{New} Vintage In Shop Today

I'm always trying to catch up on my shop additions and this day is no exception! Here are some of today's vintage highlights:

Two gorgeous shabby romantic cottage style floral prints.
A sweet ceramic French Poodle and her Siamese Kitty friend figurine.
A colorful set of souvenir Hawaiiana.
A vintage butterfly ceramic trivet.
I'm doing my best to add new things daily! Once again my pending inventory is crowding us out of house and home, even my trunk is full!

I've made a vow to not do any shopping until all inventory is up and listed and that is killing me, so that'll keep me motivated, LOL.

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!

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.

Leave It To The Experts

Sometimes you need to realize when it makes more sense to hire someone to create from your vision than to take the time needed for you to create what you see in your mind's eye...and then not be able to do it as well as you envision or enjoy the process. It's just good business sense, according to The Donald and Martha!

So, I am letting go of my banner-making attempts for the moment and will be enlisting the services of the awesome artist and designer, Gail Schmidt! Yay!

I've only recently met Gail and love her already. She's uber-talented and was published in March's issue of Somerset Digital Studio! She has an awesome store called Shabby Cottage Studio and there you will find some of her work, a more comprehensive bio, links to her blog and etsy store and tons and tons of tempting goodies for your altered art and mixed media collage needs.

She's a member of the mixed media/altered art group we have going over at Etsy Cottage Style and is just an all-around great resource and plain nice person!

Thanks, Gail!

The Vintage Butterfly Boutique Is For The Birds!

Yep, I'm all for the birds.
I love 'em, that is.

Some gorgeous birdie things on Etsy tonight:

From Sunshine And Ravioli, a gorgeous set of bird tags:

Another beautiful bird collage kit from

Lisa Cook:

Collage kit from Birds Of A Feather:


And now, my funny little computer mouse is acting up again so I think I will call it a night!

You can find so much handmade and vintage goodness on Etsy! Take a look and while you're at it, search under the keywords "csst" for cottage style and "etsyvintageteam" for all things vintage. I dare you to go away empty-handed...I can't even go away empty-handed and I'm supposed to be selling there.

Eh, buy, sell, buy, sell. Money in, money out. It's what makes the world go 'round, right?

Okay! Go buy something. The world depends on it. :D

Grocery Store Flowers and Outgoing Orders

Two things I love!

My local grocery store has the best flowers and I love to grab a bunch for no special reason other than they're pretty and they make me happy.

The other thing that makes me happy is crunchy kraft paper packages tied with jute and ready to go off to the local post office.

Hopefully, what's inside those packages makes you happy!

Featured Member Of The Week

I wanted to thank Lynn and the ladies over at Etsy Cottage Style for choosing me and The Vintage Butterfly Boutique as Featured Member Of The Week.

There are so many wonderfully talented people there who embody the creative, luscious, glittery side of cottage style with their handmade items. Be sure to take a look, the forum is open to everyone who loves Cottage Style.


Find more photos like this on Etsy Cottage Style

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

I wore this vintage four-leaf clover pin today as my touch of green to celebrate. I love it! I found this at a recent church rummage sale along with several other vintage pins/brooches that I plan on listing at The Vintage Butterfly Boutique soon.

This month is just flying by isn't it? I can't believe that Easter is this Sunday.
We'll be celebrating with the family the day before and combining a few things together; Easter, my oldest daughter moving into her own place and my youngest daughter's 17 birthday. It should be fun as my oldest does not have much furniture as of yet and we'll all be over at her place, lol.

Happy Friday, Vintage Lovers!

These are recent additions to
The Vintage Butterfly Boutique. I'm desperately trying to get items up, I'm about 3 estate sales behind on my listings and there is an awesome combined estate sale going on this weekend! Ay yi yi...so much vintage goodness to discover!

These two items are off to their new home tomorrow. Thank you!
The Vintage Fondue Book and vintage Singer Sewing Machine Accessories.

