Cottage Charm & 1 Year Anniversary Giveaway

Greetings to all on this gorgeous Spring monday! Well, March 22nd was the one year anniversary of starting my blog and the date passed by without me noticing! Naughty me :-)) I've met so many new bloggie friends and reunited with lots of "old" ebay buddies too! It is a small world in the Land of Blog HA!
Well, of course I must have another thank you giveaway and am combining it with the Cottage Charm Giveaway hosted by Kim at The Twice Remembered Cottage. Her blog is such an inspirational place to visit!

For Giveaway #13, I made you a sweet and petite lavender sachet and matching embellished bottle. Hope you likey :-) The center of attention is a darling young girl originally painted many many moons ago by the beloved artist Frances Brundage. Along with the pretty in pink girl, I used a number of other vintage graphics to create the design including an oval of pink roses, french script & soft "lace" in the background.

The sachet pillow-ette features pink rose fabrics, vintage lace, millinery roses, ribbon bow and a heart of sparkling rhinestones. It measures 9" x 10" including the ruffle and has a ribbon hanger giving you the option of displaying from a doorknob, peg, etc. if you wish! The charming frosty glass bottle is 6-1/2" high including the removable glass ball topper and is embellished with pretty blossoms, rhinestones, ribbons and a vintage rhinestone button.
If this is something you'd like to win then read on for the simple rules!
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1.) Leave a comment and you'll recieve one entry, It must be left on THIS POST so I can accurately keep track.
2.) Become a new follower and leave another comment also on THIS POST to let me know! If you are already one of my sweet "oldies but goodies" let me know with a 2nd comment also ;-) This will give you your 2nd entry!
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That's all there is to it and the winner will be drawn using a Random Number Generator on May 29th and I will contact you for your shipping info.

Thank you so much for visiting and I wish you a wonderful rest o' the day!
Hugs,
Lynn

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Greetings to anyone visiting me today!

Thank you so much to those who entered my 500th follower giveaway!! I so enjoyed reading all the comments and appreciate your generous kindness! All the entries were entered into a random number generator and it picked 126 who is Diane from Tablescapes by Diane ! You must go check out her blog for lots of inspirations!
My one year Blog-A-versary was March 22nd and it snuck by while I wasn't looking :-) I'll have another giveaway for you very very soon to celebrate!
Hugs to you all this Most Blessed Easter Weekend . . .
Lynn

Friday greetings and I hope you are all doing great!

I'd love to have you check out and enter my latest giveway which started on March 15th and ends TONIGHT. I'll announce the winner in a couple days! Clic the Pic below to see it. We moved into our current home 15 years ago one and of the things about it that we so loved was the full walk up attic with fabulous old beams and angles with lots of nooks and crannies. Our Prairie style home had her 100th birthday this year and you can see in the first pic that the attic is very vintage! Actually, I can now say its a true antique right :-)

We had grand plans of converting it into a wonderful creative space for me but as you can see nothing has happened and at this point nothing will HA! The photo shows about 1/4 of the space and we've just used it for storage and have lots of boxes and trunks full of stuff from when we moved in and accumulated over the years. I'm sure you all know how that goes . . . I love going up there and its not a bit scarey ~ even at night! I was rummaging around and found one of my portfolios of graphic arts projects from a class I took many, many . . . many moons ago ;-) and thought you may enjoy a couple of the pieces. This was back in 1979-80 and way before PC's so everything was done by hand. I had always thought I wanted to be a commercial artist but only stayed one year and gradually got so into designing cross stitch patterns and that turned out to be my passion and profession. More about that in another post soon!

This assignment was to design rough layout for an album cover (remember album covers :-)) ~ and I chose the soundtrack of the movie GREASE with John Travolta and Olivia Newton John. This is the scene at the end of the movie when they were dancing and singing "You're the One that I Want" in that rocky box thing at the highschool graduation party. It was done all in colored markers and I don't know how it got the water damage!

The backside is a chalkboard - complete with smudges :-)

The start of a car ad - done in Gouache, which is like a watercolor tempera paint.

Pencil drawing ~ I don't remember the project but its a lady with her feet in the sand. Her fingers seem a bit long dont they HA!!

This lady seems to have lost her mind - hehe . . . start of a fashion ad worked in watercolors. I also found all my paints and markers and they are as fresh as the day they were stored which has me inspired to start painting again. Although NOTHING like these boring projects that's for sure! I am craving pink roses of course! Thanks so much for visiting and I'll see you again soon!

