Valentine's Mail

Even though I am all grown up now, a wife, and mother with two little girls, my mom still sends me the most special care packages for the different holidays.  She always sends us beautifully packaged boxes with thoughtful things for the whole family.  I SO look forward to these packages!  We received a Valentine's Day box from her last week with lots of fun Valentine's treats, decorations and gifts and I just wanted to share a couple handmade gifts with you.


For Christmas I gave Mom, Amy Butler's new book, Style Stitches, in hopes of getting her back into sewing.  Well, I think it worked!!  Mom is now taking a quilting class and has been spending her nights and weekends at the sewing machine.  Above is a little purse that my mom made me from Amy Butler's new book.


I love the coordinating broach that she added to the bag - it's just the right touch and the color matches perfectly.


The inside has lots of fun little pockets for storing all sorts of things.  The lining is a striped fabric that coordinates with the outer two.


The back of the purse has this super-cute handle.  You can either carry it or slide it around your wrist.


And finally, I must toot mom's horn a bit - look at those pleats and that stitching.  Total and complete perfection!  I was inspired to start sewing with all the memories of my mom sewing when we were growing up so I am thrilled that she has jumped back into this hobby.


In the same Valentine's Day package she include these two matching play aprons for Savannah and Matilda.  The girls love that they have pockets for them to carry around all their treasures.

We also received another fun package from my Grandma Ethel this weekend with lots of fun things and Valentine's treats for the girls.  Grandma Ethel works at a thrift store in her retirement community and saves me all sorts of treasures that she finds.


I love this vintage McCalls apron pattern - I definitely think I'm going to have to make myself one of this.  How stylish will I look sporting this around the house??  I think the tic-tac-toe pot holder is too cute!!


Here is about 1/3 of the vintage linens that she sent me - such great finds!


I'm really loving these two vintage baby bonnets.  Not quite sure what I'm going to do with them, but I'm sure I will find something.  Perhaps the girls will like them for their baby dolls when they get a little older.