i recently participated with a few other beautiful ladies in a fabric heart valentines swap that my amazing friend danielle hosted (picture is her’s). some of you may have seen some sneak peeks from my instagram feed a few weeks ago as i was working on these. three vintage cutter quilt heart pieces (i used the backing) stuffed with batting and hanging from twisted wire +  lace, doilies and vintage mercury glass beads make me happy. checking out what all of the other ladies made makes me swoon.

happy friday!
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created with 7gypsies trousseau collection, 7gs tryptic arc kit, 7gs embellishments, hambly clear overlay, ranger crackle paint & stains, vintage findings + book papers + other odds and bits from my stash.

a little peek of the mixed media book i’m making for CHA with the product i designed. eeks!!

happy monday!
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it’s soccer season {go snowflakes!! go typhoons!!} and when the parent duties were passed out my friend co and i decided to make the banner for the girls team. as if having snatching up an opportunity to be creative surprises anyone.

i’ve had a love for the whole turning kids hand prints into something else ever since the littles created reindeer’s for their xmas present to us one year in preschool. obviously, we didn’t recreate the wheel with this banner idea, and i’m sure i’ve seen the handprints turned into snowflakes somewhere during my years of blog hopping, so that’s what we did.

we simply had the girls do double layered prints of their hands and then i wrote their names next to them with a fabric pen. after that co had the idea of adding fingerprint snowballs to fill in. it took one practice. then i painted the team name in the center which we left plain, sewed a looped casing at each end of the duck cloth {with the top opening sewn shut} and we put it up on pvc pipe supports.

simple. easy. and they LOVE it.

and i must say, this is the year i am an official soccer mom running from hither to tither each afternoon. dude. i have at least 11-12 more years of this. i love it but i’m tired already.

happy tuesday!
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ps : did you see the JBS mercantile sneak email for September? gorgeous!!!

original : love the cotton buds tucked in

original : the brass bow is amazing

original : i have bins of vintage cashmere sweaters. must make.

i can’t seem to get the pinterest “embed thingie” to work in wordpress but i included links back to my pins so please click through to see the original poster who made each of these if you desire.

happy thursday!
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