And the winners are....

So sorry I was late posting the winners, I was so busy cleaning up my room for the Where Bloggers Create party, I ran out of time! It was so much fun hopping all over blog land looking at everyone's wonderful creative spaces. However, it's time to announce the winners:

Vintage Dragon Fly and She Dreams Big !!

Connie at, "She Dreams Big's" Box

JoAnne at "Vintage Dragon Fly's" Box

 I have emailed both winners and their boxes will go out in tomorrow's mail! Congrats to you both, enjoy!

The Cattle Barn Flea Market

OK it was 900 degrees in the shade but, I was about to lose my mind from staying inside for so long soo, I ran up to the Cattle Barn flea market that goes on every weekend here in Fort Worth.

Of coarse there are the usual cowboy hats and boots galore, usually for really good prices. The hats above were under $10! Most of these boots were under $30!

Yep, we have plenty of belt buckles, every kind of buckle you can think of.  I bought the small one with the covered wagon for $3, I have several this size and I plan to make napkin rings out of them as soon as I have enough.

I did pretty good and didn't buy any jewelry......this time.

But it was tempting,

With every tray I walked by!

However, when I saw all these doilies and pieces of lace, 
you could say , ahhh, it was the heat..

I hadn't had lunch, it was low blood sugar....

I felt weak in the knees and had to sit down...in the middle 
of all of these bins,

and thought oh, this is menopause! Yes, that's it! I couldn't help it. It was temporary insanity from the change of life and lack of oxygen to my pea brain! 

Did I need a nurse? No,

instead,I sat next to a refreshing fountain,

thought of all my friends who could use this same excuse,

found a cool breeze,

and quickly packed up all my new found goodies and drove home like a crazy woman before my hubby came home and saw that I had found EVEN MORE lace and doilies!!!!!

Happy 4th of July!

"You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness.  You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism. " 

~Erma Bombeck

I just love the 4th of July. All the family gatherings, the fireworks and of coarse the cookouts. Some of my most favorite memories were spending time with the entire family, setting off bottle rockets, eating off of picnic tables and running around with sparklers, I always thought of magical faeries when I would run around the yard, leaving a trail of sparkles!

So every year I go a little crazy with my 4th of July pinwheels, but I just love watching them spin in the breeze. Please keep our troops in your thoughts, without their patriotism and service we would not have the freedom we all enjoy! Happy 4th of July everyone. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do

I'm dreaming of Rainbows!

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I'm dreaming of puffy clouds, filled with rain and at the end of the wonderful rain storm, a Texas sized rainbow! Just press play to hear one of my favorite songs of all time!

Hope all your rainbow dreams are coming true for you.

TWO wedding kit lace giveaways!!

Give away #1. At least 2 yards of a wedding dress skirt,sleeves and pieces of a bodice all tea stained.There are several pieces of lace, vintage jewelry, bride and groom cupcake toppers A bridal bingo card, mother of pearl buttons of all sizes and a gumball machine bible.

Small crochet lace on spools,

Little vintage wedding bells, several broken strands of old pearls, an old pearl brooch,and tea stained flowers.

Lace,lace, and more lace can be your's! Just sign on and leave a comment and then join my blog! Easy peasy lemon sqeezy!

Give Away #2

This box is a but more tea stained that the other, I included the back of the dress, buttons and all. Vintage flowers and some that I tea stained. This box too has over 2 yards of the wedding skirt, with the beaded bottom.

A vintage southwestern bell phone keychain, just in case you need to call mama and ask her you're coming home!

This cake topper of coarse, the bride and groom and the gumball machine engagement rings. An Antique pearl beaded necklace with a wonderful patina.The different colors of flowers should be sprinkled in both boxes!  Enough frilly things to alter a bottle, box  or maybe  a piece of clothing!

 I tried to get everything in the photos, I hope you decide to sign up to win!! You have three chances to win. 
1. Leave a comment on this post. 
2. Sign up to be a follower. 
3. Post my giveaway button on your blog. (It's near the top of my sidebar)
Please leave a separate comment for each entry.
I will be picking two winners on July 13th, good luck!

I'm Late to my own wedding!

I had this nagging feeling today that I was forgetting something..then the lightbulb goes on  at 10:30pm, I'm late to my own Wedding Party! I am so excited to join angelicaccents.blogspot.com for this wonderful party!

I think I have collected about 100 vintage wedding photos from the 1900s to the 1960s. The earlier ones are my favorites.

You can go to the header above and click on Vintage Wedding Photos and t will take you to my Flickr account and you can download anything you want! I have collected these for several years and I am addicted!

I always look at these photos and wonder what were they  thinking? Did they love their spouse to be or was it an arranged marriage?

The different styles of dresses and even how they are posed have changed over the years. These flapper brides are just beautiful! And look at the flowers!

You can tell that this bride came from money by the size of the bouquet and the gorgeous  lace her gown is made from. Plus, ah, to be a little catty, this is not what I would call a beautiful bride so I have a feeling her dowery was very large!

This couple looks Greek because of the high crown of her veil. Neither look to happy about the upcoming nuptials!

This is one of my favorite photos because the woman I bought it from  said it was her daughter,"She was a beautiful bride, but she married a rat bastard!" I laughed so hard I almost got the vapors!

What an adorable flapper bride! Now I want to think that these two are in love, they just look so young and innocent. I think she looks like a fairytale princess with her flowers in her hands and surrounding her feet.

OK, nobody looks happy in this photo! The bride looks like she wants to say, "Help, get me out of here!"

This is a terrible photo but I wanted to show you my latest prize. In the middle is a music  box with the bride and groom on the top. Of coarse it plays,"Here comes the Bride." My friend Charlene saw it at Canton this past week, I had walked right by it! Way to go Charlene, she is truly my partner in crime!

I found her all by herself in the top of a closet at an estate sale, she was only $10. That makes it even more fun when you find a deal on something you love!

Again a bad photo but this is a wedding shadow box that I found in the Junk Gypsy booth in Round Top, Texas. Once again, my friend Charlene dragged me back to the booth when I started hemming and hawing bout the price and said, "Buy it!,NOW!" SO I did. Thank you again Charlene!!

This is just part of my collection of cake toppers, like all my wedding items, it's an obsession that I adore!

OK, can you guess what this bowl is filled with? Cupcake toppers. I bought everyone that I could find...this is only part of them!

I need to take a photo class this photo looks pretty poor. The lace everything is sitting on is one of the many tea stained wedding dresses I have. I have a tutorial on how to stain a wedding dress on this blog if you want to learn how. :)

These headpieces are from the "Holy Grail of estate sales. It was a woman that owned  a wedding dress shop!  She owned a shop!! I was there and hour and a half before the sale started and took my own big bags to pile everything in. As it turned out, the estate sale people gave me a CLOSET to put everything I was buying in!

These were sleeves from that same estate sale, they were only $10 a pair. I went back on Sunday morning, early of coarse, and swept EVERYTHING into my bags and everyone was whispering as I walked by,"There's that girl that bought all that stuff on friday, yesterday, and now she's back today!" I didn't care, I just wanted to pour it all over the floor and wallow in it!!

So maybe you're wondering what I do with all of this wedding lace and beaded sleeves? I made tops like this one! The beading was really hard to sew on so I've only made a couple.

A close up of the beading.

This is the back of the top. The layering is from the bottom of a wedding dress, it's my favorite so far. I think because it took me s long to finish it! I won't wear it this Texas heat, I'm afraid to get to hot and ruin it. SIlly I know!
Thank you for joining me for the wedding party. Sorry I showed up late to the party but I made it in time for the reception!