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Category Archives: vintage jewelry
Sylph
This vintage, wood-burned brooch is my newest (and very favorite) accessory. From etsy.
I just want to wear piles of lace and fluttery silk skirts. She has that sylph-ish disposition that I adore, and I think she will stay pinned to my shoulder all summer long!
A close up:
The rest of the day will be spent painting and listening to the soft rain outside my window. I have sooooo much artwork to do!
a spring locket and a dreamy swamp morning
First thing, here is the promised vintage locket, now in my shop.
Please see a previous post (or the link to the listing, above) for a peek at the inside!
And, a most perfect early spring swamp morning. It has been raining all day so I really appreciate the purple-hazed sunbeams from the other morning.
I am so excited about tomorrow, we both took off and have big plans to go into NYC for a day. Day-tripping plans include going to my favorite veggie restaurant for lunch, walking around the village, doing some browsing and hunting for pretty things (I have more than a few shops in mind), fancy tea, going to The MET or art galleries (still undecided) Central Park and then dinner. I hope to post lots of pictures, and hopefully the rain drops will stop falling. I love the city in the rain but I don’t get there often enough these days to experience it all dreary and gray.
treasures!
I am so excited about this little vintage tin and cameo necklace set I just posted in the shop.
First, the inside (comes with the cameo necklace, such sweet and very dainty embroidery it has!)
And the outside features a round mini print from my sketchbook.
The necklace looks super with any type of spring-ish blouse.
Today was the perfect day for sitting outside.
The locket featured from my last post will be in the shop soon.
Thanks for all your comments on my last post! It’s nice to hear some feedback, and I hope to post more sketchings soon!
The fox
To honor the red fox, I present to you…
This necklace is now up for sale in my shop.
Just because he was clearly the winner in my last giveaway (and because I found just one more vintage pendant amongst my huge jewelry stash to reclaim).
wrapped up in books and paints and treasures…
???PAINTS???
I have been slowly but surely painting away. Here’s some work in progress from a painting from weeks ago. Getting all the details down…work in progress still.
I added some golden harp-inspired embroidery on her hat.
And remember the feathers that my father found from this post? Initially, I thought that they were from the American Goldfinch (which has such a pretty song!) so I added them to the painting (birds still need to be tweaked, but have a peek).
It turns out (with the help of my awesome readers) that the feathers are from, almost definitely, the Northern Yellow Shafted Flicker.
So the story is slowly unfolding in paint. I hope to finish this tonight, and as soon as it is dry it will be offered as a print in my shop.
???TREASURES???
I was quite sick the last couple of weeks, but I managed to find some amazing treasures. Attempting to de-clutter has put most thrifting efforts to a halt, but sometimes it’s a real mood-lifter.
Vintage maryjanes, broaches, a silver locket on a chain (for me this time), little hair combs and white gloves with red polka dotted trim, and a sweet embroidered bag perfect for springtime.
Of all my treasures from last week, the most inspiring was a bag of faded, multicolored, wide silk ribbons, all hand embroidered with women’s names. We can’t figure out what they were used for. The embroidery also includes their home town and state after their name. Here’s one, which I pressed and put on display. I’ll show the others later.
???BOOKS???
I love the cover of this book, from 1905, which is a real treasure too!
More books…I have a giant, deckle-edged watercolor album that has been capturing my treasures as of late. I make these pages for myself to use as reference, for inspiration, to record my findings, and as a catch-all for all the little things I find. Otherwise, the boxes and baggies pile up and are impossible to sift through! So I guess it’s a process journal of sorts. I watercolor-wash it’s pages with subtle color and glue in little fragments of things I find on my travels and treasure-hunts. I don’t put too much care into the pages…I love to keep them loose and free as I don’t want to attempt to make this an an end product. Just a journey, recorded. The only rule I have for myself is everything has to be genuine and found either on the ground or in a thrift or antique shop, given to me, etc. Today was so nice and sunny I decided to snap a few pictures and share (along with my personal collection of vintgagey necklaces). Private inspiring things…why not?
The little chick-a-dee necklace above is from Found and Made.
Absolutely in love with this lace collar. I have two. Sometimes it’s hard to paste things down so it helps when there are duplicates.
I found a roll of old wallpaper on a rainy day walk. Thank goodness for my umbrella! I just love the pale yellow roses on the grey polka-dotted background.
