Upcycled m&a earrings on Etsy!

Added four new items to Etsy today: my handmade upcycled vintage earrings. Check 'em out!

Mint-grey silk, coral, pearl

Gold & turquoise

Silver, coral, turquoise

Antique gold, turquoise, antique faux-pearl

I can always make different permutations of what you see here too, as long as the bits and pieces are around! Get in touch if you're interested in any of them, or something similar!

Etsy Shop You Need to See: The Sparkling Sparrow

Oh man, guys. I know as much as anybody that there is a lot of awesome stuff for sale on Etsy, but sometimes I get pretty excited about it. This is one of those times. The Sparkling Sparrow, in Appleton, Wisconsin, offers these amazing hair clips, hair combs, and more fashioned out of vintage and reclaimed jewellery. I feel like I stumbled into a diamond mine.

I always pictured I would have a hairpiece like this for my eventual wedding, made out of all the sentimental (but maybe broken or mismatched) jewellery I've been saving. Looking at these lets me know that it is very much possible, and will look stunning. Yay!

Here are some favourites, but check out the shop yourself - I'm drawn to a particular look but there are more varied, interesting pieces too.



The first one I found - stunning!



Pale blues and gold, fave combo

White & gold botanical, beautiful

A little bit mid-century, a little bit Grecian, a little Edwardian. Love it!

White, ivory, cream, blush, rose, gold. So pretty and feminine.

Something blue :)

I might just need to stop drooling and buy one of these!

Cuuute

I've been continuing to dive into my Etsy shop, adding lots more items this week - I'm now up to 170, with more to come tomorrow! Here are some of the cutest, cutesiest items of the week:

A close-up - I had to, it's just so cute.

Get 'em here while they're hot!

Sunnies, obvi

I've been keeping myself very busy with Etsy lately, it's amazing. It's addicting to have a fulfilling hobby that you're good at and earns you some cash. If this is what it's like to be an entrepreneur, I may have to start thinking about self-employment more seriously.

(Obviously I know entrepreneurship is hard, and takes a ton of work and know-how and dedication. But the pay-off seems huge!)

I've been adding many new items to the shop in the past couple weeks and still have lots more to put up. Here are a couple of my latest additions, which I am awkwardly modelling via webcam. Enjoy!

Loving these huge retro orange sunglasses. Sixties or eighties?

Same with these sweet rose-gold & pastel pink aviators. Might just have to keep these for myself!

Available here & here.

More items to come! Talk soon!

Vintage wallpaper on Etsy

So, I just posted all dem new Etsy additions, but I thought I'd save these two awesome new items for a whole different post. I'm so excited about these!

I'll be selling these awesome vintage wallpapers by the meter and think they would look so amazing - the pink bows in a girly powder room, the psychedelic Gerber daisies as an accent wall, don'tcha think?

Girly! Twee! Cute!

Retro! Psychedelic! Loud!

I would love to see these used on walls, but there are also so many things you can do with wallpaper samples & scraps. For instance, I've seen some very cool wallpapered drawers in dressers, like such:

Or this table top:

I also love this wallpaper bunting!

So here's hoping my vintage wallpaper finds a good home (and a good crafter!)

Busy, busy on Etsy!

Oh, it's been good to add so many new things to Etsy over the last few days. Here's a sampling!

Lady Utex houndstooth peacoat

Ceramic mushroom napkin holder

Yves Saint Laurent skinny leather belt

Needlepoint cat cushion cover

Jacobean/oriental floral pillowcases

80s Oversized plastic glasses frames

MORE 80s oversized plastic glasses frames

Retro candy-apple red sunglasses

Van Gogh cork coasters

Robin's egg blue Tupperware sugar dish and milk pitcher

Givenchy reclaimed wool bomber jacket

Check 'em all out - and more! - at Milk & Amber on Etsy.

Cheers!

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!

Etsy Map

Just made a map of all my Etsy sales so far. Little bits of vintage from PEI are off to all over the world! (Locations are all approximate!)

New Etsy items on Milk & Amber

Phew, long time, no post! Things have been a little on the wild side lately, but I have today off and am ready to relaxxxx. By relax, of course, I mean work on my Etsy shop. New items! Yeee!

Vintage taupe scalloped-edge clutch with strap

Vintage Whitehall Italian hand-carved wooden tobacco pipe

Vintage clip-on bow tie

Vintage lipstick-red embroidered clutch w/ strap

Vintage wallet / clutch / change purse with coral and turquoise beading

Neat! Check 'em out here at my Etsy Shop. Thanks, talk again soon!