Almost Spring Break!

Spring break is coming up next week....can`t wait! I`ll be closing my Ebay store on Wednesday this week until the following Friday. I plan to re-open with some new listings!
We have not closed on our beach condo yet so I have not been able to post any pics............but I do have a bunch of furniture and decor waiting in a storage unit!........My linen fabric came, it is so nice, I have already re-covered a shabby chic chair seat with it.........I plan to put it in the master bedroom at La maison de plage.
For all of you waiting on the burlap buckets from my store...I promise they are on the way but Fed-ex has caused a hiccough in the shipment............I`m hoping they will fix it soon! The buckets are sooo cute and just perfect for so many uses.






I also wanted to give you a sneek preview of the cutest glitter crowns I am waiting on..........they are on a metal stake...........I know I will be sticking them everywhere!!

Gorgeous French Linen Script Fabric Find!

Hope you are having a good weekend!
I wanted to tell you about this great find I made today................I had been searching for a pretty fabric with  a design that was like a lot of my goodies on Ebay......script background, crowns, cherubs, ephemera, etc. I had been admiring a French linen ( I LOVE linen) that I could only find in the UK and was outrageously price by the time shipping was added............well today I found it on a website here!!!!! I wanted to share it with you..it will make the most beautiful pillows or drapes. It is still a little pricey at $32.99 a yard but it is truly gorgeous, pure linen from France. Here is the link and a photo................https://secure.designerfabrics.ca/shop/scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=22789

I plan on making some sofa cushions but some of it may find its way to an item I list in my store!

Here`s to another go!

I`m so lame.........I can`t believe I have not posted since August!..........I am definately going to do better now. Well, to fill you in on a few things...........Ebay is going strong, almost more than I can handle. I have quit work at the hospital, its weird to be no longer practising as a nurse after almost 25 years!................But, I lost my devotion to it.........and it is a job you have to be devoted to!
I`m enjoying staying home and crafting, I have a business license now and am introducing new items into my Ebay store that I purchase wholesale..........unique French items and some Bethany Lowe `pretty` items...........my favorite is the twine with velvet flowers............yummy!
My goal for this year is to open my own website and online store, it will be called www.linen-chic.com. I will have most of my Ebay items on there (at sightly better prices) and new items. I also plan to have bulk purchases, custom orders (personalised tags and business cards) and one of a kind antiques..............Can`t wait!
The biggest adventure right now is decorating a condo we are in the process of purchasing at the beach..........that beach would be Tybee Island, just 30 minutes from Savannah, GA...............It is soooooo exciting!

After a lot of thought we have come up with a name and theme for the condo...................not quite your typical beach theme.................It will be called ` La Maison de Plage`...............simply French for `The Beach House`...............The decor will be based on a French beach house............I plan to blog about it as we go along and post pictures of our progress...............starting today, an empty shell.............When finished, we will be renting out this gorgeous La Maison de Plage on VRBO.................details will be given when it is listed...................Please follow along with our vision of the perfect French retreat right here in Georgia.....................

19th August

The boys have settled back into school now, Thomas, my eldest, started middle school......oh my. He`s still quite immature for his age but I know by the time he finishes 8th grade it will be a different story!
Now I will get hard at work on my ebay store and dream of our cruise in October......Ahhhh!
For all of you out there who have a cricut machine I found a good website with cheap cartridges,, a lot only $18.00 and very reasonable shipping...$3.95. It is called CricutMachine.com, they also sell on ebay but sometimes they go for more than what they are at the website.
I`m starting to think about Christmas.......lots of ideas. A friend will be working with me on Christmas items, she is very creative but has a different style to me... more earthy. She sells on ebay too, her user name is Belbaze, check out her stuff!

August 5th 2010

With the summer vacation almost over we are busy getting ready for back to school..............my eldest starts middle school! WOW! Where did the years go?
I have been busy making bags, tags and other items for my ebay store ~ its steadily increasing in sales and I am still enjoying everything about it............especially designing new items. I have been bugging my husband for a studio building at the back of the house but he is not very receptive to that right now..............maybe one day!
We got to do a little antiquing yesterday as we had to make a trip to Augusta for my sons doctors appt. I bought some old wooden spools to display my ribbons on and some vintage silverplate knives, forks and spoons with pretty detailing...............these are just one of the many things I collect.

I took my new Vera Bradley Raspberry Fizz pocket book along with me that I picked up at the thrift store on Monday for............wait for it..................27 cents.........yes, 27 cents.......don`t you just love it when you find a bargain!?

