happy halloween!

the masked halloween accordionist...

{have a wonderful weekend!}

thursday = embroidery

for a little baby boy:


I used an existing pillow cover & the tricycle is actually an applique...I printed it out on avery printable fabric {with iron-on backing}, embroidered it, cut it out & then just ironed it onto the the cover.

this week's vintage embroidery pattern should have been last week's...I was going to save it till next halloween but if I couldn't remember to post it this month I very much doubt I will remember to post it a year from now so here you go:


happy stitching!

brunswick wonderland

it said...

so I did.

some iphone photos...

from an estate sale over the weekend:







it was such a grand old place - I wish I'd taken more/better photos, these don't do it justice. they just don't make 'em like that anymore...

humpty dumpty...

loves you this much:


{have a wonderful weekend!}

thursday = embroidery

some recent custom orders:



and for this week's vintage embroidery pattern I'm sharing a stamped linen design I picked up thrifting recently:


happy stitching!

1974 woman's day magazine interiors

from the article "50 furnishing for under $50"

free couchs & pumpkins

aka things I saw on a friday evening walk...

I took some photos around the house over the weekend...

and realized the place looks alarmingly like a thrift store.

if I was smart I'd put prices on everything & an open sign in the window.






p.s. that lovely dreamcatcher was made by sweet jessie

recently thrifted

{have a wonderful weekend!}

p.s. I used paint the moon's delight actions from the free bees knees set on these photos. {found via pugly pixel}

thursday = embroidery

still no new embroidery work to share...I've been stitching orders & presents but nothing I can show yet. so instead here's the dog wearing the glasses I use when I embroider:


and let's just continue the dog theme into this week's vintage embroidery patterns while we're at it:


happy stitching!

ruffles & pom poms

{source - 1974 family circle magazine}

out & about

recently thrifted

and one with the cat...because she gets off easy compared to the dog when it comes to being made to pose for me:


{it's marked cal-dak on the bottom. the chair, not the cat.}

garbage picked

{have a wonderful weekend!}

thursday = embroidery

I thrifted these vintage cross-stitch pieces recently because they reminded me so much of where I grew up:


and this week's vintage embroidery pattern is another flower girl:


happy stitching!

a celebratory slideshow

as I previously mentioned, the external hard-drive that I kept all my work on malfunctioned so I sent it off to see about getting the data recovered. well, the bad news is I did lose a lot of stuff & but the good news is I didn't lose it all!

so, I can finally share with you the photos I was working on that fateful night, which I took at the blacktop car show held back in august in downtown wichita:

blacktop car show - wichita, ks - 2010 from g. on Vimeo.

it was really fun to to try my hand at photographing something different & I was lucky to have so many beautiful, shiny, colorful subjects all in one place :)

{I've created a set over on flickr for the individual photos}

p.s. if you find yourself in need of retrieving data I highly recommend drive savers - I did research online & they always came up as being the best and I can see why.

thrifting logic

this is the last thing in the world I should have thrifted:


but I couldn't help myself so I've justified it by putting it in my practice corner & using the magazine rack to hold accordion music :

recently thrifted

some iphone photos

{have a wonderful weekend!}