NEW: Antique Shop Embroidery Pattern (+ A Giveaway!)

I've got my etsy shop back open and a brand new embroidery pattern to share with you that is available! I decided my Vintage Shop pattern needed a counterpart and have been working away at these drawings, trying to come up with the best, most emblematic antique finds. The PDF pattern is
chock full of some of my favorite antique finds including a federal-style couch, a mini-collection of classic Ball jars, a sleek Victorian boot, a candlestick phone, phonograph, bowl and pitcher, calabash pipe complete with wisps of smoke, and an oil lamp, lit and at the ready.

As always, it includes transfer instructions, a color guide, as well as backwards and forward facing versions so you have more  transfer options at the ready!

And for all of you who read down this far, how would you like to win this pattern for your very own?! It's been AGES since I've done a giveaway and so I thought, why the heck not. I'll keep it simple: just leave ONE comment and I will choose a winner at random. If your email is not available in your profile or blog, please leave it since I'll need it to send you the PDF pattern.

I will close the giveaway Saturday at noon and announce a winner at that time so stay tuned and don't forget to share this with all your stitchy friends!

**UPDATE: In order to let more people enter for a chance to win, I am going to leave the giveaway open for one more day and will announce the winner tomorrow *Sunday, July 8th* Instead. Please check back to this same post for the announcement!**

**UPDATE: AND THE WINNER IS...Julie! My husband picked a random number for me out of how many comments there were and so I will be emailing you with a copy of the PDF pattern soon. Thanks to each of you who entered and read along, I appreciate it and hope to see you back here soon  :)

antiquing on the cape

despite the rain, we did have a great time this past weekend as we took a nice drive down route 6 to our favorite antique shop on the cape. there are actually bajillions of antique places on this particular stretch of route 6, but the Antiques Center of Cape Cod is my favorite as they have three whole barn fulls of gloriousness! makes me miss all my years of working in the antique shop while growing up in michigan.

for myself i picked up this double strand of faux pearls (which i got for next to nothing!) and Blackie's The Girl's Companion Guide. I can't find a publication date but there is a beautiful handwritten dedication in the front noting it was given as a gift to Kathleen from her grandma for Christmas in 1947.


it's quite the entertaining book that's a compendium of sorts for girls on etiquette, ballroom dancing steps, hostess duties, instructions in all sorts of household arts, as well as nature guides, and rules/technique for every sport imaginable. reminds me of something the american girl doll molly might have owned and i couldn't resist it's charm!


john also picked up a couple books but his big find was this leather bound volume of browning's poem's for just $10! the cover is in pretty rough shape but the gilding on the front is so lovely and the pages appear to be almost untouched. someday i'd love to have a whole library room full of books like this with built in shelves, massive oak desks, green reading lamps, and my own card catalogue system (yes i am that ocd). at the rate we're going, we're almost there with the number of books we own...just missing the library room...but i can dream!