July 4th 2010

Happy 4th July everyone!
Back from vacations now and back to work.................thinking up new ideas, catching up with orders and keeping house!
I`ve been having fun with chipboard die cuts and German glass glitter...............what a transformation...so pretty hanging from a length of scrunched seam binding......my favourite is the Eiffel Tower.
The die cuts can be purchased from many sellers on Ebay and Etsy ~~ all kinds of shapes and sizes. You could also use regular glitter but it is definately messier and does not have the scrumptious layered look of the glass glitter.

Email me if you want to know where to get any of the products to make these................or......you could just buy mine!!

June 11th 2010

Just got back from 3 weeks in England, visiting my parents and the rest of the bunch back home! Had a great time but it sure is nice to be home....sweet home..
On Monday we leave for Edisto Beach, SC. We rent a state park cabin every year, usually Hunting Island beach but unable to get that one this year..........it is fun to laze around the beach for a week. Both my boys like to surf, they are only beginners but hopefully one day will ride the big waves in Hawaii!!!!!!My husband gets to come on this vacation too, he did not come to England.

Spent the last few days getting all of my ebay orders out from when I was away.......very busy! In my haste I sent out a wrong item to somebody.........I do hate that! Hopefully they will forgive me, I resent the correct item immediately.

How do you like my Tiffany blue box with German glass glitter chandelier???????

See you after my vacation!!!!

April 23rd

Hi Everyone
Spring is definately here! Grass is green, ferns are on the front porch and flowers are blooming!! Yey!

I got lucky at the thrift store today and found 2 rolls of Perma-seam seam binding, not full rolls but pretty colors..............I search almost every week and LOVE it when I find some! I also got a huge spool of vintage cotton ric-rac, its a fine ric-rac in a natural color....way better than the new ric-racs available today. I plan on selling it on ebay in 3 yard pieces...............

April 8th

Thankyou so much to Sparkling Scrapbooks for displaying some of my crepe paper frills on her blogspot, its great to see what people are using my frills for~ they looked wonderful around the edge of the photo!

Ilisted my tote bags and teabags on ebay last night..............hope they are popular!

April 8th

Wow, doesn`t time fly? April already!

I have decided to open an ebay store, it will be called `A Touch of Vintage Chic`. Please come and check me out! I have put the link at the top of the blog.

Now I need to come up with more ideas to fill it. I do have some things in the works~ I am excited about an idea I have using empty tea bags....................they come with one side open for filling with whatever you desire.............I plan to stamp the tea bags with some French vintage designs, fill with scented dried rose buds or dried peppermint leaves and heat seal the open side....................perfect for placing in drawers, glass bowls on the coffee table, hostess gifts or put one in you bathtub for an aromatic soak!!!!!!!!!!!!Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Another item in the works are French themed tote bags...........I have some great images to transfer to tote bags, napkins, placemats, etc....Look out for these NEW items!

Thanks to all who are following this blog.........I keep waiting for someone to send me a message or write a post.........come on y`all, don`t be shy.

19th March

I do not know if I mentioned it before, but I am from England. I have been here for 15 years, although it feels like way less.................I came in 1995, January, all on my own..........looking back I don`t know how I did it!.....................I am a nurse and came here to Savannah with an agency that found us our jobs and accomodations......there were nurses from Australia, South Africa and Ireland.

I must say, it took a while to adapt to life and nursing here, very different to England.

My contract was for one year, and now 15 years later, here I am with a husband, two lovely boys and a goldendoodle!.................

My husband works at a resturant, a very famous one actually.................it is called The Lady and Sons, it is downtown Savnnah, and owned by Paula Deen................you may have seen her on the Food Network....He has worked there for 14 years, before Paula was even famous, he is now the kitchen manager, but started back then as a line cook.......................we have been very fortunate and are grateful for it.

These are my boys ~ Thomas and Caleb, aged 11 and 8.

18th March

Good morning!

Hope you had a good St Patricks day. We live in Savannah, GA. one of the largest parades for this day. We, however, did not go, downtown is CRAZY!

Instead my husband and boys built a treehouse, a pretty cool one too. Now we have to decorate it!

In the mail yesterday came my 2nd set of vintage seam bindings ~ gorgeous. I have already listed some on ebay which I have stamped with French script. Very pretty colors, ones I probably would not have choosen had I bought it new.

