Things I Love Saturday 4/02

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!

Yesterday I got to dig through the vintage collection of someone who had been collecting since they were twelve. Heaven! I scored many great things but this 1930s dress with (painted) butterscotch bakelite buttons is probably my favorite. It has a big matching buckle in the back! Other than some wear to the paint on the buttons it's pretty much mint!

Getting to to through an abandoned 1920s hotel earlier in the week (with the owners permission for the first time in, well, ever).

(Not the building, but this was across the street).

I am still completely in love with these Docs. Getinmyclosetplease.

Tomorrow is my husbands birthday but we're celebrating tonight so I gotta run but I will get the video of the store up as soon as I can!

Things I Love Saturday 3/19

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 hear me go on endlessly about any of this stuff, I can certainly do that. Of course, I have TONS more, but I tried to stick with a pink/cream/black girly theme.

Someone really wanted to buy that pink purse today, and I was about to sell it, until I got it out of the case. I just couldn't do it. I felt like I was on an episode of Hoarders being forced to part with my stuff. It's a Bobbie Jerome and such a fantastic shade of pink! I guess my friend was right when she said "you're a tidy hoarder." Haha.

This picture of Billy and Clyde I took yesterday is easily one of my favorite pictures of my cats so far. It makes me melt!

This was once an unfortunate 80s mannequin head which my friend transformed with just a little bit of craft paint. I really wish I had taken a before picture because the difference is amazing.

That's all for this week. Don't forget to enter the Vintage Green Giveaway. I'm going to attempt to make a YouTube video of the store tonight, if it turns out okay I'll post it tomorrow.

Things I Love Saturday 3/5

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 easy to read from a distance. I'm going to add my logo to the empty space and probably Buy-Sell-Trade-Consign to the bottom.

This treasury we were kindly put in, which inspired my first giveaway that will be posted later this week (and also made me notice how washed out my pictures are...eek!).

This amazing photo, via flickr.

And I am currently really loving how quickly the store is progressing. Don't get me wrong, I'm not rolling in money by any means, far from it, but my dream has come true and that's better than any amount of money in my opinion. I love that I have regular customers, that a big time vintage dealer called the antique mall and asked for me by name, and that people (like the lovely Sue of Vintage Rescue Squad) are sending me incredibly generous gifts. On the downside, my Etsy is badly neglected, I haven't been able to even start on all the handmade things I want in the store and I hardly ever see my husband. Hopefully all remedied soon!