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Kentucky Derby Hat Swap

I joined Bristol's Kentucky Derby Hat Swap. We were to make a hat or crown for our partner and send it to them this week. Then on Friday they will be judging them and have prizes. I had so much fun making this
crown for my partner Jenny at Pinkaboo, I hope she likes it...Of course I had to make a crown instead of a
hat, I do love vintage hats though and Jenny loves pink .....be sure a travel around to visit everyones creation which will be up on Friday....I will be busy so am posting mine a little early enjoy...Pinkie

I used inspiration from Somerset Magazine and Lori Oles chicken wire crowns to make my base, then covered it will antique book pages and vintage wallpaper...

I edged a Victorian tradecard with old lace and crepe paper..

Cute little bird atop the crown and vintage millinery flowers..

Vintage lace and oodles of shades of pink silk ribbons...

I love this vintage velvet roses, don't you?

This is the back of the crown...

Thank you Bristol for hosting such a fun swap and I hope you love it Jenny!

Change....

Change is good, sometimes difficult. I think it is the not knowing of what is ahead, we have to trust.
This weekend I went to help my sister move the last of her things out of her house which is about an hour away...

We stopped at a little shop on the way, what pretty things ....I could of gotten in a lot of trouble there

We take one step at a time and move forward to see what awaits us ahead...

My niece Chelsea's playhouse her dad built in their back yard...

My sister was trying to sell her house so she can finish her Victorian she has started to renovate here...
Well, with the housing market they decided to rent instead...

I think the kids are going to miss the pool this summer...

Rene' is a stain glass artisan, she makes and creates magic out of glass and solder.... My job was to pack
her glass, so fragile was each piece. This is a piece she created for the front door...

It looks so different with out all her antique furniture in her parlor...I still see her creative hand.....

She too loves pink and roses.......

Her house awaiting the new occupants...Can't wait to see what she does with her new house, I am sure it
is going to be grand.....

New Beginnings,Flea Market Treasures

This weekend I spent alot of time with my mom, we went treasure hunting, to thrift stores and woke up
early for yard sales.....I found a few treasures, vintage jewelry boxes for storing plunder...

Large sea shells for an altered art project, vintage pearls and earrings,a set of crocheted napkins and a small single gold salt shaker...

Old antique buttons, and junque from a old button box, the woman said she had a bunch of old buttons and
she would like to share...people amaze me...

Cute little vintage baby shoe, depressions glass salt shaker and an usual rhinestone studded dish...

I think its a planter, it was 50 cents, my favorite find of the day...

I picked these fun shadow boxes up up Michael's Crafts to help store and organized my new studio....

A Corner of my new studio, still have a long ways to go...

I started hanging up some of my vintage hats over my window seat and this is a curtain I made from old
drapery fabric and chenille bedspreads...

My sister Rene' was moving this weekend, we went down to help her make a final load, she has been staying with my mom while her new house is being renovated....I'll share more of that later....Well, today is still
show and tell Sunday to me, hope you enjoyed my finds and Happy Sunday Pinkie Denise

Swaps, Music, and Singing in the Rain

Oh, the weather here has been so beautiful , then out of the blue, cloudy, cold and rain...

To cheer me up this wonderful package arrived in the mail...

I untied the lovely PINK ribbon and very old sheet music, with the most awesome pictures, from a sweet blogging
friend...

Roses, for a Pink Lady, I love it Dear Martina! I wanted to
start dancing and "Singing in the Rain"......

The images are so wonderful I have to share a few with you..

I can't wait to use them to make a collage and altered art... they are just so great!

Thank you for thinking of me....lovely lady Martina....
and brighting my cloudy day

My girls had a softball game this afternoon, when I arrived

home this sweet package from Heather's
Junque in my trunk swap arrived...

All the way from the Netherlands! Thank you Elizabeth I love it and the beautiful pink wallpaper box is to die for....everything is so lovely

Thank you so much, this was so much fun....Pinkie Denise

Vintage Bling Show and Tell Sunday

WELCOME to Show and Tell Sunday!Cerri of Little Pink Studio is hosting Vintage jewelry this week be sure

and stop by to visit all the wonderful blogs

These are my two most favorite butterfly pins, I wear them sometimes on an outfit or jacket. I love all the
pastel colors....

I have always loved jewelry as long as I can remember...My grandma had a highboy and in the very bottom
drawer she filled it with her costume jewelry. We were allowed to get in there and play with it as long as we
put it back. I was in heaven digging like a pirate in a treasure chest...all those colorful baubles and beads they were like perfection...I love modern costume jewelry and can not buy an outfit without completing it
with accessories, earring, necklace and perhaps a bracelet.

