Showing posts with label antique. Show all posts
Showing posts with label antique. Show all posts

Friday, 3 May 2013

Good fortune: A thrift & gift haul

It has been a hard week for a few reasons I won't be blogging about, but this is a little high point of the week (gotta think positive). I found a few things of my own, which we'll look at first, but the real gems are the items my mom found for me (read on!).

First exhibit: vintage bathing suit that looks freaking awesome on, thrifted at Value Village.
How often do you find a bathing suit and think "OH MAN I LOOK SOOOO GOOD IN THIS"? Case closed.



Exhibit Two: Vintage white wicker nautical box bag. Yes. 



Exhibit Three: Roots leggings, in perfect condition, complete with marled grey (favourite) and worksock hems (other favourite)



Exhibit Four: Mid-century-style hand carved wooden candle holder, made in Nova Scotia



But here is the really good stuff.

Mom and Dad went to an auction the other night and my thoughtful mother found these (in a larger lot of stuff) for me. Three pairs of fancy antique 1930s round glasses, a 1960s-to-1980s pair of sunglasses, and a fffaaaabbbulous pair of 1950s Bausch & Lomb horn-rimmed glasses with mother of pearl inlay (which I am definitely getting refitted with lenses).  


  




My favourites!




So much fun stuff! Will share a few more finds soon!

Monday, 11 March 2013

I made some earrings

For my birthday, my mom got me a bunch of jewellery-making supplies and I have been going at it for a few days - things are pretty simple so far but it's been great to put some of my salvaged broken and mismatched jewellery to good use. I've fixed a bunch of pairs of earrings, but here's some of the new pieces I made:

Broken brooch pieces made into stud earrings
Blue glass cabochon clip-ons with salvaged light green beads 
My favourite vintage daisy earrings were totally wrecked (they were super fragile) - so I took bits and pieces and made them into small stud earrings.
Brooch made into stud earrings
Broken-off pieces of vintage clip-ons to stud earrings
Sea glass pieces into stud earrings
Remixed coral cabochons
Broken vintage necklace into stud earrings
Broken bracelet pieces, vintage leather scraps & gold Sharpie stud earrings
Bracelet pieces into drop earrings
Broken vintage gold bracelet pieces, antique pearls, and salvaged turquoise
Antique beads into earrings, on gold wire
Vintage teardrop pearls, remixed
Salvaged turquoise and vintage & antique gold-plated beads
Vintage navy and gold beads from a broken necklace
Vintage necklace and bracelet beads, pieces of vintage leather
Vintage leather scraps and salvaged bracelet beads
More vintage leather scraps and salvaged bracelet beads
Vintage leather scraps, cut into fringe, with black & silver Sharpie
Vintage broken bracelet pieces and beads
Antique plastic beads and pearls
 Looking forward to attempting more difficult and complex earrings! Stay tuned!

Monday, 4 February 2013

New Etsy Items!

Hi again!

Today is going to be one of those non-post posts where I just show you some recent Etsy additions. It was an awesome snow day today and both Peter and I got to stay home from work and watch documentaries and cuddle in bed and eat and eat and eat. And I did some work. Behold:

Vintage red woven leather flats

Vintage Dior tie

Single vintage yellow pillowcase


Vintage full-size sheet & pillowcase set

Vintage Oscar de la Renta scarf

And some antique German books:



and a 100+ year old copy of Les Mis.

Get 'em while they're hot!

Wednesday, 12 December 2012

O Xmas Tree

My / our first tree! I am officially going to spend all of my time in here.


(Yes, it's real - balsam fir!)


Peter putting up our awesome tree topper - an exact replica of the topper I grew up with that my dad massacred accidentally smashed one year. It's even made in Poland! Last one at Winners. Success story of the season.



Most of the ornaments are antique mercury glass balls, some inherited and some lucky thrifted finds from work. Some are embroidered and beaded silk ornaments, made in India, bought at How Bazaar over the course of a few years. There are some pretty neat ones...


...like this turquoise-and-gold one...


...and this sort of ironic Islamic crescent-moon-and-star...


,..and, possibly my favourite, this red bird (reminds me of another ornament I grew up with).


We have two-tone lights, which we might rectify... or we might just keep the wonky mix. Hard to say.


I'm just happy the tree is here. The presents will follow soon behind it!
Happy holidays! The Twenty-something Days of Xmas will return shortly!


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