Tuesday, July 27, 2010

vintage girl strikes...

I'm starting to live in La la land each time an etsy email lands in my inbox. I started off looking for color combinations and patterns to help my mom dream up some theme ideas for her new rooms. But somewhere along the long I started thinking abouthe "What if I had a..."
...just the very basic things to make a vintage girl smile. Actually, I drooled over quite a few of these star lanterns in San Miguel de Allende. I was THISCLOSE to bring a few back to our yard. I'm thinking NEXT time, I will. My backyard will be a lighted evening OASIS someday!
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With my sewing class pending too, I am drifting back to Brady Bunch patterns and retro prints that I would love to stitch into aprons, and curtains, and dresses, OH MY! These are some of favorite colors RIGHT NOW:I'll have to see what I can come up with really soon!

2 comments:

Pam said...

Looooooovey love the typewriter and the card catalog (that is whatthat is, right?)! And the red/aqua was one of the bundles I was drooling over:) Cannot wait for the class, so so glad you are taking it too!

Mrs. Weddle said...

you are too funny/ love the color combos on the fabric. and with the typewritter and letters those cabnets almost looked like a printing press letter set up .... hmmm

the lanterns are cool too, i totally have a thing for lanterns too.