pyrex love

3.365: pyrex love

pyrex closeup

more pyrex & a chicken butt

My little collection of vintage Pyrex. I had a few mixing bowls, but didn’t start letting myself buy more until we moved into our home. I have the space now, so I don’t feel so guilty about picking up a bowl I like. I have two sets of Cinderella mixing bowls (Butterprint and Autumn Harvest). They’re both 3/4 complete, which is interesting. My favorites are the mixing bowls on the left (first photo). As you can see, I’ve found quite a few in the same size. They stack very nicely and get a lot of use.

The newest addition to my glass housewares is this absolutely lovely cake stand I found, this weekend–

thrift score: cake plate

Is it not perfect for Valentine’s Day decor? It’s a 1984 Lillian Vernon stand and I’m in love with it.

I’d rather be here…

love seat

My sewing machine and I are about to be worked sweatshop style. No, really. I’m doing some crazy work (to help someone else) and so I’m going to be absent for a bit (again). Forgive me? I’m going to list some duo-tone slouch hats to the shop late tonight.

I’d rather be sitting on my little loveseat, making things with yarn.

I made a doily-like lap blanket about 2 weeks ago. it’s the perfect size for covering up legs when I get chilly at night. It’s pretty, no?

because I’m obsessed…

Happy National Coffee Day!

with:
-coffee
-my french press
-wool
-crochet
-cross stitch
-finding mugs
-photographing steam
-back-lit photos
-diptychs

Yes, that is a diptych of photos of my french press in its new crocheted sweater made from woolly scraps and my awesome new cross-stitch mug with steam emanating from it in the morning sunlight.

Happy National Coffee Day!

crazy wreath lady

ruffly felt wreath

I think that’s what I’m going to aim to be, this year.

This is wreath numero dos and we’re not even through the first week of fall. I used the tutorial found here. I used her tips and the circles were way quick to cut. They were 3-3.5″ in diameter and my wreath form is 10″, so I used about a hundred. I KNOW it sounds like a pain, but I think I spent an hour, hour and a half TOPS on the entire thing. Plus, I bought the foam wreath form at the Dollar Tree and the felt was from a remnants bin at Jo-Ann. SO, the total cost was maybe $3.50 or so. It’s so ruffly and pretty. I adore it and want to make a million more.

wreathy details

ohh, wreath bokeh. love&love.

Are there any wreath tutorials you think I should try next? Link a girl up!

lace + rosette wreath

lace and rosette wreath

It’s fall! Of course it’s in the 80s with a “feels like” at 90, but I DREAMED of cool, crisp air. It was a really nice dream and I’m just going to try my best to be patient for the cold fronts. I’m ready to roast some pumpkins for bread, bust out the tried & true chili and soup recipes, and find a nice sweater for my walks to pick Nate up at school. SO ready!

Anyway, I think wreaths are pretty awesome year-around, but I like them even more during fall & winter. To ring in the new season, I whipped this little wreath up, yesterday. I was originally going to make a pretty rosie wreath, via the tutorial on The Pretty Poppy. It’s insanely cute, no?! I really wanted to add those darn doilies, though, so I stuck with a small group of rosettes. I added the doilies opposite them on the wreath and really liked the symmetry it created.

You can’t really tell from the photo above, but the [foam] wreath is wrapped in yarn. That was probably the most time consuming part of this project. I suspect it took about a straight hour. I need to find a new method of wrapping. After I glued on the rosettes and doilies, I wrapped the empty spots in some lace hem tape I had. It was in a little baggies of vintage craft goods I found at a thrift store. I think it adds some nice dimension to it!

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