I've been working on a couple of new items for my website this weekend. I just love this vintage sheeting I found at one of my favorite thrift stores. It's 100% cotton and has the prettiest rose pattern. My custom organizers are perfect for the home office to store file folders or magazines and in the kitchen for cookbooks or favorite recipes. Will be available on my website Pale Pink And Roses this week.
One of my favorite Christmas decorations is the artificial tree that my husband Joe and I bought in 1991. It was our first tree, which will still put up today with some of our most precious ornaments.
These next pictures are a couple of my favorites, my sweet as a peach Napco planter, she's not perfect but I love her just the same and one of the dozen or so Santa figurines that I love.
Make sure to stop by Beverly's blog "How Sweet The Sound" for a list of this weeks Pink Saturday participants.
Remember, you better be on your best behavior because you never know who might be watching!
Christmas is just around the corner, but there is still time to find just the right gift for that someone special on your shopping list this year.
A gift for the kitchen is always welcome. Perhaps a delicately embroidered kitchen towel to hang over the oven door, a toaster oven cover in the prettiest fabric and lace, white farmhouse canisters for holding utensils or a floral bouquet, or a cupcake clock to add whimsy to your kitchen wall.
For a new mother or mother to be, a baby blanket in soft white fleece or a cuddly bedtime friend for a little one to love. Gifts for the nursery might be a cute cupcake coin bank or a decorative wreath of childhood toys and treasures to display.
Do you have a stitcher on your list? She would be delighted to find a new project under her tree this year. Beautiful quilting fabrics and patterns or a scrap booking kit for her most precious memories. For the book lover, a vintage basket to hold her favorite books, or a carefully chosen book to give her new inspiration.
To add romance and beauty to her home, there are pillows dressed in ruffles and roses, vintage vases, and dishes for her shelf, silk flowers in colors that fit with any decor, a victorian vanity tray to grace the dresser in her boudoir.
Does she spend hours in the garden? Think hand painted birdhouses, cup and saucer bird feeders for feathered friends. An outdoor fairy house to inspire her creativity. Or if she prefers to spend her time entertaining indoors, perhaps a pretty handcrafted apron, a pair of elegant candlesticks, a china teapot to bring out whenever friends come over for tea.
Your lifelong best friend deserves a gift as beautiful and unique as she is a one-of-a-kind sterling bracelet, a vintage needlepoint transformed into a boudoir cushion, an antique pendant hanging on a ribbon chain. Cinderella shoes that make your dreams come true with heirloom laces, jewels and vintage brooches.
A last minute Christmas gift can hold all the love and friendship you feel at this season and always.
Joyce Lucas, Founder
Make Mine Pink
Photo Contribution 1:Angel Heart Designs | Photo Contribution 2: Sew Graceful | Photo Contribution 3: The Polka Dot Rose
Dancing with my mom and sisters to Christmas music being played on Bob Hope's USO tour in Vietnam... hoping to catch a glimpse of my daddy in the crowd.
For more holiday memories visit Beverly's blog "How Sweet The Sound".
Christmas is all about family, friends, church, and community. Seeing loved ones who live far away and reconnecting with those who are nearby but that we don't see as often as we wish we could. It's about caring for those who are alone at this time of year and inviting them to be part of our families too. Working with our communities to bring Christmas cheer to those in need is such a special part of our Christmas tradition.
Christmas is about time spent sitting around the fire, enjoying the warmth of the season. It is hot cocoa or our favorite tea, sipped from our favorite vintage holiday cups. Working on new stitching projects for someone we love, while telling stories from the past year and our hopes for the year to come. We're thankful for those we will share it with.
It's about planning cookie swaps and holiday menus. Yankee swaps and prizes that bring a little extra element of excitement to young and old alike. Christmas is aboutt searching for gifts that we're sure everyone on our Christmas list will love. We're filled with excitement when we find that perfect item for someone on our list, and we feel a little giddy at the thought of them opening our gift on Christmas morning. The ultimate gift for someone special is no longer elusive. With a love of re-purposed and well loved gifts from the past, our choices become easier and more personal; our treasure hunt memorable.
Under the sparkling lights of the Christmas tree shines gift wrap that's almost as pretty as the gifts inside. Some gifts are wrapped in vintage linens and held closed by a vintage rhinestone brooch. Others are tied with velvet ribbons and big bows. Each gift bears a handmade gift tag, twinkling with glitter and the name of someone you love. The sense of anticipation we feel looking at those Christmas treasures is almost as exciting as watching the gifts being opened.
Christmas is all about sharing the blessings of the season with family and friends and believing that everything about the Christmas season is magical.
