This lovely vintage embroidery pattern of swirly flowers and leaves is from the May 1900 issue of The Delineator magazine. 
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Here is the May page from Herrick’s Almanac for 1906. The image on the page is of a girl watering her plants.
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These altered sewing cards took me longer to create than I expected (lots of scanning, arranging, rearranging, designing!) but I’m so happy with the end result.
I sewed a lot when my children were young (especially loved making frilly dresses for my daughter) and sewing will always have a fond place in my heart, even if I don’t do it as often now as I did back then. 
Image is linked to my new Vintage Essence Etsy shop.
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Here is a pretty vintage postcard with purple and white flowers and the message Love to Father partially framed in a horseshoe shape. Although the flowers are different, this postcard is similar to the one with the message Love to Mother that I posted yesterday.
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Here is a pretty vintage postcard with white, pink and red flowers and the message Love to Mother partially framed in a horseshoe shape. The message on the back of my original of this postcard is dated June 16, 1909. 
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I’ve been busy working in my Etsy shop, and what are now two Etsy shops, over the last few weeks. I plan to keep the royalty free/public domain images in my Etsy store: OldDesignShop and I’m in the process of moving my digital collage sheets to my new Etsy shop: VintageEssence1900.
Etsy has implemented immediate downloads for all digital Etsy sellers! It took a bit of time for me to switch over but all of my items are now available for immediate download after purchase (immediate meaning within a few minutes).
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Here is a Victorian trading card with an image of a young girl stitching her doll’s hat. The advertisement on the card is for Merrick’s thread. 
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This pretty page with a vintage illustration of yellow and white daisies and an old fashioned love poem by Robert Browning is from a small book of poetry titled For Love’s Sake. The book was published in 1907. I scanned the page at a high resolution (resized to 300 dpi) to make it much larger than the original.
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Here is a beautiful vintage sheet music cover with the title Spring Flowers and many lovely floral and ornamental details to use in your crafts or designs. My original measures 10.5″ x 13″ but I’ve shrunk this down to fit an 8.5″ x 11″ page for those of you that would like to print it. 
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My Etsy shop is featured in the current issue of Papers and Pixels! It runs from mid April to mid May. 
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I created this digital collage sheet of young ladies in their 1904 commencement gowns for Papers and Pixels to offer as a freebie in the magazine until the middle of May. 
Papers and Pixels is a digital magazine that is packed with interesting and informative articles for crafters!
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