Hey all you swappers, today was the day to mail out your swap goodies to your partners.  It has been so much fun hosting this swap, I have met so many amazing new friends and a lot of new blogs to visit:)   If anyone is having problems or is going to be late mailing out their swaps, please let  myself and your partner know.  Make sure to join the flickr group here,  so you can upload your swap photos and see what everyone else received.We all ready have some great pictures posted.

No photos today, however I have a ton to take and upload.  I have been crafting like crazy.  I have been getting ready for the opening of lollishops and a craft fair I am doing on Dec 6th.  Lollishops will be opening this Friday, so make sure to check it out.

Off to bed as it is 12:30 YIKES!

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Quick update from the most recent swap I finished. It was a red and aqua swap, my partner was Tonya, she loves vintage too, so it was fun swapping with her.

Here are all the goodies she sent me, Love the darling vintage apron. The vintage buttons are amazing, I ate the jelly bellies right away, YUMMY! The girls love the mad libs!

Here are all the goodies I sent her. I did not make the scarf.

I just added this item to the Shoppe, in the category for the home. It is a darling vintage stocking. I will be adding more christmas stuff over the next few weeks.

New to the Shoppe, Shiny Brites in their original box:) You can find these in the category-for the home.

Off to knit.

XOXO Jen

I had to take a break from pink Saturday because I was too busy. I missed visiting everyone, so I am back this week. You can visit Beverly at How Sweet The Sound to see all the other participants or to sign up for next week.

One of the local yarn shops was having a huge sale, so I went to check it out. I got 60$ worth of yarn for $20. There is more, but it is not PINK!! I love to get good quality yarn for great prices, it makes knitting much more affordable.

I got home from the grocery store to find two packages on my front porch, which is always exciting. This one is from the super sweet Deb. It is a gift for hosting the Vintage Pink Christmas Swap. She made the cards, aren’t they lovely! So thoughtful, I love it all! Thank you Deb!

The second package was from my partner for the Just for You FQ Seceret Santa Swap. I know it is not pink, but I was so happy with everything, I had to post it. I really want to make a vintage skirt from the pattern, I love that era of clothing.

A close up of the darling vintage pottery deer, he looks so cute with all of my other pottery!

She also sent me this vintage apron!!!! She attached a note saying if I didn’t like it I could use the fabric for a project! Never, I love it.

Happy Pink Saturday, I must get ready to take the kids to the Library.

XOXO Jen

********************WARNING***************************** There are a lot of photos on this post!

Let’s start with things that are bugging me. 1: I decided not to pay for Premium shipping services for my Shoppe, it was an additional fee on top of my web hosting fees. I thought it was not worth it,now I am thinking it may have been. Every order I have received since I canceled this has had goofed up shipping. I thought I fixed the problem and apparently not. If anyone has wanted to place an order and the shipping stopped them, contact me and I will get it straightened out, plus you will get an extra goodie for your troubles. I hope to get the shipping under control in the next day or two.

2: I lost my cell phone:( On Halloween and keep hoping it is going to turn up. It has not, so I have been using Chad’s old cell since then. UGGGG So if you don’t have Chad’s old cell number, email me and I will give it to you! I hate using his phone, it has a dumb ring tone, it is not pink and it has a LA Dodgers screen saver:(

3: Still can’t get the Cache to clear, I found the tab at the top under tools, and I clicked on clear cache and Nothing happened. UGGG Still can’t upload photos on Flock.

I thought there was something else, Hmm.. can’t seem to remember though!

Ok, on to some fun stuff.

Thank you all for the crock pot recipes and the crock pot web site. I am excited to try them.

ATTENTION PINK CHRISTMAS SWAPPERS!!!- Just wanted to make sure everyone is taking the time to get to know their partners. The send by date is November 25th. If you have any questions please feel free to email me.

There was a garage sale in my neighborhood over the weekend, so I popped in. The lady who’s house it was at was a crafter and quilter, and a vintage quilt collector, it was heaven.

This is a terrible picture, but this is a whole shadow box full of vintage black glass buttons! Love them!!!!!!

