shopping 011413, pt 2

The two antique stores yielded some good vintage stuff, altho I was appalled by the prices on just about everything. I am not totally out of touch with what old stuff costs and both these places were high, but I still came away with a few things.

This frame and the printing are gorgeous.

The old photo was $4. I find cabinet cards regularly for $2-3 but this was the cheapest one in the pile. The rest were $5-8 for cards that were nothing special. But I liked this one and knew I'd get some good use from it.

The postcards were all a dollar each. There was a big stack of them, and instead of going thru them from the front and risk falling in love with a $5 one, I went thru them from the back and set aside all the $1 ones. Then I put the others back and went the the $1 ones from the front, keeping the ones I liked. Good system for not spending too much!

Love the moss roses.

I plan to make some stuff for my Etsy shop which currently has nothing in it cause I haven't fired it up yet. Wanted to get a bunch of things together so that it didn't look too bare.

I'll be putting several crazy quilt items in there also. Lovely stuff stitched by me back when my hands could handle those small needles and tiny stitches.

You hardly ever see a dog on one of these old cards.

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I'm not sure what the hell this caption means.
Anyone got any ideas?

cabinet card hanging

Sugar Lump Studios has a lot of wonderful projects, vintage-y things made from materials I often already have. This post, featuring cabinet cards turned into wall hangings, really grabbed me, so yesterday when I got home from work, I rounded up the lace, buttons, glue, and wire, then spent a few minutes flipping thru my cabinet cards until I found one that appealed to me.

I rummaged thru my lace drawers, auditioning several pieces before I settled on the ones I used. The buttons took even longer. I almost went with MOP, but really liked the way the dark ones looked. After I punched the holes for the wire, I realized the card was more brittle than I'd thought, so I glued a strip of lace completely around the top of the card, to help reinforce it a bit. Worked well.

The bottom piece of lace isn't quite as white as the photos appear. It blends well with the other laces. And the bottom picture is a very odd color. I fiddled with it in PS but to no avail.