Glittery Vintage Postcards

Add a little nostalgia and glitter to your holiday's with these glittered vintage postcards. This is a great project for the kids as well.

To create:

Search for vintage postcard images online.

Print selected postcard image on cardstock.

With a glue pen, highlight desired areas on the card.
Pour glitter over glue area.

Continue with different colored glitter, as desired.

Write your message directly on the back of the card, or affix the postcard to a greeting card.

Enjoy your sparkly creations.

Kristin

Today, I created Ornament Garlands with the messages "Merry Christmas" and "Santa" added to it with stickers. It is really easy to do and by using thrift store finds, it was inexpensive as well. For the how-to see below.

Supply Cost: about $3/ each garland

Time: 30 minutes

Supplies

• Repurposed beaded garland or yarn
• Repurposed glass ornaments
• Letter stickers (enough letters to spell your message)

Note: I would recommend darker colored stickers or stickers that contrast with the ornaments so that the message is easier to read.

Steps

1. Gently clean and dry your ornaments with a soft cloth and water (tarnished ornaments are okay and give your garland a vintage look).
2. Decide what message you want to display (e.g., "Merry Christmas," "Happy Holidays," "Noel," etc.).
3. Add the stickers to the ornaments to create your message.
4. Add the ornments to your beaded garland or yarn. If using yarn, tie your ornaments in place. If using a beaded garland use light weight wire to secure your ornaments.
5. Hang your creation on a wall and enjoy.

Have fun creating!
Kristin

Come on in to White Willow General Store

When I thought long and hard about what I would name a blog, if I ever had one, I couldn't get the image out of my head of an old family photo showing my great-grandmother around 1918 in her twenties in front of a General Store with the rest of her family. All the women wore dresses of the day and the gentleman wore hats. I was to find out later that the store they stood in front of was in the town of White Willow, MN. White Willow was home to the General Store as well as a post office.

Now a ghost town, I cannot get the image out of my mind. Though in the  picture you cannot see into the store, I often wonder what sort of items would have been sold in the store. Of course there would have been the usual staples of dry goods, fabric, thread, etc., but what else. I wonder if the things I make today were also in the minds of my family back then. When they looked at fabric and thread, did they dream of the smart little wallet they would make for their children? When they say little trinkets and baubles, did they wonder what they could do with such items. I imagine they may have and that is why I have named my blog, White Willow General Store.

It is those items that are very simple and may have been created from items found in a General Store in the small town of White Willow. I hope you enjoy my creations and can use some of the examples in some of your own General Store items.

Kristin