A Milestone and a Giveaway. Because I ♥ You!

It's official: One Gal's Trashy Pals has 500 members! Hip Hip Hooray! As a token of my thanks and affection, I'm giving away some of my stash...festive and vintage Valentine's Day junk.

Loot includes: 3 valentines, a super cute beaded necklace, a beaded flower, some sweet napkins, a button ring made by yours truly, the key to my heart, pink & red nut cups, red foil doilies, spools of fabulous trim and a stack of vintage FRAGILE (handle with care) stickers.

You want in? Leave a comment here, and your name goes in the proverbial hat. I'll choose a name on January 26th.

Vintage Button Giveaway-a-Palooza

Thanks to all of you for playing along and for joining One Gal's Trashy Pals!

The winners of a package of vintage button happiness are:


Junque Gypsy

Andy's Attic

If I didn't have a sense of humor

Happy Cottage Quilter

Jay Made It

Shabby Loft

Robin's Woods

The Reluctant Mermaid

Dharma Waits

I Heart Everything


Winners....Please email me your mailing address and include the name of your blog:

dotproblem*at*msn*dot*com.

Thanks and xoxox
Pam

Vintage Button Giveaway

I'm still getting comments on my recent post about 10 pounds of vintage buttons.

As a thank you gesture to all of you who shared some trashy love after my recent bike fiasco, I'm giving away the whole happy pile to the members of One Gal's Trashy Pals.

I will create 10 packages that will look something like this....

Want in?

Here's what you do: Sign up as a follower of One Gal's Trashy Pals over there on the sidebar
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Already a member of OGTP? Fear not. Leave a comment for me on this post and I'll throw your name in too.

On August 25th, I will pick 10 names out of a hat and each winner will get her/his own package of buttons. There may even be more vintage happiness in the package...Say, like, perhaps a gorgeous yellow buckle. Perhaps.

Then pass the word (a.k.a. link). If you tell 3 friends and then they tell 3 friends and then they tell 3 friends...That's a lot of friends!

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.

Old Glory

It's Thursday, which means it's time for Vintage Thingies Thursday at Colorado Lady.
Suzanne of VTT created this flag from her stash of vintage buttons...Glory-ous!
My recent fab finds are featured on my previous post...just scroll on down, girls!

How much stuff does one gal need?

Last estate sale day, I found such swell stuff, including the vintage train case which I told you about here. Want to see the rest of the stash?

Old millinery fruit....

Box stuffed with vintage sewing patterns....(bound for eBay)

Buttons, vintage tags and stickers, Christmas cut outs.....

Wooden alphabet blocks....

[Hazel wanted to help with the photo shoot...]

Old postage stamps of all types and colors. These are for my friend Joan (ssshhh, it's a surprise!) who uses them to create amazing collages. I'm keeping the old b/w photo of the tent campground to make a card for my husband and the friendly ruler that cost a whole dime...

Grand total: less than $10...not including the dog.

Oooooo....Pretty!

Found these gems recently at The Kitten. Vintage glass buttons from the Czech Republic. The colors made me feel a little light-headed, especially the green ones. And the red ones with happy, little gold birds...Tweet!