girly girl finds

As we all know, a girly girl relishes in being feminine and she needs thoughtful gifts to compliment her personality and what better way than to give her the gift of vintage. One-of-a-kind and inexpensive.

Some recent finds that I thought would be a perfect holiday gifts for your favorite girl or woman.

A white vintage double sided mirror with metal extension.

Beautiful vintage lipstick holder in gold tone.

A vintage music box, every girl wants one.

A pretty compact mirror for her purse; she'll think of you all the time...

A girly girl may be getting a perfume for the holiday, and this ornate bottle would compliment nicely.

And as you know I have hundreds of gift ideas/items in my shop for her. Take sometime and browse here ...

Have fun shopping!

p.s. all these items will be posted in the shop today.

Thursday night estate auction

Last night was our date night a.k.a. estate auction night. Hubby and I spent couple of hours at our favorite Thursday spot.

It was a fine art and antique auction night which means expensive items and I may be going home empty handed. But their catalog shows some really nice mid century furniture and I wanted to see the Westnofa recliner, the Vladimir Kagen chairs and Finn Juhl set of dining chairs in person and curious to see how much they will go for. Well, let's just say that the ending bid for each set was as much as what I pay for my mortgage payment, but ohh, they were divine!

So instead of showing you the photos of my loot, I will show the photos of the things I wished would have came home with me only if I had a million of dollars in my disposal...

Westnofa Danish modern rosewood recliner and ottoman set.







these Finn Juhl set of 5 dining chairs went for a couple of thousand dollars.







I'm still beating myself for not raising my paddle one more time for this tulip table with glass insert that ended at a mere $80.









Vasarely pieces that I thought were really nice...









beautiful antique vases...
















I really love these series of Richard Allen Morris miniature oil paintings (12" x 12") but I wouldn't stand a chance, they were hot items and went from $600 up to $1,200 each.

Still a fun night overall and I did won one Surrealist landscape etching , I will post a picture on my next post.

new goodies for the shop: fabric wall art/inspiration boards

Last weekend I've accomplished what I've been wanting to do for a long time. I made my first batch of handmade inspiration board/wall art that will be gracing the shop soon. They are made of unique one-of-a-kind vintage frames from the 50s, 60s and some that are older, and my precious vintage fabrics that I have been hoarding for the longest time. These are the fabrics that I've never offered in my shop, the ones I couldn't let go, hoping I could make some really nice accent pillow one day when I have free time. So this is what I came up with that does not require sewing.

I will be listing these tomorrow. I think they will make a neat wall organizer/inspiration board or wall art (if you can't bear to poke them with pins) for home or office. Most of the fabrics are made of vintage high quality cotton or linen fabrics. Also a couple of handmade button push pin with matching fabric will be included in each board.

vintage collection of lame quotes

Yesterday while thrifting I found this little handmade book with typewritten quotes. There's a quote for each day of the year. Someone must have thought of all the lamest quotes all 365 of them and compiled them to make this little blue book...

here's a few of the best ones I found

haha, I think I just killed a couple of them by doing this post .

estate auction bounty

As promised here's the sneak peek of the treasures I've won on last week's estate auction.







I got lots of these large vintage etchings; these are just a couple of them...





antique leather attache case in very good condition...



this really nice deco electric clock in gold tone...



large antique eagle wood mirror...



large antique still life wall art...



vintage embroidered bird art...

... and last but not the least, I also got this adorable antique looking life size doll with sleep eyes. He's huge, 26" tall. While I was taking photos this morning my daughter asked me a thousand times why she can't play with it, and I kept telling her that it's not a toy, that it's for mommy's business. And she pouts, slumped her body on the couch and said "why do you always sell my favorite toys mommy?!

sigh... I don't know my darling daughter, I've always left alone all your Dora toys, I told her...

my new Pyrex coffee mugs

I have a room full of new vintage treasures I've accumulated since my last post, but I haven't got a decent photo to share so I'll post my recent find from Goodwill the other day; a dozen milkglass Pyrex coffee mugs. They're not extraordinary find but I'm so excited about it because they're in my favorite shade of green (much like jadiete) and they're all in mint condition. They will be replacing the mismatched ceramic set I have been using for ages and I think they go perfectly with my vintage Franciscan plates.



P.S. I will be posting some sneak peeks on Monday of the goodies I won from an estate auction I went to last night.

P.P.S. Dallas Shaw of DillyDallas is having a great vintage giveaway on her blog. Go check it out and enter to win, they are super cute items I promised!

great give-away at IndieFixx!!

When Jen at Indifixx twittered about who wants to do a giveaway on her very popular blog, I immediately twitted back and said "me, me, me!". Not only am I a big fan of her indie design/style blog but also was honored and very grateful that she has featured my shop and my vintage items many times in the past. Her writing style, photos and choice of subjects are always inspiring and a breath of fresh air.

To find out more about her giveaway, go HERE. There's still plenty of time to enter.