Little notes on pretty blue scraps.
And finally, has anyone read this book? I have been meaning to read it for a long time. I read “The Lady and the Unicorn” by the same author which was interesting. Anything Historical fiction floats my boat. Last week I found a copy in the thrift shop and I couldn’t resist. I didn’t see the movie due to the fact that I wanted to read the book first:)
Thanks to all who entered the giveaway! There’s still time! It ends Monday at 8:00 pm eastern time.
One last locket….
This is the last of my found stash, it’s a vintage-inspired black metal locket that I strung from an antique piece of lace. So fitting for this cold winter day here in the northeast, it includes a little print of my painting The Curious Fox. Available here.
and the locket closed…
I was walking though a very dense thicket of wild rose hips and blackberry bushes looking for birds nests (and of course there were too many thorns to allow me to reach in and swipe a few). I found this nest, all filled to the brim with red berries!
Some little critter is using it to hold it’s winter berries!
Have a beautiful day everyone!
two vintage brooches
Two more one-of-a-kinds can be found here.
It hurts me a bit to let this one go, vintage butterfly locket brooch with a mini print of my painting “Fluttering Away” inside:
and inside the locket:
Goodness I am in love with taking photos over icy puddles.
It’s going to come to you wrapped up snug in one of these too:
And the other brooch, a basket (with a fox and a girl inside):
inside:
Two
They are both available here
Sisters cameo locket with two mini prints on chain
Sisters cameo locket with two mini prints on chain, open
Seafaring Heart pendant necklace on vintage lace
I couldn’t resist going outside in the falling snow a few days ago to take these photos. I think it was a mere thirteen degrees?! I came in freezing cold and I have had a bad chill ever since. But it was worth it.
november
A golden November day, the sun poured through my windows like honey.
Found the prettiest vintage butterfly locket broach on ebay to house a mini print of one of my prints, but I don’t know if I can part with it…
With old Japanese faux pearls and a velvet ribbon around my finger to remind myself to sell it one of these days. Its golden, has a butterfly AND a locket for goodness sake!
A favorite crisp, clean part of my painting room (except the growing feather collection in the windowsill) I keep running out of places to keep my little finds!
And, new treasures! The little oval shaped framed portrait was given to me by my aunt, its so delicate I love it! Some acorns and pinecones from my forest walks, two new lockets to fill with mini prints for my etsy shop, a little ceramic wasp trinket box from anthro and other little things to admire..
A new painting I’ve been working on. I am loving this one and I am so anxious for the glazed layer in the background to dry so I can proceed. Hopefully by tomorrow afternoon. There’s another element to this piece but I’ll keep it a surprise for now…
On a more grim note (but appropriate for this time of year) I wanted to share some very old folksy headstones just a short walk from where I live. The cemetery is so old, with headstones dating from the early 1700’s! I went there today to admire the stones for the millionth time since I move here. These headstones fascinate me to pieces!
Mr. Aaron Burroughs. Born 1655, died 1755. I can’t believe he made it all the way to 100, back then. I love how they portrayed the wig!
Rebecca J. Bourroughs. She died in 1796. She has sort of a Martha Washington look, doesn’t she?
Poor Jonathan Darling. He only made it to 13.
A very bad attempt at cross bones from 1771. The lettering is pretty though.
This is my favorite. The folk art design, lettering and style is exquisite.
Yesterday was spent at my parents house Halloween Party. I was a kitchy little sailor girl (again). Today I worked on cutting watercolor papers for my new sketchbook (for my doodles and writings) went for three walks, painted, and sorted through my antique photos. Sundays are the best, as we usually don’t go anywhere and have the day to ourselves entirely!
Daylight savings. Hello dark late afternoons, endless grey and frosty windows. Hello November.
Tell me, what is your favorite part of November?
seafaring vintage cameo locket
Took an early morning walk with my creation from last night. This oversized vintage cameo is from my personal collection but it fit mini prints of my new painting Seafaring Heart so well I decided to part with it. It’s in my store until it’s swept away and it really is the sweetest thing!
And more details (I found an enchanted moss mound of sorts in the woods today!)
See how big it is?!!
It looks so charming around one’s neck with a pretty vintage dress or a delicate blouse of lace.
Have a beautiful Friday!