How do you like my clothes pins? They come with a magnet on the back for the fridge ~ great for kids artwork ~sure is better than ugly plastic clips!

12th March 2010

Good evening

Another rainy evening in Savannah GA..........................wet footprints on the floor from my dog, Harry Bear.

I guess I never mentioned my dog before, he is a Goldendoodle, so cute...............GREAT with my boys! He is 4 years old and still acts like a puppy..we LOVE him so much!

My youngest son, Caleb, likes to take pictures of him all the time.

Does anyone else have a goldendoodle?

March 7th 2010

Good morning.

We had fun scouting yard sales yesterday, I was lucky enough ti find a Cath Kidston Home journal for a dollar! It is gorgeous, I`m so happy!

I woke up today and felt inspired to create something new.........................after a short while I came up with these...................

Crepe paper frills votive candle holders......neopolitan style, I have just listed them on eaby and we`ll see how they do............I think they are adorable, hopefully others will too!

March 5th 2010

Well I feel so guilty, I have not visited my blog for a while.................I will try a little harder!

I have been busy making bags and tags, ribbon and frills for ebay and etsy. Things are going good.................crazy weekend..............multiple orders from ebay made me feel a little overwhelmed but I did manage to get everything shipped by Tuesday.

I`m really enjoying crafting my items....it makes me feel good when people email me to say how pleased they were with there purchases and how PRETTY my things are........I am truly blessed to be able to stay home and do something that I absolutely LOVE to do!

We have had strep throat going around our house this week first my son, Thomas, shortly followed by myself and my other son, Caleb...........I have ordered my husband to stay away from us!!!

Tomorrow we are going on a yard sale and thrift store expedition..........what fun! You never know what you will find. Last month I was lucky enough to get a bunch of vintage lace and some vintage aprons at the Manna house thrift store............the aprons were 25 cents a piece.....Of course they have already found a new home with a lucky ebayer...thankyou.

Today I have been working on some muslin bags that arrived in the mail.........................they have been transformed into the most adorable Tulle dress gift bags, also perfect for lavender or potpouri...............I have some Lemon verbena scented silk rose petals that I will put in mine......

I have just listed them on my ebay site ~ Linen-chic.

I see that I now have one follower on my blog and I am grateful for that..it gives me the incentive to continue to post and share my journey and ideas. Hopefully more followers will come, I need to remember to post my link on my ebay listings..........................

I`m so excited, today I received in the mail my ebay purchase~ 20 rolls of VINTAGE seam binding in many different shades. I shall be listing some in my Etsy store~ Bitofvintage. I like it scrunched but I also sell it smooth. It`s great for scrapbooking and tyeing around gifts.................................I have also used it to hang ornaments or.....................anything pretty......The dark pink one is soooo pretty!

February 18th

Today is a good day! We have finally rented out our townhouse that has been vacant for a couple of months......yeah! Now my husband can build his shed!?
Yesterday I went to work at the hospital..................I work every other Wednesday in the neuro intensive care unit...Good day, no tradegies thank goodness.
Today I`m catching up on getting orders ready from the past few days.................then I`m going to work on something new. I got some new seam bindings in the prettiest colors!!...........very shabby chic. I`m going to get a bunch of it scrunched and listed in time for Easter!

February 15th

Well, I didn`t get any muslin dyed today. The boys were off school for Presidents day so I was limited in my crafting. I did, however, spend some time creating some new crepe paper frills~

some pretty ones with tulle and rhinestones and some focused around Easter.

I did pretty good on Ebay today, somebody bought 8 of my pretty hand made items, hopefully it will keep up............................

February 14th 2010

Happy Valentines Day!

Today I have decided to start my blog, a place to share my thoughts, ideas and creativity.

I have recently been inspired to follow my passion for creating beautiful things and have just opened my Etsy store, Bitofvintage.

I love to decorate, I love all things vintage and I LOVE shabby chic. I am trying to pull all these things together in the items that I produce~ ~~~~~~

It`s 10pm, my children and husband are in bed, it`s my time to let my mind wander and imagine what wonderful things I can create..............I love my muslin ribbons, this picture is one of my favourites- the pink butterfly on French lettering. I`m trying to think of a new idea for the muslin, I have my bookmarks and my gift tags, but I just know there`s something else out there waiting to be created with this simple cotton fabric.............totes, aprons....they have all been done....... I think I need to start by dying the fabric in some of my favourite shabby chic colors~ pale pink, mint green and china blue~That`s what I`ll do first, and then the rest will follow..............