp. vintage wallpaper patterns and vintage maps.





I have been saving some salvaged vintage childrens encyclopedias for use in mixed media projects. I used a few of those pages and some vintage bookplate-pages.



And...throughout the book I distributed a bunch of labels, some vintage and some handmade.

So now I have finally finished this book, made for dreaming and scheming and sketching.

Tinsel Trading Collage Kit

I'm madly in love with tinsel trading co.
I could live there.
A friend took me there a few years ago.
She knows I am an absolute sucker for those lovely goods, recently she spontaneously sent me a collage kit for making creations.
{if you read my blog...thank you! your generosity knocks my socks off, you're so very thoughtful}



I thought that these were odd looking sequins...I got them out of the package...they sounded like a dolls coins...they're metal! I've never had such unusual sequins before. I'm rationing these out for a couple projects.



These are not part of the kit, they just compliment the kit. They are tiny vintage european playing cards. I thought I'd mix it up and see what sort of collage I'd come up with...



I made a small envelope out of a favorite blue cardstock, and lined it with one of the sheets of paper. For the card, I sewed various bits of paper+a vintage playing card onto one of the largest tags. Then I threaded some copper wire along the edge.



I'm dreaming up more collage projects now...

Vintage Book Covers=lovely postcards

I have been the "victim" of an increasing amount of random and totally unexpected kindness.
So, I have been working on thank you's. I love to make cards that are aren't quite the normal type seen in everyday correspondence. If you've been following my posts for a while, you'll know about my hoard of book covers. These are some of my vintage book covers repurposed to make postcards:



The first task: trim off any extra material. The cover paper/cloth is adhered very well, so I was able to trim the covers to size without needing to re-glue any of it.



Next: I dipped the edges in a little ink.





Then I used my new postcard stamp to add the final touch.



Now...to find some special postage stamps for these cards...

from my treasure chest...

I collect vintage things.
One of my most precious collections is my box of millinery flowers and leaves.
A large fraction of the group is pink.
So I thought I would post some of the pink flowers, since they are so pretty to look at...



Ranunculus buds. I love these. They are a labor intensive flower to make.



I *love* it when the flowers have their original tags (this one from 1908!).
I haven't had the heart to use these, as they are so perfect as they are.






Germany and Japan have produced some of the most wonderful millinery items.
So gorgeous.



Lilacs and roses. In the perfect pale pink.
I think that I got this for $1 during an antique trip--treasure indeed!