Graceful Cards at Marie Antoinette & Co

Graceful Cards are now available at the lush and lovely Marie Antoinette & Co, adjoined to Tinseltown Christmas Emporium! You can snap up a shabby chic greeting card--either for Christmas or year-round giving--while basking in the cuteness of the shop.

Christmas Craft Sale 2013

Here is a little documentation of my Graceful Cards table at the craft sale I was in on the weekend. It was a bright display (surrounded by beautiful chaos of other tables) stuffed with unique greeting cards, and trimmed with some of my Spoonflower design swatches.

At lunchtime during the sale someone opened the outside doors and we crafters, who had been cooped up at our tables, discovered that a lovely blanket of snow had dusted the ground! That was the highlight of the day, because now it's really "beginning to look a lot like Christmas" around here!



Craft Sale Prep

It's holiday craft sale season! I have been spending this weekend making Graceful Cards--Graceful Christmas Cards--like crazy, and planning out my table set up for the craft sale I am going to be in next week. I adore staging my table to create balance between the products. Of course I have been dancing around to peppy vintage Christmas music all the while! Fa la la la la!



Retro Radiance

With warmer weather comes the influence of warmer hues.

This vibrant floral is from Irina Kurtz's Spoonflower shop Chulabird, and it reminds me of 1960s daisy prints.

Lately, with all sorts of cheery florals popping up everywhere, I've been developing a deeper appreciation for the style of the '60s.  

Twiggy was one of the leading faces of the bright '60s look.

I made a display of 1950s and 1960s inspired décor to highlight the eras' vivid colors and patterns. My mom made the circular painting on the bottom shelf, and the sides of the shelves are lined with decorative papers from Michael's. The cat-eye glasses were a $2 Value Village find, and would make a great pair of sunglasses with some new lenses! A $0.99 milk glass vase, also purchased at Value Village, appears to be a fountain spout in a pond of multicolored jewellery.

I picked up this 1961 grammar book, which cost less than a dollar, at a book sale specifically for its mod cover.

Here's a close up of the display's coordinating Graceful Card.

 These chunky necklaces look extra bold hanging in front of pop art lips, originally a page from a Joe flyer.

(Finally, here's my stab at '60s wallpaper, available in my Spoonflower shop!)