some recipes and a winner...

Happy Friday!

Thank you all so much for your sweet comments on my 'boo' garland and Halloween decorations!! I've had a busy week working on a couple custom orders, finishing some goodies for the shoppe, and working on a strawberry pincushion swap hosted by my sweet friend Erin of Why Not Sew?, that I look forward to showing you once I get it finished over the weekend! So, my apologies that I haven't been around to much to visit you, but will be catching up over the weekend to see what you sweetness you have been up to! 

I was going to show you some more pages from The Workbasket magazines, but my printer ran out of ink and it won't let me even scan pages until I replace it, so I will have to get some today. But, luckily I had these two recipe pages from the September 1951 issue, and an old recipe for Apple Brown Betty that I shared last year! Hope you enjoy them! 

and, now to the winner of the Simple Sweet Fabric giveaway! 

Congratulations to Laura of Vintage Bettys for winning the $25 gift card to Simply Sweet Fabric! Yay! I will send you an email and get you contacted with Shay! 

Wishing you a lovely and beautiful autumn weekend! 

I will be back on Monday to show you some new goodies and projects! ♥

a vintage recipe and pot holder

Happy Saturday! 

Just wanted to stop in to share a sweet vintage recipe and a pot holder I just finished! 

One of the vintage pot holder books I have has some tasty and interesting recipes that I thought would be fun to share with you. Each recipe has pot holders to go with them, and these sweet appliquéd fruit ones are so cute! The recipe is for "Iced Fruit Soup", which I have never heard of before, but sounds like the perfect treat for a warm spring or summer day!

Well, I just finished this shabby rose pot holder and adore how sweet it turned out! And, I just listed it in my shoppe! I am also happy to do custom orders, so if you would like this pretty pot holder in your favorite colors, just email me and I would love to customize one for you! 
Thank you all so much for your sweet comments on the pink rose and patchwork pot holders! ♥ I have a long list of crochet pot holders to try, so I hope you don't mind seeing them all! ;) I am off to work on a new quilt and embroidery project that I look forward to sharing with you next week!

Wishing you a lovely and crafty weekend! 

a vintage recipe and christmas quilt

Happy Monday!

To sweeten up your week here is a vintage recipe for a Walnut One Egg Cake. Sounds tasty, especially with the lemon filling and icing! I think it would be good to add candied walnuts to the top of the cake after you put the icing on. Enjoy!

Last year in learning to quilt, I made this pretty Christmas one. This was my second quilt that I had made, and it was a fun process, but I was more than happy when it was finished! (sorry for the blurring photos, but it was windy today.)

 I choose some lovely Christmas prints and used this pattern from Cluck Cluck Sew. 

 When it was all pieced together, I choose to do free motion quilting. Once I finished quilting it, I swore that I would never do that again on larger quilts or until I have the proper space. It was quite an adventure. It is not perfect, but I am happy with how it turned out. 

 One of my favorite parts of the quilt is the backing! Love all the sweet wintry pink and red owls!

Isn't that Santa so cute!! ;) I just made a pillow for my couch using a piece that I had left over from the quilt, which I will have to show you later with my other Christmas pillows. 

Well, hope that you all have a beautiful and creative week! 

a happy thanksgiving

I wanted to thank you all for your sweet comments on my Christmas goodies that I put into my shoppe! You made my day, and I am so grateful and truly blessed by your support! Since tomorrow is Thanksgiving, I wanted to leave you with a vintage recipe and ad. The recipe is for Sugar Jumbles! They sound simple, but yummy! I can only imagine how sweet Miss Joan Weary was, who created this recipe! 

This vintage ad by The American Thread Company reminded me of what many of us will be doing tomorrow as we get for ready our Thanksgiving meal. And, of course we will all be dressed in our finest vintage dresses using our sweetest crocheted pot holders!! I know I will be! ;)

Wishing you and your families a wonderful and blessed Thanksgiving! 

"Come let us sing for joy to the Lord; let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation. Let us come before him with thanksgiving and extol him with music and song. " Psalm 95:1

a vintage recipe and christmas tea towels

Happy Monday!

The vintage recipe for today is for Old-Fashioned Molasses Taffy. A simple but sweet treat! I have never made taffy before, so I am looking forward to giving this a recipe a try for the holidays!  

Christmas is coming soon to my little shoppe!! I was busy this weekend crocheting away these pretty scallops on my vintage Christmas tea towels. I am hoping to have them finished and in the shoppe by the end of the week, along with some other Christmas goodies, too! Well, off to sewing I go! ;)

Wishing you a beautiful and crafty day sweet friends! 

a vintage recipe monday

A very happy new week to you! 

