NEW LOOK FOR THE OLD BLOG!

I just decided that it was time for a new look.  Mikelle from "My Style" backgrounds custom made my header and the background is from Shabby blogs.  It just feels good to get a new look.  I couldn't love my header more.
Thanks Mikelle you are awesome.  And thanks to all those wonderful people out there who design the free backgrounds so we all can enjoy changing our blog once in a while.   I appreciate you!

Coming soon! WELCOME BABY MADDOX BLUE GIVEAWAY!

Be looking for the newest giveaway from my blogs in honor of this wonderful little baby boy.  Grandchild number 10.  This will be the Welcome baby  Maddox blue giveaway, and as soon as I get back home from helping my daughter with baby Maddox, I will be posting what the giveaway will consist of.  It will be part vintage, crafty, and scrappy good eye candy.

swappin is GREAT!

I had a great day at the mail. Two big boxes came for me from Kim C. in Salt Lake City. She sure puts together some wonderful swap boxes. I was completely overwhelmed. In the boxes there was another box made by her with six individual boxes packed inside and in
each one there was a surprise. Some was vintage, some was crafty and some of it was supplies. Also a really wonderful apron and a darling Mermaid ornament which was the theme for the month of May from Yarni-gras swapper spot.

Here is just a sampling of the goodies that were in the boxes. I just feel so
lucky. Thanks so much to Kim and also to Yarni gras.

Isn't she adorable. I love her shell bra, and the snail type sea shell she has at the end of her tail fin. I love love love it all.

Where I sew

My sewing area is also my laundry area, but there are more cupboards and drawers in this room than anyone would know what to do with.

I did this a a few years ago. I love to paint everything black for the background and then accent with color.

Very old mending floss, straight pins, thimbles, and shoe lacer/bone handle

Here is where all the sewing and serging happens.

From Kimberly Laws

Some more beautiful tags have arrived from
my extra Alice tag swap. Kimberly laws of
www.artjoystuff.blogspot.com sent me all
this wonderful stuff. I love how she
wrapped it up in an old sewing instruction sheet.
Very schiek (okay I don't know how to spell that
last word) and creative if you ask me.





I love the way she stamped this image on a large button.
this wonderful vintage trim all wrapped up
on a cute tag really gets me going!


















Thanks so much and
I am sorry I am just getting around to posting this.
my Daughter is having her first baby
soon and is keeping me hopping.














Such a talented lady
she made this darling charm too. I Love It!

swappin with A year of Enchantment.

I just completed a swap assignment for
Yarni gras or a "Year of Enchantment"
and the theme for May was Mermaids.
The rules are that the main ornament is
handmade. This is what I came up with.
Then I made some earrings fit for
a mermaid and put them on a look-a-like tag.
And a tiny little salt and pepper shacker on it's
tray.
I also added a tiny teacup from occupied
Japan, a set of three hand embroidered old
doilies, and a tag with some special lace wrapped around it.
I will look forward to getting my Mermaid package.
I love this swapping thing, it gives one something to look
forward to from the mail. And you get to meet new friends
with the same interests as yourself. Woo Hoo!

Baby Gift

I needed a baby gift for a dear friend's
new grandbaby girl. She will be a first time
grandma. I had this cut out and on my sewing
machine for some time. When you are under
the gun to get something done, then that is
when you get it done, and not before, or that
is usually the case. I am needing so many gifts
lately, and most of the time I try to make them,
because I think it is special, but sometimes it
just isn't possible.
this one is a size 3 months or so. Baby Taylor will
be born in June.

My Mother

Yes, this is a beautiful Vintage bridal photo of my own Mother Jacquelyne Ford MacCabe. Since it was Mother's day, I just had to post it on Something Special, because she was indeed someone very special. Born in 1933 and passed away in 2005. This photo would have been taken around 1960 We all miss her very much. I love you Mom!

New Alice Tags

I recently requested more tags for my Alice Tag book. (Originally came from the Alice tag book swap karla'scottage.typepad.com) I just thought my tag book needed more Alice in Wonderland themed tags. And this is what I got from Ruth at  throughmygardensgate.blogspot.com     I was absolutely spoiled here. I asked for two different Alice tags. I not only received two very beautifully done tags, but also this most lovely package. Reminded me of "Brown paper packages tied up with string,"  These are definitely some of my favorite things.

