pretty little package

 

I received the sweetest package in the mail today! It was from my high school youth pastor's wife whom I haven't seen in years. Scary thought...I graduated from high school 20 years ago this May. 

She's known me since Jr. High. I have to laugh when I think about how very awkward those years were for me. But she still loves me and she sent me the best package ever. 

Everything she placed in this box is me-to-a-tee...

cupcake liners

cookie cutters

 vintage aprons with

sunshine yellow ric rac

polka dots

red and white gingham

tiffany blue and red

applique

birds

embroidery

pom pom fringe

 every.single.thing...me-to-a-tee

 

 

Great Grandma's Apron

When I got home from the dentist this morning there was a package waiting for me on the porch. I was not at all prepared for what it contained. My mom sent me a copy of a book I've had my eye on, and my Great Grandma's apron. My Great Grandma was born before the turn of the century, and passed away when I was a little girl. I have very fond memories of her. My brother and I used to sit up to her kitchen counter on stools and sip root beer from straws. This is one of the reasons I wanted to add this counter to my kitchen.

My Grandpa (her son) passed away this summer, and my mom has been busy sorting through things left behind. She came across this apron in a hope chest. I feel so honored to receive this and to add it to my collection of aprons.

And, speaking of aprons, here's a picture of an apron I made the other night after the kids went to bed. I found two linen nap napkins on clearance last week and thought they would make an adorable apron. The plaid reminds me of candy corn.

Inspiration

Anyone else like The Farm Chicks? Excuse me for boasting, but I live in the same city as they do! We pick strawberries at the same farm! I wasn't able to attend their annual Antique Show this June, because we were on vacation in California. I would love to get my hands on a copy of their new cookbook.


I found this cookbook, Apples for Jam, in Anthropologie a few years ago, and it's a book I wish I would have purchased. I love the recipes and the photography!


I'm just going to have to break down and buy this book! I look at it every time I go into Barnes and Noble (without kids, that is). I just plop myself down on the floor and before I know it, I've let a half an hour go by.


The Apron Book is one that I've had my eye on for awhile now. I adore aprons! The author, EllynAnne Geisel, was this year's honored guest at the Farm Chicks Antique Show.

Here is another apron book that I discovered while browsing at a bookstore. The aprons in this book are adorable, and there are patterns for each apron; however, most of them have to be enlarged to 400%.

Sewing With a French Twist is a book that I almost bought as a gift for a friend. I probably would have been tempted to keep it for myself. The projects in this book, as well as the pictures, are very stylish.