fake'in friday

old murals from downtown wichita:





{have a great weekend!}

thursday = embroidery

I've just started a couple new embroidery projects but no photos yet...so instead I've got some recently thrifted needlework to share:




I love the big flower pockets on today's vintage embroidery transfer envelope:


here are some of the smaller floral motifs:


and for the pocket/potholder designs just click on over to flickr.

happy stitching!

cowman publications library posters

copyrights are 1955 & 1960 - I got them for free at a church sale:





{there are 4 more over on flickr, if you're interested}

I guess you'd call it a tutorial - but don't get all excited...

because this might be one of those things that's obvious to everyone but me so you might have seen it before. still, I was pretty proud of myself on sunday when I repurposed a recently purchased pair of screw back earrings:


I bought these on etsy from JPsuniqueboutique but once they came I realized, for me, they were too big to make into post-type pierced earrings. then it occured to me not to remove the whole screw back at all, but to use it as a way to make it a leverback.

step one = snip:


step 2 = reshape:



step 3 = add:



all done!

recently thrifted

from the thrift store:


from an estate sale:


from a church sale:


the first time I saw that chair at the thrift store it was sold...I was sad but also kind of relieved since the last thing the living room needs is another chair.

but on subsequent visits it was still there.

finally last weekend I looked at the tag & it said that it hadn't been picked up within the allotted time so it was back for sale. so I bought it. the orange cushions even match the chair I got last year, so I called it fate. although, I guess fate's just another word for no self control...

{a not so fake} fake'in friday

the other day my sister sue reminded me that I actually have a history of photographing small things & pets...together. I even found {real 70's polaroid} proof:



{have a great weekend!}

thursday = embroidery

I finished lottie!



{overall size is 16" x 20"}

and, I've got some more cute vintage embroidery animal patterns for you:



happy stitching!