I use my costume jewelry for projects on, my dolls and for crowns, a few of my favorites I keep to wear....

I usually sort them by colors so they are easier to find when I am working on a project....

For a crown...

Pretty pinks...

Greens..

Purples...

and Blues....

Here are some of my vintage jewels on the Ocean Dreamer Crown .....
I love using my jewelry so they can be enjoyed again and again, not hidden in a box....and that means I
can have room to gather more.....Happy Show and Tell Sunday Pinkie Denise

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New items and handmade treasures

A Romantic Surprise

My Mom , sister and I are fortunate enough to live with in walking distance of each other....we visit almost everyday                                             

 

With the encouragement of our lovely cousin we started a blog  ( I am so glad we did)and together we are Pinkpomegranate....

One of our dear blogging friends sent us a message...

Is that your Mom I saw in a magazine? What? A magazine.....

Oh, sweet Corey How you can keep a secret... (Fond memories of Corey last summer on her visit)

She said it was hard  not to tell, it was written several months ago before her father became so sick.

I have a secret and I am not going to tell...

We ran to Barnes and Nobles, and what a surprise!                                                                                                                   

My mother's home is in Romantic Homes!

Oh, my Mom was so surprised...
Thank you Corey,what a wonderful gift!

Show and Tell Handmade Treasures

Every Sunday we have a different topic and get to show and tell. This week our theme is Hankies.When I was little my Grandma Lena would take us shopping at thrift stores, she was ahead of her time and went even before it was popular. She would look for linens, pretty dishes and hankies. I remember her taking them home carefully washing them and starching and ironing them to perfection. These she kept in the tray of her cedar chest, neatly piled in little stacks. I was allowed to look but not touch....I would sneak and open the chest and peek at all the pretty embroidery and little flowers on the white snowy cloth dreaming.

Now that I am a grown up woman of forty something, I still feel like that little girl every time a find a new hankie to add to my own collection.....

Today, I asked my mom if I could take some pictures of my grandma's hankies and she said they were still in the cedar chest, but to hard to get to. She handed me this hat box, as I started to take them out, I noticed they were, all white on white and heavily embroidered with lots of monograms. I said mom you don't have any colored hankies? She said these are my favorites and the kind I like to collect....

My mom Mary aka Fairy Godmother loves to iron...her hankies are pristine....unlike her daughter's Pinkie

Beautiful and look at all that lovely tatting on the edge

More of Mom's hankies

Another pretty monogram, I wonder who's loving hands worked so hard to create this work of art?

This morning at a Yard sale I picked up this crochet book...These are Pinkie's favorite hankies. I do know how to crochet, but working with fine thread is very tedious and I believe a art form of itself...

Here is one of my hankie basket, when I buy my hankies, sometimes at thrift stores or yard sales they need to me laundered then pressed. Here is a basket wait to be iron and sorted.....I use my hankies to make dolls and doll clothing  with...my very favorites I keep in a drawer of my china buffet....

I like the colorful hankies, but my favorites are the ones with fancy edging and tatting, I also like elaborate
embroidery and handwork....I guess there isn't a hankie I don't really like...

Here are some of the hankie Angels I have made , some  have wings from old quilt scraps

I try and sort my hankies by color purples and violets....

more purples...

Blues and pinks and reds....

Soft shades of pale blue....

Pretty shades of cherry reds....

These are some of my favorite lacey white hankies, I love all the fancy edging.....

More whites and shades of cream so yummy....

Hankies and hankies and more hankies, I can't show you all my hankies there are to many!

I'll just pick some of my favorites, pink of course...

Uh, oh, more baskets...well, what do I do with all these hankies.....

Well sorry about that I don't know what happen to picture? I use the hankies for my dolls skirts and aprons

Here's a doll outfit waiting to be cut out and an old vintage card that will be attached to the doll...

Unroll it and here are the hankies fabric and embellishment for several dolls...

Here's my pink dresser full of fabric bundles, waiting to become dolly dresses, I probably have 50 to 75 doll outfits in the drawers....

Some of my favorite pinks...

Here are a couple of my favorite hankie envelopes....I try and pick these up when I can find them...I wonder if my grandma Lena new what she started when she took me to the stores with her? She taught me to appreciate beauty and fine things, she had an eye for beauty and wonderful taste...

