Have you ever had a dream or desire that you have always wanted to see blossom and become fulfilled

yet, before you know, years have rolled by and you still haven't even started working on that dream?

That is how it has been for me. I have always wanted to to make this shed either into my embroidery studio or a shop where I could sell my embroidery along with other vintage things that I find along the way. All of these years, it has been used for every thing except for what it needs to fulfill my dream. It has housed baby chicks, baby ducks, a few mama cats and their kittens and all of the extra debris that I don't want in the house. Now that the children are all grown and have flown away, it is holding all of their things that they left behind. However, now that the children have flown away, my dream of having a vintage shop has been calling out even more. And now, I have announced it out loud to friends and family...............and now after all of these years.................it is finally going to be
my vintage shop...........appropriately named..............
Yesteryear.
Since my studio is called Yesteryear Embroideries.............this will be the sister shop to it.

 

I have been busy this past year, picking, buying and stashing away wonderful things like these vintage needlepoint pictures.

I was lucky enough to find them waiting on me as I opened the door of a little shop that sells an array of things I love.

The needlepoint is quite old and has one flaw in this picture only. In the upper right of the large rose, some stitching is gone.

This one shows just enough wear to make it shabby vintage.

I plan to sell vintage linens, along with my own hand embroidery

and I also plan to sell vintage pressed glassware that I love! I have my own personal collection of this kind of glassware and use it constantly.

I am hoping to spark passion for this as well as the use of vintage linens in my potential customers.

To make this dream of mine  blossom, I have a lot of work to do.  I have to remove all of the saved mementos and debris and move it into another storage.  

I have several pieces of old furniture that I am stripping and painting to display all of these things in my shop.  I need to paint the shop inside and out. I need to replace cracked windows and torn screens and I am in search of the perfect vintage screen door for the door of my shop.

 

 

I hung the needlepoint on the wall of my studio and am delighted at the vintage charm it gives to a space. Now work is slowly getting done................I hope to have my shop ready and stocked by spring of next year. I live very far out away from people, so customers dropping by will be slow at first. I am also selling on line.....................hopefully after folks start knowing that I am here, I will get a few to stop by.

How about you? What are your dreams and desires that you have put off?

What's keeping you from making them come true?

I would love to hear!

Things for baby...............I love every small thing made for baby..........

don't you ?

this week, my studio is full of ribbon, floss, crochet thread and small sweet baby designs,

all hand embroidered........... 

edged in hand crochet................

 

backed with pretty print fabrics.............

with added ribbon ties..........

and stitched  together

to make darling bibs.

I also made a few sets of baby shoes........

with sweet print fabrics of bunnies , sheep and flowers.........

in soft and colorful colors, ribbons, small buttons...........

with hand crocheted tops......

all ready to sell in my Etsy shop.

I love making these kinds of small things.............

how about you?

Do you enjoy making bibs...........

or crocheting a baby blanket?

I would love to hear!