Vacuuming in high heels & pearls

A few weeks ago I blogged about a sweet friend who lent me her absolutely darling curtains to hang in my kitchen. Rachel is a dear person and I wanted to make her a little something fun to thank her. I had just read about these charming rickrack dahlias and since Rachel and I share an obsessive love for rickrack, I tried my hand at making a few.

Rachel loves pink, black and white so I chose those colors from my considerable stash of rickrack. I put pin backs on them so she can pin them to her bag or whatever.

I also made her a little stationery set:


I used a PSX template to make the little folder--I've loved that template and have used it over and over. Before I folded it, I sprayed the cardstock with spray adhesive and lightly pressed a vintage pattern piece to it, intentionally keeping the folds and ripples. The button and hook/eye cards were from my stash, but the spool of thread and the ruler on the side are from a great little K & Company packet I picked up at Michael's. And it's hard to see in the photo, but for the tie I used some cute twill ribbon printed to look like a measuring tape.

Inside are a set of cards made from the images on vintage patterns:

Easy stuff, but I'm happy with how it turned out. Hope she likes it!