Vintage Notions: May

I'm going to be better at keeping up with my projects this month.

"Prayer is the peace of our spirit , the stillness of our thoughts, the evenness of recollection, the seal of meditation, the rest of our cares and the calm of our tempest; prayer is the issue of a quiet mind, of untroubled thoughts; it is the daughter of charity and the sister of meekness."

 In Amy Barrickman's book, may seems to be a month of prayer and the home. Last semester, at church we were studying prayer, and a lot of people were reading Paul Miller's A Praying Life. I didn't have a chance to purchase it at the time, but I heard it was really inspiring, and in keeping with Barrickman's theme, I think I will read it this month. I have also had the book  The Sacred Romance  by John Eldridge recommended to me, as well as Evlolving in Monkey Town by Rachel Evans. So thats my reading list for this month, we'll see if I can them all read!!

Projects this month:

Fashion: Sewing a Scarf

Crochet:  Hat

I'm thinking about working on this one.

http://www.antiquecrochetpatterns.com/sparkling-beanie.html

Good Looks:
Cupping the face. "Simply place a small glass cup on the face, holing it there for a few moments til the suction draws the blood to the surface. Then, move it to a new spot, continuing in this way until the face has been covered and the blod made to circulate freely." (SCARY) Who DOES that?

Cleansing and moisturizing the face a priority.


Home:

A Little World of Peace

by W. Dayton Wegeforth

Mould yourself a little world of peace

To live upon in blissful sweet content; 

And place it in a cloud of silver fleece

Amid the blue of your own firmament.

Build  around your hope a golden fence

To bar out care-to keep your joy within;

From radiant sunlight glean your confidence,

And with its shimmering beams  your future spin.

Place your faith in God, and tread the way

Through flowered years, with some twin-hearted soul; 

Let no dark sorrow dim your perfect day,

But seek the myriad joys that make life whole.

(I want to put this on an Art Print)

A Smiling Garden.

"A plot of flowers will delight you in three ways-first, through your sense of sight; secondly though your sense of smell;and thirdly, through that joy of all flower lovers, the luxury of giving away."

It's May, and I've been in a bit of a funk lately. Today has been one of the first where I felt productive though. I made this living wreath: 

Sorry, I don't know where my camera is so this is my sucky phone camera.

I got the idea from the Hostess with the Mostess blog. 

We'll see if I just ended up destroying the flowers.:( I'm hoping it will work and I can hang it on my front door. It will be my inspiration for decorating the rest of the house in a close to 30 manner as opposed to "twenty-something just out of college and things are just hodge podged together."

Considering: Re-doing lampshades for the Living Room.

Cooking:
Icebox Pudding

Amy Vanderbilt Reading:
How to Decorate with Accessories

Sew Retro:
Cafe Curtains for Kitchen (Hopefully Creating the Illusion of a window in the Kitchen???)

Oh and I saw this poster by Evelyn Rumsy Carey in someones House and I want it, but it's like $60.00 and I can't afford it so I'm posting it here. Maybe I can recreate it with my own spin on it?