1 skein of verigated eggplant wool yarn, and half of a vintage chenielle comforter. Since this one is all ready cut up I am actually going to use it for crafting and not as a pretty decoration.

One more vintage quilt for my collection! She had about 20 for sale and I would love to have had them all, but this one was cheap and the others were not!

I got this one also, it is a small lap size and was super cheap!

Is this not the cutest vintage rocking horse, I got it for 3$ it looks adorable in Grahams room:)

This is a swap I received for the Pay it forward swap. I love everything, I am so excited about the mica flakes!

I made this neck warmer for my swap partner for the Seceret Santa Fat Quarter Swap. I made myself one and I LOVE it!

Here are all he goodies I sent to my Fat Quarter swap!

This is Grahams idea of an outfit to go outside in! Mind you it was freezing out. The girls and I were cracking up!

Here is Gab jumping into the huge pile of leaves. She hates this picture, I love theat she is in mid air! My girls were a bit hesitant to go in the leaves at first, but they got over it.

Playing in the trees!

Leaf head!

Leaf piles are so much fun!

My three G’s in a pretty red tree.  They are in their grubby clothes, but I love this picture!

Miss Gwen jumping in the leaves. I love the look of joy on her face!

I made these heart ornaments out of a vintage quilt.  I am taking them to the craft fair I am going to and if i make some more, I will put a few in the Shoppe.

I made these trees before Halloween, they are not done yet, I need to fancy them up. Sarah wrote a great tutorial on how to bleach and dye trees.

I made this bunting before Halloween, and I had it hung out front, but it would not stay up. So inside it came, I don’t love it here, so I may relocate it again.

These two were both made before Halloween, this picture doesn’t show how sparkley and glittery it is.

I made these ornaments for the craft show. There is a tutorial somewhere online and if I can remember where I found it I will let you know.

I made this ornament the other day, I am planning on selling it, even though I LOVEEEEEEEEEEEE it!  Below is the back, it is vintage wallpaper.

I knitted up this scarf the other night, I am not sure what I am doing with it, it will probably be a Christmas gift!

Sheesh that was a long post!  Making up for the lack of posting lately.  Off to bed! XOXO Jen

A very nice person out there in blog land left me a crock pot recipe in my comments last night. I am bummed because I accidentally deleted it, while deleting 30 stupid spam comments, and I can’t get it back! I don’t remember the persons name, blog or anything. It was a chicken recipe! If you are reading this please comment again!!

On to the topics at hand!

Here are the books I have read recently.  True Evil by Greg Iles and All Fall Down by Erica Spindler. Both were suspense filled mysteries!  They were good, I don’t know that I would personally go out and buy them.  We had All Fall Down in a box of books in the basement, and our neighbor lent us True Evil. I really enjoy Greg Iles books and look forward to reading more in the future.  I am trying to read all the books in the box in the basement so I can pass them along and get rid of the box:)

On to the good mail!!

I came home the other day to a large package on my porch and had no idea what it was because I had not ordered anything??  I opened it, and to my surprise it was a vintage bread box and inside were two vintage pink shiny brites!!!   I had made a comment on a blog that I visit often, Livin’ Vintage.  I commented that I LOVED the bread box she had found on her thrifting adventures.  Emily is so sweet she sent it to me because I loved it!!  THANK YOU!!!! 

Isn’t it pretty.  I am going to add a vintage knob and line the bottom with some pretty paper! I may even use it in my sewing room, so I can enjoy while I am crafting:)

On to the swaps…

Here is a swap I sent.  It is for the Pay it Forward Parcel Swap on Flickr.  Each person lists 10 items they would love to have and you pick five of the items to send to your partner.  My partner requested:  Ephemera, so I put together a packet of goodies for her.  She also requested an orange FQ,  and aqua FQ and a polka dot FQ- they are all on top of the vintage pillow case she requested. She also asked for small super glue gel, which I found at the dollar store!!! Her last request was anything birds: so I copied a bird that Carrie had sent me in a swap awhile ago:)

Here is another I sent out recently- It was a secret Ghost swap for the five things group on flickr.  The rules were to send 5 things- one of them handmade. So I made another pumpkin and some crepe paper ruffles!

