Vintage Vogue

 

Hello, my friends!

Well…haven’t we had some fun with Blogger the last couple of days?!  It was sad not to be able to visit properly and leave comments on all your beautiful posts…I’ll be catching up today!

Just a little vintage sewing fun to share with you today…

 

A card made yesterday using Vintage Street Market’s “Dimestore Vogue” Paper Sheets & Tags kit—

I just LOVE using this kit—so many wonderfully vintage elements to use!

Everything I used comes from their “Dimestore Vogue” kit, as well as their “Vintage Easter” kit… in the “Dimestore Vogue” kit, you’ll find wonderful things—very unique to them—like a HUGE sheet of aqua foil and another HUGE sheet of yummy brown crepe paper—both of which I’ve used here…

Vintage Street Market also carries a wide variety of colors of Baker’s Twine—so fun to use!  Here I used “Cappuccino” …so pretty!

I finished it off with a retro acrylic star, topped off with a multi-layered felt flower, and a “button” from the kit’s tag sheet…everything is, of course, touched with a bit of my favorite “Platinum” Stickles, which is also available from Vintage Street Market…

A bit more vintage sewing fun from my recent finds…

…a fabulously Forties “Sewing Club” needle kit…don’t you just love these???

And one of my favorite new obsessions…

….these amazing plastic slide buckles…the ones you often see on the dresses of the '40’s and ‘50’s…fabulous!

Just look at all the detail on these little gems!  Amazing how much love they put into seemingly ordinary, everyday items back then…

Aaaaah….vintage love!

Got any vintage crafting on the agenda today?  Have fun!

See you soon with something new…

Julie

LiveJournal Tags: Vintage Street Market,Dimestore Vogue,sewing,vintage acrylic buckles

To My Mothers…

To all my mothers…
…the women through the years that gave me everything I am…everything that makes me…me…



My sweet mother, Karen…from whom I learned a mother’s unconditional love…and continue to learn that I have hers, each and every day…

…and so many more of my dear mothers through the generations…

Velda Ellen Stapley Ostlund

Estella Vance Stapley

{scrapbook page made last year using Crafty Secrets’ paper, poem & images}

Sarah Indiaetta Vance Young

So many of their stories I’ve shared with you before…so many more of their stories yet to be told…voices yet to be heard…

Ruby LaPriel Riggs Smith

Pauline Udall Smith

Mary West Riggs

{card made last year using image from Crafty Secrets’ “Childhood” Images & Journal Notes booklet}

Polly May Hunsaker Stapley

Mary Jane Robinson West

 

Ida Francis Hunt Udall

Lois Barnes Pratt Hunt

Louisa Barnes Pratt and granddaughter, Ida Francis Hunt

 

Marie Elizabeth Nagely Brandley

Anna Meier Brandley Ostlund

Augusta Maria

 Brita Stina Anstrom Ostlund

 

Margaret Cooper West

To you, my dear mothers , I give so much thanks…you gave me my eyes, my nose, my hair, my smile…my faith, my courage, my love of family…everything that I ever was, am, or will ever be…

{My sweet mother and I on my wedding day…23 years ago today…}

Words alone can never thank-you enough, but I can only say…
Thank-you.


I love you all… 

………………eternally……………………………………………..

Julie

LiveJournal Tags: Mothers,Mother's Day,generations

Mother and Child…

 

Is there anything more beautiful than an image of a mother and her beloved child?

Love, hope, faith…waiting…and finally!  That tiny little one you’ve been dreaming of…life will never be the same again…

{some yummy seam binding, all wrapped up in a bow…topped off with some beautiful vintage millinery flowers in aqua…}

The same sweet story continued since time began…

A short search today for these images from my own family…just a few to share…

My great-grandmother, Estella with her baby Nathel in her arms, my grandmother, Velda in front, and her young brother next to her…aren’t they a handsome bunch?!

Now a momma…Velda holds my adorable, curly-topped mother, Karen, in her arms…

Here they are again a few years later…a small picture article in the Phoenix newspaper…weren’t the 1940’s wonderful?!  Such sweet little domestic visits were considered newsworthy…isn’t that nice?

Another generation…my mother, Karen, holds her first little one…me. 

A few months later, here we are again on a beautiful spring afternoon in Boston…

 

Another generation!  My how they rush by…here we have a new mother…me.  In my arms, my sweet first daughter, Chelsea…next to me, my mother Karen…and her mother, Velda…

{Ten years and sixty pounds ago…!}

And finally---a few years later--there are two more beautiful girls to call my own…Here we are with great-grandmother, Velda…the very last time we would ever see her.  Sure wish my mother was in this picture, as well…

Mothers….a new card made this morning for mine…I love her more than words can possibly express, so this will have to do…

A beautiful new stamp set—“Love You, Mother”, from Crafty Secrets gave me the perfect images to help convey the joy of motherhood…

 

Isn’t it wonderful?!

And this beautiful background paper will soon be available on a new CD from Crafty Secrets, “Vintage Paper Patterns”, chock-full of fabulous vintage paper prints for you to use in your crafting…

Thank-you, Mom…for everything…

I love you.

Julie

LiveJournal Tags: Crafty Secrets,Estella Vance Stapley,Velda Stapley Ostlund,Karen Ostlund Smith,Motherhood