saltbox treasures

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Vintage Treasures . . . Round 1

Hi Friends,

Hope you're all having a great summer.

I've been a little MIA,
opening my new etsy vintage paper shop.
I have been very busy filling and shipping orders.

If you haven't checked it out yet,

you can click on the

Saltbox Paperie box on my side bar.

I have a large selection of vintage papers and
have only begun to list things.

Please let me know if I can help you with supplies

for your art projects.

After selling a lot of our stock at the Expo sale,

we have been restocking our inventory over the

past few weeks; in Boise and around town.

We even found a few sales where we got to be 'pickers'.

While in Boise visiting our family, we came

home with two extra suitcases, a box and

a carry-on tote filled with vintage treasures.

Here's Round 1 of our treasure hunting.

Love this set of vintage Paris framed prints

A 1920's globe and chippy enamelware

some very old Japanese paper lanterns

The red watering can is primitive; made from an old paint can

Lots of vintage door hardware, knobs and a few skeleton keys,

only 25 cents each

A large stack of vintage white napkins already cleaned and pressed

These are old metal pencil sharpeners with moving parts

a purple canning jar

Thanks so much for stopping by.

I'll be sharing Vintage Finds Round 2 soon.

We're getting ready to help with
my great aunt's estate sale next week in Eastern Oregon. Hopefully, I'll be able to bring home a few

unique family treasures.

And I'll be a vendor at the
Plucky Maiden's Junk Fest
at McMenamins Edgefield in Troutdale, Oregon.
Should be a great flea market
with over 60 vendors!
If you live nearby, come and say hi.
The property is gorgeous with restaurants, a hotel,
and live music outside at 6 pm.

Keep enjoying your summer!

~ Julie

Linking today with:

http://commonground-debrasvintagedesigns.blogspot.com/2011/08/vintage-inspiration-friday49-and-design.html

Monday, July 25, 2011

Daisies . . .

Hope you're all enjoying your summer!

We just returned from a great visit

with our kids and granddaughter.

We came home to a yard full of daisies . . .

wild daisies and shasta daisies.

Just had to pick some bouquets and
put them in our newly purchased pitchers,
which will soon be for sale in my etsy shop.

Happy White Wednesday!

Have a great week!

~ Julie

Linking this week with:

White Wednesday

Cottage Flora Thursday http://fishtailcottage.blogspot.com/2011/07/cottage-flora-thursdays-29.html

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Doing some recycling . . .

Hi Friends,
Hope you're enjoying your summer!

I didn't have time to do any posts before the
antique show, but here are a few things I made to add
some handmade things to our booth.

Some Victorian lady and sheet music bottle cap magnets

(thank you, Graphics Fairy!)

Some photo or business card holders

using old wood spools

and salt shakers with lavender

framed some vintage sheet music songs
that I thought would be cute in a nursery
or child's room . . .

. . . repurposed some old

silver plate knives as letter openers.

I think they're so pretty tied with some vintage lace.

It was a busy few weeks getting ready for the show,
and this week we're off to visit our kids
and sweet granddaughter,
but I do look forward to catching up

on your wonderful blogs and posts.

What have you been working on?

~ Julie

Today I'm linking with:

http://whiteironstonecottage.blogspot.com/2011/07/treasure-chest-friday-4.htmlhttp:
http://commonground-debrasvintagedesigns.blogspot.com/2011/07/vintage-inspiration-friday-46-where.html
http://frenchcountrycottage.blogspot.com/2011/07/feathered-nest-friday-giveaway.html

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Expo Antique Show

We've had a very busy week.
This weekend we were one of over 1,200 vendors

at the Palmer Wirfs Antique Show

at the Portland Expo.

It was our first time there as a vendor.

We have friends who have been doing the show for years

and have been encouraging us to sell at the show.

We had so much fun!

We sold lots . . .

met some great people . . .

received an invitation to be a vendor at Ruffles & Rust

and another local flea market.

Here are a few pics The Captain took of our booth.

We were so busy with customers,
I never really had time to set it up the way I wanted,
and we sold lots of things

before we could get them in their places.

I decided to add pops of pink throughout the booth

and had made some tissue pom pom flowers
(tutorial here) to hang from the tent.

By the end of the last day . . .
I only had 3 of them hung.

trailer trash turned to cash

The Captain did a great job setting up a lot of the
vignettes as I was busy talking with customers

I also had the opportunity to be interviewed

by The Oregonian newspaper (article here)
who took some photos of our space

and included this one

on the The Oregonian website here.

We had so much fun.

We plan to be a vendor again next year.

Thanks to all who stopped and shopped at our booth.

I enjoyed meeting you all.

~ Julie

P.S. I will be adding new items to my etsy shop today,
and to celebrate 200 sales and thank you for shopping,
you can now receive 20% off for 2 days,
ends @ midnight July 13.
THANK YOU!