Happy Mother's Day

A few vintage images from my collection!

"Ladies Bible Study on Mothers Day 1928" is written on the back!

Family sitting on the porch! 

Family on the patio!

On the back is written " Heinrich Handwerck and family".  I wonder if it is the same family that produced the now collectable bisque dolls in the early 1900's?

Happy Mother's Day to all mothers everywhere!

Vintage Christmas Pictures

Christmas images from my collection of B&W photos I have collected over the years (not my family).  Did you have a tinsel Christmas Tree?

 

Check out the TV in the background!

 Did you have a tinsel Christmas tree?

 

We always dressed up on Christmas!

Creative Paperclay® Bird Nest & Eggs!

I love collecting little things... even more I love making shadow boxes with the little things.  Sometimes I can't find everything I would like to put in a shadow box, so I make them!  I wanted a birds nest and couldn't find one small enough.  My Creative Paperclay® BIRD NEST with EGGS is the focal point.  

Here is the finished nest! 

To make the nests I took Creative Paperclay® and made long skinny noodles. Then laid them in a circular nest shape. The noodles are very delicate and were not adhered to each other.  When they were dried I used Sakura Crystal Lacquer to hold them together.

With small amounts of Creative Paperclay® I rolled out very small eggs!  

Here is the nest and eggs in the center of the shadow box after they were painted with acrylic paint.  

In this box a frozen Charlotte made of Creative Paperclay® is holding one of the eggs! 

Here is one of the eggs balanced on a shoe from Monopoly sitting on a dollhouse chair.   

 

In the back is a Creative Paperclay® heart cut with a mini cookie cutter, painted with burgundy acrylic paint.  

Left over from a previous project the bird is made with Creative Paperclay® in a mold! 

 

Close-up of the top of the bird themed house.  

The finished house

Just think of the endless items you could create with Creative Paperclay® to add to your collection of little things to make a shadow box!

The Cabrillo Ship Hotel Venice, CA

Sharing a vintage postcard from my collection. 

Built in 1905, The Cabrillo Ship Hotel in Venice, CA,  was one of the “in” places of its time. A “hot spot”  to be for many of Hollywoods stars in the 20’s.  Attending a New Years Eve party could mean headlines the next day.  The hotel had several owners, as many facelifts and name changes during its time. Survived a fire in 1924 and made it through the Depression.  In October 1946 it was destroyed. 

Post marked 1914

I love reading what people had to write.

And check out how they addressed them back then!

Read and see more postcards HERE!  

New Years Wish for All