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fawaid on Kamis, 30 Juli 2009
Thursdays are crafting/cooking days with the kids around here during the summer. This time we did an old time favorite - decoupage! Very simple project, nothing fancy but the kids really enjoyed themselves!
Step1 - I took an empty baby formula can, ripped off the label and cleaned it out. It is our blank canvas just screaming to be transformed! LOL
Step 2. Measure the width of your paper and cut if you want to cover the entire can that way. Or simply cut out pictures from magazines, cut squares of scrapbook paper, tissue paper, etc. The Sky is the limit here!
Step 3 - Give your can a good wet base coat of Mod Podge. Or if you going to be putting smaller pieces on only put a base coat on one small area at the time. Apply your paper while the Mod Podge is still wet.
Step 4 - Generously apply Mod Podge over the paper, pressing out any air bubbles that creep up. Cover the entire surface is a good layer of Mod Podge.
step 5 - Once you are done layering your paper pieces on, let your piece dry.
Step 6 - Once dry, fill it up with fun things! It's a great way to keep your kids "organized" and they get to have fun creating it! Fill it up with Pencils, markers or crayons. Use it for hair barrettes, rubber bands, comb and brush. Or corral all their small treasures in one handy container - you choose!
Have fun!!! **If you try your hand at a fun project - share it our
Brassy Apple Project flickr group!
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Last Saturday when my mom was in town, we woke up early and poured over old family photographs in bed. Seriously, it was the best morning ever. This photo emerged as the clear favorite.
It's my great grandparents, Helen and Dean in maybe 1919? She must have come to keep him company as he chopped wood outside the barn at Elmwood. I mean, look at him looking at her! He's clearly so taken with her, it makes my heart race.
I've posted some of their
make you weep wedding photos on my newly minted flickr
photostream. Come prepared for a little slice of romantic heaven.
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fawaid on Rabu, 29 Juli 2009
1920s swiss dot lawn dress, 1900s chemise corset cover, 1910ish voile blouse (with original bone collar stays!), 1920s linen knickers, 1918ish lace tunic blouse.
All from the same junk shop. All my size and totally wearable. All under $20 (after some well played register haggling). A haul like this will never happen again.
These knickers are the one thing that Ginny had to needle me into to buying because I knew I'd never wear linen balloon kickers outside. Funnily enough, they're also the one thing I couldn't stop grinning about on the way home. I feel like
Viola from Twelfth Night in them. Which, really, is priceless.
I love the mending job on the chemise. Her tiny hand stitches have lasted so long, it's really such a gentle reminder that clothes don't have to be disposable and that a little patch can go a long way.
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fawaid on Selasa, 28 Juli 2009
So it dawned on me that if i continue this slow reveal of New Hampshire photos, I'll still be posting them come next summer. So onward and upwards, friends.
Is this not the coolest camera ever?
Looking through these photos makes me want to drop everything and run back to New Hampshire as quick as I can. Darn adult obligations.
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fawaid on Senin, 27 Juli 2009
Calling all apron lovers! Whether you make them, wear them, collect them you will NOT want to miss this event!
The Apronista is holding an
APRON-FEST starting on Monday. Apron lovers from all over will be giving away an apron you can get in on the action!
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I've been wanting a "grownup" bag forever now. A bag that isn't either A. a printed canvas tote or B. a darling vintage handbag that's so small it can barely fit my wallet and cellphone inside. I've reached that stage in life where I, gasp, have to carry my computer places for work and I was getting tired of hauling it in an African basket tote.
I've been eyeing this one for a couple of years, ever since I starting stalking the
Mulholland website, thanks to J. Peterman. (Mulholland makes the Peterman
gladstone, which I've been lusting after nearly my whole natural life and gosh darn, it's gone up another $100 in '09!)
A hearty thanks to the new and improved "vintage" room at
Stella Dallas. It was $50. Instead of $500. Brand new. How's that for shameless bragging. That was classless, I'm sorry. A real lady would never tell.
My dear friend Kit says, without a hint of irony, that I'm going to end up getting married to the bag. We're going to grow old together and ride off into the sunset, side by side.
PS- It's kinda scary posting pictures of ones self on a blog. Now y'all know what I look like when I'm not in
flapper costume, just my daily
New England of undetermined vintage costume.
PPS-
Dress look familiar?
PPPS- I have insanely exciting news that will have to wait till next week.
Na Na Na Na nana.
Sticks tongue out and wiggles fingers behind ears.
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fawaid on Sabtu, 25 Juli 2009
Stashed in the attic at Elmwood are about 30 of my great great uncle Harold Robinson's drafting assignments from New Hampshire College ca. 1909.
