FREE Vintage Image Thursday

Click on the photo to enlarge, then right click and save image. You may use this image in any artwork for sale or not, but please do not sell this image, itself. Thank you and enjoy! I would love to share any artwork you create using any of the images here. We all love eye candy! 

There's a giveaway going on...

Glamour Bomb has a giveaway going on right now. You could win a video of your artwork. I won one and it is now in my sidebar for all to view. You can click on it to get it rolling to see what yours could look like. She is very creative with her videos and adds such neat touches, like my books being 2 halves that come together. The link to her newest contest is HERE. Run over and have a look. She is so nice and fun to work with, plus if you don't happen to win, her prices are very reasonable.

There is also a monthly giveaway going on at Inspiration Avenue's Team blog. Not sure what the giveaway is for this month, but the details are HERE.

LuLu Kellogg is having a giveaway on her blog, as well for a pretty mini shade that she has embellished with trims and fancy stuff.

French Larkspur is giving away a beautiful new Christmas issue of Jeanne d' Arc Living magazine. It ends tonight at midnight, though, so hurry on over.

What is home? If you can answer that, you could win a hostess apron HERE. The Reluctant Entertainer is hosting this giveaway.

Christmas is in the air...;D

Well, today is Black Friday and of course I had to go out and get a few Christmas gifts, while the prices were so good. Only hit 3 shops, as I cannot take the crowds and traffic. Did you ever notice how everything that you need is on sale this time of year and yet you cannot buy for yourself because you have others to buy for. I do. But we really did need some smaller dishes. Our new dishwasher's top rack hangs down too low for my Pier 1 Import plates to stand upright. Soooo, I got a setting for 8 that was regularly 99.00 for 39.88. Whoot! Gotta love that!

I absolutely love this time of year. The bells, the lights, the smell of fresh cut pine trees and the spicy candles that scent our home. As soon as we get back from South Carolina I am going to try to convince my husband to go cut a Christmas tree. He likes to wait until at least 2 weeks before Christmas before getting the tree but then it seems like the holiday zooms by too fast. I really want to savor it this year.
I found some tasty recipes last year in this book called Christmas all through the house by Gooseberry Patch. I will try to scan some in and share them with you in the coming weeks.
Click here to find a list of gifts under $30. that I compiled last year. Have a lovely weekend! 

Happy Thanksgiving ~ FREE Vintage Image

Happy Thanksgiving to all of you. Wishing you all something special to be thankful for.  The second image is my gift to you. You can sell the art you create with it, but please do not sell the image, itself. This is Sidney Sprinkle (my husband's grandfather) age 3 in 1897. I just love his little outfit and that adorable expression on his face. Too cute! 

PInk Glove Dance

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEdVfyt-mLw

You have to watch this video. If it doesn't make you smile, chuckle and wiggle in your chair, then I don't know what will.  I loved it!

Journals...keeping my muse busy

The above journal was a gift from one sister to another.

This next one is another Art Journal I made over the weekend. It has vintage laces and all sorts of fun embellishments to stimulate the imagination. 

40 blank heavy cardstock pages just waiting to be embellished. These are so much fun to make. I think I will be adding a few more to my shop.  I think the next one will be masculine for those creative men in our lives.

"Romance" Art Journal for Weekly Art Challenge

Romance was our challenge this week on Inspiration Avenue's Weekly Art Challenge.

I made an art journal. The cover is decorated with inspirational embellishments. What place is supposed to be the most romantic place on earth? Paris! Yes, the city of lights. One day I may get there.

I used some vintage lace and beautiful antiqued papers on the cover. I love all of these pretty fancy yarns.

 

Inside more vintage laces and a pretty Eiffel tower pendant.

Dream has been added because what is art made of but dreams. This Art Journal will be listed in my etsy shop today. 

1915 Holmes School Athletic Club~ Free VIntage Image~ Giveaway

I had to laugh, well the whole family did when we saw this fantastic photo of my husband's grandmother. This is the athletic club in  1915. She is the one in the center row, near center with the gigantic bow on her head. Can you imagine running anywhere in that thing? It looks like it would keep your head back, doesn't it? Too funny. Look at the girl in the very back, near center's last or nickname. Poor dear. Pillow, really? This image has been written over pretty good and is dingy but if you'd like to have it for your artwork, just click on it  and it will appear larger then right click and save. All that I ask is that you not sell the image alone, you are free to use it at will in all of your art work for sale or not. Hope you had a good laugh. Enjoy your Saturday!
Oh and there is a WONDERFUL giveaway going on here. Go have a look. Her blog is gorgeous, full of lots of vintage eye candy.