Happy Show and Tell Sunday everyone, and thank you Annalise and Cerri for hosting this wonderful get together...It is so much fun and Pinkie and the Dolls are off to visit the other posts....

 

Do you want to play Dolls with me?

Hello, I am alittle late posting my Dolly post due to computer problems please
forgive the delay...

This is how I feel, a little discombobulated and out of sort.....These are some of my Nancy Anns when I got them needing lots of TLC...

After a bit of primping , washing and ironing, and some patience the sweet girls were ready for their debut

My mom remembers having a Nancy Ann that her dad had won for her at a Card
Party....

They are often called Storybook dolls because they were named after characters in children's stories....

Here comes the Bride...and groom and bridesmaid and can't forget the sweet
little flower girl..

I love fixing and putting  them back together, I think they have the sweetest expression,
how could you not love them? I have a box sitting of them waiting for their makeover...

Here are some of my Japanese bisque dolls...I was told that they would come
in a kit , with the materials to make them a dress. Little girls would learn how
to sew, they are called Sewing Dolls....I would love to make dresses for them...

The middle one has a crepe paper dress, a little tattered but well loved and
played with...

Dressed up for a wedding, I bet these were atop a cake perhaps...

These little sisters each of lock of gold and silver, I love them....

More babies in need of clothes, poor things.....

Here's a cloth doll I brought home from a yard sale and a Nicol Sayre doll that
I love....I have long been an admirer of her dolls and last summer she (Nicol) came to visit us at our home...

This is a Susan Arnot doll in a theater...She recreates these from antique doll heads reclaimed from German dumps buried during the first World War...amazing I think

These are my some of my antique doll collection....

I am not only a collector, but a doll maker, I love to recreate antique reproduction porcelain dolls. This my first love and passion...through rough times in my life much healing and restoration came to my own life, I don't know how to explain it but I don't know how I could of made it  with out creating....

I love to gather other doll related items and toys...I even have several wicker
doll and baby buggies...

Pincushion or half dolls awaiting their skirts....

I have plans for these, but not enough time...

This a paper doll creation I made for the Bloglandia ball...

Here are some of my cloth dolls in progress...I call them Vintage dollies made
with vintage hankies and vintage crochet and laces....they are very large about 32 inches like a bed doll....

Here are some projects , have found bodies for these and they need dressing and restoration...I probably have enough to keep me busy for ever...

Oh, I can't forget my Momma's boudoir doll she made...We have several of these needing some TLC too...

I just want to say thank you to Lori at Faerie window for having this Doll Challenge so I could share one of my passions with you....Pinkie

Color my World...

  I have always loved flowers...especially roses...such memories of childhood, playing in our yard, picking flowers, decorating my mud pies...

My sister and I are close in age and my mom would always dress us up, me in
pink and Rene' in yellow.....To this day I still am in love with pink and Rene' did not like being dressed in yellow, I think she still is not too fond of the color..

Yellow is so cheery bright and sunny....I love it with pink and green. Annalise and Cerri are having a show and tell and wanted us to share are millinery flowers and hats.....

I just don't think I could live with out pink.....here are some of my hats....

This is a crown I am working on...its just about done and will be in the shop
for sale. If you haven't visited yet it is pinkpomegranate.net

Creamy whites are some of my favorite decorating colors......

Pretty shades of crimson and red, I have a secret love of cherries......

Some seashell dreams and whites.......

Little Ida Annie says blues are her favorite...

When I went to work after college, I met a sweet woman named Judy. I had these pink shoes that I wore  all the time and she nicknamed me Pinkie....I still love wearing pink and pink shoes!

This  little birdie found the perfect place for a nest....

I never tire of gazing on these sweet thing and  dreaming ofwhat I'll will make with them..

Purple the color of Royalty, fit for a Queen for sure, pansy, violets....

More pretties to chase your blues away.....another crown in progress...

Mauve and berries with a touch of pink....

I love bright vibrant colors too, I don't decorate with them to much, but love
them for my dolly's creations...

The joy of millinery flowers, they never wilt or shed their petals, their beauty
is everlasting.....

Greens, sage and hues of violet....

This is my Happy chair in my new studio....it makes me happy with its many different colors and my favorite hats and pillows...

Oops ! almost forgot this hat box hiding....what would you expect more roses of
course...

Thank you Annalise and Cerri for letting me join your party....I loved sharing
my collection of flowers and hats with you.....and Happy Sunday show and tell
Pinkie Denise