Cupcake Foo Foo

Another Before and After Creation Photo. This cami is so feminine and full of ruffles and lace! I added a vintage doily [which we all know I love] and a posy of vintage feed sack fabric in the center of it, she is in the [shop] right now.

ItsBella Lingerie

This is the newest addition to ItsBella! She is ready just in time for Valentine's Day. This vintage slip was lovingly hand dyed a sweet red/coral color and then hemmed to a more modern length. The original lace hem was carefully removed and then re sewn to the new hem. An addition of double black lace was also added to them hem. Lastly, a romantic detail of lace was added to the bottice as well as a sweet double bow at the breast. [it is removable on a safety pin]

It was a labor of love, but I had a lot of fun doing it. It was a cold, cold winter day yesterday, spent sewing and sewing! Here are some photos of the process.



...and this is anther one that I completed this afternoon.
Psst: ItsBella is now offering ::Free Shipping:: as a standard for every listing! [within the u.s.]

xo.

Vintage Pink Cami

I adore this slip top that I recently added to my vintage lingerie shop ItsBella. It has had a lot of work done to it! I began with a vintage cream colored slip and turned it into this beautiful and simple cami top.

I hand dyed the garment a lovely shade of pale pink. Then I cut and hemmed the original lace back onto the slip to make it into a camisole top. Lastly, a sweet detail of a vintage rhinestone pin and black ribbon bow to the bust and it was complete!

Now if it would just warm up above 30 degrees, I could stomach wearing something like this!

and really... is there nothing sweeter than a hem of vintage lace? Le siiigh.

A New Year, A New Attitude

Finally, I am getting my rear in gear about blogging! I think what held me from beginning me before [and keeping it up] was the fact that I could not decide what to focus my blog on! I love to do so many things and I enjoy so many things!

I read fashion blogs, home decorating blogs, etsy blogs, craft blogs, green living blogs, etc, etc, etc!
So, in MY blog, who is to say that I can not write about all of these things? It may be jumbled, it may be random, but I have finally made a decision!

I have been focusing on my etsy shops for a little over a half of a year now. I have three:

• ItsBella
  
• FunkeyFinds
  
• Olivesomeday

ItsBella began first, as a supply shop. I had so much fun making little packets of scrap sewing materials, paper collage materials, buttons, lace, trims and the like. Then about a month ago, I had the idea of using these supplies to embellish vintage lingerie! So, I revamped the shop, and changed the products to hand embellished vintage lingerie. I sell camis, slips, skirts, and much more is in the works. It has been a really beautiful transition from supply shop to lingerie shop!




FunkeyFinds was a labor of love for sometime as well this summer. I enjoyed traveling with my mom to thrift stores, auctions, and tag sales throughout eastern Pennsylvania in the stiffling summer heat. We bargained, we got lost, we found treasures, we had fun! I am really, really looking foward to doing that again this summer. [I say this as it is freezing rain and 25 degrees here!] I really love the thrill of the hunt, finding something that is beautiful among trash!



My last shop, Olivesomeday, is so much fun! I search for vintage frames, as well as vintage look a-likes. I paint them brightly and fill them with vintage children's illustrations. [painting has been difficult since the winter came, I can no longer paint in the garage and painting in the basement can be somewhat hazardous!]
When I began college I wanted to get into graphic design. I adore old books, the way they smell, the way the crack at the bindings, and they way you just can't find images like them anymore! Some of my favorite illustrators are Evaline Ness, Maurice Sendak, Dom Almquist and anything from a 1960s Nature/Science book!

As for the rest of my life, I have two cats, a Boston Terrier, a Husband, a House and a Job as an Elementary Art Teacher!