thursday = embroidery

finished my latest project over the long holiday weekend:




{the image is based on an old airstream logo}

such happy colors on this week's vintage embroidery transfer's envelope:





{happy stitching!}

vintage magazine illustrations

I went to a sale recently where there were envelopes of vintage magazine clippings all organized by subject matter. I bought one envelope marked "design - poster examples/cover ideas":


{Herald G. Miller}


{Clarence H. Carter '52}

I heart happy mail

I did a little swap with laurie from old school acres recently & look at the beautiful owl she made for me!



thank you again laurie - I love her!

p.s. check out her etsy shop if you're interested in having a custom owl or other softie made :)

more combo photos

I was pretty much beside myself when I found that fisher price camper at an estate sale...it was the first time I'd seen one so I grabbed it even though the price was higher than my usual thrifting standards.

if only finding one of these would be so easy:

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or even one of these:

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reminder: I'm taking custom print orders until july 24th - its the same deal as last time...you can select pretty much any photo{s} with a doe-c-doe watermark from my flickr photostream to be made into a 8x10 print. just convo me on etsy with a link to the photo{s} you're interested in. you don't need to pay until the print is in stock & ready to ship, which should be around july 31st. each print is $16 plus shipping {combined shipping at no extra cost}.

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}