The Motherlode!

I promised you some pics of my new lace score -- and here they are!  It's hard from these pictures to get a sense of just how huge this lot of lace is: but trust me, it's massive.   Certainly the largest amount of lace I've ever bought at once.  I'm going to be busy photographing and listing..... but it's going to take me a long while to get through all of this wonderful lace!  For now, enjoy the eye candy:

I hope you had a wonderful weekend!  We were busy with our Mad Hatter Tea Party.  Pics of that to follow soon.

Giddy

If you've been reading my blog for awhile, you know that antique lace makes me irrationally happy.  So, you can imagine how giddy I've been this week, as I've been going through boxes -- yes, boxes! -- of new finds. 

I've already put a lot of new laces into the shop, but I'll be doing more every day -- it's going to take a long time to get all of these fabulous goodies photographed and listed!

I hope that you have a great weekend!  We will be busy watching football, unpacking the last few boxes, taking our little one to soccer practice, and celebrating the end (almost!) of this home repair journey.  I hope to have pics of the finished bathroom and laundry room for you on Monday.  I'm told that my marble countertops are being installed today -- another reason to be giddy!

New Lace Sneak Peeks

I just got some new lace samples in -- and I am really excited about these!  They are GORGEOUS!  I'm going to try to get them all into the shop today, between softball and tee ball games, and the mountain of laundry that is waiting to attack me in the laundry room.  Hopefully, I'll get them in the shop quickly, but in the meantime, here are a few sneak peeks:

[UPDATE: all the laces pictured here have sold.  But I'll be working on putting other new lace samples in the shop today. Thank you!]

Estate Sale Finds

My rounds of the local estate sales have been pretty disappointing lately, but that changed this week!  I found some great linens at a couple of different sales. Most of these pretties are for Kari's linen shop, but the lace pieces will make their way to my Etsy shop once I've had time to clean them up a bit.  It's always fun to find new treasures!

Sweet as Candy Treasury!

Some of my lace has been included in this fantastic treasury!  I had to share it with you, because I just love the color palette -- so sweet and candy inspired!  Big thanks to shelbyhealy for including me in her treasury.  She's got a lovely shop -- you should check it out!  And to see the treasury, you can click here.

Warrenton/Round Top Antiques Fair, Part 2: The Loot

We found a lot of wonderful treasures on this trip!  Kari found so many cute things for her shop -- especially cute vintage hand towels and hankies, and a couple of antique redwork pillow covers that are to die for. I found a nice amount of antique lace, and I'm getting it into my shop as fast as I can.   But I also found a few things for me, which was fun.  I loved the bright retro graphics on these heavy linen towels shown above -- those strawberries!  Love 'em!  These are already washed and  hanging up in my kitchen.

And this fabric in the pic below -- I'm not sure if you can tell in the picture, but it is FLOCKED!!  I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it exactly.... but I love it!

I found a vendor with lots of these little Victorian calling cards that I like so much.  I think I may have gone a wee bit overboard:

I found some pretty laces, though not as many as I hoped for (though I may be unrealistic in that regard -- I can never have too much!).  I also found some vintage flax toweling fabric (the lace is on top of it in the photo), that I'm thinking of stitching on for my next stitching project.

But the most exciting find of the day for me -- by far -- was the Alice in Wonderland fabric!!!  I have one small remnant piece of this fabric, and for about 2 years I've been looking for more, with no luck.  Well, I stumbled onto 3 big pieces of it in this one lady's tent, and I started jumping up and down and shouting, "The Alice in Wonderland fabric! The Alice in Wonderland fabric!"  Let's just say it did not put me in the best bargaining position.  But no matter, that fabric was coming home with me no matter what!!  I may part with some of it -- some small pieces may show up in my shop -- but I think most of it is staying right here to be made into pillows for the window seat/library area I want to make for my girls.

What fun!  We had such a great buying trip, we're thinking about driving back up there this week....