A Paris Street Market September 2016

THANK YOU! To everyone who came to my booth last Saturday at A Paris Street Market in Aspen Grove.

A special thanks to my husband who woke up at dawn to help me set up and who came late morning with my daughter Laura ( we enjoyed lunch together). Laura returned to CSU early afternoon so it was really sweet my husband returned to help me pack up and load the u-haul van.

This year's market season had a slow start with weather issues. However, this last market had stellar sales. Record sales for a non- holiday market. Thank you to all my customers, old and new:)

Thanks to my friend Amy, owner of the Pink Attic Cat for loaning me this cool vintage display rack for my camper drink coasters and camper pillows.

 

 

 

 

 

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Old House Vintage Market May 2016

Can't believe summer break is almost over. Alex will go start middle school in a few weeks (7th) grade. Laura will return to CSU in Ft. Collins in a few weeks. Today Laura had her tonsils removed so she will be home recovering before returning to the busy college life. While we sit in the waiting room, I thought it would be a good opportunity to blog.

Blogging this summer has been a challenge. Since my last post ( it's been a while) I traveled to Texas twice. First trip was to El Paso where I spent time with my parents, my sister, family and friends. I was home only a few weeks and it was time to travel again. The second trip was a family road trip to Texas.

When we took our car in for service before the trip, we learned it has several small leaks that could not be taken care in the time the car was in for service. We quickly made a reservation for a rental car and we were on our way.

This summer we started our trip with a few days at the beach and pier fishing in San Padre Island, near Corpus Christi. Our next stop was a few days with my mother in law in Austin where we spent time with the entire Wagner family. Before we left Austin, our dear friends - Alan and Tina- came from Houston to spend an afternoon with us. Our last stop was San Antonio where we had breakfast with our former next door neighbor and dear friend, Cindy. We spent a few days with June (who is my surrogate sister) and her husband David.

I came home inspired full of ideas after spending time in June's home studio. MORE on that later. Although if you want to see a preview of that, visit my Instagram page (IsaCreationsVintage).

In an effort to catch up on my blog posts, let's go back to May - Old House Vintage Market. It's a new market in Golden,Co. It was a fun market at a lovely park where the weather was perfect! After having two markets with miserable cold (wet for one of those markets), it was wonderful to have a warm sunny day. My friend Lisa was there to help me at this market:)

I am also happy to share I will be a vendor at the next Old a House Vintage Market in September!

Old House Vintage Market - Parfet Park | Golden, Colorado

September 17, 2016
Located in beautiful Parfet Park701 10^th Street | Golden, Colorado
Although I have done very little blogging this summer, I have been busy creating many new items for upcoming markets in September starting with A Paris Street Market in Aspen Grove and Old House Vintage Market. I look forward to sharing my new items in future blog posts.
Here are photos of my booth from Old House Vintage Market in May. the market organizer, Bernadette is a wonderful organizer. She provided all her vendors with complimentary coffee and breakfast burritos - all very much appreciated. We had space to "spill out", which is great when you are a vendor. I look forward to being a vendor at all her future markets.

 

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Mini Embroidery Hoop Pendants

This is a catch up blog posting. Several weeks ago I received a new shipment from Dandelyne in Australia. I love creating with Dandelyne's embroidery hoop pendants. I created more vintage embroidery pendants weeks ago but due to lack of time, I am now sharing them on my blog. Although, they have already been posted on Isa Creations Vintage Instagram account.

Free form stitching or also known as sewing illustration has become one of my favorite things to do. Creating houses, Campers or Airstreams using little bits of vintage embroidered linens with my sewing machine is simply fun! I continue to challenge myself to find different ways to repurpose vi gage linens.

I have stayed very busy working on my new displays fior the new market season. Each year my market displays are a bit different since the type of new repurposed inventory changes from year to year. One of my favorite ways to display items are vintage screen doors. I get all my screen doors and other display items from my friend Amy, owner of the Pink Attic Cat in downtown Littleton.

I will be at A Paris Street Market in Aspen Grove this Saturday,

May 7, 2016

8 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Rain or Shine!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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More mini embroidery Hoop Pendants and Vintage Embroidered Linens

My goal each week is find a balance to fulfill all my obligations.

This past week,

I worked 2 long days (one night till dawn) on the 6th grade memory book for my son's classmates. A digital book to be printed into 70+copies. Right now, this project is perhaps giving me the most stress. I am making progress (have to repeat that to myself).

I worked one day as a substitute teacher. Art class all day, that was fun!

I started work on my vintage embroidered pin cushions. My current inventory on pin cushions is ZERO! So, I definitely need to work on those. Progress...

This week I finished 28 more mini embroidery hoop pendants using Dandelyne's embroidery hoop pendants. Over the past 2 weeks, I have 85 embroidery pendants (various sizes and shapes) finished! Progress!

I also prepared the vintage embroidered linens with free-form stitching or sewing illustrations for 50 more mini embroidery hoops from Dandelyne. I ordered 50 more mini embroidery hoops. Since they are being shipped from Australia it may take another 2 weeks to arrive (hoping for a bit sooner). Anyway, when they arrive all I will need to do is put them all together. Again, progress!

Packaging of these vintage embroidered hoop pendants is also done! Thanks to my friend Amy of the Pink Attic Cat who has given me 100s of vintage card catalog cards to use in my packaging of the pendants. I also used digital images from Designer Digitals (printed them onto the card catalog cards). Progress!

Despite all this progress, I am still behind. I need to remind myself of something I always tell my daughter,

See life as a half full glass rather than half empty!

In other words, be grateful for the progress made this week and NOT focus on what remains to be done.

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