A Very Merry Christmas!
Wishing you and your loved ones a very Merry Christmas!!!

Happy finds...I forgot to show you this cute shelf! It's one of my birthday presents I found at the antique mall! It's the perfect vintage shade of aqua blue! I am using it in my studio to hold some favorite things~ vintage hats, millinery flowers and my newest find, this adorable baby doll head! I have been wanting one for so long! Doesn't she have the sweetest, prettiest face?Oops! I just remembered I forgot Vintage Christmas Monday! I'll try to remember next week.
Michelle xoxo

Happy Christmas!
I love my pink Christmas decor, but before that I loved the traditional Christmas red, too. And I still do! So although the rest of my home has pastels, I decided to decorate my hutch with the reds this year because I love my snowman collection and they just don't blend in with the pastels.One of my favorite snowmen,glittered village houses, snowy pine cones and bottle brush trees,one of my Teena Flanner snowmen, (I have loved her work since I first saw it in Mary Engelbriet's magazine!)another adorable snow guy,sweet home made looking ornaments,and vintage tinsel! I love the vintage, home made country Christmas look just as much as I love the pastels. What colors do you love for Christmas?
Michelle xoxo

Vintage Christmas Monday!
It's Vintage Christmas Monday again with Joan's blog, Anything Goes Here! A box of pretty vintage ornaments! I want to collect more for my tree and also to make one of those amazing wreaths like Heather's or Pam's!Here is my white tree that I love! I think the ornaments really stand out well against the white.I love the little houses I found at Hobby Lobby a couple of years back. I painted and glittered them and added rhinestones for doorknobs.The top of my tree with a pretty bird and vintage millinery rose. I think my bird may need a crown.One of my favorite home made ornaments. Isn't that little snow baby the cutest?
A sweet little tag I made. I haven't made any Christmas crafts yet this year, but I'm definitely in the mood to do so now!
Happy Vintage Christmas Monday!Michelle xoxo

Vintage Christmas Monday!
I'm joining in the Vintage Christmas Monday fun with Joan's blog, Anything Goes Here! I like to mix my vintage ornaments with my handmade ornaments and some that are new but vintage style.
Now I'm off to see all the other vintage Christmas posts!

Dressing up for the holidays.....
I've started to dress up my home and my lovely vintage half dolls for the holidays!I added a bit of white feather boa and a vintage brooch my sweet mama gave me to this lovely lady. Now I think she looks like a Snow Queen, don't you?And this beautiful lady looks like she is ready to go to a fabulous Christmas party!
I found the wonderful silver glittered "Believe" sign and the adorable snowman card below at Michael's for only $1 each!
One of my favorite ornaments in my favorite color. Not vintage, but just as pretty as the old ones!
And I found this pretty angel at T.J. Maxx. She is a Nichol Sayre! She was only $8 and I saw one exactly like her selling online for $60! Isn't she lovely? More Christmas photos next post!
Michelle xoxo

White Wednesday ( a little late!)
Sorry I'm late for Kathleen's White Wednesday! I found a gorgeous piece of lace while antiquing with my sweet mama last weekend! It is the perfect thing to dress up my very plain lampshade. I also found this sweet cream colored vintage apron with a cute little floral print. And look at this pretty crown ring. It's way too huge for me to wear, so I just twisted it off and will use it somehow in a art project maybe? I wish I had taken a better photo of it and the apron. They are so much prettier in person.
I found a few other goodies, but I am saving those to share with you later.
Michelle xoxo

Antiquing with two sweeties....
My sweet mama, my adorable baby Dylan and I had so much fun at the antique mall last weekend! As you can see, Dylan loves vintage hats as much as I do!I took some photos of my favorite booths. We saw pretty pillows,lovely vintage photos, yummy vintage hats,old silver tarnished to perfection, beautiful lace, and inspiring vignettes.Hmmm~ I think I might need more cloches!I love the sweet little dance costume. I had one so similar to this one when I was just 5 years old. I so wish I had kept it!Look at this yummy booth! . Lots of white and pastels....and lots roses!I want to make a wreath with vintage Christmas ornaments, but I need to collect some first!I loved this amazing wall sconce! It looks so much better in person and I'm sure it would look a whole lot better on any wall that wasn't pegboard! And this piece was so gorgeous! I will show you what I purchased in my next post.

Sitting pretty....
I used the last bit of my birthday money on this pretty half doll I found on Ebay! Isn't she gorgeous?! I think I may be starting a new collection. (as if I don't have enough collections already!) She looks right at home sitting in my favorite teacup!

My dear parents have come for a visit. They are enjoying seeing sweet baby Dylan whom they have not seen since he was a tiny newborn! I can hardly believe he is 6 months old already! My sweet mama brought me some wonderful birthday presents. She made me this beautiful organizer with pockets made from the prettiest fabrics!

She also gave my some vintage rhinestone pieces,

this sweet vintage pillowcase with bluebirds that belonged to her grandmother,

some more little goodies including this lovely vintage button card,

a vintage pillow cover in a wonderful ticking rose print that belonged to her mother

and a sweet little purse with some spending money tucked inside!

We even did some antique shopping last weekend and I brought my camera, but I was having to much fun to stop and take photos of the pretty booths.  We will definitely do some more antiquing while she is here, so maybe next time I will get some photos to share with you.
Michelle xoxo

White Wednesday!Thank you to Kathleen for hosting this fun idea of "White Wednesdays"! I'm off now to see the other white posts!

A few of my favorite things....
A pile of vintage millinery flowers and hats.
Pretty blues~ all are lovely gifts my sweet mama has given me. I think this shade of blue is divine!A new favorite find, this amazing pink vintage hat stand. Doesn't everything look more fabulous surrounded by vintage millinery flowers?Beautiful vintage jewelry pieces adorn the base of the hat stand.A silver sugar shaker.... yummy.
And, of course, the best favorite of all~ sweet Dylan in his monkey Halloween costume.Michelle xoxo

16 years ago.....
On Oct. 16, 1993, I married my darling sweetheart on the one year anniversary of our first date! 16 years, 8 moves,8 cars and 3 adorable boys later, we are still madly in love! Thank you for sticking with me, my love, through every hardship. Thank you for loving me just the way I am. Thank you for so sweetly encouraging me in my every endeavor. Thank you for not complaining that nearly every room in our home is decorated to suit my taste, because you know how important it is to me.Thank you for always making me laugh when I am sad. Thank you for marrying a girl that doesn't cook.....
and who is a little bit crazy.
Thank you for 16 wonderful years!
Michelle xoxo