Flour Sack Towels

My new/old stamps arrived yesterday and they are very cute. Over the weekend I bought some washable fabric paint, sponges and flour sack towels so I was all ready when the stamps got here. It took no time at all to get my towels stamped, although I did try it out on paper before putting it to the towel. I am happy with how they turned out. They aren't perfect and that makes them seem more vintage. I will definitely make more of these in a variety of colors once I find a good deal on towels.

Vintage Stamp Project

So I mentioned Etsy.com in my last post but I didn't mention my outright obsession with Etsy. I love it. I need it.  Etsy is fabulous. There are thousands upon thousands of vintage items on Etsy that are just waiting for me to purchase and love them. Most days I am fighting my urges to buy items from Etsy but the other day my pointer finger won out and I ended up purchasing two vintage rubber stamps. I mean just look at them. How could I possibly turn down vintage rubber stamps from a old citrus packing warehouse? That's right. I couldn't and I didn't. The stamps should be here on Monday and I can't wait. My plan is to buy a stack of flour sack towels (my favorite), some stamp pads and make some new vintage looking kitchen towels.

Here is the link to the Art Floozy's Etsy shop where I found these awesome stamps. http://www.etsy.com/shop/theartfloozy?ref=seller_info

First Things First

I am currently in a love affair with all things vintage. To me vintage can mean antique and it can mean 'mid-century' and it definitely can be anywhere in between. Using vintage, old, garage sale and well loved items is satifiying to me. The character of items that are twice or thrice loved is generally far greater than anything you can buy brand new not to mention I really enjoy telling the story about how I came to own these certain items.

Vintage and antique items have long since been a love for me. When I was about ten my mom, sister and I drove to a family friend's cabin in Montana. Along the way we stopped in many antique stores and in one store I found a vintage metal lunch box. One of those lunch boxes that I imagine a metal worker used and carried around his ham sandwich at 20 stories high (Similar to the above one I found on Etsy.com). Anyway I loved it and bought it. It started off as black but it was pretty beat up so I had my dad take me down to his shop in Ballard where he had a sandblaster.  I put my new lunch box in the sandblaster and quickly removed all the paint. I chose silver as it's new color and in an afternoon I had a brand spanking old lunch box ready to haul my mom made lunches every day. I would venture to say I had the most interesting lunch box in my class and probably the school. So that was my start in the vintage world and still today, at the ripe old age of nearly 27, I love taking on projects where I get to mix old and new to make something that is completely me.