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 Saturday

It is the season for flowery flowey (is that even a word?) dresses and little girls (and boys) running outside in meadows and long grass, making daisy chains and bouquets for mom (that get squished by chubby little hands before they make it to mom, and mom is THRILLED)

I have been working on some this week from Sandy Henderson's Portabello Pixie patterns with my recycled fabrics---though I did add a few splashes of new fabrics to get the combinations of patterns and colors just how I wanted them. 

This one has an apron for mom out of the peony print of the apron on the dress:

 They look adorable together, (but I think my photos are blurry?)  Can you all tell me if they are clear on your monitor or blurry, please.  Made me wish I had a little toddler  for that dress!  

Today is my daughter's Junior Prom!  Her dress will be a bit more like this!  (Not quite, but...hopefully some photos of her will be forthcoming as well!  Today was fun seeing her new haircut and doing her nails to start getting ready!!
   

Here is Bev's Pink Saturday link so you can visit the other Pink posts!      
      http://howsweetthesound.typepad.com/

Skies of Blue

Cherry  Blossoms are starting to come out!  I'm hearing Duke Ellington singing in my head...

"I see  trees of green...red roses too

I see 'em blooming, for me and for you...

and I think to myself, what a wonderful world

"I see skies of blue...clouds of white

bright blessed days...dark sacred nights...

and I think to myself...What a wonderful world...."

The colors of the rainbow, so pretty in the sky

are also on the faces...of people going by...

I see friends shaking hands, saying how do you do?

They're really sayin, I love you

I hear babies cry...I watch them grow

They'll learn much more...than I'll ever know

and I think to myself, What a wonderful world...."

So, I had to sew a cherry blossom dress for a wee one!  This one fits an 18-24 month girl...I love it with the eyelet top and bloomers

These little capri bloomers come in all sizes up to 4T...great with anything!

"Blue skies smiling at me! "

I couldn't make up my mind whether I liked this daisy and blue skies dress better with red or a black and white polka dot ribbon-sash, so I made it available with either!!  I think hot pink or lime would be really pretty, too!

"...and I think to myself, what a wonderful world
...oh, yeah!"

Dylan always wore the hat and his boots on backwards to garden!!!
Hope your are experiencing some wonder in your world today!

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

Taking Time

  

"Nobody sees a flower, really.

It is so small.  We haven't the time

and to see takes time, 

like to have friends

takes time."

-Georgia O'Keefe

 

This weekend I needed to rest my mind.  We worked outside Saturday, cleaning up the yard, planted a few things and Chloe, cut some beautiful flower arrangements. 

Camelias floating in my Japanese ikebana bowl

Today, I went out  to photograph some of the beauty in my own yard that I walk right by, forget to be thankful for, or worse, am too busy to even see.  We planted the camellias to celebrate our anniversary #17, and the crabapple tree was the year before...they are finally really budding and blooming...some  good things take time!  The roses we planted for our 15th anniversary  (15 old roses)  bloomed right away, but are so much fuller and bigger now  (we just had our 21st in January!)

 

  I tend to be impatient, and struggle to trust that the peonies really will come back again this year!!  This weekend, I took some time to really see, to talk to a friend, write a far away friend, plant with my husband and cut flowers with my daughter...I laid on the grass and took photos of crabapple blossoms and iris.  And it was good!

Laura Bray over at  www.katydiddys.blogspot.com had a great blog today about Sunday rest, and has a fun week of blogging planned.  Check it out!  

I hope you had a restful weekend and are re-energized for this week!