I love squareamerica.com (on Facebook here ) and was greatly amused to find one of the photos in their "A Brief History of Skirt Raising" album shows a woman wearing heels nearly identical to ...
It's no secret that navy blue dresses are really difficult to sell, but is it the same for lavender dresses? It appears so, as this lovely Franklin Original dress I have gets no attention in my...
http://ourvintagelife.blogspot.com/2012/04/lavender-dresses.html
I got Lola Talley a friend. She's from a 1944 child's sewing kit, the kind that come with tiny patterns and little pieces of fabric to teach young girls how to sew. I love her, she reminds me o...
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Hearts? Scalloped edges? Bows? YES, PLEASE!
This is a plastic sewing basket (the plastic seams are a dead giveaway). You see these on Etsy, you see them on eBay, you find them in antique stores and the seller ALWAYS has them listed as a...
http://ourvintagelife.blogspot.com/2011/10/this-is-not-lucite-purse.html
This dress is a lesson in persistence when thrifting. I found it at a store I usually have no luck at, and I had been there just a few days prior, again with no luck. I stopped by this time to...
This is probably my new favorite thing in the store...I may have to take it out and put it in our apartment...I don't think I can part with her.
This was airbrushed on a car dealership by my old apartment. Not a transfer, all airbrushed.
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I'm finding that another perk of having the store is that nice people find out what you collect and then bring it straight to your door from their 92 year old mother's estate...
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This is next to my computer in the store and was supposed to be a place to stick notes about orders and to-do lists but it ended up slowly becoming a hodge-podge of things I love: 1. My feli...
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I paid $20 but there is no amount of money that could part me from them!
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Hello my poor little neglected blog that I doubt anybody reads anymore. I've been fairly MIA. In April I moved from my 1902 apartment into a little 1898 apartment. This was only the second time ...
Left: 26 inch waist Right: 24 inch waist $39 each
http://ourvintagelife.blogspot.com/2011/05/vintage-green.html
The giveaway winner was Michelle! Please send me an email at cominguprosesvintage (at) gmail.com and I'll get your goods sent off! Thanks to everyone who entered and reads my ramblings! Yes...
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Skeleton key necklaces for Mourning Market on April 17th. The crystals are off a broken antique chandelier but I might not use them because they're a bit too big...wish I could find smaller o...
http://ourvintagelife.blogspot.com/2011/03/this-weeks-project.html
I was asked to do the display window at the antique mall my store is in with my personal stuff but to kinda advertise the store. It has really worked! If you'd like to see bigger pictures or hea...
http://ourvintagelife.blogspot.com/2011/03/things-i-love-saturday_19.html
Time for a giveaway! No special reason, I just feel like it. Since it happened to be St. Patrick's day yesterday, let's go with a green theme. THIS GIVEAWAY CONTAINS... A vintage green gingh...
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Here I am, blatantly copying many other bloggers. But it's a good idea! Let's see how long I can stick with it... This sign which my husband made for me. I wanted something super simple and eas...
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My best friend asked me to go to the animal shelter with her. She was considering getting a dog and just wanted to look. Just look. Yeah...that didn't happen. We each fell in love and took som...
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Having the store has been so much fun! I love watching people fall in love with something, knowing where I "rescued" it from and being able to hear what they plan on doing with it. Little things...
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I could have included this in my last post, as it was a 2010 thrift store find and yet another thing I got for pennies because they just looked at it as a rag. It is falling apart, full of threa...
http://ourvintagelife.blogspot.com/2011/01/antique-pink-quilt.html