Modish Vintage is on Fab this week

Come and check out all the fabulous vintage goods on Fab.com today! The Vintage Sale starts at 4 p.m. PST.

photos for Friday

My instagram snapshots this past few days:

- a collection of vintage phones I thrifted all at once from an antique shop 

-a charming moss-covered sofa spotted at the same antique mall 

-a gorgeous day on the drive to Seattle

Have a wonderful weekend!

collecting collections

vintage Polaroid cameras

a favorite weekend find

I went to an antique shop yesterday and bought five vintage phones. They were all half off as the dealer was clearing off her inventory. Score! My favorite is this sea green one.

Happy Monday indeed!

photos for Friday

 

{I meant to post this yesterday}

A couple of pictures I posted on my instagram this week; bouquet of flowers and macarons from Trader Joes; Sofia snuggles with Lucky after school.  

Hope you are having a fantastic weekend!

sale news

collecting collections

What is it that makes us want to collect things? Once in a while I'll come across a cute pottery vase or a wooden animal figure and would want to expand it to a collection, but then when I gathered enough to warrant a sizable collection the desire to keep it is fleeting and my interest goes onto the next one. My collecting habits has changed overtime being that my job gives me the advantage of finding them on a constant basis. I remember ten years ago when I used to go to estate sales at the break of dawn just to snatch a Hummel figurine with a full bee marking to add to my collection, what was I thinking? Now if there's one thing I regret letting go was my enamel bowl collections they are getting harder to find these days.

The photo above is an instant collection I got from an auction two weeks ago. See my previous perfume bottle collection here and here.

chair of the day

My obsession with chairs and lamps still continues. If you see my instagram feed I seem to manage to find a  lamp to buy and chairs whenever I venture on a thrifting or auction trips. So I thought I should showcase a chair or a lamp that I fancy on a weekly basis here. And of course since finding the gem of chairs from yesterdays post, I pinned these photos to show how these chairs were used in an interesting ways.

Verner Panton chairs use for church seating

white chairs on white dining area

wedding ceremony seating arrangement

All photos are from my Pinterest board.

I'm back!... with a favorite weekend find!

wow, it's been six months since my last post where to begin? well to be honest I was a little burned out from the old blog and was thinking whether to continue or close it for good. Since getting my new phone I've been Instagraming which is so much faster and and I love all the filters I can use to make the pictures pretty.  In addition I got busy with real life in the beginning of the year with the business, taxes and the usual home chores and stuff and decided to take a much needed one month vacation to my birth place- Philippines with my mom and my daughter Sofia. It was a great vacation overall and a neat experience for my daughter. Unfortunately I don't have photos to prove it as they were all accidentally deleted.:( except a couple...

 My kiddos also turned 8 last month and I planned a princess & prince theme party for them.

And in thinking of ways to resurrect this blog, I will dedicate Mondays to be a show and tell for my favorite weekend find. So here's for this weekend...

four vintage Verner Panton chairs.

Ok. this is it for now, hoping I can get this blog going... wish me luck!

Modish Vintage is 5!

Modish Vintage has been on Etsy for 5 years! To celebrate this special occasion, we would like to offer our fabulous customers a 20% discount on their purchases anytime from now until Sunday! There are lots of gift items for you and your love ones, and we will be adding more items all throughout this week.

Also all purchases made by the 17th of December are guaranteed to arrive by Christmas!

Thanksgiving Sale!

mantel inspiration

I was browsing a favorite blog the other day and came across this space by Camille Price.  When I saw how she decorated her mantel with red books I knew this is how I wanted my mantel to look for the holidays.  

 here's a photo of Price's mantel; I love the sort of messy, overstuffed but balanced look.  

and her living room

and here's what I did with mine;

and my living room

the rest of my antique books

first two photos via isuwannee

Modish Vintage & FAB

Modish Vintage will be on FAB.com today at 4PM. Here's a preview of some of my favorites. You can find the rest of the goodies here.

for the love of the granny

So I remember this post from a distant past realizing that I do have a thing for granny; granny chic that is.  And I still do, a little, though my taste changes from time to time but I just love the colorful nostalgic look not to mention function of these vintage crocheted afghans, don't you?  Well, I recently thrifted a mountain of them just in time for the colder season.  And I already picked a couple for my sofa and my basement chairs and save the most colorful ones to list on my Etsy shop.  Most of them are in very good condition, uniqe and so warm...they are priced just around $30 or less.  You can check them out here.

recent thrift finds

Well hello there!
As you may have noticed, I have been absent here.  I've been unmotivated to blog lately partly because I've been busy scouting vintage treasures for my Etsy shop and also for Fab.com for the upcoming holiday season and also I felt like my 'thrift finds' posts has been redundant and I can't come up with fresh new topics to post, so instead of blogging here I have been instagramming my finds. I think I love it more for it's ease of use - I take a quick picture with my phone, add a cool filter and finish with a caption or one liner and done. Not much thinking or planning and over thinking whether to hit the publish button or not for everyone to see. So I've been loving instagram, and been posting my finds there lately. If you don't follow me there, the photos above are my recent finds in the last couple of weeks.  I will be using IG for now and will take a break from blogging so if you want to see what's happening you can follow there at @modishvintage of course.  Happy autumn everyone!

sale preview on Fab.com

It's that time again! Modish Vintage will be on Fab with a huge offerings of select vintage wares starting Monday September 17. And guess what, you don't have to sign in on Fab's website anymore just to browse their sale unless you're placing an order.  Here's a few sneak peeks of my vintage finds that will be listed.