It's Party Time!

......over at the Esty Cottage Style Blog!

This months color is Aqua.  The party lasts all week, so I cna't wait to see everyonestrue color! I love the shade of aqua or it used to be called blue green in the crayon box. I think if pine trees on the mountainside.....a pair of flipflops I had in the 60's with a big flower on em with different shades of aqua....a 60's coffee pot I have with gold and aqua diamonds on it.... ya know there are a lot of different hues and shades in this color family...................................................

Here is a vintage set of Melemine dishes I found for sale on Ebay.


We  have this 1950/60 aqua and black pottery bowl for sale at our flower shop.

This is the center picture on one of 4 English aluminum plates in my collections and it's filled with shades of aqua.

 This is a pillow I created using a 1950's hankie, 1960's tourquoise cotton fabric and rickrack, accented by a 1960's enamalware pin.

 My autumn throw I use on my kitchen porch glider has a lot of different shades of aqua.

 These next 2 pictures show a variety of blue greens in 1950's magazine showing fabrics.

 This tin is from the 1960's and filled with embroidery and threads from my Grandma.

 And, this is another 1950-60 vintage dishtowel I beaded and hand-embroidered to create a pillow.

Wow, I didn't realize I had so much aqua on hand. Well...I do love the shades of greens. Here are a few more aquas........................................

Feel free to copy and use these for your own paper crafts! Well, I think I go and see the other guests at the party. If you'd like to join me we'll go thru HERE

It's Party Time!

Did you know I co-host a Blog Party over at the Etsy Cottage Style Blog? Well, a couple, but this week is the............................................................................

Aprils color is PINK Stop over and link in...Everyone is welcome....We'd be tickled pink if joined the party! Just enter thru here

Tea Party Chic

I was soooo excited when I found this vintage 1960 dishtowel..........................................................

                        I love the colonial motif and the colors  are so popular today....pale to medium shades  of

pinks, colonial red, soft browns........and  it lends itself so easily to become a small tablerunner.

It just cried for some hand-embroiery to make it pop!

I hand-embroidered the the leaves with a satin stitch that wove around the candle and throughout the design

I used a myriad of daisy stitches to create the flower petals by the spoon

and I outlined the Grandfather Clock

It needed a finishing touch, so I found a matching rickrack for the ends of the runner. It's the perfect colonial brown.......................................................................

This would be soooo pretty on a tea cart or table all accented with a pewter or ironstone teapot and floral teacups! A fluffy coconut  cake,  hot buttered scones, fresh baked shortbread........the menu could go on.

This TeaParty Tablerunner is available. If you're interested just leave me a comment or e-mail me at melody@brownginghamcreations.com

Don't forget to join everyone at How Sweet the Sound for

And, Southern Lady's Vintage for

Vintage Love Saturday

This Weekend and coming Monday join everyone over at Etsy Cottage Style for................

Hope to see you there!

It's Easy to be Green

Especially when it's time for Etsy Cottage Styles.......................................

This months color is my favorite.....GREEN. My house is decorated in shades of greens, golds, burgandy, taupes, mauves, peaches.....okay so they are not trendy, but warm inviting colors and yes, Autumnul....yes, dated, but comfy for my Cabin Cottage.  

I have a few favorite green things..............................................

My Repro metal chair, metal flower cart, metal sun flowerpot holder, and my vintage floral anf foliage botanical prints at my front door on the porch.

 This vintage cookbook cover

These Vintage English enamalware tin plates with their variety of greens

                                        and this cut glass green pitcher                                 

My favorite vintage bottle.........................................................

This Angelic Inspiration and Vintage inspired pillow creation ................................................

 

They can be found here...................................................I said I love

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Here are some Green places that are beautiful

 

Rainy Days and Mondays

It's only 10a, but this is how my days is going. It started storming at 3a and was up til about 6a. Wind...hail....lightening.....

thunder..the whole show....it was a gullywasher, but thankfully no tornado. It was in the upper 60's and is now in the upper 50's, but it's to go down to the 40's by 5...yikes...they say if you don't like Cincinnati's weather just wait a minute..it'll change.

