SALE & Free Shipping for Sweet Thanksgiving Dresses

I am having a last minute shopper's sale in my etsy shop!  These two dresses are ready to ship in a 12M and a 3T and can still come to you for Thanksgiving! WITH FREE SHIPPING!!  and if you follow my blog, you can even get an additional 10% off of your order! 

3T/4T size  Also available with these adorable French Bloomers, Ready to Ship!!

12 month size

Happy Thanksgiving to you!  ENJOY your loved ones. This is my first year without my daughter---she's away at college.  It is so true when "they" tell you how fast the time flies by!

A GIVEAWAY Before Easter!!

Welcome to reimaginedremnantsandtreasures blog!!!
Today reimaginedtreasures is being reviewed by blogger Lindsay Lee on http://www.Lindsay-thelees.blogspot.com  AND if you follow me on my blog and follow this link to hers you will find out about a special discount code offered Monday and Tuesday, PLUS be able to enter a GIVEAWAY from my shop!! http://www.etsy.com/shop/reimaginedtreasures   This is a first for me, so I am really excited to see what it's like! 

Isn't she adorable!!?  A customer/photographer took photos of her little sweetie wearing one of my flower fairy dresses.  I am finishing version 3 of it and listing the very last one today.  There is also a lavender version, with one left

I really love creating whimsical, sweet clothes for tiny girls to dance and imagine and have tea parties in....and for their mommys to take pictures that will be forever beautiful...I use almost all vintage and upcycled (saved from being thrown into landfills) fabrics and trims...I think recycling and reusing can be truly beautiful....What do you think?  I would LOVE to hear from you about what sizes you are looking for,
because in 2010 I sold most in size 12M, but this Spring, seem to be getting many for sizes 2T-5T  so it would help me to hear from you what size your little one is is you would be interested in my baby and toddler clothing.

 I admit that I used new fabrics in this dress...the trims and some of them are upcycled.

 
go to my store to see the other side of this pinafore dress!  And don't forget to enter the giveaway!!  Plus, follow my blog and leave me a comment, Please!! 
http://www.Lindsay-thelees.blogspot.com
GOOD LUCK!!

Pink and Gray

HAPPY PINK SATURDAY!  In the 60's, I was in elementary school, the 5th grade, when pink and gray became very popular!  I loved that combination and drooled over my friend's pink and grey wool plaid skirt with the pink sweater!! So I love that that combo is back again!...and I find I like the mustard yellow with grey as well.  This is one side of my new reversible pinafore set.  I love this old hand knitted lace and 60's trim.  The gray cotton sateen is upcycled men's shirting fabric!

Here is the other side.  I can't decide if I think it is rosebuds or  cherries.  It is from a piece of vintage 80's fabric I found. It was so fun sewing the lace onto the fabric and creating the little ruffle pants!  I had just enough of the little pink lace to go around the legs, too! 

I make this hat based on an internet free pattern I found.  Love the way the petals curl up.  I think this would be adorable with this outfit!

Not sure what to do with these beautiful embroideries YET.  They are a wee bit fragile;  I am wondering about pillows?

...and finally, do kids wear polyester any more?  I was given this cool, very 60s poly fabric.  So what do you think?

 

Pink Easter Saturday

For me, Easter is all about resurrection and renewal---of the earth and of our spirits.  This pink rose was the last one of autumn in my yard, and now I look for what will come next after the end of our long winter. 

Not too long ago, I shared with you all a reimagined  outfit I had made from Vera scarves and a recycled linen shirt.  I received a wonderful email in response to that post, and I want to share it today in the spirit of being a reimagined soul, of never losing hope in what God can do, the spirit of being resurrected...

 

"...I was reading on your blog and saw the Vera pants etc. I had tears in my eyes as Vera passed away this year and I know she would have been delighted to see your creation! She was my Daughter in law's God mother. She had a marvelous story of survival. Vera was an assistant to Tito in the old Yugoslavia. She literally escaped at night with the clothes on her back and started a life on her own. My husband and I had the opportunity to meet her and spend an afternoon with her in her home at Palm Springs. She was a Orthodox Christian and I do believe she had a relationship with God. Vera lived in several European countries and made her living in the arts before finding her way to New York. She literally lived in Grand Central Station and had nothing but the clothes on her back and drank water for days. She ended up working for a company that designed printed fabrics. Her artful eye and painting abilities came into play. She asked her boss if she could come in on a Saturday and organize the threads and yarns. She worked for free. When she finished all the organizing there were lots of small useless pieces and she asked her boss if she could have them. After she finished working all day at the company, she would design her own prints with the leftovers. She would peddling her prints around New York to start her business. Vera did many other amazing artful and talented things in her life. Kathi, you and Vera were kindred spirits as she used reimagined treasures just like you. She also painted birds that were used by the Audubon Society. ( I am fortunate enough to have one of her original watercolors.)  She was a delightful lady with many talents like you! I found her an inspiration and great example of survival and success. Her estate was left to two churches!  I must say she had great earthly wealth when she died but... I can hear her say, "Thanks God for all He had done for me"....

