That's a quote from " Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House ", one of my favorite movies ever. Myrna Loy plays wife to ad man C...

Thanks for all your kind words in comments to yesterday's post. I ended up going to bed really early Saturday night because I was so tir...

I know you're all dying to know how it went and I have good and bad news. The good news is that my booth went together with only a minor...

Speaking of birds, I recently listed a new embroidery pattern on my website. Called Gossip Girls , it's a design taken from a vintage st...

Wow! I always thought this was something my mother invented herself. Whenever I've mentioned to anyone in conversation that I used to ea...

Please welcome Sharon Stark from Sharon's Antiques: Vintage Fabrics and The Rickrack Rag who’s agreed to do an interview about feedsac...

Sorry for the lack of posts this week. And I was doing so well lately, too. On top of getting ready for the craft show, one of the shop owne...

Treasure hunting with others in tow can be fun, but you probably shouldn't go with people who are looking for the same things you are - ...

We arrived at Roller Mills , a three-story antique mall in a restored 1880s flour mill, about 10:30 am to find that, contrary to what it sta...

Have any of you seen Timeless Treasures' new fabric collection named 'Lena'? And the pattern within named Daisies & Disks ?...

I usually make my fruit and veggie towels as custom orders, but I thought I'd make up a few for the craft show I'm doing next month ...

Finding nice vintage fabrics is a challenge. Finding two of the same pattern in different colorways is a miracle! Gray, green, red, black an...

Can anyone help me out with identifying this plant? I found lots of them growing on the edges of my yard. The plant is a single very thin vi...

This is the last of my finds from last weekend's trip to Kutztown. The seller who I bought this from had two and the first was tradition...

The apron itself is very simple—just plain solid yellow cotton—but the pockets are amazing. Blue and yellow binding strips form a lattice. Y...

It's been a feedsack kind of summer for me. I keep finding really pretty ones in patterns I haven't seen before and for reasonable p...

My latest pillow, just added to the website— This uses, as it's central motif, one of the quilt blocks from that batch I won on Ebay thi...

When we find vintage things in our travels we don't often get to know who owned them or their history or even anything about them. Once ...

Rebecca sent me this photo of her daughter Elizabeth in a sunsuit that she made from purple gingham and embroidered with white chicken scrat...

Some photos from Hello Bluebird's grand opening yesterday evening. I had to leave around seven because I had a two-hour drive home but t...