recently thrifted: mellow yellow

out & about

more iphone photos from some recent estate sales:






{have a wonderful weekend!}

p.s. I'll be back tuesday after the long holiday weekend

thursday = embroidery

no personal or even thrifted embroidery to share this week...but I did find this embroidered skirt online at anthropologie:



although not quite the same thing, this week's vintage embroidery pattern would still look pretty repeated along the bottom of a skirt too:


happy stitching!

needlepoint letters

found these in a 1974 ladies' home journal needle & craft magazine...you could fill out an order form to send away for the purse & alphabet {yarn was not included}, the large was $25 & the small was $22 plus $1.25 postage & handling.

the rainbow connection

just in case...

saturday went down the way some people predicted for lunch I had a cheeseburger & fries then chocolate cake with ice cream for dessert. I also thrifted & went to a carnival where I had cotton candy for dinner :)

around the house

{have a wonderful weekend!}

thursday = embroidery

I am currently working on the first of two gigantic circus letters for a friend & really enjoying doing cross-stitch again!



so I wouldn't have to think {it makes my head hurt} as I went along I charted the design onto my aida fabric with a fine tipped sharpie before getting started & made all my mistakes when it was easy to cover them up with a little dab of white paint ;)

and of course I have the weekly vintage embroidery pattern for you as well:

happy stitching!

some macrame

{copyright 1973 - golden hands monthly}

out & about

some iphone photos from recent estate sales:

the long & short of it

lately I've been very lucky & thrifted some great vintage hawaiian dresses & skirts:





but they're so long & I'm kinda short...to me floor length seems so formal & I'd really like to wear them for everyday, so I'm going to shorten them. but before I did I thought that pink one would be fun to wear for my latest accordion video:



I took a couple still photos of the dress on especially since I wanted to show what it's got going on in the back because on the hanger it doesn't really show up:


I'm not sure if there's a name for this style...or why you'd want to put pleats in the back so your trunk looked to have even more junk than it already had but I still kind of like it!

class of 2011

congratulations to all the people graduating this year...especially to my niece lily who's graduating from college this very weekend :)

{have a wonderful weekend!}

thursday = embroidery

a recent custom hoop:


and this week's vintage embroidery pattern:


happy stitching!

needlepoint arrows

{from a 1971 mccalls magazine}

out & about

flower power

thrifted:



and in the yard:




{all photos taken with my iphone & new favorite app - instagram}