Pretty. Quirky. » This ain't your mama's vintage

I posted this link to Small Batch Creative over at Zero to Twins for this awesome project of restoring family photographs and having them printed in a book (non-professional photographers could use a service like Blurb — we used them for our wedding photos and the albums turned out beautifully).  But that site is appropriate for...

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Oh, we have entered the dead zone of thrift store/estate sale/yard sale/rummage sale shopping. The fall, with its plethora of church rummage sales and flurry of estate sales, is behind us; ahead of us lies the long, white, cold stretch of hell known as “winter” in Chicago. Blergh. We went south for the holidays and...

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This is quickly turning into a blog where all I do is complain about estate sales I went to over the weekend. Forgive me, but I have to discuss, in particular, this one that I stopped at today. Mind you, my Saturdays have become precious time that I cannot afford to squander, what with it...

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I love this purse I found at the thrift store last week but I can’t figure out what to call it. I finally put it on etsy with the description “embroidered,” in quotation marks, with an explanation of my confusion. It has a tag that says “handmade in Japan” yet it totally looks like faux...

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