Dressing up for the holidays.....
I've started to dress up my home and my lovely vintage half dolls for the holidays!I added a bit of white feather boa and a vintage brooch my sweet mama gave me to this lovely lady. Now I think she looks like a Snow Queen, don't you?And this beautiful lady looks like she is ready to go to a fabulous Christmas party!
I found the wonderful silver glittered "Believe" sign and the adorable snowman card below at Michael's for only $1 each!
One of my favorite ornaments in my favorite color. Not vintage, but just as pretty as the old ones!
And I found this pretty angel at T.J. Maxx. She is a Nichol Sayre! She was only $8 and I saw one exactly like her selling online for $60! Isn't she lovely? More Christmas photos next post!
Michelle xoxo

White Wednesday ( a little late!)
Sorry I'm late for Kathleen's White Wednesday! I found a gorgeous piece of lace while antiquing with my sweet mama last weekend! It is the perfect thing to dress up my very plain lampshade. I also found this sweet cream colored vintage apron with a cute little floral print. And look at this pretty crown ring. It's way too huge for me to wear, so I just twisted it off and will use it somehow in a art project maybe? I wish I had taken a better photo of it and the apron. They are so much prettier in person.
I found a few other goodies, but I am saving those to share with you later.
Michelle xoxo

Antiquing with two sweeties....
My sweet mama, my adorable baby Dylan and I had so much fun at the antique mall last weekend! As you can see, Dylan loves vintage hats as much as I do!I took some photos of my favorite booths. We saw pretty pillows,lovely vintage photos, yummy vintage hats,old silver tarnished to perfection, beautiful lace, and inspiring vignettes.Hmmm~ I think I might need more cloches!I love the sweet little dance costume. I had one so similar to this one when I was just 5 years old. I so wish I had kept it!Look at this yummy booth! . Lots of white and pastels....and lots roses!I want to make a wreath with vintage Christmas ornaments, but I need to collect some first!I loved this amazing wall sconce! It looks so much better in person and I'm sure it would look a whole lot better on any wall that wasn't pegboard! And this piece was so gorgeous! I will show you what I purchased in my next post.

Sitting pretty....
I used the last bit of my birthday money on this pretty half doll I found on Ebay! Isn't she gorgeous?! I think I may be starting a new collection. (as if I don't have enough collections already!) She looks right at home sitting in my favorite teacup!

My dear parents have come for a visit. They are enjoying seeing sweet baby Dylan whom they have not seen since he was a tiny newborn! I can hardly believe he is 6 months old already! My sweet mama brought me some wonderful birthday presents. She made me this beautiful organizer with pockets made from the prettiest fabrics!

She also gave my some vintage rhinestone pieces,

this sweet vintage pillowcase with bluebirds that belonged to her grandmother,

some more little goodies including this lovely vintage button card,

a vintage pillow cover in a wonderful ticking rose print that belonged to her mother

and a sweet little purse with some spending money tucked inside!

We even did some antique shopping last weekend and I brought my camera, but I was having to much fun to stop and take photos of the pretty booths.  We will definitely do some more antiquing while she is here, so maybe next time I will get some photos to share with you.
Michelle xoxo

White Wednesday!Thank you to Kathleen for hosting this fun idea of "White Wednesdays"! I'm off now to see the other white posts!

A few of my favorite things....
A pile of vintage millinery flowers and hats.
Pretty blues~ all are lovely gifts my sweet mama has given me. I think this shade of blue is divine!A new favorite find, this amazing pink vintage hat stand. Doesn't everything look more fabulous surrounded by vintage millinery flowers?Beautiful vintage jewelry pieces adorn the base of the hat stand.A silver sugar shaker.... yummy.
And, of course, the best favorite of all~ sweet Dylan in his monkey Halloween costume.Michelle xoxo

16 years ago.....
On Oct. 16, 1993, I married my darling sweetheart on the one year anniversary of our first date! 16 years, 8 moves,8 cars and 3 adorable boys later, we are still madly in love! Thank you for sticking with me, my love, through every hardship. Thank you for loving me just the way I am. Thank you for so sweetly encouraging me in my every endeavor. Thank you for not complaining that nearly every room in our home is decorated to suit my taste, because you know how important it is to me.Thank you for always making me laugh when I am sad. Thank you for marrying a girl that doesn't cook.....
and who is a little bit crazy.
Thank you for 16 wonderful years!
Michelle xoxo

BOO!
I dressed up my new doll for Halloween and that inspired me to do some decorating!I had fun decorating the top of my tv cupboard with some of my favorite things.
Rusty keys, old doorknobs, dusty books, tarnished silver....photos of spooky looking ladies and gentlemen.....clocks and more rusty old treasures.....and of course the Belle of the Halloween Ball!

White Wednesday!
A few photos from some of my favorite antique shops. The first two are from Gatherings in Georgetown, Tx.
And this one is from The Antique Gallery in Round Rock, Tx.Thank you to Kathleen for hosting this fun idea of "White Wednesdays"! I'm off now to see the other white posts!
Michelle xoxo

Vintage bliss.....
Today I took my birthday money and went to one of my very favorite antique malls and I can't tell you how happy I am with my purchases!!!
I found some gorgeous vintage fabric with huge bouquets of roses! Such beautiful colors! I love rose prints~especially vintage ones.I also found this amazing vintage hat. It's so pretty! I think I could stare at it all day.
And this beauty. I saw her last time I visited the antique mall and I regretted not buying her. At the time I thought she was too beat up. Who me?? What was I thinking?? I could not believe she was still there!! So I put her in my shopping cart (yes, this antique mall has carts! how cool is that?) and was giddy thinking how lucky I was that she was still there waiting for me!
I also found a vintage encyclopedia and this lovely lamp base which I plan to use as a candle holder. I just love the patina it has!And I couldn't pass up this little cutie, now could I? She is too sweet!!
Michelle xoxo

Around the studio....
A few things that make me happy in my studio. A vintage flower frog with a favorite vintage postcard.My pretty soft pink dresser filled with art supplies.
This gorgeous enamelware bowl with the prettiest colors.
Vintage clocks, a glass lamp and a sweet embroidered tablecloth.A postcard I enlarged on my printer because it was just so pretty.
A Goodwill find I painted a lovely shade of aqua blue.
Vintage millinery flowers in a wonderful vintage basket. Now I just need to clean this room up to look this good again so I can play in here, now that I finally have a working printer again. Hmmm...... maybe instead of cleaning up I will go try to spend my birthday money and buy some more vintage goodies that I have no place to put!

Thrift store treasures: Part 2
A few days ago I showed you one of my thrift store finds and promised to show the rest in my next post, but promptly forgot to do so! Here are my other fun finds from that rainy day. These fabulous mercury glass candle holders!
I had been drooling over the pretty photos of beauties like these on other blogs for years, but rarely found any and when I did they were quite pricey! Last Christmas my sweet husband and boys bought me the two pretty ones you see below and they found them for only $3 and $4!! And the ones I found at the thrift store last weekend were only $1.50 for the small one and $2.00 for the large ones!! So I have a gorgeous mercury glass candle holder collection for a total of only $12.50!! Now I just need some white candles. I think they would be so pretty on my hutch for Christmas. I found a photo of my Christmas hutch from a few years ago. I had totally forgotten that I had decorated it this way and I love it! I plan to do the same look this year, but with my new candle holders!
Michelle xoxo