Sweet Sheets and Keys,Yes Please...

This week I've been pretty darn productive.Packing and tossing tons of stuff and still trying to keep myself from buying more things but ugh!Sometimes it hard.I have a million and 1 odd collections so its sometimes too easy for me to find something I like.I love keys.Skeletons keys and odd shaped ones are fantastic,I came across these ones yesterday and had to add them to my collection.I love history in all its forms and with old keys its fun to imagine what it use to go to.


Another thing I adore is old sheet music,especially from the 1920s and 1930s.Its a cheap and great way to add some art to your wall.Just toss them in a frame and tuh-dah!You can usually find these very affordable because people overlook them,if they don't play music they don't see the point in buying them which I think is a real shame because they really are art.

I've started cutting some prices in my Etsy shop and redoing photos I didn't like.Like this one.Hoping it will bring in some more sales as I'm starting to realize I have a TON of stuff to pack and the less inventory in my shop that I have to pack on top of my house stuff is a good thing.
In my limited vintage hunting this week I got a huge bag of amazing vintage ties from the gentlemen that works at one of my favorite antiques malls yesterday!He brought them in just for me I was stoked.Unfortunately my husband doesn't dress vintage so they'll be making their way into my shop sometime soon,I have a few I want to give to a friend first though.If I can't dress my own fella well that won't stop me from bringing too fashion sense to the rest of the world!

Good Things Come to Those Who Wait...

After running our usual post office trip,the kids and I stopped into my friend Jan's shop.A year ago she had gotten these darling Holiday Fair dolls in and I remember wanting this one but it was on hold.Jan has been rearranging the shop and told me to go look at some jewelry in the back and much to my surprise look who was still there!My Bonnie Lass!I asked Jan if I could purchase her now to which she laughed at realizing that lady never did come back for it and off she came home with us to be added to my daughters collection.

She is mint and still has her tags!

Heidi ran off some of her unending toddler energy at the park while the boy napped in the stroller.She had a blast up till....

well,up till she realized there was an ant hill!!!!Hahaha!She's so prissy it kills me sometimes.

Glass Gardens...

With 3 weeks left till we move I've started packing up my many knick knacks.I hate packing and I always worry things will break.Setting up in your new home is always fun though but it dawned on my that I would be packing these things up and not seeing them again for another 6-8 months until I finally get up to Alaska.I thought I'd share a few snaps I took in between wrapping up the bathroom today.



I love glass bonsai trees!If I was ever lucky enough to come across the jade ones I'd love those too...but I'm not so I stick to collecting the poor ladies version which is the glass ones.I use to have a ton more but honestly they may not require watering but they're a pain to keep clean so I wasn't too sad when I sold some off over the past year!I'll grow my collection again soon but for now I've limited myself to these 3.

The Napco Thai dancers can also be used as wall hangings,which I should do with them before they suffer anymore damage.They were mint condition when I bought them but its been my husband that has cost one dancer her head and hand(ladies do not display breakables on the back of the toilet if you have a man,cats or kids!All equal a bad time for your cute vintage things!)Luckily clean enough breaks that they repaired easily.So good bye my pretty things.I'll see you again in 6-8 months,as you sit in your box in darkness don't you worry you'll be displayed again soon!(Yeah,I'm a little crazy I talk to my inanimate objects,its totally acceptable).

So I'm a Horrible Liar....

Remember how I said I wasn't buying myself anything else since we were moving?Yeah,I lied.I'll be the first to admit I have a shopping problem.Mainly that is why I took to selling vintage,otherwise you would have seen me on a show like Hoarders a long time ago.
These cuties I was wearing the other day in my outfit post but forgot to do a close up of them so here is the etsy listing photo of when I bought them,they were $10.00!Really,$10.00 so how could I not?


I had a busy day.The zoo by our house reopened so hubs and I loaded the kids and I OF COURSE forgot my camera!After that hubs took our daughter for junk food and home while I took the boy and walked downtown to mail off my etsy packages and also the goodies for both of my giveaway winners so ladies expect those soonishly (what?It's my blog I can invent words its fine) .

I stopped by my friend Jan's antique shop for a minute to catch a break from the heat and dropped off a pair of AMAZING lucite shoes at the cobbler for repair.Seriously I love those shoes and I'm so bummed they were a size too big to those will be making it into my etsy shop soon...I might have to blog about those once I get them back,they're seriously THAT drool worthy.Aw cobblers,yours is a dying trade as we enter deeper and deeper into a throw away nation.Trust me ladies and gents,cobblers can do amazing things so if you have a pair of vintage shoes or even a modern pair you loved to death don't toss them just yet they might be able to be saved!

My daughters 3rd birthday approaches at the end of the month,I've been wanting to get her a Schwinn tricycle and we're lucky to have one downtown...or so I thought.Apparently the lock and key shop next to it was spread over to the bike shop and the bike shop is no more,not even a sign to say they went out of business or moved.The old sign still remains though.

Winner,Winner,Chicken Dinner...

Today sort of slipped away from me,I didn't get to take photos like I wanted of my drawing but I figured I'd just announce the winners anyway.First off thank you to ALL my followers!Secondly wow not 1 male signed up,do I not have any vintage loving fellas out there?Is vintage blogging a woman's world?Anyhoo....

The first winner is Bombshell Bettie!
The second winner is Andi B. Goode!

I'll be contacting you soon for address's to send your goodies off!

Cinco de Mayo

With Cinco de Mayo coming up in a few days I thought it would be fun to share some Mexican themed vintage goodies with everyone.Being from San Diego and I'm sure anyone living in the south west can tell you its a pretty festive day,here in Indiana not so much as there isn't a huge Hispanic population,it seems to be treated the same as Saint Patrick's day unfortunately most people just use it as an excuse to get drunk with maybe a dumb comment about it being Mexico's independent day *face palm*.


This vintage dangle pin is from my shop and I think it is darling!

Set of 4 Sombrero Glasses

1950s Painted Circle Skirt



Mexican Boho Dress

Vintage Mexican Menu

1969 Glass Cylinders

Windy Days and Weight Loss...

Yesterdays errand run ended up taking a lot longer than usual.Mostly because every few steps I'd end up having to run after my daughters hat that she insisted on wearing and putting it back on and I wore a nice white cotton eyelet dress that left me looking like I was badly impersonating Marilyn Monroe in the vent scene in "Seven Year Itch".Yes,sadly those Indiana winds made a fool of my daughter and I yesterday.We were more comical than stylish.

It was so windy that I didn't get a chance to get to snap any photos.In good/bad news I can no longer wear a vintage dress.Sad about the dress but happy because the reason I can't wear it anymore is it is now too big!So I put it in my Etsy shop.You can see even in this photo the wind was already starting to kick up as my hat tried to take off a few times.I'm happy to see my waist is only 4 inches away from being able to fit in my old clothes!Yeah progress!

The hat and dress were antique mall finds and the shoes I got on Etsy.I'll do an entry on them later because they're just that cute.The hat has a veil that I need to repair but for $4.00 I nearly died when I saw it!






And if you haven't yet don't forget to sign up for my give away!As of this post I still don't have a single male that has signed up!I'll be pulling names on the 3rd.