Beads For Crazyquilting

I've been looking around over at Kay's Pizazz Beads site and there are some really beautiful things there for Crazyquilting:

I love using crystals on my Crazyquilts because I love the sparkle!!  And I love anything vintage!  I like to stock up on supplies over the Summer so I have plenty of things in my stash for my Fall & Winter stitching!  Ok, so I stock up like a Chipmunk but hey, one can never have too may Crazyquilt supplies!  These are gorgeous! 

Going to head up to the Wilmot Flea Market this morning.  It's going to be a hot one today so I want to get up there early.  Grayslake Flea Market is today too but because of the heat, I think Wilmot is a better choice.  If I find anything cool to stitch with, I'll post again later!

Handmade Thanksgiving Greeting Cards

Nothing terribly exciting to share today.  I've been stitching on some heart shaped crazyquilt door pillows.  I'll have photos to share soon.  I also added some new Thanksgiving cards to the Boutique:

I made all of these using vintage greeting cards and of course, lots of glitter!  Ya'll know that all that glitters is gold to me!

Autumn Greeting Cards

I thought for today, I would share a few of the new Glittered Autumn Greeting cards that Mom and I made.  I'm not feeling great today so I'll just leave you with these:

Beads On Sale

For all the crazyquilters out there, I thought you'd like to visit Pizazz Beads.  Kay has a lot of great beads on sale that would be perfect for crazyquilting!  Please hop over and check out this fun site!

Crazy Quilt Peacock Purse

Happy 4th Of July!

Happy 4th of July everyone!  It looks like our temps are going to be a little more tolerable today.  It was a hot weekend but that didn't stop us from heading out to a small flea market yesterday.  The walking feels good and the thrill of the hunt is pure stimulation for my crazy ADD brain!  LOL!!!

I didn't find a lot of treasure yesterday but that's ok.  What I did find are 2 little vintage cookbooks to add to my collection:

The Watkins booklet is copyrighted 1934 and the Carnation booklet is copyrighted 1946.  There are some nice recipes in these little cookbooks and I'm thrilled to have these in my collection.  I only paid $4.00 for the 2 of them!

Be sure to download the PDF file for my 1925 Bakers Chocolate Cookbook!

I also picked up a couple of cards of vintage buttons:

The white buttons are glass with touches of gold on them.  The little pink cameo buttons and the purple rhinestone buttons are plastic.  These were kind of unique so I thought they would be fun for my crazyquilting.

Have a safe and Happy 4th of July everyone!