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Vintage Sewing Kit
You know when you were a child, your parents would share something funny about you with friends and relatives? Well, in my case it was about how I used to bend the needles in the sewing class at the...
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1951 Fashion Drawings
As this week’s project is related to sewing and patterns, I thought it would be appropriate to post some fashion plates. These are two beautiful and elegant fashion drawings from a 1951 Spanish...
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Antique Chopping Board Transfer
We recently bought a small and cute wooden chopping board at a local dollar store and I thought the perfect way to decorate it was with the method of image transfer. As a chopping board is a...
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Glasgow’s Old Advertisements
We found in the Flea Market at Tynemouth RailwayStation a very small V.P. Street directory of the city of Glasgow in Scotland, containing some old but cute advertisements that I share with you...
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Old & Rustic Beer Mug
For some of our projects we look around in the house for objects that we can transform, redecorate and update. That’s the case of this rustic mug that looks very much like a beer one and that I...
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Vintage British Newspapers Advertisements
Today I share two cute advertisements from an Old British Newspaper from the 1950's. Hope you like these advertisements. Enjoy yourself working in your projects.Thank you very much for visiting and...
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Vintage Birds on a Cloudy day
In Panama we are right now in our rainy season, therefore it is very common to see cloudy and rainy days, and maybe I was feeling blue but I thought of decorating a box with vintage birds on a cloudy...
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A Walk in Time: Titanic 100 years Festival
"A Walk in Time" series takes us today to the beautiful city of Belfast in Northern Ireland where its most famous creation, "Titanic" was commemorated in an extended annual festival from 31 March to 22...
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Antique Wood Plate Transfer
Few weeks ago we posted a project of image transfer on a Wooden Chopping Board and I thought I would do one more item to combine both together for a kitchen corner decoration, so I chose a wood plate...
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Retro Shoe Store Ads
Today's Graphics are three lovely Retro Shoe Store Advertisements I found in the yellow pages of a Panama's local Phone Directory from 1978. I hope you like these advertisements, have fun when...
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Vintage Magazine Illustrations
Sometime ago I posted about an old issue of the Collier's Weekly magazine I had purchased and I mentioned it had great graphics and illustrations. Today I share two nice illustrations from a story...
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Vintage Ladies Notebook
We will be visiting my husband's family very soon and to me it is a nice opportunity to prepare some special and unique gifts for them. Today I share with you one easy project: A Notebook that I have...
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Antique Soviet/Russian Airplanes
Something new I will share about me is that I am Panamanian but I was actually borned in Moscow, back in the times of the Soviet Union. Unfortunately I do not speak russian, I was brought to Panama...
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Vintage Receipts
When time passes I normally do not keep the receipts of my shopping or other things, but I must admit I like vintage receipts, and over a period of time I have started collecting them.I share today two...
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Retro Restaurant Ads & Vacations Break
My dear readers, lovely followers and wonderful friends: I will be travelling on vacations and visiting my family outside the country and will be absent from blogging for more or less one month and...
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We are back on the Train & Retro Scraps
Hellooo! I am glad to be back in the blog and workshop after a long & nice vacations. My husband and I visited our family in India and had such a great time over there that we didn’t want to...
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A Walk in Time: Juna Bazaar in Pune
Did you ever think you would be seeing a pair of these again?Or these ones? Well I certainly did not, but to my surprise I found these charming roller skates at the Juna Bazaar in the city of Pune,...
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Vintage Little Girl’s Box
First of all I want to thank our dear friends and followers for giving us such a warm welcome back, thank you for all your emails, it is really nice of you and I am very happy to be back. Thank you so...
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ABC Flashcards with an “Old” Look
One more gift I prepared for my family in India was a set of ABC flashcards for my little & beautiful niece and although the images are from a new book, I still wanted to give it an old look to the...
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Pocket Mirror with a Vintage Touch
Today I present you a very quick & easy but yet very charming project. It's a pocket mirror decorated with images of vintage ladies. It works out nicely as gift for a young girl or teenager. I...
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