"M" Monogram - A thing that I love!!

If you've been around this blog much you know that I love the letter "M"!!  My good friend Kim knows that too.  Look at what she gave me today - 3 new beauties to add to my burgeoning collection!!  She picked these up when she was on vacation recently to Portland and Seattle.  YUP - I'm jealous too!!  Kim and I hadn't had a chance to get together in forever - today we went to Glendale, KY and visited lots of antique stores including this one - now you can be jealous of me too!

Batik Stamps

A couple summers ago on a visit to Seattle we went to Pike's Market (isn't it almost the law that you have to go there and smell flowers, taste honey and eat doughnuts??) I found this batik stamp in an import shop and had to have it - I love that it has a history behind it and the paisley is a favorite of mine also.
Corey had a customer that knew I loved stamping and sent the other batik stamp to me - This one has a handle on the back of it. These stamps are used to make batik cloth by stamping onto cloth with wax (instead of ink) and then dying the cloth. The wax acts as a resist on the cloth and keeps the stamped areas the original color. Pretty cool!

Friday night we had the second Vintage Monogram class - We had a little more room to spread out than on Wednesday. Another Friday night of fun at Serendipity!!

OLD Stamper

So about 3 years ago (before Serendipity was open and I was teaching in the best store ever) Kim and I had a great lunch together and then hit a couple of antique stores. I found this cool stamper and had to take it home with me -
Did you look closely at the handle? It is a Justrite stamper!! This company has been in business for a long time -

Did I mention that it is a BIG stamp? Here it is with the new Chrysanthemum stamp from AMuse - It is just about the biggest stamp that A Muse makes and this stamper completely dwarfs it - This must have been used in a warehouse or some industrial way?? Who knows - but I love it -