vintage love!

My terrible posting record for the last two weeks can only

be blamed on... work. ick! 

Although really, We can't complain, can we?

Furthermore, If I have to stare at this all day today, 

then you will too. 

Oh, sweet vintage texture....

My feel good/heart happy vintage view of the day is this 

killer vintage Valentino jacket. 

Insert subliminal message here: Mom's day?

[from Allencompanyinc]

This mostly makes me heart happy because it meshes with 

my current obsession with red and also reminds me of

my favoritest 28th birthday Valentino outfit, 

which I was only photographed in on one jolly 

occasion. Sigh.

Honestly, the only thing I love more than crochet is printed

crochet on silk. The best!

Here is my first stalker photo of the print...

when I was demanding that it be released from the 

mannequin, only to find that I had to get on a waiting 

list. Boo!

And here is a nice holiday action shot. Slip and all. 

And because it's Friday and everyone 

needs to have some fun at my expense...

That's right. Get back to work!!

Mommy love (super mondo tutorial)

Finally the anthro inspired appliqued kitchen towel

(inspired by mom's day) tutorial. 

voila!

I must admit that I made the second prototype last night

in the wee hours and there are some funky craftsmanship 

moments. Don't worry : I will call your attention to them

even if you don't see them. 

the rest is after the jump...

glasses time

Oh how we love our plastic glasses. 

We wore them here (sans lenses), 

and constantly give them to all of our friends. 

Fresh glasses colors were at it this weekend...

the new white glasses were a hit in the 

two to forty five age range and really caused a stir

on the street corner(that may have come out wrong).

Anyways, there is a trunk show on Saturday and the glasses will be there! 

Exciting! Working on a tutorial for tomorrow! Dig deep!

Happy Day!

In honor of Earth Day, we did some 

nature ogling today. You can ogle too. 

First, a quick jaunt around Roger's Gardens(yes, again).

the garden. 

I only photograph the fragrant roses. 

what else but the living rocks. 

maple forest. 

roses and roses. 

the amazing wood orb. 

and roses. 

heirloom varietals. 

After, we swung over to the Southern California

Spring Garden Show, apparently in its 21st year, 

for some fun landscapes. 

The show is on through Sunday.

Happy Earth Day earthlings!

makes me happy

Um 'hi ewe' correspondence cards with matching labels and 

giant rolls of baker's twine? Perfect. 

How I love my correspondence. 

[both from whiskergraphics]

mine!

It is really a small miracle when you see vintage shoes that are 

over size 8. People were just smaller in the past? ha. 

Anyway.. these are mine! All mine!

[from AllenCompanyInc.]

Although, my shoe desires are not fully satisfied at this 

moment. I have become weather-inappropriately 

obsessed with the ankle boot. 

I think I will have to carry this obsession through summer and 

then do something about it. 

[also from AllenCompanyInc.]

[from Becky Drolen.]

fancy stuff for mom!!

A friendly reminder of a fabulous 

embroidery/applique/craft class at U.C.S.D. next 

Saturday 4/24. 

We will be making fancy kitchen towels a la

Anthropologie.  Here are some samples made today...

excuse the extreme wrinkles - my poor iron pooped 

out before I could press!!

Sign up here, or email me if you are interested!!

(If you live in San Diego or you LOVE to drive.)

And, not to brag... but, feast your eyes on these

wonderful projects from the Valentines day class!!

Father/Son boxers by SweetB.

Tie by extreme overachiever Micha. 

The  main lesson here is be good to your mom. 

new toys

eek! Because 'new toys' these days are paper goods

and plants...

some of yesterday's finds from the scrumptious Roger's. 

First, I was thrilled to find some succulents that I haven't 

met before.. the Lithops-Leslie or 'living rocks'. 

They are the cutest buttons. Can we talk about the site

gosucculent? Mind blowing. They ship any succulent. 

One of womanly obsessions is the green house. 

I have fancy dreams of having one, and fancier dreams of 

drinking champagne in its vicinity. 

This green house is miniature and a green house..

obsession worthy. 

And, it is for spoiling your baby seedlings!

From esschert design. Buy a petit one for only

10 bucks here!

And how wonderful are these tags...

scientific illustrations of a medley of anemone?

With glitter. 

from F.G. and co, who I was happy to find out are also 

the creators of the birthday crown and the

sweet wish ticket. 

Minty

And I am talking about color again.  As usual, I am loving 

the cool minty blue. I picked up this SHEER vintage gem last week

and I must say it in the wrong hands it would be a disaster. 

Luckily, I found her and am continuing to love the soft neons and 

my always fave minty. 

With color in mind, I dusted off this sweet zip pouch tutorial...

though I mixed it up with some soft neon stencils and vintage giant 

ribbon. Fun fun!

Stencils from Stencil 1. Thanks Ame!

There's the mint!! Minty interior. 

And what would the minty blue melamine color be without

yet ANOTHER blue celebration cake appearance..

(from Susie Cakes)

Happy birthday godmom Mary! and Happy Belated Megan!

yes!

Here's to hoping that we can all design something 

as cute as these H&M dresses in Organic! fabric

for $19.99(well, a few of them).  Really. 

From the H&M Garden collection. 

Off to a shoporama... happy weekend!

Side note- I will post some info on the upcoming crafty 

class(April 24) on Monday to drum up some excitement for 

crafting in the name of yo mama.