Some new projects I am working on. Not quite done yet...

Working on the final project for my summer class. Not quite done yet...

Friday's my deadline, so see you soon!

I have been going through my old BHG collection (June 1966) again. I love this black and white print. Too bad it's the equivalent of a paper tablecloth. I guess SCOTT products used to make the party dress as well as the party favors. Good news was you could purchase it for $1. plus .25 shipping and handling.


The "Paper Caper" created to make you the conversation piece at parties,
dashingly different at dances or perfectly packaged at picnics. Wear it
anytime...anywhere. Won't last forever... who cares! Wear it for kicks--
then give it the air.

I found a Big Yank button while perusing my vintage button stash. I was curious about it's history so I made a quick trip to Google.

Big Yank was once one of the nation's largest manufacturers of work clothing, operating 24 plants in the 1940's. Like many clothing makers, it has watched revenues slip over the years as it lost business to factories overseas. It was bought out buy a Fortune 500 conglomerate in the late "80's and it is no more.

Buy American.

Textile ArtsFruit-boxWelcome back a classic. Stig Lindberg's designs from the late 1940's through the 1960's, including Fruit-box, Melody, Paradise, and Pottery, are back in production after enjoying successful exhibitions at Sweden's National Museum of Art and the Porcelain Museum of Gustavberg. Fruit-box's graphic take on nature comes in four colorways, printed on linen-cotton. P.O. Box 3151, Sag Harbor, NY 11963; 888-343-7285; txtlart.com. (Interior Design Livewire)

I certainly would love to find some of the originals in a secret stash somewhere!

Welcome to my "Studio"

Yeah sure. This used to be my living room. What a beautiful mess. It is kind of driving me nuts. I have to think of some ways to stash it, but still be able to be somewhat organized and aesthetically OK, plastic bins make me as crazy as the mess. Oh well. To have such problems!?

Pre Grand Opening!!

Hi everyone

I have linked my Etsy store to my blog. I would LOVE it if you all would take a look at my store. It is just in it's first stages, I will be working on new items to add daily. The link and a few items are listed to the right of the page, just click on any and it will take you to my store. The web address is http://www.beauteousdesign.etsy.com/

Please let me know what you think. I am really excited so I am kind of all over the place putting it together. I may be missing something, I might think something looks good, but everyone else may not.

I REALLY appreciate all comments and input. I have never attempted anything like this before, so like I said before, I am kind of all over the place, learning as I go.

Thanks again for all of your input and support.

Slowly, but surely

Listed a couple of items in the Etsy store. I will be adding more today. I have to put some more things together and will be adding them daily for awhile.

Please check it out, I hope you like it. It looks bare right now, but I am constantly working on it. I want it to be interesting as well as clear for anyone looking to buy. Let me know if you have any ideas or comments. The blue ETSY "dot" to the right is a link to my store.

Thanks for all the ideas, comments and support!!!