{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.

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.

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!

My New Banner, Finally!

Okay, so I'm no graphic designer genius, but it's not too bad for my first effort, right? Actually I'm no graphic designer at all, just a new Paint Shop Pro user and elements from Bannerwoman Design's - Keep It Real kit.
You can find this kit and many more at her website, Bannerwoman.com


I'm also using this design at my,
shop, but it could still be resized a bit...I'm just wiped out, I've been working on this all day.

So...yeah, yeah, happy dance, happy dance.
Okay, I'm off to bed!

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!

The Benefits Of Buying Vintage

My little personal list of why buying vintage is such a wonderful thing is growing daily.

• Buying vintage is contributing to the repurposing, recycling, reusing "green" movement. You can feel good about buying vintage!


• It's fun to imagine where your vintage items have been and what kind of life their previous owner lived.


• Vintage items are just made better. Once you start to feel the delicate nature of fine china or the sturdy weight of a real wood desk...*sigh*, there's just no going back. New feels cheap in comparison to me now.


• Buying vintage can bring back so many memories for you. You may start to remember how your grandmother used to use those thick green glasses for your juice when she made you breakfast back when you were five...or maybe you remember the great-aunt who used to cover every surface with crocheted doilies. Suddenly, all those things are so much sweeter and you may realize, like I am, why you're drawn to very specific themes or eras, because they represent little snippets of distant childhood memories.


• My new addition to add to my list is inspired by today's shopping: the great experience of talking to the elderly as they share their tales of where they got certain items and the joy they exude when they realize their items that they can no longer care for or that belonged to a deceased relative are going to someone who truly loves and appreciates them.

I truly get sappy over this stuff, don't I?!

Jerusalem: Spring Swanky Swag Winner!

Jerusalem of my little life was randomly chosen as Vintage Indie's winner!

Congratulations!
Thank you to all who participated and thank you to Gabreial of Vintage Indie for providing The Vintage Butterfly Boutique this opportunity to be one of the sponsors in the giveaway!

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

Free Stuff! Spring Swanky Swag Contest

Hurry on over to
Vintage Indie for your chance to be a winner of the Spring Swanky Swag Contest!

I'm proud to be a sponsor of this wonderful contest and provided the pair of vintage candle sconces you see above, which are absolutely adorable if I do say so myself! The winner will receive the candle sconces and all the other items shown that were provided by an assortment of vintage and handmade shops on Etsy.


The winner will be randomly drawn on Monday, March 31st, so you must have your entry in by Sunday, March 30th, 11:59 EST.

You will find all the instructions for entry over at Vintage Indie.

Good luck!

The Vintage Butterfly Boutique Featured On Etsy Vintage Today

Thanks to Bethany over at
Etsy Vintage for providing me with some really thought-provoking interview questions!

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. :)

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!