Scavenger Hunt Details!!

Go to the Etsy Vintage Street Team blog for all the details! I hope you will join us, it should be fun!

Ready For A Scavenger Hunt?!

More details soon!

The VB Boutique Mentioned On Real Simple

I'm so excited to share with you that The Vintage Butterfly Boutique was included in an article on Real Simple's Simply Stated blog, along with 24 other vintage shops featured on Etsy, written by Holly Becker of decor8.

Take a look and enjoy the vintage goodness of 25 amazing vintage housewares shops!

A Very Vintage Saturday, cont'd.

I also came away with many very vintage prints in the old frames that are attached with the little teeny nails. I had to carefully pull out those teeny nails to allow the prints to air dry on my coffee table when we got home because at the one estate sale where I picked up most of the prints from, had them all in a trailer outside getting exposed to the misty, rainy day.
So, quite possibly they will have slight watermarking on the edges, but a watermark never stopped me from loving a vintage print! Just look at that gorgeous baby print above!
Behind that baby print was someone's original certificate of promotion from bible school, dated 1923, a little bonus surprise. And I found the matching ballerina print to the one I found several months ago, yay!
And these sweet Joan Walsh Anglund prints from the early 60's.
Other things I didn't take pictures of was an old wrought iron scrolled plant stand for my porch, an ivy topiary with a metal fleur de lis stake, an oval framed cottage floral print, a vintage rose scarf, a vintage fabric hankie pouch (I know there is a correct term for those, but it's not coming to me right now), ....and my mind is going blank now and a list of what I got with no pictures isn't a lot of fun anyway, LOL.

A Very Vintage Saturday

I had quite the day yesterday doing my treasure hunting with my 2 girls! The weather was crazy and kept raining off and on all day. Nice how the air smells so fresh, though, after a good rain. *sigh*

Anyway, we were out the door by 7:30am and hit many garage, estate sales, a thrift store and what was described as a "flea market" but should be called a junk yard. I did dig through said junk yard, which didn't produce much that I was interested in, but I came away with the strong urge to tell everyone to buy yourself a paper shredder because you never know where your important papers are going to wind up when you think they have simply gone to the "trash". Yikes...just boxes and boxes of people's paperwork, files, etc. there and sadly, lots and lots of family pictures. How does that happen?! That made what was an otherwise great day, have a vaguely depressing end.

But, before the junk yard, there were vintage delights to be had!
Sweet little pastel clothespins, still in their package. An entire set of vintage poker chips, all embossed with a fleur de lis, great for crafty purposes or simply to add some color in a pretty jar. A entire pack of unused recipe cards with a antique stove graphic on each one. A pack of old jingle bells, nicely aged and chippy. A old glass shaker that will make a cute glitter dispenser or mini vase for cut flowers poked through each hole on top. An old expanding mug holder that I will use as a display piece on my wall for pretty, hanging things I want to keep in view.

Two small globes. I adore them! An old chinese checkers board.
A rose pattern display piece with pretty crystals dangling on all sides. Not vintage, but still pretty just the same. The day was definitely full of old books, my favorite being the french grammar book on top. A couple of floral pins and a rhinestone "Queen" pin, for fun.
Two very old tins, a large floral pin, a glass juicer resting on top of an old floral tin and a wired, 3-tiered basket that I plan to use for hanging plants on my porch.
But that's not all!

Free Source of Vintage Clip Art

I've been dabbling in collage work with my girls of The Fun Friday Challenge Group and so I'm always on the look out for great vintage clip art and nothing beats free, right?!
Well, the great folks of Dover Publications will send you a great sampler email every Friday of various clip art images from their extensive library of unique clip art CDs, books and coloring books!

Check out the site, I know you're going to find something you love.

Vintage Mod and Crafty at The VB Boutique Today

I added this set of 3 vintage 70's string and wire kits. Do you remember this type of artwork?! As a young child of the 70's, I definitely do. This set of complete kits includes an owl, sailboat and windmill kit.
For those of you who love the mod design (like my favorite and only sister), I give you this gorgeous address book which has never been used and is just waiting for a home on your desk!
And, last but not least, another complete kit featuring the wise owl. When completed, its' design is on both sides and becomes a little ornament you can embellish further to suit your own decor!
You can see more pictures at the shop.

