easter pysanka for rednesday

(Edited to add:  PLEASE NOTE, these are my mom's postcards of pysanka ... I didn't take the photos and they aren't my pysanka. Wouldn't that be lovely to have so many?!)

Digging deep to find some red for Rednesday! Found these old postcards of my mom's from Slovakia, featuring pysanka eggs.  (I don't know for sure if they predate the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1993 or not??? )

Any guesses what the wooden item with folk painting is? It looks like a noise maker?

Many many years ago, there was an article in the L.A. Times about a pysanka exhibit at the Ukrainian Art Center here in Los Angeles and my mom and I went. Such a lovely exhibit. Very few were for sale but I did buy one, a black one with reds and oranges - I'll have to hunt for it! 

Joining in on the Rednesday fun with Melody at Brown Gingham Creations, hope you will too!

vintage pattern rednesday

It's slim to none in the red department over here but I wanted to join in on the Rednesday fun so I dug around and dug some more on the quest for red.  I finally found this darling pattern from 1939 I picked up several years ago to share with you. It's just got a smidge of red but it also has blue birds and a bird house, so it's all good, huh?!

Please join in the Rednesday fun with Melody at Brown Gingham Creations. Let's keep this linky party that we've all enjoyed so much, going!

a valentine's stocking

I've had so much fun stitching up this complimentary pattern from Plum Street Samplers, that I thought I'd share it with you this Rednesday. All done with the embroidery, just need to make it into the stocking now. 

The free pattern is entitled A Valentine's Stocking and the chart may be found here. I didn't have the Weeks Dye Works threads the pattern called for but I googled for a conversion to DMC colors.

I hope you'll join in the Rednesday fun with Melody, at Brown Gingham Creations!

god jul

My husbands off for his holiday break and we've been having fun over here. Saturday we went to hubby's BFF's annual Christmas party and Sunday we went to the Swedish Christmas Fair (at The Shrine in downtown L.A.), then had lunch at our new favorite Shojin (the downtown location for the first time) & then raced over to Carson for a Dickens Holiday Celebration at the International Printing Museum. On Monday we saw "Catching Fire" at the theater ... we've got a long list of movies to catch up on!

I could have sworn that I bought a boat load of stuff at the Swedish Christmas Fair because my credit card was shooting sparks teehee but found out I hadn't come home with nearly enough for my feather tree and our Swedish Christmas we had planned! But then I've got plenty, so it's all going to work out.

Sharing some Scandinavian cuteness this Rednesday!

Please join in on the Christmas Rednesday fun with Melody at Brown Gingham Creations!

dutch postcards

 

A wee bit of red for Rednesday ...

two charming postcards from the Netherlands 

that I found in my mom's things - postmarked 1968.

Joining in the celebration of red with Melody,
at Brown Gingham Creations.

party like it's the first official grand opening welcome back Rednesday day!!!

I've got a little bit (alright, a really teeny tiny bit)
of my brothers childhood red to share 

for this weeks first official outing of Rednesday.

Hope you will join in the fun with our hostess Melody

 at the all new and fantabulous home of Rednesday Wednesday,
Brown Gingham Creations!

Rednesday has a new home

Dear Melody, of Brown Gingham Creations, is the new host of Rednesday. Hope you'll welcome her and join in on all the RED fun.

I'm sharing a darling Holly Hobbie plate from 1974, that belonged to my mom. 

Please forgive me for sharing Christmas things with you, I sincerely apologize for doing it hahhaha! When I was at the hair salon on Saturday, my stylist told me that she had seen Christmas decorations at Costco ALREADY!  I nearly fell out of my chair.

Happy Rednesday!

silly old bear

Sharing a bit of Winnie the Pooh today on Rednesday. All gifts from my mother to me ... a vintage Winnie the book, a mini Winnie from a teddy bear show, a Winnie mug from Sears and also some Christmas ornaments from Sears long ago.

Joining in the Rednesday fun at Cottage Sweet Cottage.

a car show and some yarn bombing

A couple of weekends ago we went to a fun little vintage car show at Farmers Market in Los Angeles. Well first we had breakfast there at our favorite spot, Loteria Grill.  Chilaquiles Verdes with fried eggs! nummers! 

We like to eat our breakfast leisurely and read the paper - there was a short column about an exhibit at the Craft and Folk Art Museum (just blocks from Farmers Market) - a yarn bombing exhibit. The local group had bombed the outside (don't worry, they bombed it with yarn and granny squares!) of the museum and I wanted to see it, so we drove over to see it after the car show.

Even the parking meter had been bombed ...

It was a fun and colorful day!

Joining in on the Rednesday fun at Cottage Sweet Cottage.

little bits of childhood

Little bits of childhood, lost and now found.

Oh! How I loved to play with my Barbie dolls growing up! My mom talked about giving my things to a younger cousin when I had outgrown them.  I think a little whimper came out of me, I loved them so. BFF's forever, my Barbie and me.

So I thought, even with my resistance, my mother had given them away long ago to my cousin in Missouri ... twelve years younger than I, to love.

So in 2011, when my dad passed away (my mother long before him in 1996 - and I never had the strength to go through the things in the house - my father and I lost in denial), my husband and I dug through the mountains of some fifty years of my parents belongings.

One day my husband found my Barbie wardrobe cases (three or four of them, there were!) and then a shoe box with these sad, lost little bits, that somehow hadn't made it back into their homes with the rest. Some things are Barbie, some things are Skipper and then, Skooter or Francie or someone???  All the important details have left my middle aged memory now.

They make me all smile-y again though ... 

Joining in the sweet Rednesday fun with Lillian at Cottage Sweet Cottage. 

Rednesday has a new home!

 

Joining in the fun for the very first outing of Rednesday at it's new home with Lillian, at Cottage Sweet Cottage. 

Thank you dear Sue for being such a great hostess, for so long!

A big thank you to Lillian for picking up the torch and continuing on with Rednesday!

I'm sharing a little sock puppy that my mom gave me 35-40 years ago now. WOW. WHOA. How can that many years have passed, huh?!  You can see in the second photo, behind his ear, that some naughty doggie tried to make a chew toy out of him many years ago. Thankfully I was present and able to extricate him from one very disappointed Siberian Husky in the nick of time!  WHEW.

And Georgie wanted to get in the act too this week since his cyber pal, Doyle, was on his mom's blog for Rednesday. He told me this morning, "Hey Mom! I'm kinda sorta red and I can do that stick my tongue out thing too, just like the sock puppy! I wanna show Doyle, he'll be impressed."

look what I found

Jeepers.  Stop. Start. Stop. Start.

Well I'm at it again.  I've started to go through my parents things again ... so many things I had wanted to keep but unless I add on a storage room to my house, I can't. 

So I'm going through my mom's tablecloths and I found this cutie!  Teeny thing, what could it have been used for???  Nowhere near big enough even for a card table.  Darling cross stitch, someone's handwork, I assume my mom or my grandma but it could have been a gift too. This one I'm going to keep and also my mom's Christmas cloth that I shared at holiday time. 



Anyway, I was hoping that maybe my vintage loving and knowledgeable friends could tell me how I can safely wash and press it and not ruin it?!  Thanks so much for any help you can give me.

Joining in the Rednesday fun with Sue at It's A Very Cherry World.