Whew! Apparently I took a little blogging break after all that work getting my
Etsy moved. I did get out for a little treasure hunting last weekend and came home with a few pretties.
This was the first time EVER EVER EVER I found some millinery flowers! I sometimes find ones I call millinery flowers because they remind me of them but these are the REAL DEAL. How do I know that you might wonder? Because they were attached to a HAT. No kidding. I removed them myself. The hat was so dusty and dirty that I headed straight out to the garbage can with it then unexpectedly
veered to the right and hung it on the side of my potting shed.
I also found another aluminum "baskets" to add to my collection. I just love those fancy handles and
embossed designs. Poor man's silver for sure! The sweet little shoes are not vintage but too cute to pass by. Funny how few little pretties and trinkets nobody wanted all snuggled up together can become my treasure!
Art and Soul is in Portland this week. I couldn't attend because I work full time but tomorrow night a
DIL and I are going to Vendor Night. We went
last year and had a ball so I'm excited to see what this year has to offer!
A packet of vintage wallpaper, a very vintage lace collar, glass buttons on cards and pink beads.
Vintage lace and trims and more glass buttons - yes those wonderful white buttons are glass! You can also see some tags and library card pockets in this picture.
More glass buttons, a vintage cabinet card, victorian scrap and lots of glass beads.
Vintage greeting cards, more glass beads and vintage Dennison Christmas labels.
And even MORE glass buttons. Okay, I have to tell you about the glass buttons. This vendor had apparently bought out the stock from a clothing factory and she had bags and bags of glass buttons. I started picking up one after another so she handed me a basket. I proceeded to load it up with every single bag of buttons. My DIL's eyes grew wide and she said "you're not going to buy all of them are you??". I mumbled something from my fog about thinking about it. Then I snapped back to reality and told her "Quick! Help me talk myself out of this or I'm going to buy the whole thing. How much is 27 x 3? I wonder what she would take for all of them? Hurry, save me!". All of a sudden I was really glad I hadn't gotten that glass of wine to sip while I shopped!
Well, no, I didn't buy them all. Big sigh. Even as we were walking to the car I was asking her "Do you think I should have bought them all? Should I see if I can still get back in?". I'm guessing she might have been rolling her eyes on the inside and thinking get in the car you wacky old woman don't make me stuff you in the trunk. 
But I got her email address. 8+)