I had been on a swap break for a while and now there are a ton of amazing swaps for the holidays.  I am involved in quite a few!  I am answering the questions below for my partner for the Vintage Christmas Stocking Swap. Which is being hosted by Priscila at Casa Bella Chic, who is my partner for the Vintage Pink Christmas swap.  My partner for this swap is the wonderful Heidi at Fox Gloves Fabric & Folly, she was the hostess of the Very Vintage Halloween swap and the upcoming Very Vintage Christmas Swap.

On to the questions!

What do you collect: Everything!  Vintage quilts, pottery, aprons, Christmas decorations, milk glass-pink & white. Anything with roses on it, vintage books, and the list goes on and on!
What inspires you:  All the amazing women in blog land who are have turned their love of crafts, vintage, home decor and any other hobby into a successful business!
Favorite pastime:  I guess it would have to be knitting.  It sooths your sole, the repetition calms your mind when you are stressed out.
Whats one of your favorite vintage pieces in your home: That is a tough one, I love it all.  Maybe, my pink milk glass punch bowl!
What decoration or christmas item would you love to have:  I would love some of the little vintage houses, mercury glass anything, a vintage tinsel tree, a cloche, I could go on and on on this one too:)
What vintage piece would you love to have:  A beautiful buffet for my dining room!
Favorite Goodie or hot drink: I love milk chocolate and hot chocolate, apple cider is a fav at this time of year!
Any family tradition:  Yes, but they are going to be different this year because we are going to be here in NC while the Fam is back in CA & OR.
Greatest Christmas Memory: That is tough because I love Christmas and I mostly have great memories of them all.  When I was little I got a Barbie dream house from Santa, that was super exciting!  And the year Santa brought me diamond earrings was pretty great also.  I think my favorite memories are of the kids at Christmas, especially when they were little, it is so magical to them.  Graham should be fun to watch this year, hopefully he doesn’t try to climb the trees!!!

Time to get ready to go to the pumpkin patch.  Have a great day!

XOXO Jen

I finally got with the program and thought about what I should post for pink Saturday. I usually wait until late in the evening to think about it. However, today I thought about it around noon:)  To see all the lovely pink posts or to participate next week visit Beverly at How Sweet The Sound.

Mr. Graham decided he wanted to sit where Mommy takes pictures of all her pretties for her Shoppe.

Since he was sitting on my photo backdrop I figured I better take his photo. Even if it is PINK!

I Love his goofy expression:)

I am a winner! I won these aprons two weeks ago for Show and Tell Sunday. Aren’t they pretty! The pink and white one was the prize and Cindy of JunqueArt so generously sent me the other one also!

The story of two tea pots. We have had the bigger one in the back for a couple of years, it was all pink until last evening. Ok, we are teapot addicts, we never use the microwave to heat water, always the teapot. Last night like most evenings I asked Chad to start the teapot. I was in the process of sending out partners for the swap. Which means I was not paying attention to the tea pot. After a bit I realized that there was no whistle and the water has to be hot by now. I popped into the kitchen and there is the lovely pink teapot all blackened. I got mad at Chad for not putting down the whistle lid, and he said “didn’t you hear it” UH NO! I just so happened to have a spare, still in its box all shiny and new. I got it at Ross when we first moved here. We used the new one last night and all today. Tonight Chad asked me what I am planning to do with the old one. I said” I will try to clean it”. He picks up a sos pad and wiped it a bit and off came the black. So he gave me a hard time for being mad at him last night!

Now we have two working pink teapots!

****VINTAGE PINK CHRISTMAS SWAP****

Since this is the first swap I have hosted, I had no idea what to expect. I am very excited because we have so many participants. I have enjoyed reading everyones blogs. I wanted to keep each one of you as a partner:)

Partners have been assigned. If you signed up and did not receive an email from me with your partners info, contact me right away. If for any reason you are unable to complete the swap, please let me know so I can make sure your partner gets something. We have such a great group I am not anticipating any problems.

Below you will see a list of get to know you questions. Please cut and paste these and use them on your blog so you and your partner can get to know each other better. Feel free to add photos if you have them.