Today, I'd also like to thank all who have sent E-mails and messages inquiring about Dad's progress.

He is getting a little better each day.

It's so kind of you to check in on me. Your kindness brightens my day!

Now the real bright spot today is that it kicks off the week long



over at http://www.etsycottagestyle.blogspot.com/  I love hosting parties for this blog. Everybody is so talented, inspiring, and the best blog folk around:) The color for this month is PURPLE. If you didn't know the birthstone is amethyst and the flower of the month is violets.....both shades of purple.

Now for this post I thought I'd show off some of my vintage inspired creations.............................

I created this plate by taking a plain glass dinnerplate and basecoating it white. I then hand-painted the bouquet of violets. After it all dried I added the vintage hand-tatted rick-rack to frame the center.

Miss February(a 1952 6" platic doll) sports a dress (1940's hankie) in a violet print I hand-embroidered and added vintage habadashery violets and glass bead violet buds. Her cloak is a vintage doily adorned by glass bead violet buds.

This puple passion wedding pillow was a great find. I had the vintage doily and latex rose, but one day I came across the vintage wedding hankie in a package of like new undone stamped vogart. I stitched up the double ring pattern and flowers and added silver studs.

My Favorite Lavender Lady is Frenchy. Her satin slip is a wonderfully faded blue-purple. The satin rose fabric with the pale lavender fringe is original to the doll. I added a 1930's hankie for the skirt and hand-embroidered some of the flowers to matxch the blue-purple colors of the slip.

                          I just love her lavender iridescent wings and jaunty felt and feather cap.

This pretty in purple lass is a kitchen angel. Her skirt and apron are original, but I added the vintage rick-rack and embroidered flowers on the apron. She sports 19y60 eyelet wings. She stands atop a wodden cutting board that is accented by a 1960's recipe tin box with a few original recipes and a 1940's cookbook filled with tasty recipes and vintage doll photos! With this kitchen witch around no recipe will turn our badly :) 

These purty purples are available on my website at http://www.brownginghamcreations.com/ You can also browse for more purples there too. Now, I'm off to stroll down Etsy Cottage Style and see everyone else's color purple...we go thru Here

Am I Blue...........

Okay, I'm feelin a little blue today, which is not necessarily a bad thing. Especially when it's time for the  Cottage Colors Party over at http://www.etsycottagestyle.blogspot.com/  January's color is Blue.
Now my all time fav thing that is blue is one of the oldest garments in the fashion world, still popular today, and not changed in design over the last 100+ years.....can you guess?..........................................

 Click the pic to learn the history of this fashion staple

Jeans!

I love denim so much that I've used them in a few of my vintage inspired designs at

Brown Gingham Creations...............................

Now I don't have a lot of blue in my house, but I do have touches............................................................



A vintage blue Blenko Glass bowl





These English Aluminum plates





were a recent find.




I love the themes and the colors. They are so 1930-40.



These cobalt blue bowls aren't old, but the Aluminum server and lids I found as a set  are and needed them. LOL, when I purchased this the seller told me it was a bologna server....you placed the round luncheon meat in the indentations and covered with the lids.....I didn't have the heart to tell him he was wrong, but I purchased them for $5 and got the bowl for a $1 each at Olde Time Pottery.  know they aren't the cut glass or Pyrex type glass you usually see with Rodney Kent designs, but I thought it looked good.



This fruit motif jeannie bottle is from the 50-60's/ You sometimes find them as lamps. Industrious husbands used the bottle as the main body of the lamp and the topper as a finial.

Now these next blues are special to my heart................................................................................

This is our Shadow

(yes I know he's gray and black, but see his blue bone dog tag?)



And, these are two of 6 foundlings that are now Shadow's kittencaboodle
Chunkey Monkey (to the left of the ball) is one of 3 Russian Blues.
And, lastly here's a picture courtesy of God's handiwork...................................................................

Now let's go over and see all the other blue posts at Etsy Cottage Style Blog. We'll go theu here........

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See you there!