Birds of a Feather....

...flock together on a vintage sea foam green jewelry box. My friend Emily just brought these into the shop. I had to stop myself from squealing out loud. She uses birds and lace and flowers and buttons and ribbon!

She even finished the inside of the box with cheery orange buttons.

Wouldn't you just love one of these for Valentine's Day?

10 Pounds of Vintage Buttons

My friend Craig recently gave me a heads up about a house in SE Portland that is getting cleaned out before being sold. He heard about it on the "rock" circuit...Craig is quite the rock hound. The owners of the house had accumulated 2 TONS of rock. Anywho, while Craig was searching for Malachite and Turquoise, he noticed the house and garage were full of, what he called, "Pam stuff". Uh, Yeah. Like The Beast and these treasures. The house is like the gift that keeps on giving. Everytime I go to pick up what I bought last time, I find more stuff. On my latest trip, I discovered 3 LARGE jars of buttons.


Did I mention buckles too?

I'm going back on Friday. I'll keep you posted.

Junk Becomes Useful ~ Part 6

Today's riddle:

What do you get when you combine vintage buttons from your collection...

with fab old fruit doodads you found in a stranger's attic at an estate sale?

You get Tutti Fruitti Spring rings...

and hair clips!

I'm putting these in my Etsy shop this weekend!

Junk becomes useful....lesson # 1

At a recent estate sale, I found a perfect box full of perfect vintage notecards with perfect messages like: "Thoughts from My Rocking Chair", and "Time for a Coffee Break!". I made the edges of the notecards wavy (thank you, Fiskars) added some festive junk sale buttons, slapped them on colorful recycled card stock from Scrap and....Voila! Environmentally friendly and kitschy cards to send to your best friends who appreciate this sort of thing.