Happy Belated Mother's Day!

I hope everyone had a great Mother's Day, whether celebrating with your own kids or celebrating the gift that is the mother in your life!

A few years ago, we started a new tradition where the small group of women on my little side of the family who are mothers get together for lunch and whatever.

This year, it was lunch and thrift store shopping, LOL. And, believe it or not, it was not my idea, it was my mom's. So, a great day was had by all and a few new vintage finds were found!

Top that all off with some ice cream and, there you go, you can't really ask for anything better.

Sorry for the short post with no visuals, but this girl is getting tired.

Oh, before I go, my middle daughter is 36 weeks pregnant and at today's appt. she was at 1 cm. dilated. Exciting times, waiting for my second grandchild to be born! So, we shall see how much longer she goes...you can stay at 1-3 cm for days, you just never know.

Fun Friday Challenge #3

My contribution to the Fun Friday Challenge group this week is a bit of digi collage. I have Paint Shop Pro and am teaching myself how to use it, so this was a good opportunity to put in some practice time with the program.

All graphic elements were previously purchased at Digitals and the postcard image is from the Collage Images group at Flickr.

Handmade with Vintage Shopping

This is one of many beautiful pieces of jewelry you can find at Eclectic Anthology.
Actually, this is the one I want, so hands off. ;)

Too Many Blogs To Follow=Google Reader

I'm currently following 111 of my favorite blogs! How do I have the time, what with a full time job, kids, grandkids, hobbies, classes, etc.?

Google Reader, my current favorite online tool. You simply need to have a Google account, and if you're already a Blogspot blogger, you already have a Google account. It's your sign-in id name for Blogger.

Then, whenever you come across a blog you'd like to keep updated on, you simply open up your Google Reader, hit the "add subscription" button and as long as that blog allows its' feeds to be broadcast (which all bloggers should!), your Reader will "subscribe" to that blog's all new posts.

So, all your blog links will be in one place and have all current updates. No more link lists or individually entering URLs to visit your fave blogs. You simply go to your Reader page and can quickly catch up on any new posts your favorites have added.

You'd be suprised how quickly and easily you can keep up-to-date with a number of blogs this way! And, as I did today, you can add the widget that I did on the right --> that provides links for all your favorite blog subscriptions without having to input them one by one!

* I forgot an important point! Google Reader will also begin to recommend blogs to subscribe to based on your current subscriptions, so you can discover new ones, yay!

My New Custom Banner Is Up!

Thanks to Gail of Shabby Cottage Studio, I have a new blog banner and new shop banner!

I would highly recommend working with Gail. She makes the process painless!

Fun Friday Challenge #2

I used a vintage hat pin, postcard from 1911 and vintage vocabulary card along with getting into old scrapbook paper and sticker stash, so nothing new purchased for this piece at all!
Oh, I take that back! I did buy that little flourish stamp yesterday on a little fun trip to Joann's. They were having 40% off sale on all stamps.

I also bought 6 sheets of a distressed blue damask paper that I will be lining my hutch with and a beautiful rose print I will be lining the back of one of my bookcases with. I'll be backing the other case I use in the family room with this Cavallini & Co. paper.


I'm in love with blue right now and will be bringing the color into my front room as an accent color, so I bought a spray paint to paint a now black shelf and will be eventually recovering some pillows with a light blue toile. I'll, of course, take pictures of all this when I actually start these little projects.

Anyway, this collage piece is part of that "bringing blue into the front room" project and I'll display this collage in that room.

I am absolutely loving the challenge group, it gives me a theme to focus my thoughts on and a deadline to get something done...it also seems to be sparking all sorts of creativity and ideas for my home decorating projects, so I've been carrying around a little notebook to write these things down as they pop into my head. If only there was more time to spend doing all these things! Once again, I wish that sleep was not necessary!