The vintage recipe for today is a sweet Old Fashioned Bread Pudding. I never used to like bread pudding because in my early years I was a waitress at a chicken pot pie restaurant, and one of the desserts we served was bread pudding. I served so much of it, that I grew to not like it, along with chicken pot pies. ;) 

Well, my feelings towards bread pudding have changed, and when it is made right, warm out of the oven, it can be quite tasty! So, anyways hope you like this old fashioned one (there is a little typo in the recipe, I think it is supposed to be 1/2 c of raisins, and I would add a teaspoon of both vanilla and cinnamon), and let me know what you think if you give it a try!  And, just a side note, I still can't eat chicken pot pies! ;)

I had quite a productive weekend with getting some projects completed. I made a fall table runner out of a vintage tablecloth scrap left over from making tea towels. I added some pretty vintage doilies and...

 you guessed it, a pretty almond scalloped edging. I only wish I had the time and patience to do an edging all around. I don't know how those sweet ladies once did it. ;)   

For over a year I have wanted to make a new ironing board cover, since the one I had was getting old, and I didn't want to buy one. So, I finally did it this weekend. It was easy to make and turned out so pretty.

 I followed this lovely tutorial by Aneela Hoey. I used the sweet vintage fabric I bought last week at a thrift store, and added some cotton batting underneath. I'm definitely going to enjoy ironing more!!

 I always crochet in the evenings to relax, so this weekend my goal was to make some Christmas crocheted flowers that will be part of my holiday packaging, and maybe to decorate with, too. ;)

A new stripey crocheted blanket is in progress. This one will be for my husband in his two favorite colors, grey and black. I am hoping to have it finished by Christmas, so will see. 

 Last week I received some pretty mail from the sweetest and talented Trish of Notes of Sincerity. 

 Inside the pretty package were vintage Sunbonnet Sue quilt blocks!! A sweet lady completed all these  and I feel so honored to have them!

 They are all so beautiful, and I just love the different colors. There are 4 of each color, and I am so excited to make these pretties into a quilt. 

Thank you so very much Trish for such a special and generous gift!! They will be ever so treasured in my home! Make sure you take a sweet visit to her beautiful blog! 

Wishing you all a beautiful and creative week! 

vintage recipe and christmas treasures

Happy Monday! Hope your weekend was lovely! 

If you missed last Monday's recipe, I will be sharing a vintage recipe each Monday with you as the holidays are approaching. The vintage recipe today is for an Apple Brown Betty. Yummy! A perfect fall dessert and very simple to make! I could eat some right now with a cup of tea! If you get a chance to make it, let me know how you liked it!

Today was a lucky day at a couple thrift stores with some sweet Christmas treasures. These adorable snowmen and Santa felt ornaments are the cutest! I am not sure how old they are and they look handmade, but are labeled "made in Japan". Any ideas? 

These two were in a huge pile of Christmas ornaments, and I thought they were so fun! Love the plastic edging!

 And, when I saw this box of Shiny Brites, with all the ornaments scattered, I was so excited! 

 Some fun packaging goodies and bottle brush wreaths. 

 Another full box Shiny Brites and Holly ornaments! My collection is finally growing, but now I need to find a larger tinsel tree to put them all on! ;) 

Some pretty blue floral fabric, and crocheted hangers ready for a makeover. Today was definitely a good day for treasures! Have you found any sweet treasures?

Wishing you all a wonderful and creative week! 

 Let's all be keeping those on the East Coast impacted by Hurricane Sandy in our prayers!!  

vintage recipe and a walk in the woods

Happy Monday! Hope you all had a lovely weekend! Thank you for all your sweet comments on my granny square quilt, and my pretty vintage piece, which now has a name (a book seat) thanks to all of you!! 

Since the holidays are coming upon us, I thought it would be fun to share a vintage recipe each Monday with you. This one is called "Cowboy Cake", and it looks simple, but sweet! Let me know if you try it, and how you like it!

Yesterday, I was able to make a quilt that has been on my project list using A Walk in the Woods charm pack. It is a baby or small lap size quilt, and it is my first tied quilt. I so happy with how it came out, especially with the cute red ties! 

I used 6 strands of red embroidery floss, and tied in all the corners. It was a fun process, and I can't wait to make another one!

For the backing I used four large strips of these two adorable prints. One thing that I love about Aneela Hoey's fabrics are how there is always a pretty grey line!! My favorite! ;)

 Another cute and comfy quilt to add to my growing collection. Quilt making is quite addicting, isn't it? Would love to know if you have you ever tied a quilt before? 

This is what I will be working on today. Some patchwork pretties for the shoppe! Are you working on any projects? Hope you have a lovely, autumn day!!