Old Paper & Tiny Bubbles

The other day, I turned my office upside down in an effort to find a note I'd misplaced, and in the process, I discovered this totally cool vintage wall-paper pack that I won from REDiNSTEAD's blog giveaway back in, um, do I dare say, October!  I am so embarassed.  It was so generous of her to send me a present all the way from Austrailia and I owe Jen a huge and long over-due *THANK YOU*! I love it all and I can hardly wait to have time to actually get these out of their beautiful wrappings and do something with them.  I finally had a chance to visit Jen's blog again too, and love these pillows and bags she's been making.

Speaking of vintage papers, I was happily surprised to find all this in the mailbox recently from my lovely pal Toni at Simple Sparrow.  She picked up this lot at a rummage sale, thinking of me and my growing "hobby" a.k.a. PatternBee.  Well, I was thrilled to get this fabulous bundle and found in here amongst the old treasures, what I believe to be an original Ingall's transfer.  It's the one on top with the blue smears.  These particular transfers were produced in England in the late 1800's, and were perforated with tiny holes along the lines.  A blue powder was purchased and pounced into the holes in a stencil-like fashion, as a means of transferring the pattern to cloth.  It's funny because I was just saying here that I'd never actually seen one of these transfers before, and then, the very next week one just happens to appear in the middle of my desk just like that!  Love when that happens.  Since I've been attempting to reproduce some of these old designs, it helps to know what the originals looked like, their size, the details, etc., and I couldn't be more pleased. Thank you again dear Toni!

I've also been keeping in touch with my friend Missy and her family since their move from our neck of the woods back to northern Michegan this past summer, and she tells me they're all settled into their new home and enjoying some real snow.  She's also been busy re-stocking her Etsy shelves and just re-opened her shop,  which is good news if you're in the market for some wonderful handmade soap. Her fiber-wrapped bars are so sweet, and each one is unique.  (If your new to my blog, I posted all about them earlier this year. )

Comments

[Kitty]

Love your little treasures that you received. The pattern story was interesting.....

Kitty

[Kathleen]

Hi, was just browsing and came upon your delightful site. Just loved staying awhile and looking!

[Claire]

Lovely things here as usual - have a look over at my blog for some things made from patterns you posted as freebies - I tried emailing you but the files didn't want to attach!

Claire

[Dawn]

I had never seen such transfers...What a perfect gift for you...the keeper of all things embroidery!
Enjoy the season, dear Vicki!

[Pam Kellogg]

Vicki, those are some lovely gifts that you received! Of course, I too have this thing for transfers, in case I never mentioned it before! My collection is outgrowing it's storage space but that doesn't stop me!

As always, I so much enjoy your blog!