My house is Bare : }

Well after months of culling all my vintage country bits, Im down to the bare essentials.  Although Im kinda sad about it all I am at the same time extremely excited to have a blank canvas to start again.  Ive been trying hard not to shop, op shop, garage sale or ebay.  But it was all getting the better of me and at an opportune moment I took the garage sale option.  And ta da!!!!  Lots of glass ware for under $10.

I must declare that two items in this lot were given to me and are heirlooms to be treasured and kept.  Ohhhhhhhh I sooo cant wait for my new house. Im currently making a scrapbook of Shabby Chic ideas for when Im finally allowed to run free and re decorate.


Bare with me tooooooo!!!!!!!!

Oh where have you been??

I can not believe that it is September : } Thats 3 months since my last post- golly gosh time flies when your on a new adventure.

And thats exactly what its been. Its been a process of deciding and then starting the ball rolling for our up coming house move. But with this house move comes a complete change of style. Yep after more than 10 years of following the American primitive country style I've finally decided I am going to tackle Shabby Chic.

The choice was Shabby Chic or Modern Minimalistic.  Im sooooooo not modern - that Shabby Chic just had to win hands down. I've perused dozens of magazines and still haven't found anything that really inspires me, but I think thats because I haven't moved yet.  Im more than certain that the new house will lend a hand to its decorating character when I get there.

But until that time I will surely source out more info on Shabby Chic and start to practice my painting skills : }  I was given some amazing advice on just what colours to use by a lovely lady I have met through ebay. So Im itching to have a practice on a lonely coffee table.  I shall keep you all updated.

Be blessed Vintage Sister!

Vintage Photo Shopping

I went Vintage Shopping last week and I took my sister, She lives in Perth and I live in Sydney. I hear you saying WHAT?????  Yep I have discovered the joys of the Iphone 4. You shop, you take a photo, you text it with comments and then wait for the response.

First on our shopping expedition was this gorgeous tea set, how could one resist???

Gold Tea Set

Well one did resist!!!  And I shall explain why.  I discovered that as pretty as this tea set is, I knew it would'nt exactly fit the decor of my house.  However I discovered after posting this picture on facebook and declaring what a bargain it was at $15, I felt that I had shared what we all find so exciting about Vintage Shopping!!!  

What is that you ask? - ITS ALL ABOUT FINDING A BARGAIN - It doesnt matter whether we purchased it or not - BUT WE FOUND IT!!!! I wonder if this is some kinda weird female primal thing, like how men enjoy the thrill of the hunt?? MMMmmmmmm all food for thought really.

Anyway next on our treasure hunt was a stop at the second hand book shop, and yes i did purchase the following : }

Ideals Scrap Book

I fell in love with this beautiful book.  It is a collection of Poems and stories from a Magazine Series that was published in the 1960's by the Ideals Publishing Company in Milwaukee. Twas a bargain at $2 and looks gorgeous displayed in amongst the Vintage bits.

A must have Sewing Book

This is the ultimate sewing companion!! Just ask my sister : ]  I cant says sewing is a natural talent of mine but this book covers it all and considering it was published around 1978, its in great vintage condition. For $2 who could leave it behind and of course it would look perfect atop your vintage sewing cabinet.

We did venture further on our shopping expedition and I must say that Iphone Vintage shopping with my sister may just become a regular thing. However the postage costs may interfere with our fun!!!

Go on - Vintage Shop by long distance, you know you want to : }

Vintage Bikes

I have become a collector of Vintage Red Bikes and scooters.  Why - No idea.  I think they're the cutest things, but Im not sure they are the most practical house decoration.  Especially when you have 5 year olds come to visit!!  Thats why I tend to like them really rusty and dodgy.  However my  latest purchase was not quite so rusty but boy it was cute.

Vintage Red Bike

This one cost me $6.80 from the local Op shop. 

BARGAIN!!!!!

My very first purchase

This gorgeous bike I found for $15

at a local junk yard.

And another one

This one was from a Market stall and I

 cant remember how much.

My Vintage Scooter

Then my gorgeous scooter, this one lives in the kitchen at the end of my rustic buffet.  Its sooo cute, I often wonder what child owned this and how much fun they had on it. I guess in some regards that really is the beauty in vintage treasures, the nostalgia that goes with them.

Be a little nostalgic today Vintage girl!!!!

A few of my favourite Vintage things

Vintage Scale

I have a collection of Vintage Kitchen Scales, tucked in all sorts of places : }  This one is filled with old wooden handled kitchen utensils.
                                            

Old Chess Board

I brought this Rocking Horse on Ebay for $50 bucks. Its sooooo cute, it currently does'nt have a home anywhere in particular.

Vintage Rocking Horse

Vintage Cash Register

My Vintage Cash Register is a focal piece in my kitchen. It doesnt work the keys are jammed but I still love it.

My favourite Dolly
What more can I say?

Vintage Womens Weekly Magazines

Soooooo I might have let the boys sleep in on Sunday on purpose, cause I did have a plan for the day. I really wanted to go to Blacktown and have a look at the Markets that are held at the Drive In Cinema. Then the plan would take me just a little further down the road to have a look at Sarah's new work place at the DFO at Homebush.  


Well we found the markets easy and so did about a thousand plus other people - DOH! We did get a park straight away - AWESOME! Then it was fun to battle the people all the way round this gigantic car boot Trash and Treasure Market.


For all our wanderings there was soooo much to see that it was all to hard to take in and decide on what to buy.  Cause of course we was working within our play budget : }


Then on the last turn, the home stretch to the carpark I found them: 

What intrigued me so much other than the price of $2 each for these gorgeous gems from Dec 1970,  Mar 1971 and May 1971 was that they belonged to the mother of the Woman selling them.  Inside several of them were cutout pieces of paper that this lady didnt realise were in them. Obviously her mum had cut articles out from other magazines and newspapers such as recipes, bits and lotto results and had tucked them inside the magazines for safe keeping.  Was sooo cute.  I checked each one before leaving and made sure all bits were left with her : }

One of the magazines has a gorgeous liftout inside on paper dolls, I sooo love paper dolls.  There are so many pages of funky 70"s clothes to dress them in.... How cool!

But for the funniest article in this magazine I just cant go past letting you see what made me laugh:

Okay so you could stroke your face all day and work the wrinkles away or I personally think you could better spend your time treasure hunting and the joy will show on your face instead.

xx

Vintage Clothes Shoppin'

Twas on a recent treasure hunt that I found this gorgeous Jacket. I wasn't really looking for clothes as such when taddaaaaaaa there it was. Its kinda Lady-ish dont ya think?? Or maybe its just the diamon-dy broach button thingy attached to it.

I headed for the checkout with my pretty little treasure and the lady said $2.50 WHAT!!!!! Yep $2.50 wow..........




Its actually not a Vintage Clothing Item but Im smitten with it and am waiting patiently to wear it somewhere Lady-ish  : }  Not quite sure yet where that could be but I'll let you know.  I think Im stalling my wearing cause it really needs some pretty High Heels to go with it!!! Those I haven't found yet.................


Sometimes you never know what you find when your not looking : }


xxx