Summer is Here!

Whew!  After a very wet and cool spring and early summer, the heat has arrived and boy is it sweltering!  Makes it even hotter working with vintage quilts, but boy are they lovely.  Stay cool and enjoy your summer!!  xx c

Happy Memorial Day Weekend

hurley, the butterfly whisperer!  :)

anniversary sale

wow!  how time flies!  it's been 5 years since i found etsy and opened the catnap cottage - i have had a blast, to say the least - met some fabulous people and made some great friends!  so, there's a little sale going on - everything is marked down!  life gets busy, and things go unsaid, but please know how much i truly appreciate all the support y'all have given me over these years!  :) 

from trash treasure



i've been scouring the thrift stores for weeks now looking for two small bowfront chests to paint for bedside tables - haven't found any chests yet, but yesterday i snagged a large ottoman for $9 at goodwill - great shape, just ugly!

 



nothing some vintage fulton feedbags couldn't handle - i whipped up this cover today - now i have a place for a tray, my laptop, my feet or the kids!  :)  yeah!

  


then, i got carried away with the yarn - did someone say squirrel?  lol!

 

grainsack market totes



We love these market totes. They are crafted with vintage domestic grainsack bags... bemis, chase, fulton - all heavy duty cotton bags. Bemis originally made their bags to hold 100 pounds of seed and grain back in the 20s. After making pillows for years, we've accumulated quite a few stacks of remants, so in the spirit of "waste not, want not", we are happy to offer these bags.



zebra swallowtail butterfly

(pic from wikipedia)



hubby saw one of these beauties in our backyard the other day!  beautiful!

hoping everyone is enjoying spring!

xx c

He is risen - happy easter!

(art by http://www.etsy.com/shop/1dogwoof)

i hope your day is full of love and laughter!  happy easter!

kuhlman chenille factory

most of you know i live a stone's throw from highway 41 - aka "peacock alley" and "chenille row". it was lined with handmade chenilles in the 30s and 40s.... spreads, robes, rugs - right when touring in those big cars was the thing to do. well, i headed north on chenille row this morning to one of my favorite spots for some "junkin' therapy" to the old kuhlman chenille factory that is now an antique mall. i have always wanted to take a look around outside, so today i took my camera and got a close up look at just one of the many chenille factories that was here in north georgia. this one sprung up in the early 1950s.

oh to have a peek in these old glass windows back then to see a world of chenille!

and, these old doors for unloading yarn and supplies and for shipping out the beautiful chenilles!

the tank is mostly rusty on the outside - it is hard to see the writing, but it still stands magestically behind the building. i frequented here for years until one day i actually read what was on the water tank and smiled!

there was no chenille inside - i have never found a spread there - well, some remnants, but no spreads. found this lovely when i was out with mr. c today - as agnes would say.... "it's so fluffy!"

floursack pillows

hope y'all had a great weekend - i listed some vintage chenille spreads in the shop - some wonderful solid white morgan jones and bates - also crafted a few pillows. now it is back to the grind tomorrow morning - glad we "sprang forward" - makes the afternoons a bit longer - wishing y'all a great week!

weekend sale

vintage bedding, feedsack pillows, vintage aprons... it's all on sale this weekend

use coupon code CATNAP10

and have a fabulous weekend!

xx c