The Stitchy Life: June 2011

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Hidden Gems

Melt-my-heart pictures that I found by mistake on my camera's built in memory!

Olivia's squishy baby cheeks and one of my favorite dresses

Oli and I driving in my truck
(my hair is down to my waist 3 years later- yikes!)

An opossum traveling on the "squirrel freeway" over our back fence

(check out his little tongue sticking out!)

Random Cancun, Mexico shot from 2 years ago

Olivia and Shane, bath buddies

Happy Wednesday to ya! Hope your weeks going well....
I'm on the countdown to vacation starting Saturday-
A week sans internet!!! ahhhhhHHHH...
sure we'll cope!
xo,
Nicky

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Reasons I Love Vintage (Part 2)

Small Leather Bag I recently found :D

Leather belt I'd like to turn into a guitar strap

Jadite juicer/measuring cup that I LOVE!

It keeps much of the seeds and pulp on that lid,while the juice drips through!

Morning coffee in this sweet cup

Hand Painted Vintage Linens

runner

Kitchen gadgets hanging in my breakfast nook

These are hilarious, I had never seen 70's embroidrey patterns til I found these!

Check out the couples matching denim embroidered tops!!!! hahaha

I think I'm gonna do a post on Menswear one day.

It shall be called, "all the corny things my wife crafted that I'm actually wearing"

It will be based heavily on the 70's and crochet/embroidered goods.

Check out this dude

Vintage scarf, worn as a head wrap

vintage mirror frame that hubby and I keep scents on.

:( look how sad my Daisy bottle is- nearly empty!

Mirror and brush

Vintage embroidery. So. Good.

Available here and on sale!!!!!

Happy Tuesday... and here's to sunny skies and one really long

first day of summer :D Let the fun begin!!!

"Reasons I Love Vintage (Part 1)" can be found here

Saturday, June 18, 2011

Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to me!

My sweetest birthday gift yet was the birth of my second bitty, Olivia.

She was due on my Mama's birthday and waited 9 extra days to be born on mine!

We shared a wonderful birthday together yesterday!!!

My Mama took us to an Indian restaurant, for lunch, that I've been dying to try

Mmm Naan bread! The food was delicious!

Olivia celebrated her birthday/last day of school (pajama day)/ her twin buddy's birthdays too!

whew. Full day

We went to Toys R Us to use Oli's gift card. She picked out roller blades!

I was a roller skatin' junkie when I was little so this gift made me quite happy...

And how could Oli get skates and not Elsa??? :D

ps. I took myself shopping at Anthropologie to use my Christmas gift cards and found this dress.

love.

Papa, Nana, and Elsa enjoying a little drawing on the table at Macaroni grill

My favorite is having someone tell you what to draw and then draw it without looking.

Olivia's looking pretty gangsta here

We got home, jammied up and went to bed. Then.... I hear our dog barking because someone was at our front door! Janet, my very dear friend, had stopped by at 11:45pm to steal me away. Unannounced and spontaneous, just the way I love her! I very sleepily got dressed and she took me out for a drink and karaoke! (our favorite past time). Karaoke ended by the time we got there so we just spent time catching up and laughing. Just perfect!