Summer Blues HEARTS

Beach Cottage / Summer Blues HEARTS

                        

 Set of 2,   5" x 3"

Hi! Some of you have admired the tiny ticking hearts I use as tags...

Here is a larger set to share!

Antique navy and white French ticking, vintage brass sailor buttons, nice long hemp cord loop. Backs are a fun navy cotton with little American flags. I couldn't resist!

Special [salvaged!] scraps of wonderful old ticking stripes handmade into sachets,filled with Cape Cod lavender and a bit of polyfil for plumpness.*

I love these tied to a white ironstone pitcher filled with little American flags for the 4th, or any summer day... 

...toss them in a bowl full of white shells or, in the fall, red apples.....

How about with a candle, some starfish, a few tiny floats or seaglass---all on an old chipped blue-and-white tureen-plate---

Light summery  scent, simple enough style to sneak into your guy's side of the closet?

*I use the polyfil with plenty of lavender or other herbs not to be "cheap" but because on certain styles I like the look of the plump full hearts. What do you all think? Should I stick to 100% lavender or go with what, to me, looks prettiest sometimes....?

Have fun planning your Fourth of July picnic! No matter what else I do, I always make my classic potato salad and I always decorate with all my collected little flags.
And fireworks, have to have fireworks!

love

    lizzy

****gone to the beach

ps available now , along with other pretties in my esty shop [sidebar, right] and on ebay and always available as a special order, your choice of size, backing, filler, trims...so fun!

Always Looking for that Silver Lining....

So here I am, up early, very cleared decks...now what?

Yes! I'm off to the beach, doll quilt to quilt tucked happily in my bag!

love

           lizzy

gone to the beach

Old-fashioned White

Hi! Oh I have to take a moment before I start to paint the LR! So how's everyone's week been, hmmm?

I accomplished nothing today! I was off to buy a book by a fav author, stop at the garden store to buy herbs for my own herb garden...and had to run home, forgot something, yaddah-yaddah. So I am painting the LR instead...try again tomorrow, even though it's Saturday?

One of my fav blogs, A Beach Cottage has a post today all about Sarah's farmers' market in AU.

Her market seems a bit more exotic than mine, but I do love serving fresh local food to friends and family.
Since this weekend is, however, dedicated to house painting I almost skipped the market this week...

but was lured in by the prospect of the first cut field flowers....

Snapdragons!

Big tubs of old-fashioned white snapdragons....

Who could resist?

And, oh okay, a box of Italian deep fried artichoke hearts. Man, are they wonderful! Reheat and dip in a make-do remoulade of mayo, parm, garlic, worcestershire sauce. Yummy yum yum.
Climbing up and down the paint ladder will work off the calories right? (oh geez I hope so! Because I just ordered new swim suits!)...

This is an old Pennsylvania farm basket I keep in the car to hold my market goodies...

I think it needs a coat of white paint along with my walls? This is photoshopped to tone down the real color....

Someone already "ruined" it with orange-brown paint so I think it's a yes.....

Have a fun weekend, pray for sun. And waves....

 

love

            lizzy

gone to the beach.....