Black Friday Etsy

'Black Friday Cyber Mondays Vintage and Handmade Gifts' by WeeLambieVintage

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Vintage Tray Green Hand... DairyFarmAnti... $22.50	Vintage White BINGO But... HeirloomAngel $8.33	Vintage Holiday Decor C... vintagebythes... $110.00	Vintage Royal Doulton C... mamadupuis $40.00
Vintage Ironstone Large... OceansideCast... $56.00	Art Deco Emerald Green ... SeaCottageStu... $8.50	Wrapped in Your Love up... wearlovenow $42.99	Vintage Christmas Handm... VintageFunkHo... $29.99
Womens Plus Size Civil ... MissBettysAtt... $7.00	Collectible Vintage Mil... MellyMcBlueTr... $16.50	White Neck Warmer Flo... beadedwire $25.20	Vintage Thread Shades o... HappyFortuneV... $12.95
Vintage Doll with Baby ... NanNasThings $16.00	Sri Lanka Moonstone Nec... PLANETDIGS2 $34.00	Hanging Air Plant Terra... Plantzilla $28.00	BLACK FRIDAY Etsy - Vin... MercysVintage... $28.75

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Shabby Cottage Chic Picture Frame

I enjoyed my yard sale hunt this am. It was very hot and I melted quickly, but I did get some good finds.
It was picture frame day as that is what I found the most of.

This vintage metal frame was in amazing condition. It must be from the 1950's.

  I love the silver metal peaking out from the white finish.

Easel frames are very graceful.  This one also has the old picture wire attached so that it can also be hung from the wall.  Faded black velvet in good condition still covers the back of the frame.  I didn't change the frame a bit.  It was perfect just the way it was.

I didn't like the frame to be empty so I had some fun making a mixed media collage.

Pretty lilac paper, some pearls, a vintage ecru crochet doily and a black and white vintage snap shot were all tucked together.  I added lace and ribbon and stamped a key design on it.  I think it is the key to the hearts of this loving elderly couple.

Weelambie/ Anne

Shabby Cottage Chic Jewelry Box

Shabby Cottage Chic...what it looks like to me...
decorating in soft tones...lots of white...vintage....chippy... distressed wood....worn and loved fabrics....greens....blues....pinks....browns....all the pretty soft colors of a spring day misted over with dew and soft sunlight.

Sea Breeze Blue jewelry box... black velvet lining...lots of storage room for all your favorite jewels.
This box is a heavy wooden box from the 1980's that I found at a thrift shop.  I love the black velvet lining and the heavy black wrought iron handles and latch. 
It has been upcycled by me and painted with this lovely soft blue paint.  I sanded and then waxed it with bees wax by hand to bring out a soft satin patina. 

WeelambieVintage Shabby Cottage Chic jewelry box. 
How do you like my little collectible  Avon Lamb?  It still has some perfume in it.  I think it is the sweetest little lamb and I couldn't resist getting it to ad to my shop pictures.
Anne   https://www.etsy.com/listing/105977743/shabby-cottage-chic-jewelery-box-chippy

Upcycling Shabby Chic / Vintage

Works in progress upcycling vintage to Shabby Chic with paint, bees wax and elbow grease. 

VINTAGE SHELF BEING MADE INTO HANDMADE SHELF??

Etsy Vintage vs Etsy Handmade
When I tried to list my first upcycled vintage jewerly box on Etsy I ran into the problem of classifying items correctly.  I thought if something was vintage when I started repairing, sanding, painting it that it would still be vintage when I was done.  I was wrong... apparently. " Vintage is vintage and handmade is handmade"  or so I have been told.  This still mystifies me.  Many old vintage and even antique items have been repaired, painted, fixed up, given new life over the decades.  We still call them antiques and vintage.  If you do it on etsy you have somehow falsified the 'vintage' aspect and made something else, something new, something handmade.  I might even be brave enough or foolish enough to call it OOAK... an Etsy anagram for One Of A Kind. 
Now I have to come to terms with this as Etsy is inflexible on some points while it flexes wildly on others. 
I don't plan to rock the boat.
I just do. I step in a new boat...this time the boat of 'upcycling vintage' and the boat tips.
My survival will depend on how I manouver in this new boat.  The boat will not change it will still  float.  I will be the one tossed about and possibly drown.  Well isn't that a little melodramatic, but that is me always with the drama. 
I still call it upcycled Vintage. After all that is exactly what it is.  I will list it under handmade and tag it with both.  I just can't add my favorite teams tag to it as that has too much Integrity in it to go on something once vintag(still vintage) and now handmade.  I was told this today.   Remove the team's tag.  It stung like a slap in the face.  I have never been good at following rules.  It is in my nature to see things from many aspects, many angles, in many lights.  I am terrible at black and white, right and wrong, I always find other ways.  I am tolerent of others.  I am forgiving to a fault.  Something my mother told me could bite me in the butt. 
I probably should have been sent to a military school...gotten the rules drilled into me.  Instead I grew up Unitarian with some Quaker tossed in here and there.   So I give in and bend allow them to have their views of what is vintage and I will live with mine. 
This is my latest finished piece of Upcycled Shabby Chic

Upcycled Shabby Chic Vintage Jewelry Box

My recipe.
lightly sand
paint,
sand,
x 2
lovingly rub in bees wax and polish to a rich patina. 
Add TLC
decorate with pearls
photograph

be true to your God and your own compass it is probably pointing you in the right direction as God guides you on your way.
Anne

all hung with pearls and jewels

Shabby Chic Furniture Painting

Sanding down various jewelry boxes, shelves, trinket boxes...
Painting with antique white paint and sea breeze blue paint...

Antique White Paint Magazine Rack

Sanding and rubbing in bees wax for a soft lustrous patina.

Sea Breeze Blue Jewelry Box

Shabby and Shiny

I polished my upcycled vintage Shabby Chic jewelry box with bees wax. Rubbed it to a soft beautiful patina.  I love the way it looks.

Upcycled Shabby Chic Jewelry Box

Yesterday the vintage jewelry I bid on and won came home to me in the mail... I had so much fun unwrapping all the many pieces and discovering what was really in the box.  The box being as beautiful as much gems inside... Now to learn all about these many designers and collections and get the Etsy ready....then to part with them!
here is a sneak peak or two.

the mother load

Anne