 My blog and website are call Reimagined Remnants and Treasures not only because I use recycled fabrics and vintage bits to create, but because I have experienced being recycled and reImagined by God after a near fatal car accident and then disease...I am unable to do my former job--an R.N.--yet, in my healing process, this little business has been unfolding!  

May you know deeply God's love and healing and the power of being resurrected this Easter and all year!  And I would love to hear your experiences of renewal and being reImagined!

Kathi

Progress in Pink

It has taken a while, but the first clothes from my "piles of pink" are here and even listed!  I absolutely am in love with the pants from the Vera scarves.  I hadn't realized back in the 60s that she did cotton scarves.  All my aunts had her other scarves and of course her table linens, but I saw little ruffle pants when I found these 2 scarves, and here they are!

I also have  a lot of the vintage cotton eyelet fabrics which I've been collecting for years.  I really like the peasant tops in it, and little ruffle pants too, but QUESTION!  For you moms with little ones, do you think the little girls prefer a top with or without elastic around the empire waist.  I could make the top more free flowing, but I am looking for feedback from moms!

On my table is a nearly finished Easter dress in froth of white embroidered dots on white and blue cotton and this amazing antique bird trim.  Then I woke up this morning and could barely walk because of some back spasm I have never had before!  Progress is slow.  This has been a real challenging few months for me with my health still.  But this morning in (IN)courage, I read "Come to me all you who are weary....and I will give you rest for your soul"  It immediately made me think of this adorable freebie pic that Dawn at thefeatherednest  had so graciously put out for us!  I wanted to share it with any of you who may also be feeling the need for a big wing around you to give comfort to your soul.  All is not as I had hoped and planned, but, as my friend Connie says, ALL IS WELL.

Cupcakes, Polka Dots and Rik Rak

 

I am having my patience grown.  After 3 weeks of the flu, I loved being in my studio again to create this little outfit for a new baby!!!!.  Since it is close to valentines' day, I did one side in a pink heart fabric; the other is spring polka dot colors, and then the embroidered cupcake!   The little orange and cream buttons were so sweet.  I've been saving them for quite some time for the right outfit!   These little white bloomers in vintage dotted swiss or eyelet fabrics are really fun to make.  I am going to offer them in my etsy shop in sizes up to 4T;  also have some hot pink linen ruffle pants in the sewing machine now, and an AWESOME,  reImagined big pink roses Vera scarf becoming ruffle pants.  I forgot to photograph just the ruffle bloomers for the shop, though, cause the outfit was going out the door to my friend!  So the next pair is going in the shop!    I also got my Portobellopixie pattern in the mail finally, so I can start putting those fabrics together into little girl apron dresses, peasant tops, and even some mommy sized aprons!  Sandy Henderson is an awesome designer;  I'm really excited to be working her patterns with vintage fabrics!

Now, it is off to finish MY almost 17 year old's birthday present!  (No, it's not an apron dress!)

Piles of Pinks

I have finally sorted through my fabrics and kinda gotten organized for 2010!  I am so excited to start on my new line of toddler and preschool clothes!  It is time.  I have been collecting awesome fabric remnants, vintage embroideries and trims, etc  for a few years now, and it seems that my most popular items are for the little ones these days.  Soooo....along with the 1960's VERA cottons that I have been soaking and some wonderful vintage white cotton eyelet fabrics, I am beginning this new adventure!

I think these will be adorable peasant apron dresses and tops with the ruffle pants!

I absolutely LOVE vintage trims!!!  Got to go get started!!  Oh!  and I have boy stuff too...just not in pinks!  later on that!  Feedback welcome!  Requests and suggestions...Thanks
Kathi

New Baby Friends, New Ideas, New Decade!!!!

We got a beautiful surprise visit a few days ago from our dear friend, Joanna, my now- teenagers' favorite childhood babysitter, and her newest child, named Chloe after my Chloe! 4 year old Benjie loves to make music, and is very entertaining!


I truly enjoy little ones, and I think that is why, even though my 2 are 18 and nearly 17 years, I still really like to make clothes and hats and blankies for the wee ones! I especially want to create from the remnants, to lighten our human footprint on our planet that we will leave to these wee ones! I am finding I have oodles of great vintage remnants that could make adorable toddler clothing.
These are the little flannel pants I custom made for a friend's new niece. I sooo enjoyed this and am thinking about doing more baby and toddler pants for my etsy shop to go with the baby hats. I am also thinking of smock tops that double as aprons, all reimagined from remnant fabrics and vintage bits and trims, of course! Any thoughts about this?