Hope you have a great day. :)

A Springtime Greeting Collage Kit

A new favorite on etsy is this gorgeous collage kit from Jenny's Bake Shop

So cute and so spring! I'm in love with
anything that has a bird motif lately, whether it be nests, eggs, birds, whatever...so this is right up my alley. You get a nice piece of Jenny's Bake Shop art and a chance to add your own creativity into the mix.

Love!

New Items In Shop This Week.

I've been feeling like the White Rabbit from Alice In Wonderland recently...trying to juggle it all. Luckily, I love what I'm doing with my etsy shop and my recent shopping trips have been incredible!

I'm behind on my listings, however, and need to catch up the speed of my shop listings with the speed of my shopping!

Here are the new items in shop this week:
A gorgeous rose print small vase in cream with gold edging.




A pair of green with daisy print serving trays, perfect for summer lunches on the patio!
And another small white ceramic vase with rose detailing, along with a Paul Whitney Hunter print of a puppy and butterfly outdoors.

You can find all these and much more at http://thevintagebutterfly.etsy.com .

I attended two more estate sales this weekend with fab results, which is part of the reason I've been so busy. I purchased a cute antique hutch for my front room that I've been busy cleaning and setting up and at the same sale I got the cutest little antique desk I've set up in the front room for my personal work space.
I'm in the middle of painting my family room or I would take photos now, but I'll be sure to get them up when the room is finished!

Thanks for stopping by and please feel free to comment any time!

Shipments Going Out Today

I love the look of crumpled kraft paper, jute and imperfect stamping. Very "me"...I do need to sit down and premake some tags so I can "age" them a bit, though.

Outgoing mail!

New At The Vintage Butterfly Boutique

This gorgeous pair of collectible figurines came from one of the estate sales I attended this past weekend. So many wonderful things there! This family had such history there...the new owner of the home said he purchased the house full of all of these gorgeous items. Lucky! It was the cutest old house also, I want to live in that neighborhood myself and someday I will.
The sweetest little ceramic baby carriage, another new purchase.



And this guy is a Lefton china collectible coin bank...I'm calling him a squirrel. He looks like a squirrel, right? He's a previous purchase newly listed today at http://thevintagebutterfly.etsy.com .

I've also updated my flickr photos with previews of the many new items I will be adding over the next several days and that is only half of what I still need to photograph and list!

Stay tuned, the shop is going to be full of vintage goodness!

New Vintage Stock Coming Soon!

I had a fabulous shopping day on Saturday! I have a lot of work to do to get the items photographed and listed, so please check back soon.

I am so excited to get my new things up...but, as is my way, these are all things I am in love with myself, so the hard part will be deciding what to let go of and what to keep!

5 In The Morning...

and I'm up thinking about my etsy store and promoting new items. Ay yi yi.

I have to be at work at 8:30, I'm going to be tired this afternoon after waking so early.

Anyway, I found some of the neatest weathered, old wooden pieces at a salvage yard yesterday, an old white window frame and an old blue small cubby hole-type shelf. They are both aged to perfection and need to only be cleaned up a bit.

I'll be taking photos this weekend. I'll either use the window frame to "frame" another picture or item in my living room or I may hang it on my porch to sort've "frame" the view. I'm not sure yet how I'll use the cubby hole shelf.

I can't seem to look at anything anymore without thinking, "Hmmm, what can I do with this?". I'm turning into the ultimate recycler.

I've listed some new items at my etsy store this week. My favorite is the picture above of two angels and a new baby. So sweet. I also listed a couple of vintage children's books with the neatest illustrations and a box of vintage Singer sewing machine accessories.

Have a great Saturday!

Kitty Has Found A New Home.

My sweet robin's egg blue vintage kitty tin will be heading off to her new home this week, she's my second sale from my etsy store -http://thevintagebutterfly.etsy.com .

I'm going to miss her, lol! She's a cutie.

This evening I've listed a couple of new items on etsy.

I'd love for you to go take a peek!