Vintage Blogtiques

What is Vintage Blogtique?

Well just click on the banner above and you'll find out all about it! It's my new Selling Blog, where you'll find lots of treasures in lots of different categories. Go ahead. Check it out! I'll be adding more things to it as time goes by , so make sure to check back often and if you feel so inclined as to add it to your awesome blog roll I would appreciate it very much.

Thank you!

It's Not The Ritz.....

See, I told ya it wasn't the Ritz. It's just an old country mailbox. And what is that sticking out of the door.......

...hmmmm....a bunch of dried up, old dead grass.......

......clearly put there by the birds!

We have been going back and forth about this for weeks! I remove the nest and they promptly build it right back--over and over again! They've even gone so far as to leave bird doo on my mail!

Now I'm sorry, I hate to be mean, but I sorta need to receive my mail even if it is mostly bills. Maybe if the birds had offered to share the bills I might have offered to share my mailbox, but they didn't and after all I had to do what I had to do.......

I mean it is a federal offense to mess with the US mail. I do hope the bird family will be able to find a nice new place to relocate their pretty blue eggs to, after all we do have several decent bird houses located around the yard and no one will be poking around in those. Besides that I'm sure the mail lady will appreciate it too.

Now if we just escape wasp season all will be well!

A Walk Around the Greenbelt

Spring has finally arrived in Idaho Falls where I live and we have no snow--finally! Well ok the mountains are still snowpacked, but we here in the valley are starting to green up and the trees and bushes are starting to bud. Not too long before we'll see flowers!

This afternoon my 11 year old daughter and I and our dog Boomer decided to get out and enjoy the nice day, so we headed to the Greenbelt, which is where the Snake River runs through town..........

The falls in Idaho Falls--hence the name. The Greenbelt has a walking path approx 5 miles long and since the weather was so nice today we decided we should take a walk and yes we walked the entire Greenbelt. Great exercise and beautiful scenery even if we did get rained on for just a minute or two.

More of the falls, which are used to generate energy for the local electric company.......

...a beautiful Canadian Goose who was kind enough to pose long enough that I could snap a picture. The Greenbelt is full of these geese, wild ducks of various kinds and seagulls. It's a fun family outing to go and feed all the ducks, geese and seagulls. You'll also find plenty of dogs, bike riders, roller bladers, walkers, joggers and boaters.

A view from not quite the halfway mark from where we started. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints temple in the background with the mountains beyond......

....and another view of the falls from the opposite end. Lots of pretty scenery, no matter which way you go. And that is what we did with our Saturday afternoon.

Vintage Transfers--Snooky Snail

I have several vintage embroidery transfers that I thought I'd start sharing them here with you. I'll try and post a new one each week. It may not be on the same day, so if you like vintage embroidery patterns keep an eye out for these cute little freebies.


This weeks vintage embroidery pattern is Snooky Snail. It's a day of the week, but instead of Monday, Tuesday etc, it's Baking Day, Sewing Day etc.

Besides putting these on tea towels they would be darling stitched onto a child's outfit or made into blocks for a baby quilt. You could even leave off the "day" and just stitch the little snail.

Click on the pattern piece to enlarge and then save it to your computer.

Enjoy and Happy Stitching!

Here's a printing tip---to flip the mirror image of these, so that the text is facing right to be traced, when you print these out if you have a mirror image or iron on transfer setting on your printer select that and it will flip the picture around for you so the text isn't "backwards" for tracing.

Happy Easter!

Yes, I've been MIA for awhile. Real life has taken over for a bit, but I will be back. I've been busily working on a few things. One of them is a new selling blog, which I will introduce very soon over the next couple of weeks or so, so keep an eye out.

In the mean time I would like to wish everyone a very Happy Easter and share a few favorite Easter images with you that you are free to keep and download to your computer and use as you please.

I like to size this vintage Easter basket down, print and then cover in clear glass glitter to use as an embellishment. It turns our quite pretty. Enjoy!

Happy Easter!