Time...

Where has January gone???
(I still have my Traders Joe's wreath from Christmas on my front door!)

Wreath or not...
February is here, and it's time to have some pink around the house.
This time, an old blanket and leftover trims will do it...

A very high tech paper pattern...

a little arranging...
and some pins before sewing...

Stuffing...

and there they are...
A whole bunch of Valentines !

"But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day"
~Benjamin Disraeli~


How about you?
Are you in a Valentine's Mood already or do you still have your Christmas lights out?


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The girl Creative
The Twice Remembered Cottage
The Shabby Chic Cottage

This week we love...

This week Clara is in love with her new old....

Pair of huge urns...so vintage...so chippy

....so empty!

A little sand, moss....

...candles and voila!!!...Perfect during the day...

And oh so romantique! at night....

In the meantime, Marcela is loving...

The vintage folding kid's chair that just joined her ever growing collection...

"Number 9" found her perfect companion...

...and together they wait to hold the next generation of Cavaglieri-DiGiuseppe kids!

"Do I love you because you're beautiful,
Or are you beautiful because I love you?"
~Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II~
Cinderella

PS: they are also loving their new blog background...Thank you Background Fairy!

The "ugly" people in my life...

Not really, not to me anyway....That's how Clara calls some people that "hang" around my house...
This was the first one I brought home:

I don't know if it was the shabby white and blue frame or her pink cheeks that spoke to me, but I snatched it right after my friend Mary, The Junk Diva, displayed it in her booth. She moved around my house several times and resides now on the entryway. People always ask me if I she is an ancestor or someone I know, the answer is No. People usually follow with a weird stare and a long silence...Thankfully I don't get offended by these kind of things...To me, she has a lovely "je ne sais quoi"

My second girlfriend was found in an antique store and she touched my heart with her sad expression and her killer frame:

She looks like she has lost something, so I bought her a pair a boots that match perfectly with her beautiful dress...what girl doesn't like shoes???

My friend and her boots live in my downstairs bathroom.

My two other girls like to play on the stairs...one is a toddler that had her arm scratched by her kitty. She is not really a pretty girl, it's not an antique, just a repro...but I had to have her....

Her little friend has not been given the gift of the good looks either, but she is working hard feeding her animals. She's being around for a very, very long time.

An antique canvas transfer with signs of age all over, good shabby charm all around...

And the last one it's just a baby I fell in love with. My friend Kathy owns the original oil painting, and for my birthday she gave me a copy of it because she knew she could never get rid of her.....

Andrea ,one of our Dealers, transferred the copy to a canvas and finished the sides, giving her a gallery wrap. She makes me happy from one of my bedroom walls.
Clara always says she doesn't get why I have those "ugly people" in my house, but I also have the beautiful people displayed....

Ugly or not, I love them all!!

A man's face is his autobiography
A woman's face is her work of fiction.
~Oscar Wilde~

When I'm sixty-four...

When I get older losing my hair,

Many years from now.

Will you still be sending me a Valentine?

Birthday greetings,..bottle of wine....?

If I'd been out

'till quarter to three ,

Would you lock the door?,

Will you still need me?,

Will you still feed me?,

When I'm sixty-four....

Paul Mc Cartney, 1967

TGIF Images and Tutorial

We haven't posted a tutorial in a few weeks so we thought that you ladies will like something easy and cute for Valentine's Day. Just a nice way to present some chocolate to a special someone, like Martha says...It's all in the details..!
Starting with a vintage sheet of ephemera, we used a 8 1/2" X 12" sheet of music, you could also use vintage wall paper, vintage magazine pages or even vintage newspaper...reuse and recycle!Roll it in a cone shape. Fold the bottom of your cone, about 2 inches up. One dot of glue will hold it in place.

Cut 24" of a pretty ribbon and using your glue gun, attach it to the back of your cone. (make sure the cone is centered) and tie it on the front on a bow, flattening your cone some and making it look more as an envelope. (The bow will look better if it's a little off-center...)

You can use this week's free images to make the card. We mounted the "I love you Puppy" to two coordinating papers and added a touch of german glitter to the edges. Glue it to the front, next to the bow.



Tissue paper and the Recipient's favorite chocolate make the best filler!

And finally, here are the two TGIF images, digitally made by us and free for you to use them on your favorite craft. Enjoy!

"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. "~Albert Einstein~

Even Einstein had a romantic side!!!