Vintage Lace Sampler

I just added a sample of all my favorite laces in my shop. You get 18 yards of trim plus flower appliques all tucked into a vintage wallpaper box. If there is an interest I will make more boxes with different trims.

Cottage Kits

Well we survived our camping trip. I' m not sure how with 115 degree temps and lots of snakes! The lake water was HOT! And the snakes were BIG!

I finished the Home Sweet Home Vintage Cottage kits. I added some really lovely vintage wallpaper I scored off of e-bay. The kit comes with full color instructions.

Cindy posted a cute tutorial over at Joli Paquet. Thanks Cindy!

Out Of Town

I just wanted you to know we would be out of town camping this weekend. I will be back Monday if I survive the 104 degree weather and three boys! Orders will be shipped then. I added some goodies to my shop. Have a great weekend and stay cool!

Vintage Trims

I have been listing lots of vintage trims in my shop. You will still get a free yard of vintage lace with every order. My favorite is the French Blue and White lace. Its so delicate and soft.

Winner!

I use a Random Number Generator (http://www.random.org/) time and issued everyone numbers. The winner was #10 LOVE STITCHING RED said...
Lovely giveaway! I would love to be included. I've just followed your link from flickr. ps. love your journal with the big pink vintage flower on, so beautiful! Carolyn

Congrats Carolyn!

And just because I feel like it... I will be giving 1 yard of this pretty Ballerina Pink lace away with every Brandywine Boutique order for the next two weeks!

Last Chance

Today is the last day to enter for the give away. Just leave a comment by midnight tonight and I will draw a winner tomorrow morning. Good luck!

I am putting off listing the Home Sweet Home Collage kits until I receive some vintage wallpaper I purchased. That way I can add some GORGEOUS vintage wallpaper to the kits.

I did however, list some of that yummy lace I scored the other day. You can find it HERE.

New Kits Are Coming

I have been working on this idea for a while now. I wanted something cottagey, and for the home. So this is my Home..Sweet..Home collage kit. I will be offering them soon at Brandywine Boutique. You could hang them on your door, or wall, and you could even use them in a scrapbook! I own all three of the photos that will be in the kit. I just love the pets in them. The

three children all have their own bunny! And that big black dog must have been loved to be included in the family photo. I'm not sure when I will list them but, I am working on it. I will also be making more journals from antique photo album frames too.

Have a great weekend. Its supposed to be 105 degrees here!

Fun Little Project

Today we have several pool birthday parties to go too. Happy 3rd birthday my cutie pie nephew Boone!!! I was wishing for something pretty to tote around the towels, sun screen, bug spray, and all that junk. So I got brave and took one of my grocery bags, vintage trim, and some vintage corsages and made this bag. I broke three sewing machine needles. I don't think the machine likes me. I might sew some mother of pearl buttons on too. Who knows in might fall apart! Have a great weekend. Get inspired and create!

Patriotic Inspiration

I received two yummy things in the mail today. I had won a amazing Victorian photo album on e-bay and it came with a few photos and I got some vintage crepe paper from the adorable shop Junque Art. I just happened to set them down on a old book and thought, "wow those look neat together." and tada "American Boy" collage was born. I LOVE LOVE LOVE it! Isn't he so handsome? Of course I had to make a story to go with it:

This is Emerson. He is seventeen and going to the annual 4th of July picnic. He's taking a huge bouquet of Lilacs (Victorian meaning for lilacs is first love) for the girl he hopes will be his.Her name is Amalia. All of his friends teased him about his tie but he thinks its just the thing to catch her eye. Good luck Emerson!

Yes I know I'm odd. Or maybe just too sentimental.

School's Out For Summer

Finally today is the last day of school! I have been so busy with kid stuff! Well here is the give away I promised!!!! Its a good one if I say so myself! All you have to do is comment on any entry from now until June 18th. And on June 19th I will announce a winner. I know some of you are shy so all you have to comment is "hi" if you want too. Good luck!!!

Sushi Love

I just thought I would drop in to say a quick hi! I hope your Memorial Day weekend was fun. We spent the weekend at the lake. It rained most of the time but we still had fun.I have decided I'm in love with sushi! I can't get enough of it. I even tried eel sushi. It was fabulous. You don't find much sushi around here so I'm excited to have found a good source. What kind of sushi do you like?




I have also been adding new items to my shop. I will be adding more daily.

