More Collections..........

So I said I would post some more collections, some of the things I've collected over the years.   For those of you who know me, I'm sort of cheap and I never pay a lot for any of this stuff. .   To me, it's much more interesting to put items together over time to decorate your home than going to a furniture store and just buying matchey matchey items.  That's soooo boring to me.  So here's some more:

 

Floral bouquet paintings that sort of have that cottage/shabby chic look.

These hang on one wall in our bedroom.

A small collection of manni's. Some of my handmade necklaces

hang on them.

Black and white photos, most all of them relatives from the past.  My mom does matting and framing. She will blow some of our family photos up, do the matting and framing and give a couple to each of her girls each year for Christmas.  These gifts are very cherished.

 

My globe collection.  Most all of them from the local thrifts.  None of them no more than $5 each.

Turquoise green, blue and other tones of green vintage pottery. I'm attracted to anything green and blue.

So these are some of my collections. I hope you enjoyed looking and maybe got some ideas.  Check back next week and I'll show you some more.

Collections

This will be my first post of several about collections.  Is there anything that you collect?  I started to think about the collections that I have and realized that I've collected A LOT of stuff!   But the "stuff" I've collected isn't just any ol' junk.  At least not to me.   It's mostly things I thought would look cool in my house in groupings.  When you group like items together it makes much more of a punch than just some random item sitting there all alone.  I'm gonna let everyone see some of my collections this coming week.  Promise, I'm gonna get back on this blog and start puttin out some cool stuff.

This past week I found the most adorable 6 piece set of vintage stitched floral pictures.  At first, I thought I should keep them because I have 2 different walls in my house where they would go along with the collections of floral/botanical pictures.  But, on second thought, I decided to offer them in my shop so that someone else could start their own collection.

They sort of have a shabby chicish vibe goin' on.  They could look fuddy duddy, like something from grandma's house, but I see them going with a mix of newer modern looking botanical or floral prints to balance them out.  Everyone will be asking "where did you get  those"?  You say sassysistervintage.etsy.com, of course ;). The six pictures are being offered at $30 in my shop.

Stay tuned for lots of pics of my own collections.  I think you'll enjoy looking at them.

It's been hard getting over to my blog lately.....

I honestly have had a lack of motivation to do much of anything lately.  It seems like this time of year always makes me feel blah.  I think I always get a bit of SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder).  I think that's what it's called.    I've got ideas and things I want to talk about, I've just got to put myself into movement.  Anyway, I'm hoping to get over this blah period and get some motivation back.   Here's my latest vintage pieces for sale:

Little vintage paper cups. Use for what their intended or for collage, etc.  They are absolutely adorable!

Vintage stole or cape

Ethnic hippy top

1950's Sweet Yellow Sweater

Leather "Made in France" purse.  The inside is lined in red leather.

1960s Leather Wedge Loafers

Antique Wooden Sugar Mold

27 Unique Shaped Colorful Vintage Dice

Gorgeous 1950s Tooled Leather Bag.  Also, 1960's turtleneck sweater.

Amazing 1970's Leather Boots

1960s Lilli Ann Tweed and Suede Jacket

I think that about completes it for now.  Take a look in my shop where you'll find lots of cool things at sweet prices.

Unique Industrial Lighting

I found these very cool metal crab baskets the other day.  When I first picked them up, my thought was that they would make cool lighting for a kitchen, etc.  I searched the internet today to see if there were any pictures of the baskets made into lighting and I found something that was very similar to what I was thinking.

These baskets are for sale in my etsy shop at sassysistervintage.etsy.com.  They are $34 each.

This kitchen is unique and very cool.  The metal basket lighting in the back corner definitely adds to the character of this kitchen.  Something similar can be done to the same baskets that I have for sale.

Newest Items For Sale and other Stuff......

So, um......I've been gone a while.  I hope everyone's holidays were fabulous!  I was in Wyoming along with my husband Duane and 2 girls.  We drove out there in our "not the image I want" Dodge Grand Caravan.  I must admit that the van sure did make traveling a lot more comfortable.  The only thing that wasn't comfortable was traveling with a 15 month old........never again on a trip that long!  Love her to death, but man was that a challenge.  We were gone a bit more than 2 weeks and I'm super happy to be home and on a bit more of a normal schedule.  I've got lots of pictures from the trip.  I'll share those later.  Meanwhile, here's some of my newest items for sale in sassysistervintage.etsy.com:

Vintage Leather Swiss Army Pouch

Adorable 1960's, 70's Mini Dress

Amazing glass beaded turn-of-the-century bag.....mint condition!

Vintage Cable Knitted Yellow Sweater

Authentic Snake Skin Belt

Like I said earlier, I've got lots of things to talk about, so check back soon.  I'll show you pics from the trip and blog about a fabulous vintage clothing store in Salt Lake City....Decades Vintage.

Etsy and other stuff.......

So here are the latest items in my Etsy shop:

1920's Velvet Jacket with Fabulous Metal Hardware

 

1980's Nautical dress with anchor embroidered on the front.

Fabulous 1970's Tooled Leather Bag

Vintage carry case with my handpainted artwork and polymer clay bird nest attached to the handle.

 

1970's burgundy red dress with rouched sleeves.

 

1960's Levi jacket with the big "E".

 

Suede coat with mink collar

 

1970s Mexican top.

I must say that my sales started out really well on Etsy.  They've sort of slowed down.......not sure why other than people are looking for "gifty" things.  Mine aren't really gifty, but more for the vintage clothing lover hoping to buy for themselves.  I'm still trying to figure out how to market my items.  Any suggestions would be very helpful since I'm sort of discouraged at the moment.  I'm not giving up.  I've given myself a certain amount of time to see if Etsy will work for me.  If it works then Fabulous, if not, then thank goodness I don't depend on my Etsy sales to pay the mortgage.....that's all I have to say!  Now I gotta start packing for the Wyoming trip.

My Etsy Shop Banner

Haven't blogged in a while. I've just been too busy with my Etsy shop. Basically photographing and uploading my items and putting them into my shop. It takes a lot of time to do all of this. I'm really enjoying taking the pics. Any opportunity I get to be creative is so exciting and fun to me.

Thanks to Amanda Magonigal, I have a new banner in my Etsy shop (below). This banner is more reflective of what I'm selling. I could not have done this without Amanda. I've also got business cards that are soooo cute. I'm picking them up tomorrow. I'll show y'all what they look like when I get them.

Some time the beginning of next year.  I'm going to be changing my blog a bit and giving it a new name.  Hopefully, this will help promote my Etsy shop a little more.  The blog will focus just a little more on vintage clothing, but still do spot light on artists and interesting places in the area, etc.  I'll let you know more after the holidays.

We're headed to Tallahassee tomorrow to celebrate Christmas with my parents.  My sister Tiffany and her family will be there also.  Next weekend we're headed to Wyoming.  We will be gone for almost 2 weeks.  I'll tell everyone more about that next week.  Ciao for now!