My pantry is ready for spring - it's just the snow that is still falling that isn't. 🙄 Eight printable labels, link below. The eggs and pantry sign are separate listings and available in my shop. 🐰         Pantry Labels Link    ...

    This is my new favourite! One of eight printable vintage-look printable pantry labels are in my new set. I printed this one on new muslin that I pre coffee and tea dyed. I used Heat and Bond Lite to adhere it to a 100+ year old salt sack that my great granny had saved. Finished bag is about 12"x7.5".    ...

Who doesn't need chicken Valentine decor in their kitchen?? I sure did! My grandparents, above, had chickens on their farm and one of my earliest memories is the hens scattering when we drove into the yard in the 1960's. It's also my grandmother tied onto the homespun heart.   You will find this label in set #124 in my shop (click on the image below to find it). I printed the label on new pre-washed muslin and sewed a simple feed sack. I use the freezer paper method, my ink jet printer and new, well pressed pre-home dyed muslin. I strongly recommend researching for a tutorial as this is not a feat for the faint of heart. You will find many posts on this on Pinterest. If you have an old printer at home I would use it. I have not had any difficulties with my attempts but I trim every teeny little stray thread from the edges of the freezer paper/muslin before feeding it through the rear tray.   ** I also used a legal sized piece of freezer paper and muslin to give me a bit of ......

Happy Fall everyone! I finally had some time to get this out of my head and made into a printable. This design is one of eight in a new old style Halloween pantry set, number 127 in my shop. The links are here on my blog. It is wonderful for fall kitchen decor or make smaller bags for treats for special friends. Directions for printing and making the sack are not included but there are a multitude of posts on Pinterest about printing on muslin. I use the freezer paper method. It is not for the faint of heart and I recommend using a spare printer if you have one. I use a thin well pressed muslin that has been pre-dyed. There is a copy of the print in the set without the 'old paper' colouring and you'll want to use that one. That is why it's important to already have your fabric a darker shade. You cannot dye it or add a water based stain after it is printed as the ink will run. I got a spritz of water on my 'O' and it ran. Yikes. Basic sewing skills are all that ......

I finally tried printing on fabric and I am loving it! This label is from my new for 2024 set #119. Be sure to do your research before feeding fabric into your printer. I used the freezer paper method and it worked well for me. If I had an inexpensive extra printer laying around I would use that for sure.   I centered the image on a letter size page leaving more room on top so I could make a bag fold that I thought looked authentic. After printing I dusted off my ole sewing machine and got busy. I boxed off the sack corners and filled with a baggie of a 1/2 cup of pantry-dead lentils for weight before stuffing with fibrefill. The sack is about 6.5"x8.5" and almost 3" deep. I printed the label at actual size. It's a really easy sewing project and I am really happy with how it turned out. I think Mrs. Claus would approve....

Happy Halloween from my kitchen to yours. Our little kitchen nook is one of my most loved spots in the house to decorate. It's amazing how a new wall colour can change your Halloween look. I just left out the orange... Table for three? Note the supervisor peeking in from around the china cabinet.  ...

While others may disagree... I don't mean in the cooking sense. ...

January seems to be a time to reorganize and start anew. I've got plans for fluffing up my kitchen and my blog and have spent too much  an enjoyable amount of time browsing Pinterest for inspiration. I absolutely love this Meadowbrook kitchen and it is my main inspiration for my brightened up decor. Hopefully coming soon... Meadowbrook Farm Blog I've gotten out what I have on hand in the way of dishes and linens and have an idea of what I need. I love my vintage potholders and wanted more. I don't see them often enough anymore... but -- Duh, I know how to crochet! ...

Behind this seemingly pastoral winter scene in funky turquoise, red, and white is yet another of my kitchen disasters. We didn't need to call the fire department and thankfully everything has turned out just fine. Better than expected actually. It all started with my bright idea to make a new bunting for the old window that hangs in our breakfast nook... It only took a short time to make and I loved it. Till I hung it up. The colours were terrible. Although it somehow looks turquoise here, it is really a deep greenish turquoise and the red is... not funky at all. More like a blood red. Eeew. Max even turned his nose up at it. So, I hauled out a rather sparse bunting I'd made a couple of years ago, got out a box of clearance pine cones that I picked up two Christmases ago (which had the exact number of pine cones required for the bunting rescue), the proper colour red yarn... five minutes and... voila. I like it even better than the first one. Go figu......

No worries Max, you're still our main man -- but imagine my delight last week when I was at my Aunt Marlene's for a visit and she gifted me this turquoise teapot cozy! She had knit it years ago for my grandmother and now it is mine ours. Macy loves it too. To fully appreciate the poodley-ness of it all you have to have known my grandmother Gladys... An animal lover from a tiny tot she always had pets. When I came along she had her beloved white and black miniature poodles, Buttons and Bows. Let's just say that she didn't miss out on that 50's and 60's poodle decor thing either. Not by a long shot. So many of you commented on my great grandmother's stern look in my last post that I had to include one of our rare photos of her smiling (middle right) - although it is just a bit of a smile. Born in 1878, the youngest of eleven, she was a hard working no-nonsense woman says my Aunt Marlene (that's Marlene on the low......

I can't believe it is November already. E ven with all this snow  the first day of winter is still more than a month away -- it is technically still fall. Hmmm.  One of my favourite treasures is the Sunbeam Mixmaster that sits on my kitchen counter. It belonged to my dad's maternal grandparents. (We grew up baking with a chrome Sunbeam and I still think it mixed much better than my fancy mixer does today.) I love its yellowed bits and chipped metal. My grandmother gave this mixer to my great grandparents on their 50th wedding anniversary on February 21st, 1956. Another of my very favourite things are old family photos and the stories that go with them. I am fortunate in that we do have quite a few of each from both sides of my family and I am lucky that I have aunts from both sides and my parents who remember the stories.  Marlene and my dad circa 1945 in front of my great grandparents home. Yesterday I visited my Aunt Marlene (she's the li......