Fresh Picks: White Wash

Like the first snowfall of the season, decorating with white gives your home a fresh, clean look for winter. Make it vintage white, and you’ve added charm and character. Let these fabulous finds inspire you!

Red Wing Vase with Laurel Le... thewhitehome $52.00	Vintage White Enamel Chest /... ThirdShift $120.00	Vintage retro Australian Dia... evaelena $23.00
Antique Wicker Mirror Stand LeasAtticSpace $16.00	Butterfly White Eyelet and E... linenslaceandl... $6.00	Typewriter - White Adler J2 nerdnest $46.00

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Live Vintage!

You love to look at, touch, buy, sell and give vintage, but do you live with your vintage? Are your vintage goodies untouchables or are they an integral part of your everyday life? Are your vintage possessions only trinkets on a shelf to be admired, pieces of jewelry taken out and worn only on special occasions, or reminders of yesteryear hung on the wall for looks only? How do you live with your vintage obsession?
Let me tell you how I live with mine!
I confess that I plunk lots of my vintage goodies on the piano, inside and on top of the breakfront, on shelves and on dressers; I intermingle them with photos of my kids, crafts and odd bits of jewelry, bobby pins and notes, and of course dust. I like it that way. The dusty, controlled chaos is comforting. But I also live with my vintage in very practical ways.

This gorgeous blue and white handkerchief is one of many lovely linens offered by team member Vintage Linens from Massachusetts.

If I had to choose one practical vintage item I couldn't live without, I would choose my linen hankies. Having just recovered from a 2-week cold, I can tell you that linen hankies are the absolute best thing to blow your sad nose into. Thick and absorbent, soft and pretty, they add a touch of sophistication to a very unsophisticated act. After two weeks my nose is neither red or chafed.

The Happy Hoarder offers a variety of vintage fabrics from her studio in Ohio, including this charming juvenile printed cotton seersucker.

Hailing from Virginia, Dandelion Girl offers this gorgeous octagonal English tin.

As I look around I see all sorts of ways that I live with vintage:  the lovely old tin holding my ink pens, the rug I crocheted from vintage fabric, plates and pie pans in my studio holding tiny parts and paint, the bright wool blanket on my bed, the necklace with the big cotton pearls I wear with t-shirts...
Look around and tell me, "how do you live with your vintage?".

'Walking in a Vintage Wonderland' Day 12-'linenslaceandlattes'!

Welcome to day 12 of 'Walking in a Vintage Wonderland' hosted by the Etsy Vintage Street Team! Today's featured shop is 'linenslaceandlattes', where you will find all kinds of vintage housewares, linens and metalware like this child's tin sand pail with a little farm girl in beautiful shape!

If you're a collector of vintage teapots or dinnerware, the shop has several beautiful examples, like the one below with the ever-popular 'Cattail' design:
Cattail was used by many different potteries in the 1930s & 40s, most notably by Universal and potteries in the Ohio area. It was used on everything from dinnerware, glass and kitchenware, to linens and even kitchen furniture. This pot was made for the Sears Roebuck company and has a great Art Deco transitional shape.

Are you looking for a great gift for your favorite sewing or quilting friend? 'Linenslaceandlattes' also makes beautiful Christmas stockings made with vintage fabric, filled with vintage sewing notions and trimmed with bright red vintage buttons--a charming keepsake gift that anyone would treasure!

If you would like to win a $10 gift certificate from 'linenslaceandlattes', just go to the shop, pick out your favorite item, come back to this post and leave a comment with a link to the item and your e-mail address. This evening, one winner will be chosen at random from the entries received today, who will win the gft certificate to be used for anything in the shop! Don't forget to include your e-mail address so we can contact you if you win. One winner, per person, per day, and EVST members are not eligible to enter. For complete details, go here.

There are more than 30 wonderful EVST members shops participating in this event, so check back every day to see who tomorrow's featured shop is! A complete list of participating shops is at right.

A big 'Congratulations' to 'rustybug' who won yesterday's gift certificate to the abbysrelics shop!

Happy Shopping, and Good Luck!

The EtsyVintage Street Team

(Where the Coolest Vintage Lives)