obsessed!

I am feeling psychotic about the color navy. 

Oddly enough, I am also assembling a color story for 

next spring right at this moment. 

Kind of like grocery shopping on an empty stomach. 

Well, sorry ladies. Looks like sailor dresses and matching 

sailor hats for you next spring. 

Anyway, I have been shopping on Allen Company again. 

 My new navy boots. 

another Ruth Saltz handbag.. love those little lion heads. 

navy. 

I think I will like a nice navy swimsuit next year? no? thoughts?

Off to a tradeshow tomorrow. I will take some pics and share. 

xx!

and how

I love the color red today. 

how cute is this double gingham. 

Why is gingham so cute at times and so awful at others. 

Right now, it is cute and i love it. 

(from Ramona West.)

And I don't know if its a surge of women hormones or what, 

but I bought ANOTHER calico floral dress today. 

The last one I bought had HUGE sleeves like this :

these sleeves and this plaid are just lovely. 

from allencompanyinc. 

and I still have a vintage finding obsession with phones and 

vintage record players. Any ideas?

And now, Paige, to answer your question. 

I usually laugh off these answer the question and pass on to your friends, 

but I so cannot live with myself if I even let one person down. 

So, in ten years I will be forty years old, which seems crazy. 

I already, since turning thirty this year, have extreme paranoia about my 

safety and mortality.. so, I am sure I will continue on that track to the 

point of unbearable! ha. 

My main desire, though, is to be happy with myself and satisfied with my life

and the choices that I made in the last ten years. 

Of course, I desire to be WILDLY successful, it would be fabulous if we

could make this business take off and that success led to many fun 

travels. I undoubtedly will have collected many things by that point, 

and the thought of that makes me happy. 

Is that a decisive enough answer? 

I did do absolutely nothing over the weekend, which I am terrible at. 

Though, I did re-read the fountain head for my tenth or so time, 

and now I am lost in a moment of life crisis.. ha. 

Just kidding. Although, to be so glamorous and idealistic. hmm. 

Anyway.. I am not sure I can bring myself to directly call anyone 

out to name what they will be doing in ten years. 

So, I hope the ten friends of mine who have blogs (you know who you are)..

do it!

Have a good week!

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!

dreamsicle

Deadbeat blogger here. Needed a couple days to work work work.

Current state is obsessed with this Americana/mod stewardess

color palette for fall winter. 

Rehashing Fall runway and keep coming back to the 

incredible Chanel show.  BTW, those are real icebergs in the

background. For the sake of faux fur abominable snow man suits, 

you need to watch this one. Oh, and for fabulous clothes( faux fur 

short shorts included.)

Some loverly red white and blue(and navy>>heart heart)...

1.) Vintage prints from top to bottom: 

twirl vintage, vintageT, stelmaddesigns.

2.) Dresses from Ramona West. 

3.) Amazing sweater style from Barefootandvintage. 

4.) Purse from ggiotta. 

And a little of this... I swear sometimes the cheesy just gets me. 

via sparklevintage. 

If you are looking for Easter cheer, this is about as good as it gets. 

This girls knows how to party and how to dress (sans shoes).

Happy Wednesday!

Color!

Our cascading succulent fountain is becoming a monster and it is so

rich with color. I am in love with the soft hues.. how they gradate 

from one color into the most unlikely color. 

I paired the colors with the  Thread Social summer line. 

They are on the same color wavelength. 

Some of the silhouettes are the same as Spring

(not that I am complaining)

 but the new color gives it seriously fresh new life.

um, orange. Always popular. Loving that frosty pinky color too.  

This Jumper is the best oldie but goody. Seersucker, which I personally

LOVE working with and a little edging splash of color. 

Summer!

Some more succulent goodness for your viewing pleasure.

Why I am never alone in the garden... hello?

another oldie but goody. 

yay Spring!

sloooow

Remember when I said that my goal for the year

was to be totally awesome and make something 

every day?

I was doing it. I was dominating life! And now, I am sick

and there is a pile of unfinished embroideries 

nagging me. I am dying to finish up these doilies and 

move on to a couple new projects. 

Here are some new and unfinished..

Monster doily. 

Seriously. Look at the back!

Another new doily with neon orange crochet edges. 

Yet another victim of the cold. 

But, there is some planting going on and that is exciting! 

These guys are sprouting up some new basil plants. 

My most exciting crop of the early plant? Beets. yum. 

Coincidentally, this is my favorite seed pack artwork. So much color!

Another thing slowing me down is work. Although, I nice array of

color chips does make me very happy. mmm, color. 

Let's cross our fingers that aggressive late night crafting will 

continue soon!!

lovely!

Purple is my color of the week. Feeling it. 

Go get yourself some Vday flowers!!

orange inspiration

My love of orange started with the Persimmon.

Not a fruit that most American children even have on

their radar, the Persimmon means so much to me.

Persimmon for me is Fall, is the change of weather, is

the pumpkin scented mush on the lawn with the first rain,

is the only reason to wear my baseball mitt all year,

is the money for my childhood Christmas presents,

is Thanksgiving jello,

and is so bright on the high limbs of the tree

skeleton that we can't get to way into December.

The smell of muddy grass, the high school band at football

games you could hear from my house, Saturday morning

soccer, Halloween window painting, trick or treating in

the pitch black, and Persimmons.

Persimmon was always around.

The taste wasn't much to talk about and it was

responsible for the lion's share of outdoor messes,

so we really took for granted its orange beauty.

And now that it is gone, I miss it. A lot.

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The ripe persimmon is almost crimson in color.

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These are so perfectly delicious.

the Joel Dewberry Persimmon Palette.

My sister and I beneath our beloved Persimmon tree.

No excuse for our fantastic nineties style.

Perhaps the unfinished kitchen corner can be a home

to Persimmon color fabric and Persimmon inspired wall

collectables?