Peace On Earth Free Vintage Christmas Postcard Clip Art

Hope eveyone is haveing

a great weekend!

Here is another post card

from my collection.

Enjoy!!

Tart Tin Christmas Ornaments And The Christmas Altoid Tin Swap

These are the ornaments I made

for my mom's Christmas tree

this year.

Below is the tin that I made

for Wendy's Christmas Tin Swap

It was a lot of fun

These never turn out as planned

but still..I am pretty happy with

it.

I even managed to get it out on

time....lol

This afternoon we are off

to get our Christmas Tree

(at last)

I feel like a little girl

full of excitement.

Can not wait to decorate it!!

Have a lovely day!!!

Christmas Ornaments For My Mother

I can not believe Christmas is right around the

corner

Again...

This year has passed so quickly...

seems like school just started for my son

and here it is almost winter break

Talking about Christmas before

Thanksgiving seems kind of pushing it

for many of you I know...

Oh well...I don't care

I need Christmas this year.

Not the gift giving...

That I could really do without

But the gathering in...

Bringing family and friends close.

In my mind I see us all being gently held  in

beautiful soft angel wings.

That is my goal this season

To keep my heart and mind open

Making sure those I hold dear know

I love them and cherish them

Not just now in this moment.

But always.

This has been an interesting year

of changes for my family.

My mother who is 77 fell early in the

year hurting her knee.

It has kept her off her feet most

of this year.  My dad who is 80 has

had to pick up much of mom's household

chores..My sister and I help too

and do some cooking for them.

Now with the holiday's approaching

we find ourselves at a new spot.

How do we do Thanksgiving and Christmas?

My Mother has always been the Holidays.

Lol...Does that make no sense?

My parents home is where the whole family

gathers on Thanksgiving and Christmas.

All of us from 5 families.

And any friends who need family too.

So this year is a change.

I find myself looking forward to it.

Part of my folks projects this last fall

has been cleaning out.

They have been going thru their garage

and finding treasures to pass on to my sister and I

Mom has also been cleaning out her baking supplies

When she gave me some vintage tart tins

it got me to thinking.

And...These are what

I came up with

These are the larger

tart tins

I painted them with Martha Stewart Paints

(Sorry Martha but I do not like your paints)

added lots of glitter

Used some of my stash of small mercury

glass garland balls..

I made a collage sheet of the images

that I wanted to use.

(You can find

that in a previous post for free)

Mom loves the Frances Brundage children

and this whole set of ornaments  is for her.  I

Used vintage chandelier crystals on a couple

and rhinestones..

some of the fantastic

ribbon that Jill and I sell in our Junking Gypsies store.

I love the way they turned out.

Mom does too..She made laugh

Yesterday we pulled out her books of vintage wallpapers

(You see I come by very naturally)

She is going to make pretty fans to go with them

on her tree.

Sorry this is so long...

I think it is time to finish this and get

to my Saturday chores

So I can play in my studio later

Happy Saturday to you all!!

Friday Freebie Vintge Clip Art Victorian Christmas Images

I know Halloween is just a week away

but I found these beautiful

Christmas Images today

and I wanted to share them with you

It won't be too long now and

we all will be working on our

cards and Christmas tags

I thought these would fit right in.

Happy Friday

Enjoy!!!

Clip Art I.C.S. Reference Library Plates 1909 From Leaping Frog Designs Free Images

Wonderful Architecture and Ornament

images from I.C.S. Reference Library

This book has quite a bit of water damage

and the pages are wavy.

As you can tell some of them did not scan well

If anyone has any advice on how I can flatten them

back out I would sooooo appreciate it.

Not to worry about preserving

the book.  It has fallen apart.

But the plates are fantastic

and many are in color.

I will continue to scan them

and work on cleaning them up

so that I can share them with you all.

Have a great Friday!!!!

My First Paper Fan Flower Rosette

It is hard for me to believe but I have never made a paper fan flower, or rosette, or what ever these beautiful ornaments are called.  I have tried.  Oh!  I have tried, but never quite got the hang of it.  Jill put me in touch with a blog she has been following Artful Afirmations.  Terri has  made a fantastic video on how to make these.  Thank you Terri!!  Such a simple looking ornament.  But it really does have to be folded right....Now my next task it to line up my papers better.  This first ornament was made with vintage violin music, a hand cut chipboard disk (oh I need a 2 1/2 inch punch)  and a punch out from a vintage postcard.  I am not sure how I am going to use this first one...it may just get a string and be added to the tree.  On to a garland for the mantel!!!