Vignettes! Swap Goodies!

Hello Friends!

Bonjour!


 Found this little pumpkin at the fabulous Vignettes Antiques!
The Bonjour is carved right into the pumpkin.
I believe it's a technique where you carve into the pumpkin
when it's young and as it grows it develops this "scar tissue",
for lack of a better term, lol!
 

 I wanted to share with you some more lovely photos

from around the shop:

 

 

 

Very blanc et noir: 

 I thought this was a fun display

for chandelier crystals:

 

 

This is a fabulous pink headdress!

 

And I picked up one of these to sigh over:

 

 

I will be going back soon, because:

And...
I received these lovelies from my swap partner Becky
in the November Swap for All Seasons.

Thanks so much Becky!

Freebies for Friday:

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More Friday fun to be had at Fabulously Creative Friday!  

Lots of great ideas at Show and Tell Friday.!  

Lots of links to lovely pinks at Pink Saturday!

Creative living, decorating, and craft ideas at Inspired Sunday!

Cute and crafty stuff at Make it Monday!

Vintage creativity at Knick of Time Tuesday!

For links to lovely, shabby, chippy whites, stop by Blissful Whites Wednesday!

Lovely, cottagey links at Feathered Nest Friday!

 
♥♥♥Thank you so much for visiting and for all your lovely comments!! ♥♥♥
Have a great weekend!

Marie Cake and Cake Toppers!

Hello Friends!

And Happy Birthday to Marie,
it's the big 257!!

The Marie Antoinette group has been celebrating all month
with lots of fun swaps, and I'd like to share with you
some creations I made to celebrate Marie's birthday.

Marti hosted a cake box swap;
we created our boxes from a template,
used pretty papers, lace, ribbons, and other embellishments
to adorn it,
and filled it with fun crafting goodies!
I made this cake box for my partner, Thespa:

And Debi hosted a cake topper swap.

I made mine a bit differently...

I made the base out of an empty ribbon spool,

wrapped in paper, trim and festooning,

and mounted it on a candlestick that I glittered and sealed.

This cake topper went to my partner, JoAnne:

This is the beautiful cake topper that JoAnne made for me:

It's beautiful, JoAnne, thank you so much!!

It's been a fun month, seeing everyone's creations.

Now, time for some freebies:

A little birthday sentiment:

Marie herself:

And something seasonal:

 

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Lots of links to lovely pinks at Pink Saturday.

 

Thanks so much for visiting, and have a great weekend!

Tinsel Trading Company and Halloween Freebies!

Hello Friends!

Well, my search for fall color was apparently a few days too late,
and I MISSED the New England peak foliage.  :(

I did console myself with a trip to Tinsel Trading Company, though.  :)
Let's do a little window shopping:

 

 

 

 

 

Oooh, let's go inside:

Inside this cabinet are very vintage trims:

And there really are boxes and boxes on the floor in the back of the store

of very vintage trims just waiting to be unpacked and displayed.

 I am always mad at myself when I get home for not buying more when I had the chance!

Especially since our hotel was literally a half block away!

 

Here's a little giftie I made for my friend Rosa:

 

and some Halloween freebies:

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Lots of links to lovely pinks at Pink Saturday.

 

For links to lovely, shabby, chippy whites, stop by White Wednesday!

 

Thanks so much for visiting, and have a great weekend!  

Happy Thanksgiving and Freebies!

I just want to do a quick post to wish everyone a
Happy Thanksgiving!!
Also wanted to show you, before we head into
"All Christmas All the Time",
a pic of the Fall Fairy Pocket that I made for my
Art Party's November swap:


A grateful heart. And I truly am grateful for all the blessings in my life.

Here's a sweet little Thanksgiving image,
you have just enough time to print and use as a tag for
your Thanksgiving goodies!!


And another!
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Have a happy and safe weekend!

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween!!



How cute is my little niece?!! :)

I have been having fun creating and swapping Halloween tins,
matchboxes and more.
What I haven't been doing is downloading my pictures and posting on my blog :(
Sooo, before Halloween is over,
I wanted to share my goodies with you!

I took part in a very fun "Curiosities" matchbox swap hosted by
Heather of The Speckled Egg.
The theme could be Halloween or Curious.
I received this lovely matchbox from Connie:

With these lovelies inside:

We had two partners in this swap; Nancy sent me this gorgeous box:


And inside:


I love them both, it was a great swap! Thank you Connie and Nancy,
and thank you Heather for hosting!

The boxes I made for them can be seen here.

I also swapped matchboxes with Terry
in Vintage Dragonfly's Halloween Swap.
JoAnne suggested spoiling our partner, and that's just what we did!
I just love this matchbox Terri made:


Look at my Halloween booty:


My matchbox for her:


My goodies to her:


I love it all, thanks Terri, and thank you JoAnne for hosting!

And lastly, Karen and I did our own little Halloween swap!
Her goodies to me:

I love it all, especially the yoyo garland
and I love how she embellished that votive!
There's two supercute pins in there too! Thank you Karen!!

My goodies to her:



My best wishes for a happy and safe Halloween to all!