Joyce Lucas, Founder
Make Mine Pink
Just a few of the beautiful pink treasures I live with each day. Please stop by Beverly's blog, How Sweet The Sound for a list of participants in this week's Pink Saturday Event.
Every Christmas, everyone from great-grandparents to the newest addition to the family, gather around the Christmas tree. We’re filled with anticipation of the upcoming celebration and gratitude for loved ones to share it with. The boxes of favorite ornaments are brought out from their safe storage and passed around, inspiring memories of many a Christmas. Some of the ornaments have been handed down from mother to daughter for generations, we reminisce about the memories they hold. Others are new, bringing a new excitement about the memories we’ll make this year. Soon the tree is shining with glitter, beads, ribbons, lace and memories.
As we set up our Christmas villages with the old-fashioned houses and bottle brush trees, the children peer closely at the scene and imagine what is happening behind those tiny closed doors. The sprinkle of glittering snow on the village rooftops and pathways reminds us of the snow we hope to have for this Christmas.
A quick look around and you’ll see Christmas wreaths and garlands of greenery, gracing our doorways and doors. Each welcoming family and friends inside with holiday ornaments and twinkling lights Stockings are hung from the mantle, seemingly empty but overflowing with hopes and wishes for Christmas morning. As we sit by the crackling fire, sipping tea and hot cocoa from vintage holiday mugs, a feeling of nostalgia fills us with contentment.
We fondly remember unwrapping treasures from our childhood. A precious doll with curling hair and eyes that closed when you tucked her into a bed made just for her. A charm bracelet that made you feel all grown up whenever you wore it. A hand knit sweater that felt like a hug from your mother when you put it on. These treasures are etched in our memories.
This year’s gifts sparkle under the tree, each present lovingly chosen and carefully wrapped with extra special touches. They’re trimmed with vintage lace and beautiful handmade tags, bearing the names of loved ones. The packages capture our imaginations, and we can’t help but dream about what’s inside and what wonders this Christmas season has in store.
Outside, as the snow begins to lightly fall, we know that this year, like so many others, all of our Christmas dreams can come true.
Joyce Lucas, Founder
Make Mine Pink
Photo Contribution 1:Grandma G's | Photo Contribution 2: Misty Moonlight Creations|Photo Contribution 3: Patricia Rose|Photo Contribution 4: Carol's Rose Garden, LLC
When I think of the comforts of home, I picture a favorite sweater, soft and worn with time. Sitting by the fire, wrapped in a quilt that my mother made so many years ago bring back so many memories of home. Looking around, there are framed photographs on the wall, some of people I see every day, and others of friends of loved ones that once touched my life , yet are no longer with us. The memories woven, remain alive and an important part of our lives. The antique clock that my great-grandmother cherished, chimes the hour in the next room, and the crackling of the fire seems in tune, counting the minutes.
As I sip my tea from a special antique cup and saucer that was once a part of my grandmother’s treasured collections, I can’t help but remember and smile. No one made a tea party more special than she did. At the end, we’d read our tea leaves as if we could tell the future. Mine was always filled with wonderful things that were sure to come true.
The fragrance of potpourri simmering on the stove, reminiscent of holiday get-togethers, gingerbread and pumpkin pie, and mingling with memories of my mother’s kitchen on any Sunday or holiday, fills my senses. The lit candles, with rich and spicy scents, cast soft shadows around the room, lighting up corners with thoughts of familiar voices and laughter.
The comforts of home reach out from the past and wind their way into those of the present. Our homes, stamped with our own distinct style, with just a touch of nostalgia mixed in. Grandmother’s teacup, the glaze finely crazed with age, sitting on the shelf alongside a favorite new set of coffee mugs. A vintage lamp standing tall, surrounded by candlelight. Among the faded family photographs hangs a framed print that makes you smile just because. A treasured worn sweater lies in a dresser drawer beside a brand new knit cardigan. On the sofa beside me, the colors of a new quilting project are bright compared to the quilt my mother made.
It’s the little touches from generations past that help to make our house a home. Each item is so different from the others, yet nothing feels out of place. It just feels like home.
Joyce Lucas, Founder
Make Mine Pink
1. New pink wellies for green wellies!, 2. Someone asked for Pink...lol, 3. is the rose naked, 4. A dream in pink, 5. One Big Pink Hug, 6. Pink vintage millinery dress form, 7. Ispahan Macaron, Pierre Hermé, Isetan Shinjuku, 8. Target Tuesday: Pink Glasses, 9. Pink Hyenas*, 10. Pink Blossom Booties, 11. Passionately Pink for the Cure...., 12. I Love Pink!, 13. Happy Tuesday in Pink14. Not available15. Not available16. Not available
A few very pretty pink treasures, courtesy of flickr.
