Tell Me Tuesday Link Party #2 Faves

Happy Monday, and welcome to the Tell Me Tuesday Faves from last week's party!


Here is Fave #3, an Embellished Ruffle Top from Simply Step Back.

I have made several ruffle shirts, but this one is fun in that the ruffles are placed asymmetrically on one shoulder. Sarah says "Seriously, I couldn't think of an easier thing to make." and she is SO RIGHT! These are fun, quick and have a great WOW result.

Tell Me Tuesday Fave #2 is from Three Sisterz and is a Wooden Beaded Wreath.

I have to disclose of course that my friend Flan made this--I got to see it right after she finished it and was CRAZY in love with it. Now it is hanging in her front widow. A thing of beauty! Visit the Three Sisterz blog to get the how-to.

And finally, Tell Me Tuesday Fave #1 is . . .

Stephanie's Embellished Deer Holiday Pillow from Built to Last!


You must, must MUST zip over to her blog to read about this sweet little project. A re-purposed sweater and some favorite flannel and WOW just a wonderful holiday pillow. And the back is a little surprise--go check it out to see how clever Stephanie was with the closure!

Thanks ladies, be sure to grab your button for your blog to let everyone know that you were featured in the Tell Me Tuesday Link Party.


And to everyone else that participated--thanks for making this such a fun event! I look forward to everyone's contributions tomorrow--and please spread the word and tell your friends. If I can get 50 entries, I will host a giveaway!

A Small, Beautiful Pantry Box

I have been meaning to post about a beautiful gift that my Dad gave me for my birthday this past October. It is a small, oval, antique pantry box. He has had several of them in his space over at Cabot Mill, and has been selling some in his Ebay auction as well. I am always admiring them, and he knew that I liked this particular one that I saw on a recent visit home.


My readers know that I have a chimney cupboard--I can envision it in an older time, filled with these boxes. Here is an excerpt about their history that I found online:

"Colonial women kept dairy products and grains well away from the cooking hearth, in small rooms called “butteries.” Like today’s homemakers, they fought an ongoing battle to keep bugs and mice away from flour, sugar, and other dry comestibles whose storage posed a problem until the introduction of covered stoneware crocks and their even more expedient successor, the pantry box." You can read more about them here.

This pantry box is not large, but in my eyes it is truly beautiful. It was made during a time when things were simpler.


Thanks Dad. I love it.

This post is a part of the following link parties:

Market Yourself Monday at Sumo's Sweet Stuff

Making the World Cuter Monday

Happy Thanksgiving from My Two Little Turkeys

We are settled in the new place! It was a pretty smooth move. Other than a few boxes and some window treatments to hang, it is feeling like home. Just in time for Thanksgiving!

I hope you have a wonderful day visiting with your family and your friends. Enjoy the day--the opportunity for togetherness, sharing love, and giving thanks for all that is important to you. I know that my day will be filled with thankful thoughts, too.

Best to you and yours on this day,

Allison

Antiques Roadshow & Tell Me Tuesday Link Party #2

I have always been a fan of Antiques Roadshow. Whenever I was home visiting my parents and we watched it, I loved hearing my Dad and Mom guessing how much items were and usually being right on the money!

Roadshow came through Las Vegas in 2007 when I lived there and I told Mom and Dad they needed to ship me some great items so that I would get picked to get on--and I did!

Here is a link to my personal blog--you can see a You Tube video of my appearance!
Don't Blink Or You'll Miss My Roadshow Appearance

Now on to the party!

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Tell Me Tuesday Link Party Faves and A Great Old Milk Jug

Happy Monday! What a weekend we have had! We spent last week finishing packing up the house, on Saturday we packed the moving truck (thanks to all of our friends and family that lent a hand) and Sunday we started settling in. Now Monday is here, I am sitting in our new family room next to the pellet stove writing this post!

I was so excited to have as many entries as I did in the link party last Monday--I have always felt like crafty link parties have given me great inspiration--and hosting one myself is so much fun! But before I share my three favorite entries, I wanted to share with you a great antique that we picked up in Maine a few months ago.


