New to the Shop: Candy Cones & Metallic Tinsel Sticks

 If you love gifting sweet treats then be sure to check out our new selection of pretty metallic candy cones from Germany.  Available in a range of seven colors, each has a crepe paper cuff that can be tied with a pretty ribbon to secure the contents -- you can see below how the orange cone has its cuff sticking up.

 These are perfect for small foil wrapped chocolates or hard candies and just waiting to be embellished with Dresden trims, paper scraps, etc.  The cones don't have handles, but these metallic tinsel sticks below would be delightful and could easily be tacked onto the cones' exteriors and secured with small Dresden medallions.

Sneak Peek: New Millinery Flowers for Spring

Here's a sneak peek of some pretty new millinery items we're busy working with this week.  Lots of photographing, editing, listing and stopping to exclaim to each other, "Wow! Look at these ones!"

On My Desktop This Weekend

Fresh off the boat is a plethora of egg containers from Germany.  From vintage to floral, bunnies to roosters, new styles to old favorites, there are a LOT of eggs! Above, a screen shot of my desktop as I wrapped up editing photos and adding them to our website.

Just Arrived From Germany ~ New Scraps for 2012!

At the beginning of year a select number of new scraps designs are released and added to the already-voluminous range of beautiful vintage images.  This year's designs feature a beautiful set of Jesus and Mary, flowers, veggies, Christmas themes like Santa and snow angels, guardian angels and more.  Offered in traditional sheet form as well as the popular large, thick single scraps, these scraps are 100% made in Germany. Please click HERE to see all styles. 

New to the Shop: Czech Glass Buttons

We've added a whole host of Czech glass buttons to our Etsy shop this week.  From clear glass with silver accents to colored milk glass with a hobnail design to pretty multi-colored florals to dramatic blues and blacks, if they caught our eye, we couldn't resist.  Here are a few of my favorites:

We have twenty-four styles all together, all of which you can see HERE.  Not just for clothing and costumes, these buttons are stunning when worked into jewelry design, mixed media projects and more.  We thought you'd get a kick out of seeing how they're made, too:

Specialty Christmas Cards for Sending and Decorating

Still Time for Advent Calendars!

New Styles of Old Fashioned Favorites -- New Blown Glass Beads, Dresden Foils & Christmas Scraps

TocameMika: Absolutely fascinating!

It's no secret -- we love seeing our supplies in use.  So imagine our delight and amazement to see this gorgeous fascinator created by Mika of Madrid, Spain.  Dramatic, elegant, and with the most beautiful greens and reds together, this piece took our breath away!

Specializing in fascinators and headbands, you'll find a wide range of colors and shapes in Mika's Etsy shop TocameMika.  Thank you Mika, we love your work!

New to the Shop: Dresden Cake Decorations

We're excited to say that we've added a range of adorable dresden foil cake decorations from Germany to the shop.  Each features a gnome scene with a different number, 0-9, on a food-safe wire.  And each number is available in red, fuchsia, gold, silver, green or purple foil.  You can also remove the wire and use these in card making, scrapbooking, as gift tie-ons and more.  Click HERE to see them all.

New Additions: Chenille & Tinsel Cording

We're very excited about this chenille & tinsel cording that we've just added to the shop.  Made in the USA especially for us, here's a look at the tinsel mixes. I'm partial to the copper, black and pumpkin orange mix below -- so perfect for Halloween projects:

You can see all 28 colors of chenille and chenille/tinsel mixes, HERE in out etsy shop.

The cording is not wired, it's loose and bendable, making it ideal for creating ornaments, embellishing packages scrapbooking and card making.  Which is your favorite color?

New Spun Cotton Mushrooms from Germany

We adore German spun cotton mushrooms and are happy to say that we have several new colors in the shop in multiple sizes!  There are now ones in black, orange, aqua, grass green, and a pretty new yellow.  The much beloved pinks are also back and this time in a new jumbo size as well.  Here's a peek at what we're stocking:

We also can't get enough of these very large paper mushrooms on dowels:

It's hard to pick a favorite but I'm loving the orange and black ones!

New Old Stock Flowers, Leaves and Glue

April showers certainly brought May flowers!

We've just added a ton of old stock millinery flowers, vintage pearlized leaves and even a selection of specialty glue to the website.  From vibrant clematis blossoms to dainty silk hyacinths to long stem cosmos, everything is old stock from Germany, Czechoslovakia and Japan.  

We're very excited to be stocking Coccoina glues from Italy.  Available in both liquid and paste form, Coccoina is non-toxic, solvent-free and has the most delicious marzipan almond scent. 

Click HERE for a closer look!

A Feature on Martha Stewart's Show!

We're very excited to have some of our supplies featured on The Martha Stewart Show! Watch Hosanna Hauser, Kristin St. Clair and Martha craft gorgeous window-eggs with our supplies by clicking HERE.

Here are quick links to the mushrooms and other millinery supplies they used:

mushrooms -- HERE and HERE

millinery -- HERE and HERE

Inspired by panoramic sugar eggs, their long lasting eggs turned out absolutely beautiful and are sure to become favorite decorations used year after year.  We are excited to try our hand at making a set and are amazed by how thick and sturdy the ostrich egg is!

A Rose by Any Other Name

 I'm obsessed with trims right now and am very excited to keep adding more and more to the shop.  These are old store stock rose trims in a few different variegated colorways.  It's hard to pick a favorite -- I love them all!

The one above is such a pretty mix of bold.

And this one is moody and elegant.

Can't refuse the sweet one above either.  Do you have a favorite?

Spring Has Sprung!

New Etsy Shop Additions

We've just added 16 new styles of buttons to our Etsy shop.  I am completely smitten with the little bear head, and the little kitty head is beyond adorable.  These are from various places all over the world...  England, Italy, Czech Republic, the Philippines... and have such beautiful attention to detail.  When I was a little girl I actually had a set of the bear buttons on a pair of overalls.  As I grew, my mom would take them off and sew them on something else so I was never without my bears!

A Merry Christmas to Everyone!

 

Wishing you all a blessed and joyous Christmas!

Personalized Letters From Santa, Elaborate Cards & More!

We've just added several new paper goods to the website... kangaroos that double as treat containers and ornaments; pretty 3-D Christmas cards with richly embossed vintage images; old fashioned tags... very sweet things to send or display.

It's always hard to choose a favorite, but the kangaroos are pretty darn cool! I totally see them as favors at a kid's birthday party or hung on the Christmas tree with a pouch full of little peppermints.

My mom has always been a huge fan of Santa letters, so I'm guessing her top pick would be our personalized letters from Santa... darling poems, a vintage graphic of Santa and Rudolph, a reindeer stamp.

If you click the image above you can see all of our new paper pieces together.

A Feature in Victorian Homes

We're very pleased to share that one of our Victorian style advent calendars was featured in the December issue of Victorian Homes Magazine! Here's a quick peek inside the mag:

You can find this particular advent HERE with the other Victorian style advents we offer.