Some of my Favorite Ladies

I would like to introduce you to a few of my favorite ladies . . . Vintage Lady images that is :-)
Over the many years I've been collecting vintage ephemera ~ from postcards to prints and everything in between ~ some of my favorite images have been of Victorian ladies and children. By reproducing them onto either fabric or paper, I've been able to share them with you in the form of pillows, sachets, pincushions and even embellished bottles. I hope you enjoy my little trip down memory lane with some of the oldies but goodies in pillow form!!



I'll share some of the sweet kiddos with you in another post at another time!
My very favorite of all the ladies is presented on a new pillow listed on ebay today at a $1.00 opening bid!!
Please click the pretty lady at the top of my blog to be zoomed over to see her and perhaps you would like her to go home to you :-)
Thank you so much for visiting me today!!

LYNN

Yippee Yahoo It's Teacup Tuesday!

Give a big round of applause for MARTHA and TERRI for hosting another TEACUP TUESDAY! Be sure to take a peek at all the other ladies sharing their terrific teacups selections!
My little Steiff teddy bears have set up for tea and one even brought along her own itty bitty cup :-)

I've had this child's teaset for a couple years and think its the sweetest! I do believe that because of the quality and daintiness of the porcelain and design that it is vintage.

The teacups are a mere 2-1/4" high and the sweet transfer bouquets are framed in a wreath of gold stamping and the swirling background designs on each piece are hand done!
The makers mark is a solid green circle with crown top and an "A" in the center . . . with the word PORZELLAN below.

Aren't they cute! I have 6 tea cups, 12 saucers, a creamer and covered sugar. Perhaps someday I will find 6 more cups :-)
Thank you for visiting . . . be sure to see my previous post about my giveaway!

Lynn

Happy Mothers Day

I thought I would share with you one of my favorite family photos
showing 4 generations of Moms!
Well, technically I am only a Mom to 4-legged furbabies but that counts :-)
So not in photographic order the pic shows me, my mom, my moms mom,
and my moms moms mom!
My brother Bobby is there also but you can't see him ~
he was born a couple months later :-)

A mother's love is like a circle.
It has no beginning and no ending.
It keeps going around and around ever expanding,
touching everyone who comes in contact with it.
Engulfing them like the morning's mist
warming them like the noontime sun
and covering them like a blanket of evening stars.
A mother's love is like a circle.
It has no beginning and no ending.

Wishing you all a Blessed Day

Lynn

It's a Cottage Charm Giveaway!

I am so happy to have such wonderful ladies following my new blog and as a great big
THANK YOU I am participating in my very first COTTAGE CHARM GIVE-AWAY!!!
You may already know how much I LOVE to make embellished bottles and I created this one just for you! To be eligible to win her all you need to do is add your name to my list of FOLLOWERS along the right side of the BLOG and you are entered! If you are already on the list then you are all set. All names go in the hat and the winner will be chosen and announced on May 29th.
So on to the GIVE-AWAY :-)

The vintage image label features one of my favorite Maud Humphrey Victorian girlies with her sweet little smile and hat covered in pink cabbage roses. Including the removable topper the bottle measures 6" high and is embellished with the prettiest pink roses, millinery posies, vintage laces and ribbons, a silvertone heart charm and dazzling rhinestone and pearl sparklie! The bottle is empty but looks so sweet filled with little buttons, pearls, bath salts, etc on your dresser, vanity table or a shabby cottage shelf mixed in with your other lovely collectibles.
I hope this is something you'd like to have and I look forward to meeting you!!

Lynn

WHITE WEDNESDAY ~ Bridal Veil Spiraea & other White Blooms

A big THANK YOU goes to Kathleen of ~ FADEDCHARM ~ for hosting weekly
WHITE WEDNESDAY!

I love spring blooming bushes and have added many to our landscape since moving here 15 years ago! First to arrive is the pussywillows with their fuzzy stems of "flowers", then forsythia, flowering plum, Eastern Redbud, Serviceberry (yummy berries soon if I can get some before the birds do!), Rhododendrons, pink Viburnum, and antique lilacs running the border of our property . . . BooHoo, they are just now fading :-(

I still have Korean Spice Viburnum (YUMMY scent), Flowering Quince and later spring blooming Miss Kim Lilacs to look forward to!
Two days ago the White Bridal Veil Spiraea burst in bloom!! It is quite a dull bush except for the 1-1/2 week of abundant sprawling white mini bouquets. Some people prune them into tidy shapes but I like mine wild with their long long arching stems. The "nekked" bush to the left is a forsythia which put on a grand show last month.

Now this photo is WHITE! And could quite possibly have been taken on a Wednesday :-) Dave says hi! It shows my natural wildflower shade garden across the driveway out the kitchen window during winter. When we moved in this area was nothing but a mud pit. Its now a secret hidden hide-a-way during the growing season.

Another favorite white bloomer is called Sweet Woodruff which I planted years ago and it has spread nicely and grows as a wild groundcover ~ the smell is just heavenly. I love that it blooms the same time as the pink Bleeding Heart! The above photo shows the back wall of the secret shade garden with a comfy swing

The frog prince lives there also ~ among hosta and white shasta daisies.

Thank you for visiting and I'll share more pics of my Garden of Weed-en with you soon!

Lynn

P.S Be sure to sign on as a Friendly Follower to be eligible for my
GIVE-A-WAY announcing friday!

One of my favorite Shabby Cabinets

I hope everyone enjoyed a glorious Sunday! Our tornado weather has passed ~ although I swear I saw Dorothy and Toto fly by :-) Today was sunny but too mushy to work in my Garden of Weeden so I thought I'd share with you a photo of my favorite vintage hutch. It's an antique radio cabinet and I have a couple of them but this is by far the biggest and sweetest with some wonderful carved details.

This one fits nicely on a small wall between our kitchen and family room. They are not really that hard to find and it's well worth the effort to remove all the old radio components and give a shabby make-over too. The front doors slide open side to side and probably housed a record player but this one was empty . . . yay! The radio fit snuggly in the nifty arched top and is now the perfect place for collectibles and the speakers were in the long tall doors on each side.

I have some teacup stackers on the shelf now but who knows what will be there later ;-)
Lynn
P.S. Be sure to read my previous post and sign on to be eligible for my first Give A Way! Details coming this week!!