Freebies and Nonsense Continues at New Blog!

Still carrying a torch for blogging! And for free tag sets now and again!

Visit me at www.TheMerryNeedle.com

Is a renaissance of blogging occurring? I hope so!

BBB -- Bring Blogging Back!

 

Kind regards,

The Olde Dame, Holly 

 

 

New Free Printables Up on New Blog!

Halloo dearies, drop by the new blog when you get a chance. There are lots of new free printable collage/tag/journal sheets up during the past few weeks. This is the latest:

DON'T try to save the images below. Google shrinks them! Go to the NEW BLOG and get use the LINKS there! They are stored in the Google "cloud" and the links are safe.

Click HERE for the new blog!

There are several free Thanksgiving sets up, too, published sometime in the last few weeks. 

Thank'ee! See you at the new blog, The Merry Needle.

New Blog! Come One, Come All

Free tags, patterns, and nonsense!

 Ah, so much has changed since this blog was active, both on a personal level and even a worldwide level. I needed a change. Life's been tough, but we each have to keep on keepin' on. Grief and trouble steal enough from humans - we must persevere!

So, I've started anew! Click HERE to visit my new blog, The Merry Needle at www.TheMerryNeedle.com

After 30 years, I've picked up needle and thread and begun to embroider again. And to continue with crafting and graphic design in the primitive and colonial style.

Hope to see you there...

Opposites: Bright and Cheery Orange and Blue Floral Tags

Color opposites - I love them in the garden or a bouquet. Red and green, orange and blue, yellow and purple: Beautiful!

Why is it that in the garden, no color combination seems tacky? 

Here is a quick tag set with two finishes, one of them a bit strange, both PNGs for best image quality. Just click, click again to blow up and examine, then right-click if you wish to save. Only click on the "P" if you are pinning it.

Thank you for stopping by.

A Queen Bee, and Antique Spring Blooms Tags / Scrapbooking

How I love the smell of fresh lilacs, fruit tree blossoms, and other harbingers of spring!

Here is a little tag set to brighten a gift, pin board, or scrapbook page.

A queen bee has ventured out on the last tag. She is looking for a quiet place to start a new hive. I wish Her Majesty much luck. Bees are wonderful creatures.

As always, thank you for stopping by. Click, right click, and save or print. Or use the "P" to Pin!

Fanciful Flower Faces

Ah, the strange and wonderful fancy of the artists of yesterday. Children's faces in flowers was a favorite subject of painters of postcards, and here are some examples, made into tags for scrapbooking, decorating, or tying to a plant or basket for Easter.

Many speak of the cute faces pansies have, and they do. They look rather like puppies to me, or Persian cats with their flat faces.

It was a difficult process to make a lithograph in those days, so the fanciful creations surprise me. I would have thought only safe and bland images would have been commissioned, but no, weird subjects abound. 

Can it truly be so close to Easter? How the year flies! 

To save, click on the image, avoiding the "P." Then right-click to copy or save. The "P" is clicked only if you wish to "Pin" the image to your Pinterest board.

The Dogs and Their Pear Tree

When we moved into our present house many years ago, the back yard had an old, but prolific, pear tree. And we had two middle-aged dogs, a black Labrador named Gracie and a mutt named Twinkie, who was allegedly half-Golden Retriever. Never were two dogs closer friends, with our Lab being the leader, and our mutt being her loyal sidekick.

When the pear would bloom, Gracie would start looking up at it each day, very carefully. As soon as she saw any wee pearlets beginning, she would circle and bark at them. As they grew, she would continue to eye them and bark. And as soon as they began to ripen, she would stand and stare at the one she wanted, barking furiously until it was picked and handed to her. Twinkie always stood by, curled tail wiggling over her back, politely waiting for her pear, too.

The years passed, and the tradition of observing the pear tree closely continued, and as more and more time passed, both the dogs and the tree became weaker. Finally one last autumn, when both dogs were 16 years old and had eaten the last of the pears, they declined rapidly. They died within minutes of each other, Gracie carefully watching over Twinkie until she was safe, and then dying herself, after weakly shaking hands with our vets, who had rushed over to help. 

And the pear died, too, and like our precious dogs, never saw another spring. 

We have their urns, and we tell our new rescues, Sophie and Piglet, all about their older "sisters." One of the joys of my life has been rescuing animals, and our newest rescue, Piglet, not even here a week, already has a special place in my heart. He is disabled. It's a labor of love for that dog to haul his tiny self to his feet and totter over to us dragging a leg damaged from being caught in a chain for months. But he always does get up, "burbling" and smiling and tiny corkscrew tail shaking. I know some people feel they cannot "replace" one animal with another, and we didn't, but we did rescue these dogs in honor of Gracie and Twinkie.

Free printable antique fruit tags. Click the "P" to Pin, and click elsewhere on the image to enlarge it. Then right-click to save.