The shining star of the new place is a stone chimney and fireplace. (Pics of that to come) and it has a great mantle and hearth. We knew the minute that we saw this old milk jug that it would look great on the hearth!


The best part? It says "Christopher" on it, which is my husband's name!


I like the old paint on it, too, and the great wear and tear from over the years. The top is stamped "Rodar So, Cal." It was $15 bucks!


Nice little sneak peek of the stonework I gave you on the fireplace, eh?


And now to my three favorite entries from last week's party:

CoBabe in Suburbia's Coffee Filter Wreath:

I made some coffee filter peonies last summer in preparation for my daughter's Lemonade and Sunshine Social Birthday Party, and this wreath reminds me of the simplicity of the project!

Oopsey Daisy's T is for Thanksgiving Kid's Packet:

I was happy to share this link with my friends on Facebook--so many of them have young children that will be home for vacation this week, and I thought that all of the fun printables, coloring pages and food crafts would be a hit!

And finally my favorite, Pleasant Home's Scrappy Selvage Quilt:


Seriously-- I am drooling over this project! A friend just turned me on to all of the small selvage edge projects that are all over Etsy--I can't imagine the work it entails to make a selvage edge project of this size!

So thanks to everyone for participating--and if I featured you as one of my faves, please grab a Feature Button from my Buttons page.


I hope you found a new project to inspire you--and don't forget to join me tomorrow for Tell Me Tuesday!

Thanks and See You Monday

First of all, a GREAT BIG THANK YOU to everyone who participated in my Tell Me Tuesday link party!! I was very excited to have so many entries my first time out of the gate. I also learned about a lot of fun new projects, browsed around some incredible blogs, and hopefully made a few new friends in the process!

As promised I will post Monday on my top three faves from the link party. But in the meantime I have to get back to PACKING. We move this Saturday to a bigger home about 25 minutes away from our current home. I am knee deep in boxes, boxes, boxes!

So keep working on those great projects, and don't forget to visit other people in the link party if you haven't already. And did you take advantage of the Shutterfly offer yet? I will (as soon as I find out what box I packed my camera in . . .)

Tell Me Tuesday Link Party #1

Introducing . . .


Vintage Pollyanna's Tell Me Tuesday Link Party!

I have been inspired by so many great link parties that I have decided to start one here at Vintage Pollyanna. I enter several parties each week, and have made a number of great bloggy friends doing so. Maybe you will too!

Special Offer from Shutterfly

To begin this week's link party and as a thank you for participating, I sharing an offer that bloggers can get for posting about a great giveaway from Shutterfly! Simply put, you blog about the new line of Shutterfly photo card designs, and you get 50 free holiday photo cards!

Some years I design my own card, some years I use Shutterfly, and other times I find a blank insert-your-card-here type of set up from Costco. This year I am going to use the Shutterfly promotion.

Now, not to give anything away, but I will tell you that I am interested in this design:


Hey, I've got two kids, I can shoot nicely in black and white, and my kids will smile nicely right after Ella pinches James so hard he cries and then punches her for the camera! (But maybe I won't use it so that family members that read this will remain surprised!)

Shutterfly also makes a nice line of bi-fold Christmas cards. Take a look!

Every year I also make a personalized photo calendar for my Dad, sister and grandparents. You can to! Here is the link for the customizable photo albums.

Want to get in on the fun? You still have time to apply for this great deal for 50 Free Photo Cards from Shutterfly!

Now back to the party!!

So link up your latest and greatest, and each Monday following the link party I will highlight the top three favorites! And be sure to grab a button for your post--we want people to know where they can go to find great inspiration, or just post a text link in the body of your post.

Please follow me and leave a comment if this is the first time you have visited Vintage Pollyanna! I'd love to get to know you all better--I will visit each of you that links and or comments later this week!

Here are two of my very favorite Tuesday link parties--so I know I will be in great company!


Whatever you did recently--be it craft, design, bake, draw, or sew--please share your creation with us. And don't forget to at least visit the entry before and after yours to say hello and introduce yourself. Welcome to Tell Me Tuesday!

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