Vintage Overload

A few weeks before this little gem made her appearance, a box full of other gems did. My 80some year old grandfather packed up a stash of vintage hand-me-downs worn by his own daughters, my mom and aunts. 

This sweet green crunchy polyester masterpiece was among them and is my favorite.  

Isn't she divine? We are in love. 

Obviously.

Pink Vintage Hazel

I've said it before. 

Girls really have it over on boys in the clothing arena. 

Aside from the vast expanse of modern day girl baby cuteness that is available, there is a whole world of vintage gown-y goodness.

Much of Hazey's vintage wardrobe was passed down from my maternal grandparents. These pieces are at least 50 years old and were worn by my mom and her sisters and are so dreamy I can hardly stand it.

The rest is from my good ol' Aunt Etsy. She has quite the collection. 

Yumma Yum Yum.

Peek of the Week - December 2, 2011

 

Take a peek at that serious crafty concentration. Those dudes are hard core. 

What's Peek of the Week, you ask? It's our regular Friday feature and it's all about you! I want to hear (and share with my readers) what wowed you this week. It could be a cool finished project, a work in progress, a personal accomplishment, a cute kid moment, or something that surprised you.

If we could peek into your week - what would you want to show us?

Each week I'll share my own Peek of the Week to get the ball rolling, and invite you to link to your blog post about your Peek of the Week. I know y'all are up to cool stuff - we wanna see it!

So, for my peek this week I bring you the classic story of "Hey, I could make that."

You see, I saw these great felt and bead ornaments somewhere for like $5 bucks a pop. And I thought, "Hey, I could make that." 

Even better, the boys could make that. 

So for $10 bucks worth of felt and beads and pipe cleaners we got like an hour of fun crafty family time, and like 12 great ornaments for our 70's-tastic tree.

 It was such a great project for the kids. They went to town. 

 And look what we made!

Not even sure you need a tutorial on this but here's a quick one:

Supplies needed:

green sheets of felt

a pack of chunky wood beads (or whatever)

green sparkly pip cleaners (or whatever)

To prep for the project I cut circles out of the felt in 5 sizes from about .5" diameter to 4" diameter (or whatever). I also snipped a little slice in the center of each circle so the boys could string them on the pipe cleaners. 

And then it's just stringing. To make the quintessential tree shape you'll use smaller circles as you go up and a bead between each one. But the boys didn't stick to that model and their trees turned out great. Cater to your own OCD levels on this one. 

Loop your pipe cleaner at the top and viola...ornaments a go-go.

And...

I also carried on a Christmas tradition this week. This is where the photo I mentioned yesterday comes into play. See, a few years ago I came across a photo, circa 1981, where my Mom had crafted a beautiful and very detailed brick fireplace out of construction paper to hang our stockings on for Christmas. Apparently we didn't have a fireplace and she wanted to remedy that. 

That's how she is. She can make something special out of nothing and she did it all the time to fill our childhoods with whimsy and magic. I hope I'm doing the same for my kiddos. 

I'm so sad that I haven't found the picture (yet). But if I do, I'll definitely post it. 

But even without the photo, I whipped up our very own construction paper hearth:

 And it totally warms my heart. 

And Amos digs it too. 

So that's my peek. Now it's your turn.

You could get peeking in three easy steps:
1. Blog about your Peek of the Week - whatever it is. Whatever happened that made you proud, laugh, smile, inspired, excited, or just plain happy - now that's worth sharing.
2. Include a link to this blog or put the Peek of the Week button (on the sidebar) in your post.
3. Link your blog post using the InLinkz button below.

If you don't get a chance to get here on Friday, feel free to link your post up later.
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Embrace the Olden Days

Hold onto your hats. This is gonna be fun. 

I have been searching for a really old photo of something my mom made when we were kids. I've been trying to find it for weeks...to no avail. But whilst I've been digging around for it, I found a few other gems from my childhood.




So, for this week's embrace the camera... I give you...the wee...me:

Huh. My cake face really hasn't changed that much over the years. 

Neither have my cake manners. 

Hipstamatic just wishes for that shot right there. Classic early eighties. 

Can you say knuckle sandwich?

Pretty Yaya. 

Sisters in our Sunday best. 

Uh oh. Double trouble. 

Two things about the below photo:

1) I have chicken pox and that mischievous grin on my sister there is because she gave me that haircut. 

2) That was our great dane, Gretchen. Once, she ate my dress and it came back whole. 

I'm just sayin'.

Now Hazel's would like to sneak in on this post to say:

Is it present time yet???