Hugs and Blessings, Lynn

Celebrating Spring & Pretty New Things!

Happy Friday Everyone!

To quote Mr Rogers "It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood" here in my area of Illinois! Our 24" snowfall has all melted and the light dusting we got the other day is also history. There are bits and bobs of greenery popping up everywhere . . . daffodils, tulips, lily of the valley, crocus, peonies, flowering bush budlettes and the dreaded creeping charlie (ground ivy) which is the scorn of my gardening existence!
I have been so busy making pretty new things for you and just never seem to get around to listing them HA! Lots of new goodies have been sent over to Victoria Rose Cottage but may not show up for awhile and ebay listings start friday with Buy it Nows and below are some sneak peeks!

Please click my sidebar ebay link and perhaps find something you would like to have for your own home sweet home :-)

I'd love to have you check out my last post for info on my latest giveaway! It's a cutie :-)
Thank you so much for visiting today and I wish you all a wonderful first weekend of Spring!

Lynn

Giveaway Winner & 500 Followers!!!

Hello all you sweet bloggerdoodlers! Thank you to those who entered my giveaway #11 for the Easter set! There were 134 entries and I entered the numbers in a random number generator and it chose #37 . . .

who is Rella from blog FAERIELUNA Congratulations Rella! I will contact you for your mailing information.

My first blog post was March 22, 2010 so it is almost a year and I have just reached my 500th follower!! Yippity Skippity that is so cool!! Thanks bunches to all who have visited me and decided to become a sweet follower! I appreciate it SEW MUCH!!
Now I think that calls for . . . Yep . . . ANOTHER Giveaway :-)

Giveaway #12 is for a charming cottage chic display or show towel that I made for you with a pretty pink terry cloth, yummy pink rose fabrics, a bit of lace, ribbon bow and a rhinestone heart charm. Folded as shown it measures 7" wide and hangs 12-1/2 to 13" over a towel bar. (total measurement is 18" x 25") Also included in the giveaway is a cute little apothecary jar with a reproduction vintage perfume label & embellished with pink parchment roses, ribbon and rhinestone heart charm, plus a matching notecard w/envelope and a gift/hang tag!

Such a sweet set to give or keep :-)

The rules are easy and you can have up to 4 entries. Leave a comment(s) on THIS POST only so if you leave 4 comments you have 4 times the chance of winning!! At the end of the giveaway, the comments are numbered in order 1-?? The winning number will be drawn on April 8th and hopefully will coordinate with one of your comments!
*1st entry ~ leave a general comment about the giveaway or anything you please.
*2nd entry ~ become of of my blog followers or let me know that you are already an "oldie but goodie"! Remember to leave another comment to recieve another entry.
*3rd entry ~ post the giveaway link shown on my top right sidebar, on your own blog sidebar and leave a comment again here to receive another entry.
*4th entry ~ post my Teacupstitches blog button (see my top left sidebar for the link) on your own bloggie sidebar and be sure to leave another comment on this post. If you are a sweetie and it's already there just leave a comment to say so.

See ~ it's easy peasy one ~ two ~ three~sy . . . I mean four~sy :-)

Good luck to everyone! While you are here won't you please click my ebay link at the top right sidebar and see whats new?

Hugs and Many Blessings,

P.S. My image hoster is down tonight so I hope to get my new items listed wednesday!

Bunches o' Bowls for White Wednesday

A big THANK YOU goes to Kathleen of ~ FADEDCHARM ~ for hosting White Wednesday! If you love all shades of white, cream, ivory, taupe, etc you must go and view all the creative bloggers!

While browsing thru one of my favorite antique haunts awhile back I came across stacks of these vintage white USA restaurant berry or veggie side bowls priced at 2 for 1.00. Hmmmm . . . I thought ~ such a deal but what could I use them for?? But as any good collector knows to never to pass up something that speaks to you! So quite a few of them came home with me!

I love the aged white with light crazing and the sweet scalloped edging. They have come in very handy for lots of things from sorting buttons to using as plant saucers. And I like the way they look just simply stacked . . .

And oh my! A birdie is nesting in one ~ a white birdie of course ;-)

I hope you enjoyed your visit today and just a reminder to check out my latest giveaway ~ it ends on the 12th so please Click HERE for the details!

Big Hugs and Smiles to one and all,
Lynn