i love all things vintage, and i have completely fallen in love with vintage valentines....so sweet, so simple, so innocent (usually, except when, surprise! they're not!). i recently found a precious group of 40 valentines on ebay that had belonged to a brother & sister: jean & harold nightingale.
if the sweet little pictures and sentiments on the fronts aren't enough, the adorable "to & froms", carefully written in cursive with pencil make these valentiens even more precious.
"To Harold Nightingale, From Junior Miller"
"Olive from Pearl Gischman"
To Maple, From Viola Bomaugh"
three years ago i found a ownderful piece of fabric at the tokyo great international quilt festival (lexi, tashi, & i so missed being there this year at the end of january...but brock surprised us by attending while he was htere on business and bringing us back some surprises) that was printed with darling vintage valentines in red on white. it was my inspiration for making this little "drunkard's path" valentine's quilt:
one of my favorite little poems on it says, "I'm not your valentine, but gee! The whole world knows I want to be!" this year i found a valentine with that same message inside, and so cute on the front!:
i made the quilt in the background of this photo last valentine's day.
tashi loves vintage just as much as i, and and we found these sweet litte vintage valentine cupcake sticks for her birthday party:
chocolate cupcakes filles with chocolate chipp cheesecake.
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So cute! And the cupcakes look really yummy....
Posted by: Jill Mulder | February 06, 2009 at 04:16 PM
Who are you!? I just bought Hulk, Ben Ten, and Spiderman valentines at Harmon's. Does that make me a bad mom???
Posted by: Bebe | February 07, 2009 at 06:42 PM
yummy, now i need some more of those! have you started your kelly quilt yet? I've got about half of the top done. It sits on my dining table and waits for a row or 2 each day. Thanks again for absorbing my explosion of the mouth the other day. You da best, and i'm doing/feeling better. thx. Love, Maple
Posted by: glor | February 09, 2009 at 02:27 PM
Hey, have you seen the valentine card wreath on the williams-sonoma website? It reminded me of you. Check it out and tell me what you think.
Posted by: Bebe | February 10, 2009 at 03:00 PM
I love the vintage valentines! So cute! You do such a great job with decorating your house.
Posted by: Micaela | February 12, 2009 at 09:18 PM