I Guess I Do Sew After All

I have been wanting to try fiber art for a while now. I thought these little fabric collage tags would be a perfect way to use my new vintage stash. Big projects overwhelm me so I went small. I used my cheap little sewing machine that I purchased to sew paper with. I had SO much fun making them. Well...except for the part when my sewing machine kept jamming over and over again. But, I'm glad I jumped in and tried it. I'm really enjoying it. I think I might even put together kits so you can make some too!

P.s. Thanks for all the sweet comments about my studio! You guys make me blush!

Spring Clean

My sweet husband and I spent the weekend in a flurry of spring cleaning. I just have to give him credit. He was so patient as I kept pulling more and more stuff out for him to haul off for donations. Not to menation the massive amounts of cleaning he did too! Thank you so much sweetie! I'm a lucky girl! These are some "not so great" pictures of my studio. The lighting is weird in here. I plan on making a video tour of it to share with you soon. I have decide to do a major purge. I will be calling it The Spring Clean Sale. I want to keep the prices VERY low so no foofy packaging just straight up great deals. After the Spring Clean sale I will start adding my new stuff. I am so super excited about this.

Do You Sew?

I went to a garage sale for the first time in FOREVER yesterday. There was a large sale benefiting a local organization going on so I stopped by. I must admit I have never had that "swooning" feeling at seeing anything before. Well that all changed! Covering two tables and the floor was boxes of lace and trim. It was vintage, still on spool, and.......in gorgeous pastel colors. Some was still in the package! My heart pounded, I felt faint, and I was frozen. It looked like a shark feeding frenzy with all the ladies grabbing and shoving. I finally came to my wits and started grabbing whole boxes and taking them to the holding table. Some ladies REALLY got upset at me for this! I stopped when I felt I had gotten most of the good stuff. It took all the people working there to stop and add up my stuff. People were in line grumbling and griping about me. I was very unwillingly the center of attention. As I (and several people working there) carried my boxes out a lady asked me "Do you sew?" I loudly told her the truth. "Nope. Not even a button." I could clearly read the faces around me. " Whats up with that?" Whats up with that is I got VERY lucky and hit the jackpot! I have been working nonstop all day packaging all the pretties to put in my shop. Its been a bit overwhelming. Most of the trim is from New York Import companies. So who knows where its from. A lot of it had notes attached that said things like "wedding Veil", "slip bottom", and " to be dyed blush pink". There was also bags of pretty flower appliques. My hubby laughed at me when he saw me dividing it all into two piles.' My keep for me' pile was much larger that my sale pile. I'm such a hoarder. I couldn't tell you about all this with out giving some away so stay tuned for a give away! And I will update my shop soon.

Happy Mother's Day Weekend

I hope everyone has a fabulous Mother's day weekend. We are going camping!

Also be sure to Bookmark the Joli Paquet site. New things are coming soon!

Texas Longhorn Herd

We recently went on a cub scout camping trip and got to visit with these guys. They are part of the Official Texas Longhorn Herd. You could feed them by hand and even kiss one of them. I passed on that! Longhorns are such amazing, gentle animals. The only downside was the wind was really blowing hard in our direction and apparently longhorns slobber. Gross! At least can say we got slobbered on by longhorns! The trip was really fun! If you ever go to Copper Breaks State Park make sure you go see them. Its worth it.

Happy Earth Day

I'm spending the day planting things like okra, squash, cucumbers, and green beans. It's supposed to be in the high 90's today. Yikes! What happened to spring?

Mother's Day Kit

Mother's day is comming up! I always try to find or make someting extra special for my mom and mother inlaw. Throughout the year I have been saving some really cool vintage "mother" items. I had more than I could use so I made a few kits and listed them in my shop.

New Flickr Group

I just thought I would tell you about a new group I started on Flickr. The group is for you to share your crafts, art, ideas and tips with items bought from Brandywine Boutique!Pictures need to include anything you have made using supplies from Brandywine Boutique. Please add the tag Brandywine Boutique to your photos and tell us what you used.
Your craft/art could be featured on my blog! And you could win something!
I will have a monthly drawing for a fun give away. Each person who adds a picture in that month will be entered for the monthly give away. You can find it here: Creating With Brandywine Boutique I really hope you will share all your wonderful creations. I know you all are sooo creative!

New Tags!

I have had SO much fun making these new digi collage tags. I hope you like them too! You can find them in my shop. Also I doing the whole Twitter thing now so if you want to follow me here is the link. Do you Twitter too? If so tell me so I can follow you too.