sunshiney yellow

I'm really pushing SPRING with this post, as we don't even have any dandelions in the yard yet... so I've taken some yellow photos from my personal archives to show you! ;)

This golden-yellow codfish (or "Cape" cod.... pun-pun!) is in the window of the Brewster General Store, along with the other wonderful treasures which are always in their front windows.

The Crosby Mansion is also in Brewster... one of my favorite antique buildings to photograph (it's painted in a lovely period butter-yellow color).

Forsythia which will be open any day now.

Creamy lemony iris will be out before too long.

I found a sweet ivory painted tin heart at the craft store yesterday... I just had to buy it! When I took it home, I added a length of antique yellow velvet trim and a vintage silk millinery sprig. Voila! I photographed it on an antique yellow painted dresser which I've had my entire life (literally! it was an antique dresser my parents bought for my nursery when I was a baby)!

I also whipped up some vintage bottle stopper paperweights with my antique velvet stash... this one used a stunning yellow glass stopper (I have several of them listed in my etsy shop).

What sunshiney yellow things do you have that make you happy?

vintage finds

Victorian silk millinery ribbons...

my eyes popped when I spotted more bags of gorgeous antique trims at one of my favorite treasure haunts!

Vintage and antique patriotic trims...

Unused velvet millinery sprigs...

and a bunch of vintage silk bowties! I've seen ladies use these old bowties and attach them to headbands for little girls - they look so cute!

These are all in my etsy shop. I have even more treasures which I haven't photographed or listed yet, so stay tuned. I'm also creating more jewelry for the art gallery here on Cape Cod which sells my creations. I'll photograph some of those for you to see as well, when I can take some time from creating and going outside to do some SPRING gardening!

Happy Sunday!

Thrifty Finds - Little Porcelain Dishes

Who can resist the urge to buy a little trinket whenever they enter a thrift shop? When you're on holiday, and you spot a thrift store, you can't always carry around a stack of old books, or a lovely old Victorian trunk (I had to do that once... big sigh)! But little old dishes, especially with a well-loved blemish or two, are most often affordable and become little souvenirs!

Milkglass, such as this little hobnail cutie, are often found for a few dollars at most (very often, you can find milkglass at garage sales for 50¢)!

This chippy antique flow blue bone dish is a great place to store your beachcombing finds and other little random treasures. This dish holds little oyster shells from a local beach, a vintage rhinestone "L" brooch, some mica I found on a family vacation in the mountains, and a fun old piece of beach glass I found with a complete letter "G" (no doubt part of an old medicinal bottle from back in the day).

I also love using old chippy china as soap dishes! These old bone dishes are especially perfect for setting next to an oval or round shaped sink.

I flipped over my bonedish to reveal this fabulous backstamp. This has gorgeous flow to the blue as well. Then I thought how fun would it be to use it as digital image for collage work, tags, journals...

Voila!

What do you use your little old chippy dishes for?