In the name of L♥ve

In the name of L♥ve, a photo by WithWhimsy on Flickr.

Personalized wedding wine cozy! Would also make a great anniversary gift. Now available in my shop!! A great gift idea :))

Faux Bois!!

  My favorite new word as of late!  A fancy way of saying wood grain.  I love how wood grain is fashionable right now.  It inspired me to make this sunglasses/eyeglasses pouch with the pattern.  I love nature and being inspired by it.  So the out come is a whole lot of texture on this pouch.  I just hand drew what my idea of wood grain looks like.  Some split stitch and back stitch going on here.  I blended some browns for interest and depth.  I love this pouch!  So this is what I've been working on lately.  How about you?!

   Have a great weekend!!

The crafter does not fall far from the crafty tree!

It's true!  My little dolly Hanna has been so very busy.  She loves doing crafts with me and absorbs how to do all things crafty just like a sponge!  She has all but mastered the sewing machine.  She embroiders and has just learned the split stitch.  Glue gun..no problem.  Iron...easy.  Making her own patterns..sky's the limit.

This kid amazes me everyday.  So this is a little braggy blog post about her and what shes been making lately.  So I made a fall/Halloween bunting last week.  Well my girl wonder took the scraps and made this adorable micro bunting and hung it on this chest of drawers!  I must admit I like hers better than the one I made.  Simple and cute!

This little squirrel pillow project is when she decided on her own to master the split stitch.  She didn't care for the eye so she put a button on instead. 

Yesterday she wanted to google how to make a 3 dimensional bird.  She found this cute pattern.

Made them herself!  Wow!

 This is her current stitching project.  She drew out first.  The rooster on the fence is blended with red, green and orange. 

 Oh yeah and she paints too.

I love this water color she did.  The house is charming!  Apple tree and whats not to love about a hen with a bonnet :))

She so inspires me!

I hope you all have a great week.

What I did this weekend!

I made some "Whimsy girl" ornaments this weekend!  I just love this embroidery pattern.  I use this teacup girl as my Etsy avatar.  So cute!  And now voila, ornaments.  These were so fun to make.  Now I'm dreaming up other ornament ideas.  I love the idea of ornaments being things vintage inspired.  So as my family lounged around on Sunday and watched Star Wars on Blu-ray, I watched too......while stitching of course.

Cute prints on the back.

My ladies checking out some stitchy goodness!

Have a fantastic week!!!

Still waiting!

     I'm still waiting for heavens sake!  I applied for a sellers permit a couple weeks ago.  Hoping to try my hand at a craft show for the first time.  I just don't think it's going to happen.  My stuff just looks cuter in person.  I think I would be more successful doing a craft show once or twice a year.  I've been hesitating to put new items in my Etsy shop thinking the permit will magically appear in the mail.  I just can't keep waiting. I'm still trucking though.  I've been busy making and creating new things.  Trying to stay inspired and not be to critical of my work.  Sometimes I just set things aside and then look at them the next day with fresh eyes.  I painted this owl with water color  awhile back.  I drew it first as a pattern to stitch.  Well I finally stitched this cutie up.  I just love him!

I started fiddling around making wine cozies.  Put the owl on one, it turned out so cute.  This picture of a wine cozy is my first attempt, so its pretty wonky.  I couldn't live without this guy any way :)

So I've started some different variations and patterns with these cozies.  It's been fun and will be listing some soon in my Etsy shop www.vintageandwhimsy.etsy.com .



vintage wine glass pattern




wine barrel cozy



 I've also stitched a couple of wall art hoops.  A vintage style mason jar.  I love this!

"Be Tidy" inspirational quote!

 I've also made a couple of ruffle pouch combos.  This one will be called "Pretty in pink"  Listing soon!

Love the hounds tooth pattern fabric.

So I'm going to get back to work!  I hope you all have a great weekend!!

Blue egg!! ♥

Well hello there!  Just wanting to share some exciting and not so exciting news.  First the exciting!  Our littlest hen Blossom layed her first blue egg!!  Just so pretty and a surprise.  I knew that she would lay greenish or blueish eggs but, I didn't think she would start laying until the end of September.  So it caught me a little of guard.  It's like Easter :)

Today I've been getting myself organized!  Printing more business cards and cutting them out.  Do you prefer to make your own or do you buy them?  I've been thinking about ordering some but not sure where to start. 

I also stamped out thank you cards and put ribbon on them.  Getting my shipping stuff organized and stocked.

I'm using this cute vintage pyrex butter print dish to store my business and thank you cards.  Sure makes me feel more creative when I'm surrounded by things that make me happy!










Well this was just a quick post!  Hope your all having a great week.  It sure is flying by!
~Hillori

This and That

     Hello!!  I hope you all are having a fantastic 3 day weekend!  It's been a nice escape to our new busy back to school fall time schedule.  Last week flew by so fast!  But when things slow down and I get everything organized around the house (that's code for cleaned), I feel like that's when I can cultivate my creativity and brain storm ideas.  Nothing I love more than waking up with an idea and excitement to put that new idea into motion.  I have to start with an organized environment.  Other wise I am distracted by what needs to be done to get my house in order.  Well yesterday was productive.  I woke up with an idea and put it in to motion.  I've been making sunglasses and eyeglass pouches.  I came up with a new spin on them.

I love the look of cross stitch!!  It's so charming.  This mint green fabric is so cute.  One of my favorites.


I love how it turned out.  Wasn't to sure about the appliqued cherries in the beginning.  But once you iron those sticky suckers on, your kind of committed to the idea.  So I went for  it!