Vintage Thingies Thursday: Vintage Projects & Childhood Purse

Hello Everyone!! Welcome to this weeks segment of Vintage Thingies Thursday. Thursday is the day to showcase your vintage treasures and to share your special things with everyone. If you are visiting and would like to join us, please do. It is very easy! The instructions are at the bottom of this post.

I have so many unfinished projects....projects in which I have most all the materials to complete a project and turn ordinary things into something wonderful. The only problem is....time. Yep, that is a problem these days. Seriously, if I could afford to quit work and stay home, I think I could stay busy from sun up to sun down working on something for years to come......Glory.....that would be wonderful.

And speaking of time.....since that has been scarce this week, and I am frantically trying to post for this weeks VTT, I sorta took the easy way out and toted my most recent unfinished projects outdoors to took some pictures....hoping that you will not think this post is as lame as I do! Sorry.....I hope next week will be better, but I am not going to promise anything.

I know it is no secret about my love for vintage china. And if you think I broke this adorable plate on my own....Ha! you have another think coming. I love the mosaics done with vintage china, but I think that I would have a problem with one major step in the process....the breaking up a perfectly good plate.

This is my adorable...(to me) end table. I found this little table at Goodwill for $4.00. It really needs to be repainted, which I am going to do...when I find the time, but what I loved about this is the shelf rim at the top of the table.....just perfect for a project I have been wanting to do for awhile now.

I purchased these Mosaic china tiles from a lady off eBay, I just love the design. (These have a protective plastic covering over the china tiles, and the priority tape is really a distraction. Sorry.) But, If I took the plastic off, well....most likely, I would not ever get it back together again to save my life.

Here is a closeup of the cute little plates that were broken into tiny pieces.....I love the look, but can not imagine breaking the plates myself.....I will let you in on a secret....sometime in the future, I am going to try my hand in this breaking plates thingie.

Another close up of the borders used in the design. I love the little pink flowers and the rims of the plates to form the pattern.

This is the picture from the computer, minus the priority tape, it gives you a better look at the design. I will fill in solid white china pieces to complete the top of the table. I can not wait to find the time to do this project, I am most excited to see how it turns out.

I found this cute little cup at Goodwill too. It was .45 cents. It is rather small, and I think I am going to make a pin cushion out of this......again, when I find the time. I have no problems coming up with ideas, just need to find the time to carry them out.

Here is the underneath side of the little cup, showing the stamp and markings. I love the colors in this cup and the cute little pink flowers.

Lastly, I am so super excited to show you my sweet little vintage purse. Now, this is no ordinary vintage purse. It is most special to me. If you remember my post around Easter, and I showed you a picture of myself as a child, I had a little purse in the photo. I had this purse for years, and have no idea what ever happened to it.

I have looked on eBay, you know the place (where you can find anything) well, I never saw another like it. Well, a few weeks ago, I was visiting blogs and I was looking at some great estate sale finds Carol from Old Glory Cottage had posted on her blog. I nearly fell out of my chair when I saw the same little purse I remembered from my childhood. I quickly emailed Carol to see if she was going to list this on eBay, as I knew she sold on eBay and offered to purchase this from her. Carol would have nothing to do with it, and sent me this purse as a gift. Oh, happy day when this arrived.

See, it is exactly the same, even has the same little flower clasp (my favorite part). My original one had a bit of lace on the top, but I think my mom added that to the purse. No matter, I am thrilled to death to have replaced my childhood purse that I was so fond of. My little purse carried many a crayon, marbles, rubber balls, and a little red wallet for years. I am so pleased to be able to replace my lost treasure. Carol, thank you from the bottom of my heart. I was moved by your generosity.

Oh, and I have an announcement:

July 12th will by my one year blogging anniversary...I can hardly believe it has been a year, and that I have actually had something to share with the blogging community that someone out there wanted to read.

To celebrate this milestone, I am going to host a giveaway....I can not tell you what that will be, because to be honest...I have no idea yet. Just pay me a visit on the 12th....please....just humor me, in the meantime, I will be thinking of something really cool to giveaway.....or at least I hope you like it!

And speaking of giveaways...if you missed my post about a wonderful quilt giveaway...click HERE and pay Nancy a visit, and enter to win her amazing quilt.

Have a great week everyone, be sure to link in and share your favorite treasures with us today, the instructions are below!

To participate, all you have to do is: (1) do a post about something vintage. (2) Visit all the participates and leave a comment. (3) Link in with the Mr. Linky at the bottom of this post, please use a perma-link to link in with, that way, anyone can refer back to your post if they can not get to it on Thursday. (4) Be sure to refer back to my blog so everyone can see who is participating today, and if you like include the VTT button in your post. Please be sure to have your post up before linking in.