The man himself, during his senior year.
There's nothing quite as satisfyingly simple as inked lines on paper and I love that they manage to be both utilitarian and sensitive. Plus I've been gravitating towards less feminine things for my house lately, gotta balance out the collection of antique teddy bears somehow!
They really should be framed (and hanging in my apartment!) instead of living in danger of attic mice snacking on them. That would be a tragedy with a capital T.
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fawaid on Rabu, 22 Juli 2009
I made the biscuits from scratch and did the macerating and whipping, while
Kristi did the shooting. We've never raced through a photo shoot so fast, just so we could eat the final product!
Absolutely, delightfully, perfectly, summer.
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The kitchen at elmwood makes me weak in the knees. The door is perpetually left open (rain or shine) and someone's always bustling around making coffee and toast.
I come from a toast family. I think we eat more whole wheat, 14 grain, crusty, seedy toast than any other family alive.
The wallpaper is basically a perfect 1950's picnic blanket gingham, the gold standard of country kitchens everywhere.
The family's genealogical chalkboard, just to keep things in perspective.
This kitchen has seen 171 years worth of Emerson food, which boils down to an astounding amount of toast for one clan to consume over the course of a century.
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fawaid on Selasa, 21 Juli 2009
The Lenovo USB-to-DVI Monitor Adapter just made adding multiple high-resolution (HD) resolution monitors as easy as plugging into a USB port.
The Lenovo USB-to-DVI Monitor Adapter with DisplayLink DL-195 USB graphics technology helps to increase productivity by doubling or tripling your visual 2D-business graphics workspace. Add as many as six monitors, or three for ThinkPad switchable graphics, to a single system (One adapter is needed for each monitor). Set-up is simple. Install the supplied device driver and toolbar software, connect the supplied cable to your monitor and to the Lenovo USB-to-DVI Monitor Adapter, then plug the cable into an available USB port on your computer. The supplied software allows you to select the desired screen resolution and portrait-landscape image orientation. ThinkCentre users are no longer required to open the system to install a graphics card.
Find the Lenovo USB-to-DVI Monitor Adapter (model 45K5296) and other DisplayLink USB graphics enabled devices on the
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Just a peek into what kept me busy ALL last week. We hosted some of my nieces and nephews for the week and swapped around with some of the other cousins in town and just played and had a good time! Playing at the parks, swimming, an impromptu luau, fashions shows, dress up, lots of crafting, more playing in the water to keep cool.......awww Summertime.......
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fawaid on Senin, 20 Juli 2009
And so begins the steady stream of Elmwood photos... The most summery, girly photos first!
Growing up, my family didn't have a dryer. Nor did we find it all that romantic at the time, it meant a lot of stiff jeans, scratchy towels and thunderstorm disasters.
Now, of course, I consider clotheslines just to die for. If I could sun bleach all my sheets in fresh air (not Williamsburg truck exhaust), I would.
Needless to say, Elmwood doesn't have a working dryer so I got to play Laura Ingalls Wilder for 2 weeks.
PS- My
sister patterned and made all of these unmentionables. That's another childhood nightmare that's come full circle to be one of my favorite things ever, homemade underpants!
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fawaid on Minggu, 19 Juli 2009
My terrariums are back in stock at
Catbird.
This group is my favorite yet!
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fawaid on Sabtu, 18 Juli 2009
(*edited - the original post had to be deleted as there was a problem with the HTML and was throwing off my entire blog template. If you did comment with a blog link you are more than welcome to add in the comments section again.)
Hopefully you found some great ideas last week in our
first Trash to Treasure feature. And hopefully it got you thinking about how to look at things in a different light. Sometimes all it needs is a coat of paint! ;)
If you have a project to share POP your link into the comments section below!
IN the meantime..........Here are some ideas to inspire you as you hit some yard sales, and second hand stores this weekend. I found all these great ideas at my moms house! enjoy!
Mail organizer - A simple block of wood, paint, large spring and 2 screws. Stretch the spring across the wood and secure it on each end with a screw!
Paint can do WONDERS for lamps - the shades and the base! don't pass up an old lamp because the finish on it doesn't fit your style. A bit of green paint on this lampshade finished off with some vintage buttons in my Mom's sewing/craft room and now it's fun piece that adds character to the room!
A score for $3.00 gives this item new life! and she didn't even have to paint it! Now it holds all the utensils for roasting marshmellows and hot hogs!
A peeling red gate was salvaged and placed behind this chair in the living room. A great way to add color, interest and texture to the room!
And lastly, a quaint faded chair gets a whole new purpose sitting on the porch housing a potted plant.
