Ramblings on a Friday Morning ~

when we visited Maryland last week (again) 

we went to the Beaver Creek Antiques mall 

where Kathy Barrick and Jimmie Cramer 

...both hold booths of their wonderful goods ~ 

I spotted this glass cloche with white chippy knob & had to have it:

 Jimmie decorates his booths with thee most awesome stuff ever.

old photographs, tin buckets, glass vessels filled with string balls and wire baskets full of old lace ~

and ironstone. 

yeah.

 LOTS of ironstone.

so to emulate 'his' look

I placed a bunch of my old lace into the glass cloche, flipped it upside down and then put it onto a small white ironstone dish ~

perfect.

now it sets on an old grey painted bookshelf in my sewing room for me to admire.

somehow, the lace looks more important under glass....

like a specimen from Victorian days.

Iwas also inspired to do something a bit different with some of my old photos ~

so I clipped them onto steel curtain rings and hung them on a vintage spinner rack...

I pretend the folks of whom these pictures were taken

now enjoy a spin every couple of times I walk by...

...like an old merry-go-round.

long tall doll created by Mandy Fischer of Bittersweet Folk Art Primitives

 and a while back,

I found this newer card filing cabinet.

thought it would be perfect for storing all sorts of things here in my little sewing room,

and it is.

but

I changed the drawer labels to sepia copies of some of my old photos of children

and slipped them behind the brass plates instead...

I love old photos...

but by far my very favorite is this one below:

a glass negative of two women ~

ghostly & transparent

 of course I love taking photos too, 

with one of my models below...

hello Iggy!

I will be here in my little sewing studio today ~

working on Old Hallow's Eve goodies for the show in September...

Punching, sewing, painting ~ perhaps some paper clay too.

a doll or three as well?

and plenty of little needfuls for the sewing witch.

many Good things to come....

Hoping you are all happy & busy~

have a beautiful day my friends!

Lori from 

Notforgotten Farm