Designer Eric Renteria

Recently I have had the privilege of making a new friend via Facebook.  Eric Renteria is a vintage fashion designer, Etiquette Vintage Designs, who I meet while admiring one of his cute outfits. 

Through Facebook I was contacted to create a retro headband like the one from the movie Notebook, which starred  Ryan Gosling and  Rachel McAdams.  This  headband was to be in one of his upcoming fashion shoots.  I was truly honored to be contacted to make an item for a magazine fashion shoot.

Eric has a unique fashion style and fashion sense where he takes vintage clothing and updates them.  He does this while still keeping the classic theme of the 50’s college preppy look.  He redesigns men’s cardigan sweaters into letterman sweaters with college emblems and letters.  He can also embroider them with the college name or fraternity name of your choice.

Another favorite of his items is ladies dresses.  Eric can turn a plain dress into a cute fashion piece that every woman would be proud to own.   His eye of an appeal is mostly his letterman sweaters and ladies skirts.  The traditional poodle shirt has been shorten to the new mini flair for the modern woman who likes the  50’s look but wants to show off some leg.

Eric Renteria is a Texas native who looks just as fashionable as the clothing he designs.  He is always the best dressed man where ever he goes.  Showing real class never dies out and fashion is a must for the well dressed man.  Check out his latest creations at EVintageD.com 

Restyled poodle skirt

College Letterman Sweaters

All Things Bright and Beautiful

Bright and sunny items of yellow and orange.

Thank you Cindy Stutzman of Sew It Softly

for featuring my yellow lap blanket.

See all these items at Etsy.com

Blog Ring Featured Artisan is Deb of Daffydill Jewelry

This week’s featured artisan is 

Deb of Daffydill Jewelry from Kelowna, BC, Canada.

One of a kind designs, jewelry hand crafts

Deb has been a crafter for 40 years., and enjoys creating things from bits and pieces. She sometimes incorporate parts that are not viably usable any longer.

The business name came from her son's suggestion of daffodills, because of her love of flowers and came up with name Daffydills.

Beading is her first design love.  Deb is now venturing more into wire wrapping with copper and silver metals. That is now turning more and more into weaving with wire. It reminds her of the crafts she used in knitting and crocheting and the intricacy involved in some of the patterns. 

Deb's motto is "waste not want not, it is a very important thing to utilize everything she may find to use it in diverse and resourceful ways.

  Find Daffydill here:

Etsy    Artfire    Facebook   Twitter

Special spring sale going on at Daffydill.  Be sure and check it out!

Hello God Are You There?

Sometimes in life things happen that make you wonder if God hears your prayers and even know that you exist.      You wonder if he knows your problems and your concerns and if he does why doesn't he do something about them.  

Sometimes we just want to escape all the trials and tribulations and just want to run away. But you know that isn't the solution.  In life there are always hardships and trials and lessons to learn. It's just that some lessons are harder than others.

What we need to do is depend more on God in these times and less on self when facing these trials.  When we get our focus off the problem and on to God the problem doesn't seem as big as it did in the beginning;  Time alone with God will help us with any problem.  We may not get instant answers or solutions but we get God's peace, grace and mercy in our trials.   When we don't hear God or feel his presence its when he is working the most behind the scenes and allowing us to learn our lessons and depend on him more.

God is always there, we just need to reach out to him more and stop worrying about things we can't even change.  Even though we can't see him or feel him, he is there, even in the hardships he is there. He is there just waiting on you.

New Red Bandana Bow Headbands

My latest creation is an retro red bandana with a bow for your hair.

Share with me your favorite style?  

This bow is bigger than the top bow and it is all red and no black in the bow.

These headbands go great with any outfit or on bad hair days. 

These bows remind me of The Great Gasby!  Love the flapper look and the 50's too.

It's Always Better Handmade Collection

Its always better Handmade

Curated By: Hippiescreati...

ArtFire.com

Craft Tutorials

"Guild Collection of It's Better Handmade"
Created by Hippe's Creations.

Check out all these lovely items posted here.
 Just click pictures or the view button, all are workable links.
My item is the red flower hair clip!