Vintage China Nightlights
At a local antique mall, the Moorhead Antique Mall, I spotted another idea for salvaging vintage china pieces: turning tea cup saucers into nightlights. I’ve also seen old cups (with and without...
View ArticleDIY Display For Vintage Buttons, Ribbons & Other Sewing Notions Collections
At Design Sponge, Haylie Waring shows us how to make sewing notions displays. Waring’s examples use ribbons and buttons, but this project could also be done with beads, lace, fabric swatches, etc. — as...
View ArticlePencil Crayons
People don’t always know what I mean when I talk about pencil crayons. I thought that was a pretty universal term for them. Someone assumed I was talking about regular crayons, wax crayons. But, pencil...
View ArticleDIY China Jewelry Display
I have very mixed feelings about modifying or changing antique and vintage things, but when I saw this project converting plates (and a candlestick) into a jewelry holder I thought it would be a...
View ArticleMaking A Tidbit Or Serving Tray Right Round Again
Two things that are always plentiful at thrift shoppes… Partial tidbit trays or plate holders / servers… And unwanted vinyl records. (And by “unwanted” I mean they are either badly scratched or...
View ArticleVintage Standard Doll Co. Catalog Pages
I don’t only dig through stacks of old magazines and papers; I go through them, page by page. How else would I find this page listing Virginia Lakin publications? (More scans from that booklet here.)...
View ArticleAntique Memorial Book Of Victorian Mourning Hair Braids
At an estate sale I recently was lucky enough to get this little, unassuming, antique book… Plain brown boards, penciled notes and a math problem… A slim 6 and one-half inches 3 and one-half by inches....
View ArticleListia Auctions: Your New Addiction
If you haven’t already heard of Listia, let me introduce you to your next obsession. Listia is a relatively new kind of online auction site — where you bid on other people’s stuff using credits instead...
View ArticleUsing Antique Images & Vintage Graphics To Make Things Without Ruining Your...
If you’re like me and enjoy collecting and have a creative streak, you’ve probably faced the issue of balancing your delight in making things with your collector’s desire to keep the integrity of your...
View ArticleVintage DIY Valentines Kit
A vintage kit for making paper Valentines, circa 1940s, from Gibson, the greeting card company. This kit was to make eight different Valentine’s Day cards doe “kiddies.” Inside the box (with charming...
View ArticleAntique Rug Shuttle Needles
Like I said, I’m becoming a resident vintage and antiques expert at Listia. Recently I was helping identify an item listed as “Tell Me What This Is” — headlines like that will always pull me in. *wink*...
View ArticleBeasts Of Burden: Recycling Plastic Toys Into Planters
I found this idea for novelty planters at The Daily Telecraft: Brainstorm: What to do with plastic animals! [Large & small]. Just Dremel out a section on the beast’s back, spray paint them, fill...
View ArticleButton, Button, Who’s Got The Button?
If you collect vintage fashions, you tend to end up with a lot of heartbreakers — not only items which won’t fit, but garments which are in such poor shape, all you can do is salvage pieces of fabric,...
View ArticleVintage Camera & Photography Ephemera Garland
Whether or not you an add another camera to your collection, you may want to consider this Vintage Camera Garland from Christine of Flapper Girl: This garland celebrates the beauty of vintage cameras...
View ArticleVintage Saint Patrick’s Day Seals
A packet of vintage St. Patrick seals by Dennison Mfg. Co., Framingham, Mass., U.S.A., No. 80-924. The cover boasts of 36 seals in six different designs, but some are missing from my thrift store find....
View ArticleProfiles Behind Vintage Silhouette Artists Are Shady
I have become completely obsessed. Again. This time, it’s about vintage silhouettes. Of course, in general the whole idea of “vintage silhouettes” (from a German village or not) may seem quaint in the...
View ArticleThe Fantabulous Paint Box
A vintage tin litho paint box containing 100 colors. And here I thought I made up the word “fantabulous”!
View ArticleTintypes & Seashells
Since we went to that museum auction and got that fabulous antique folk art piece made of tintypes and seashells, I’ve been looking for more… I found this antique frame of nine photos decorated in...
View ArticleThe Joy and Tribulation of The Antique Dealer
No Egrets Antiques has just completed our third antique show of this new year. Our first was held in West Bend, WI in January. Cold, but the snow kept away and turn-out was very high! As always, the N....
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