Vintage cookbook placemats and prepping for two weekends in Palm Springs — Chelle Summer

Vintage cookbook placemats and prepping for two weekends in Palm Springs

February 22, 2024Michelle Rusk

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Every year on Good Friday, I celebrate my work table, found at an estate sale on Good Friday in 2019. Greg saw it in the garage of the family sale and thought it would be perfect. The family even agreed to not make us purchase the chairs and delivere

#TBT to Easter 2019. I made my dress from a set of curtains I bought off the windows at an estate sale. The handbag is the first one I made using vinyl.

#easterdress #easter #chellesummer #chellesummerstyle #boutiquestyle #vintagefinds #handmade #vi

A Chelle Summer display right down to both handbags and Midge’s dress (and Barbie’s sweater). Thank you, @guffey.cindy!

#chellesummer #chellesummerstyle #boutique #boutiqueshopping #boutiquestyle #handmade #handbags #vintagestyle #mystyl

At the blog today, A quick reminder about the importance of the first step to helping us go forward. Read more at www.chellesummer.com. #inspiration

#chellessummer #chellesummerstyle #hope #movingforward

When a vintage Vera Neumann scarf transforms into a Chelle Summer handbag. Pure happiness. The scarf is from @zimboretro at @psvintagemarket. Find it at www.chellesummer.com in the boutique as I gear up for @tikioasis @tikioasismarketplace in Scottsd

Sometimes I need a little house decor change. So I recover a pillow. Mix of vintage and new fabric. #weekendproject

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Chellebrating Friday with Chelle Summer strawberries with Tutti and Traci– and their own coordinating outfits. Find the handbags in the online boutique at www.chellesummer.com. #strawberry #handmade

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One of my favorites from nearly the beginning of Chelle Summer- March 2016. I was still making bucket bags, the item that started it all. #tbt

The bucket bag was made from Trina Turk Schumacher fabric and the hat I bought from Trina Turk. The dress

Dreaming of Paris handbag- I found this fabric early in Chelle Summer, when I was making rope tote bags, and quickly sold all of the ones that I made with it. I found a piece of the fabric the other day and I was able to create a new handbag with the

A few weeks ago at an estate sale, I stumbled on the floors and backdrop from the 1970s Barbie townhouse. I never had any sort of “prefab” houses for my Barbies as I was encouraged to build a house for them in the basement. I decided it m

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