Gorgeous typography and fragrant lavender...

I absolutely love, love beautiful old typography...

antique documents,

gorgeous vintage labels,

and of course elegant penmanship ~

Since I've been on a sewing kick lately

I thought I'd join the two!

I've printed several lovely old images onto fabric and

made lavender sachets.

Add a little seam binding bundle and an antique button

to each...and each one is a little treasure!!!

And to top it all off?

The studio smells just heavenly!

All are now in my Etsy shop if you'd like to take a peek ~

Thank you so much for stopping by to see what I'm up to...

Your comments are always so inspiring to me!!

Wishing you a beautiful Thursday precious friends,

hugs and love,

Dawn

Trying to thaw out....

It's finally beginning to warm up a little bit here in Georgia!!

We had an awfully cold Christmas and then coupled with

terrible winds, this old house didn't know what hit it!

I don't know how some of you deal with the cold weather ~

we are really spoiled with mild winters.

I hope you had a wonderful Christmas,

ours was a quiet one but so good ~

Clara was simply amazed at everything!!

We are so truly blessed...

Thank you all so much for your sweet birthday wishes!!!

You made it very special for me ~

I'm getting ready for Noah's birthday party now,

which is Thursday evening ~

I can't believe he's going to be thirteen!!!

I've given you the images below before....

but maybe you'll like them again?

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Have a wonderful Wednesday precious friends!

hugs and love,

Dawn

Thinking of Spring ~

OK. I'm ready.
I've always loved fall and winter
but I find myself SO very ready for spring this year!!!
And I know those of you that have had so much snow
this winter are more than ready ~
Well, February is whizzing past us and
March will soon be here!!!

A few spring images for you:

Here are a few giveaways if you haven't already entered them ~

Karen of My Desert Cottage is having a giveaway HERE....

Linda of Robin's Egg Blues is having a giveaway HERE ~

Plus I just have to show you
Linda's sweet Baby Shoe Pincushion
she created from my tutorial!!!
How gorgeous is THIS?

I love the baby toile...
and I think I have some of this fabric too!!!
It's really precious Linda ~

Wishing you a wonderful Wednesday precious friends,

hugs and love,
Dawn

Another tutorial in the works and a gift for you!

I just love antique Christmas postcards. I have a wonderful collection that my DH purchased from an antique dealer that we were supposed to resell but I just couldn't let them go! (I see that surprised look on your face) The graphics are amazing and some are heavily embossed.

I'm working on a tutorial with a gathering of several ideas but the neat thing about this combination tutorial is that all the images will be included for you to make them!! I've picked the prettiest images and scanned them in to be included. The first item will be these beautiful postcard ornaments that can be hung on the tree or even placed on a gift ~ you can see a sampling of the images that will be included below ~

This is one of the other items that will be included in this tutorial ~ a shaker photo display which is beautiful displaying these vintage images for the holidays but can display photos later. I will include a ton of images so you can make a lot of them to give as gifts! The best thing is you can find these salt shakers at the thrift store or second hand shops and run them through the dishwasher so they are all sparkly clean. (I think sparkly is my new fav word!)

I thought I'd show you a photo from last Christmas of my snowman trio. They are dressed in plaids and oh-so-happy!! Just another version of the Sparkly Snowman ~

And lastly as I was looking through my postcard collection today, I found this adorable illustrated card! I hope you enjoy this one ~ it was quite textured and I tried to tone it down a bit. Just right click to save to your computer!

Today is not one but TWO of our sons birthday! (What were the chances of that happening?!) David who is 24 now and Brad is 22! I love you guys so much ~ Happy Birthday Sweeties!!!

Well, I'm apparently in Christmas mode now!! Not to forget about Thanksgiving though. I just love Thanksgiving! I truly feel that a thankful heart is a happy heart ~

I hope you have a great Thursday sweet friends....

xxoo, Dawn