Little Vintage Style, Once Again....

As you can tell, I haven't been the craftiest lately.  I haven't been super-motivated to do art projects, thus yet another post of Avery photos for Little Vintage Style!  At least Stacy's keeping me motivated to keep my little girly looking cute!

Well, gone are the days when I could just set her down in a little chair and shoot away with my camera!  She definitely had her own opinions today, as shown in the above photo.  She did not want to give me a nice, timeless pose in the grass or by the trees to show off her little vintage top...

She wanted to hold the Frisbee...

...or ride her brother's bike (not really, but she likes to pretend!)...

 ...or push a bike...

...or pull a wagon...

But finally she cheered up and gave me a few really sweet poses and expressions without the colorful, plastic props!

That's my little sweetie!!  Her top is from the thrift store, as are her jeans and shoes, although only the top is vintage.  Thanks for indulging me with all these photos lately!

Vintage Easter

I promise all my posts aren't going to be Avery in vintage from now on, but Stacy over on Hart & Sew is doing a weekly link party called Little Vintage Style, so it's given me the incentive to pull out the few vintage pieces I've got! 

My original intention was for Avery to wear a new pink dress for Easter, but when we tried it on, it was a bit too big.  So this little number made its premiere appearance!

I found this set at a local Goodwill, and it's so adorable!  The dress is a pale yellow dotted swiss, with a chiffon pinafore over the top.  It is handmade, so no tag, and no guess as to its age, although it looks like 1950's to me?

I would have loved for her to wear a little Easter bonnet, but she wouldn't keep one on.  So a bow had to suffice!

She was happy as could be all day in her little dress, and as you can see, she even found some eggs during the Easter egg hunt!

 And just so the boys don't feel left out, here are some pics of their finds as well!

My Vintage Cutie

Avery has a few vintage dresses, which I've either inherited (a couple shown here and here) or found while thrifting.  Until now, most were little baby dresses, but she's beginning to grow into a few of the toddler pieces I've found.  I tried this one on her today, and am in love!  It's adorable!  I don't know the era- I can't tell from the tag- but I'm guessing it's from maybe the 80's?  Regardless, it's such a cute dress I couldn't resist taking some photos of her this evening!  (Don't mind the disappearing/reappearing scabs on her forehead- I edited them out in a few photos, but didn't bother with the rest- ha ha!)

I know that many photos is probably overkill when it's not your own child, but I couldn't pick only a couple- they were all too cute!

Hope you're all having a great beginning to the week!

New Art and Cute Kids

Here is my latest piece.  I know I said I was enjoying working without collage elements, but I sort of wanted to do a more personal piece about my family right now.  So I included the bunnies to represent each member, then wrote words around the "path", detailing some of the things I want to remember about this time.

I think I really like the piece.  I loved choosing the colors for the little triangles, coming up with the perfect balance of cools, warms, lights, darks.  But I can't decide if the piece is too busy as a result.  There's a lot going on, but maybe it all just works.  I don't know- I'll have to let it sit for a few days and see what I think then...

( The reason the one bunny is on top of the smaller house is because Noah loves climbing on top of our little playhouse in the backyard!)

I realized I haven't shown that many photos of the kids recently.  Partially because stupid Blogger still downloads all my vertical photos sideways.   I take 90% of my photos vertically, but I was able to find some good horizontal ones to show so that I don't have to go through and manually save each one as a JPEG!

Someone turned 4!

As you can see, Avery gets lots of extra help (and rides!) from her big brothers.  We're all really enjoying our weather here lately.  It's GORGEOUS out in Florida right now, and we're taking full advantage, before the hot summer comes!

Hope you're all enjoying the beginnings of Spring as well!

The Boys' New Shared Room

As I've mentioned before, when Riley turned five (October), we moved the two boys into a shared room and turned Riley's old room into a playroom.  Which meant I had some re-decorating to do in both "new" rooms. Here is the reveal of their new bedroom!

The color scheme of the room is inspired by the painting above.  I found it a couple years ago at Goodwill (for only $12!), and couldn't pass it up!  It's an original painting depicting two boys flying kites in a field-perfect for their room! We got navy blue bunk beds, and I chose orange and green colors from the painting for the walls.

This is the view of the room as you walk through the door.

And here's the left-hand wall and the bed.

A closer shot of the wall. As you can see in the previous photo, it's pretty tight next to the bed, and there are drawers over there, so everything on the wall had to be pretty shallow.  But it turned out to be the perfect place to put a book sling!   There are tutorials for these all over the web, but I just sort of made up my own version, and it turned out great!

 

The beds again...

This chalkboard was another fantastic thrift find.  It's wonderfully aged, and has the chalk ledge attached.   I found it while I was in the midst of doing the room, and it was the perfect addition!  You can see a couple of our chore charts up there!

And wouldn't you know it, but probably a week after finding the first chalkboard, I found a second, identical one in half the size!  I had to get it.  For right now, I propped it behind their little table, but it will probably end up in the playroom soon...  As you can see, I also made a valance to match the book sling.

 

Here is their shared dresser.  I considered repainting it (it's had the same finish through four different room re-dos!), but I'm kind of too lazy, and it actually matches pretty well!  The large letters are just repainted from their old rooms, and then I display their current scrapbooks/journals up there as well.

 

Wrapping back around the room...

Then, we end up back at the door.  I repainted the little shelves from Riley's old room, and have various little mementoes displayed there.  You can see the shoe hanger from a while ago- it's still in use, although their shoes barely fit into the pockets anymore!

These last two photos just show the boys' individual spaces.  Riley's on the top bunk, since he's oldest. 

And Noah's on the bottom bunk.  I got them each the little wall pockets (from Ikea), so they can store various things in their own space.  It's funny what sort of things show up in the pockets!  Their bedspreads are both secondhand.  I found Noah's at a thrift store, and found Riley's on Ebay to "match".   I loved the idea of vintage bedspreads that didn't match (like in Danielle Thompson's sons' room), so this was my version.  At some point, I may make quilts for them, but for now, this works great!

And that's it!  We're all really enjoying their new room.  It's grown-up enough, yet still fun for them.  And having most of the toys out of their bedroom makes it so much more peaceful in there as well.

Hope you liked it!