Dying Doilies

Do you love dying vintage doilies to match your craft projects but never knew the best way to do it? I found this awesome blog post from the Haby Goddess all about the best way to dye your doilies, check it out here. Enjoy

SALE SALE SALE

Old Favourites are having a HUGE sale! We need to make room for all our delectable new kits so we are selling last year's themed kits at a massive 40% off. Stocks are very limited so head over to our shop. At checkout enter the code OLDFAV40 to receive your discount. Sale starts tomorrow Friday 1st April until Monday 4th April - don't miss out!

Music to your ears

Have you heard the great news?

Our very popular Vintage Paper Packs now include music sheets. They look great as backgrounds or punch them out and create something a bit different like my butterfly mobile.

We are also happy to report that a new supplier for baker's twine has been found and you know what that means.... an even lower price! That's right all our lovely baker's twine colours are now 30 cents a yard.

Vintage Child Care

I have always said that the inspiration for Old Favourites came from my grandmother. Whilst visiting her the other day she unearthed this treasure for me. This well read book was issued by the Department of Health, Victoria during the 1960's to new mothers. It is full of fabulous advice like " In the ante-natal period, a husband if possible should spare her (his wife) any emotional strain". It was interesting to find that a lot of the information still rings true today.

Bells and butterflies

So usually I leave all the creative stuff up to Mel. With all the work I do 'behind the scenes' of Old Favourites the reason I started up with website has been pushed to the side. It wasn't until someone called me up on it before I realised it! So this year I am going to renew my passion for craft. It has taken me a couple of days of 'playing' in my craft room to get back into the swing of things.

Today I thought I would share with you a cute idea for using vintage paper scraps and a bit of upcycling.

I remembered I had a set of brass bells on a tatty old piece of string, don't know where I got it from but I just know it has always been there, and some cute butterflies I had punched out of some vintage music paper (they are so cute and have been dying to use them in some way).

I joined them together and voila!

Pretty gift box

Stuck for wrapping ideas this Christmas and cant be bothered with the crowds at the shopping centre just to grab that cute wrapping paper??
That's where I found myself... I needed a small box for these cute hair clips I had made for a sweet friend of mine graduating from Primary School...
Then I went to my trusty Vintage Paper Pack and whipped up this cute little gift box out of the vintage book pages in the pack...

I added a gorgeous sunshiny yellow {my fave} doilie, tied it up with hot pink twine {my other fave} and topped it with one of my resin cupcakes.. I think it looks kinda cute!!I will be doing a tutorial if enough people are interested here so leave a comment and I will post the tutorial soon!!

Not many sleeps to go!! Be good

More from the vintage paper pack...

Look what I made ... again with the vintage paper pack, this time using the music sheets.. so quick and easy and very cute - i think so anyway... and of course the bakers twine that looks oh - so funky-Christmas...

And because I hijacked the blog... a close up And this is my LO again using the vintage paper pack.

Featured here on this untitled LO s the vintage book page, ticket, playing card, soft drink label, blue shipping tag, puzzle piece, vintage clothing pattern and my fave... the bakers twine in blue and red, and a gorgeous hat pin...

thats all for now - thanks for visiting...