She made a beautiful large pocket and inside had the tags, this darling little notebook, a bunch of antique buttons some other embellishments wrapped up in a paper doily.  Scrumptious indeed!

These tags are amazing. She is so talented. I couldn't love them more. Thank you so much Ruth.

And these lovely old buttons. I have been receiving many antique buttons lately. I just can't believe all the work Ruth put into this package.  I am so lucky

Wonderfully Shabby

One persons trash is anothers treasure!

I bought two of these at a garage sale last year and they have been in my garage since then
waiting to be refinished or painted. I have been working on my creative space the last week and had needed to fill a spot in my room, with something like this. When I went to my garage to start the project of painting one of them, I got to looking at it, and I really liked what I saw in it. So I just cleaned it up and some more of the paint came off. I got out of a painting job, and found that the shabby look is the easy look. I LOVE IT!
















This lovely China doll was made by my Mother. It was a gift for her mother, because when Grandma Ford was a girl she had a doll like this but it got broken. My mom decided that even though she was elderly, she might still like to have it. My Grandmother was thrilled, and when she passed away, it went back to my Mom, and then my Mother passed away a few years ago, then it came to me. I have had it put away, but since my room needed some sprucing up I got her out. She is perfect sitting on my French Provencial Very Shabby night stand, don't you think?

Very Happy!

I wanted to do a vintage petite basket swap with someone, so I asked Laurie Jackson
from Indulge Your Shelf http.indulgeyourshelf.blogspot.com if she was interested, after she left a comment for a post.   I think
I got completely spoiled. I was so excited when the mail arrived, on Monday, because I found inside the box, this lovely vintage tin, filled with all these wonderful little goodies.  Thanks so much Laurie, you are super!  I couldn't be happier with any other treasures.  I am left wondering if I had sent her enough stuff. Anyway it was sure fun fun fun! Love to Laurie!

More Alice Tags!

Hey, all you crafters out there that participated in the
Alice tag book swap, I have made some new ones.
If you are interested in swapping a couple more tags,
let me know I have 3 pairs to swap. I will be sending
two new ones to Karla over at karlascottage.typepad.com
for her very hard work in putting together these wonderful
little tag books. She made about 8o covers and put at
least that many together, then mailed them out to everyone.
She is a jewel.

I just got kind of caught up in it all and just wanted to make
more tags for my own book. I happen to have a ver very old
Alice in wonderland book that was my mother's when she was
a young girl.
It is so worn, with an insect hole in the back that bore right into
many pages. I love how differently it is illustrated. (true victorian
fashion) with the colors all being Lavender and violet hues.
The other little circles come from a sheet I bought digitally from
Petite Paperie in their Etsy shop. They are wonderful, so I had
to do something with them as well.
The bottom picture is the Tag book I recieved from
Karla and I have added the extra tags that I made.
If you are interested in swapping two more, just let me know
via a comment here. You can also visit my other creative blog, by clicking
on the button at the top. I am posting this in both places.

Tiffany's Apron

I made this apron for my beautiful daughter-in-law for her birthday.
This one does not go into the Etsy shop. I was so excited to give it to her.
It is hard to see, but at the top of the bib, there is an antique doily. Her smile
says it all. Love you Tiffany and Happy Birthday.

Who will swap with me for May Day?

I wanted to do a swap with someone for
May Day. I came back from my daughters
home in logan, Utah where she just had
her first baby. I was gone for quite a while,
and I had not been posting or visiting blogs.
I found everyone was swapping. I was not
able to get in on some of these swaps, so I
decided to do one of my own. I decided to
fill up this cute ceramic cottage instead of
a petite basket. This one has so many surprizes.
But I am selfish, and don't want to just give it
away this time. I want a great little vintage
goodie basket myself. So I am petitioning all of
lovely blogging friends who have not participated
in a swap for may day yet. Leave me a comment
if you wish to participate and if I get a few by
Saturday, April 24th, I will draw, and if I just get a
couple of responses, I will just pick. I am confident
that I will find someone soon, who has some cool
things to send me. Included are: vintage store stock
items from Germany, a doily with ribbon rose in the
middle, Antique buttons, old kilt pin, old fan, velvet
ric rac, soap from bath and body works. handmade
paper medallion with bird, and more, not to mention
the cute ceramic cottage with lid.

It is all wrapped up with celophane and a pretty ribbon
Won't you swap with me?