Swoon Saturday.

Happy Saturday to you!
It's a new year with plenty of new things to swoon over!  These are a few things I'm swooning over this week:

This print from Gemma Correll. She is quickly becoming a new favorite of mine.

This vintage pinic basket.

With this set to go inside:

These perfectly weird mixed media art panels.

 This retro sign. Easy does do it.

These pretty retro canisters. Swoon!

I hope this Saturday is treating you well! It's my lovely friend Ashley's Birthday today. I'm looking forward to our little gathering of friends tonight!!
Happy Birthday Ash!!

xo. Traci

Candy Colored Christmas.

When it comes to cute and kitschy home decor, Danielle Thompson, of Thompson Family Life certainly knows what shes doing. I swoon over her seasonal home displays every chance I get. I love, love, love her pretty kitschy style, I literally dream about her collection of vintage decor and craft goodies at night. I highly recommend that you go check out her blog, and read through her past posts...But beware, you might get stuck for hours gazing at the goodness. She's one crafty momma, and she has certainly become an idol for me. She gives great crafting tips and how-to's all the time. What a lady.

Look at this delightful candy colored Christmas she created in her home[!!!]

Her most recent blog entry shows some pretty, lovely ways to adorn your gifts for the holidays. Check it out if you are struggling with cute gift wrapping ideas!!

I hope your Friday is delightful thusfar.

Toodaloo.

xo. Traci

all images from Thompson Family Life.

Feline Friday.

Ho ho ho! Happy Friday! 

I'm going to kick off the first Friday in December with another creepy cat lady post! Meow! 

I also wanted to share a small back story as to why I have turned into such a cat lady over the past two years. And as I think about it, I'm not so sure my back story will be so small...but I'll try to condense it as much as possible. 

It started with a new boyfriend and a nameless cat he recently took in. His nameless cat, was rather scrawny, and undernourished from being a stray for what seemed like awhile...we guessed-imated she was about 2 years old, and had birthed a litter. While the nameless kitty was shy, she was certainly affectionate, and loooved sleeping at the top of the bed right next to our heads. This nameless cat needed a name but since she was so shy at first nothing was striking us as a fitting name. So I suggested we name her something kind of silly...and we came up with Yolanda, or Yoyo for short. I swear the second we started calling her Yolanda her personality changed...into the most sassy cat ever. Every meow that has come out of her mouth since then has a sassy tone, and not only that, but she has plumped out into such a fatty cat! So she went from a scrawny, shy little thing into the biggest, sassiest cat I ever did see. And we love her for it! She's quite the talker, especially as the first ray of light comes into the bedroom in the morning...she bitches until we get out of bed so she can hog the whole thing.

And then, there was April. My mom found a itty bity kitty on the side of the freeway on April 1st, 2009. Hence, the name April...I would've come up with something more silly if I named her. Anywho, a few days into taking the kitten in, my mom realized she had too many animals already and asked if we wanted her. I couldn't deny her precious little self and her grandpa-like whiskers and goatee. 

Now, don't let that cute little face fool you. This one ended up being half terrorist (in a good way). After I brought her home, it took a couple days for the hissy fits to stop between the girls, but Yoyo soon took on a motherly role for our new little tot. We knew right away that April wasn't like other kittens...She has turned out to be the most high energy, rowdy cat with the biggest personality I've ever seen! She loves to get into and cause trouble...she's just as bad as a dog in that sense. She loves stalking and pouncing Yoyo at any given time (all the time), loves playing in the shower curtains (or my maxi dresses), loves to get splashed with water (seriously), and loves to watch (and cause trouble) while mama gets ready for the day. She's super talkative, pretty sassy, and at the same time the biggest cuddle muffin ever. 

Both of my cats are UH-mazing, I can't imagine life without these two huge 

personalities hogging up the household. They have turned me into a "cat-lady", and I'm not ashamed of it!!

♥ ♥ ♥
Now let's move onto all the awesome cat stuff I've been ooogaling over lately!

Via Modcloth:

I would actually send out Holiday cards if I had these cuties!!

yes please!!

Via Etsy:

Someone please get me this for Xmas!!

Addional sources: exceptionalclutter, winkinpossum, bmegdesigns, NeatoKeen.

I hope everyone's Friday has started out lovely <3
xo. Traci

Thrifted Thursday.

Well Happy Thursday to you! If you've been following this blog at all, you may have noticed that I haven't done a "Thrifted Thursday" series in three whole weeks! Reason being- I hadn't done anything thrifting whatsoever for at least two weeks, life just got too busy...But, I definitely made up for it this last week by thrifting almost everyday! Man-o-man, I got a lot of awesome stuff, so much so, that I couldn't even photograph it all. But I definitely have several things to share with you today. 

Okay. I'm going to start at the bottom left corner and work clockwise:

1. A plethora of pink/s crocheted hangers...a nickle a piece! My whole closet will be full someday. <3

2. A retro yellow metal colander, it's such a pretty retro yellow!

3. A green floral apron adorned with pretty ric rac :)

4. Mirrors!! Lots of them- A dark blue gridded one,  a floral trimmed one, a gold rectangle one, a mini oval gold one, and not to mention THREE floral mirrored trays (not all pictured). I was in mirror heaven!

5. More floral vintage mugs to add to my collection <3

6. Set of 3 metal trays-- green with yellow daisies. 

7. Set of Mushroom salt and pepper shakers, complete with toothpick holder. (See next photo for detail)

8. A silly holiday elf...to start my holiday knick knacks collection.

9. Pretty orange and white pot holder set.

10. Set of silver Owl salt and pepper shakers!

11. And a silver sitting fawn!

12. A load of itty bity plastic fawns and mini pine trees. ( My dream of a cute Holiday fawn collection is slowly coming true!)

I was scoring left and right! Hooray!

Last night, I was feeling slightly festive after listening to Christmas music all day, so I started putting pretty gold and red bows on random household items, and I dressed up some of my little figurines for the Holidays....it's a pretty sad attempt at an Xmas display, but it was an attempt no less. ;)

They look slightly festive, right? haha.
I wish I had more time in life to be cute and decorative. Le sigh, maybe someday...

I hope everyone is having a fantastic Thursday. Tomorrow is First Friday, and Sun Ghost is performing at the shop, so come by and say hi!!

Toodles.
xo. Traci

Feline Friday.

Hey y'all. Happy Friday to you! It's been a lovely crisp morning here in Phoenix, with a high temp of 72 degrees...it couldn't be more beautiful! Now that it's been so lovely outside, we've been keeping the doors at home open more to let fresh air in, and to let our kitties out to enjoy the weather...it has been quite a funny experience. Between April's (the little one) "big girl" attitude, bug chasing, and hissyfits with the neighborhood cats...my mister and I have had some great laughs at them lately. I've also recently found some pretty great/funny/awesome cat things online lately, and thus prompted another addition of Feline Friday. 

Ready. Set. Go!

A few wacky paintings:

Cute and Kitschy:

World's cutest door stop:

Paul & Joe Kitty LIPSTICK! 

My inner cat lady has to come out now and then. I get it from my grandma. ;)

Sources: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.

Hope your Friday has started out great!!!

xo. Traci