Baby! Vintage Necklace! Freebies!

Hello Friends!


Hope you all had a lovely Easter!

Spring is here, but arriving a bit more slowly to my house
than to the rest of San Diego.
I admit...I am not an earth mother.
I am much better at buying garden tchotchkes than gardening.
Or making flowers out of paper and fabric than coaxing from the earth.

Wait a minute!

How did that cute little baby picture get in there?!
Clearly my 6 week old grandson has figured out how to hack into my blog
and feels that there are not enough pictures of him!
Well there he is, little aviator and future world explorer.
I guess I will have to change my password :)

My dear friend Terri, who also has a new baby grandson,
sent me the most wonderful surprise!
My heart skipped a beat when I opened her package
 to find these lovelies from her:

 She created this beautiful necklace, taking a picture of Colton from a previous blog post
and put it inside of a vintage watchface:

And this beautiful card,
Terri does dimensional like no one else:

I am so touched by her generosity of spirit.
How wonderfully thoughtful and beautifully executed.
I will wear this necklace often and proudly, Terri, thank you sooo much!

It seems to be baby season, so perhaps
you may like these freebies:

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More Friday fun to be had at Fabulously Creative Friday!  

Lots of great ideas at Show and Tell Friday!  

Lovely blues at Anything Blue Friday!

Lots of links to lovely pinks at Pink Saturday!

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

Lovely tablescapes at Seasonal Sundays!

Cute and crafty stuff at Make it Monday!

Vintage creativity at Knick of Time Tuesday!

Be inspired by Inspire Me Tuesday!

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

Beautiful greys at Grey Dey Thursdeys.

Lovely things to be found at

French cottagey links at Feathered Nest Friday!

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

World Traveller Baby Shower!!

Hello Friends!

My wonderful daughter Jackie and wonderful son-in-law Sean
are expecting a new arrival any day now,
and a shower in their honor was held Jan. 25.

Being world travelers themselves,
and as that is the theme of the nursery,
they wanted a world traveler/airplaine theme for the shower.
I had so much fun making these decorations for them!

This wreath created from vintage maps, paper yoyos
and a chipboard wreath form I got for a song
at Michaels' after Christmas sale:



This collection of giant rosettes is about 4 ft. x 2 ft.
A festive photo op. :)

 

An OH BABY banner created from vintage maps.

The letters are on circles which are on pleated rosettes 

which are on flattened cupcake liners

 that I ran through the Vagabond and cut with a scalloped die.

 The dessert table:

 We found little airplane cookies on Etsy,

 and little globe chocolates on Amazon.
A friend of my daughter's made the "globe" cupcakes
and chocolate Eiffel tower pops!

This is a group photo of everyone...

Does it look like a nice sunny day in Southern California?

It was in the 80s!  Jan. 25th!

You can see my pom pom garland in the background.

I had a rope and attached the pompoms with ribbons,

as well as some paper lanterns and paper fans and honeycomb orbs.

Also hung some ribbon streamers.  

This was actually more work than I had thought it would be,

and that rope got really heavy once we hung all the stuff on it.

I had wanted to wrap map garlands around it 

as well and attach some map circle streamers,

but it got late and we were tired, and just called it good!

Me and my two darling daughters:

My adorable younger daughter Alison came from NYC

to take part and share the joy.

For favors we gave these little plantable seed bombs

that look like little globes.

Well, if you squint your eyes...;)

They are made from a pulp and seeds,

so you can plant them and they will grow into wildflowers.

Packaged them up pretty and put them in this little suitcase
with a Thank You  banner.

Wish I had more pictures, the food was lovely and fit the international theme:

 spanakopita/Greece, egg rolls/China, meatballs/Italy, gazpacho/Spain, and lots more.

It was a wonderful day with wonderful people!

I am so proud of Jackie and Sean for doing all they had to do

to make their dream (baby) come true.

Here's your freebies...baby-themed, of course :)

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More Friday fun to be had at Fabulously Creative Friday!  

Lots of great ideas at Show and Tell Friday!  

Lovely blues at Anything Blue Friday!

Lots of links to lovely pinks at Pink Saturday!

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

Lovely tablescapes at Seasonal Sundays!

Cute and crafty stuff at Make it Monday!

Vintage creativity at Knick of Time Tuesday!

Be inspired by Inspire Me 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!