Thursday, August 6, 2009

thursday = embroidery

when I arrived at the airport at the start of my vacation, my wonderful mother picked me up with a hug, kiss & the estate sale listings from the local paper :) over lunch we picked a promising sale & a short time later I was the happy owner of two boxes full of vintage stamped embroidery linens as well as a bunch of other things:



we both had so much fun digging through all the stuff. growing up my mom took me to flea markets & country auctions...taught me how to bid & talk a seller down in price, she loves a good sale as much as I do!

which brings me to today's vintage embroidery sample, which has nothing to do with anything except I thought they were strangely cute:



happy stitching!

8 comments:

june at noon said...

What a great greeting! So nice to have a mother-daughter hobby, and what great finds you found!

Kathy said...

So jealous of your wonderful finds! What a fabulous greeting for you. Thanks for sharing the adorable pups!

Becky said...

How much fun you two had!!! Yay for fun Moms!

These pups are perfect! They look so much like my Petey the Boston Terrier did when he was a wee one!! Thanks so very much!!

I'll send a pic when I get him stitched up with Petey's supervision. He'll make sure i get his blue eyes just right!

Bobby La said...

good find! i'm envious!

Jodie said...

OMG!!! Those little puppy are just the cutest... Thanks for sharing...

Take Care
Jodie :)

MafiosaGrrl said...

sounds like a great time. hmmmm, this first little pup looks mad!

Zane Wooder said...

I love how close you are to your mother. Some family have huge issues with each other. I'm glad your more mature then that.

-Zane of ontario honey

Delores Doak said...

I redraw the old embroidery patterns and sell them on Ebay. I also have a website at atticquest.com I used to do this with my mom when I was little so I wanted to share this with other Embroidery folks. There are also men that do this and that's great to hear!