1. What is your favorite Christmas decoration?

2. What colors/themes do you decorate for Christmas?

3. What Christmas item would you love to have?

4. Favorite goodie & hot drink?

5. Are you a crafter? If so what crafts do you do?

6. What is your favorite pink item in your home?

7. What do you collect?

8. Do you have special family traditions for the holidays?

I will answer the questions on my next post. Off to bed!

XOXO Jen

For pink Saturday this week, I thought I would show one of my favorite rose pictures. I got it fairly recently at an estate sale. I only paid a couple of dollars for it. I love it. It is in my powder room:) I didn’t get around to taking other pictures once again, so this is the main event. I love the pink frame too. You can pop over to Beverly’s too see all the other pink goodness.

For some reason I thought the deadline for sign ups for my “Vintage Pink Christmas” swap was today. I just looked at the details and the deadline is the 15th, so there are a few more days left to sign up. So, partners will be assigned next week. If you want to sign up click here for the details or to sign up.

Have a pretty &pink Saturday.

XOXO Jen

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I participate in  the “very vintage Halloween swap” hosted by Heidi at Foxgloves Fabric & Folly.  This was Heidi’s first time hosting a swap and she has been a wonderful hostess, Thank you Heidi!

My partner for this swap was Donna at Party Wishes.  Donna resides back in my home state of CA.  Donna was super speedy getting her package mailed out to me. 

Donna sent me these two cute pumpkin decorations.  She also sent three packages of candy, one for each kido. As you can see Graham and I all ready ate half of his before I took the Photo.

Everything was wrapped up pretty with ribbons and tags, even the label on the outside of the box was orange with really pretty black calligraphy.

She also sent me this darling witch necklace.

Thank you Donna!!

Here are all the goodies I sent Donna.

I made this pumpkin for her.

I made these vintage inspired Halloween magnets.

I altered this vintage game card. This is probably my favorite item I sent her.  I might have to make my self one.

Apparently Donna and I were thinking a like with the necklaces.  I made this also.

You can see a close up of the black cat pillow here, I made one for her and one for me:)

Speaking of swaps, I am hosting my first swap.  It is the “Vintage Pink Christmas Swap”.  Friday is the last day to sign up.  For all the details and to sign up, click here.  If you are all ready signed up for the swap, please make sure you have received an email from me and returned your information. Otherwise I will not be able to assign you a partner.

Have a great day.

XOXO Jen

I have been busy all week with my in laws, so I have not had a lot of time to photograph things. So there will only be one pink item this week for Pink Saturday. This is one of my favorite pink items, not that I don’t LOVE all my pink goodies.

Yes, we actually use this phone. Mostly just to answer calls, unless we can not find one of the three cordless phones we have. The girls will have friends over and they will ask about the phone because they apparently have not seen one before:) I got it on Ebay seven years ago.

Only a few more days to sign up for the Vintage Pink Christmas Swap. You can go here to sign up.

Beverly at How Sweet the Sound is the Hostess of Pink Saturdays, if you want to join.

Have a great weekend:)

XOXO Jenpi

My in laws arrived Saturday night, so we have been busy with them. Sunday we went to Old Salem, which was really fun. We may take Graham to the zoo if the weather cooperates:) Just thought I would pop in and post a couple of projects I have finished recently.

A lot of my projects lately have revolved around Halloween. I have been wanting to make one of these for a while. It is hanging in my kitchen as we speak. I used paper, crepe paper, glitter, vintage sheet music, vintage lace, vintage ric-rack and some cute black and white letters. It was a fun project, I love how it turned out.

Another Halloween goody, this was in one of the magazine, can’t remember which one. I thought it was cute, so I whipped it up. It is sitting on a chair in my family room.

Lastly, I made this snake scarf for my nephew Eli’s second birthday.  I found the pattern online and now can not find the web site again, because it is bookmarked on my laptop.  It is supposed to be back to me by the 6th, thank goodness.

Only a few days left to sing up for the vintage pink Christmas swap.  There are quite a few ladies who have joined all ready.  I am looking forward to assigning partners so we can get on with the swapping.

Off to bed!

XOXO Jen