New Year Listings and Goals

The coming new year will bring with it a new fervor for my shop! I hope to list often again, with more unique finds in pale lovely colors. I may start listing things in the children's genre, such as vintage children's books and fabrics - whimsy things (something along the lines of The Little Prince, First Edition. And a vintage Snow White handkerchief).

Did I mention that already?

Anyway, I have a few kitchen utensils that will be going up in my shop in this new year ahead of us. An egg beater in a wonderful aqua/jadite green shade with black and cream stripes. Shabby Deco I shall call it! I look forward to the push I am going to implement to my shop.

But, please don't forget that it is not my first priority. As much as I want to give my full attention and dedication to it, my number one priority and goal is my writing. I have written a novel this year and I am currently working on editing it. I admit, I have not worked on it at all this past month, December has been busy and distracting as much as it has been fun and wonderful. But, time to get back to the grindstone, the grindstone I call work. That is to say, my job is my writing, I want to be a writer and so I need to write. I have story ideas I would like to attempt to make short stories, but first and foremost is the novel I am currently working on. I am VERY excited about it. I can't wait to really get into editing it. I thought December was going to be my big month for it, but I was so wrong. On to January! The month of my editing!

I don't know how long it's going to take, but I think it will take a long while. I have a lot of work to do on it. The first round of editing is going to be a real hack job! Then there will be edit rounds after that, until it's polished to near perfection! The grammar will be great, the story and plot will make sense and move smoothly, the characters develop well, and it all make sense. Mostly, I want to be proud of it. I want to send it to publishers feeling hopeful.

That is my ultimate goal of 2013.

But, I have bills to pay and will need other hobbies. I can't let one thing I love become my entire life. Etsy will help with that. I also got a bow and arrows for my birthday and am very excited to get into that. A healthy new hobbie to try. I also go snow shoes for this winter season, how fun is that?!

I wouldn't call this a resolution. I just have plans and goals for this new year. I had them for this past year as well, things sometimes move more slowly than wanted. It's kind of to be expected too, though.

Since I'm talking about goals for 2013 I might as well point out I hope to lose at least 30 pounds this coming year.

Robin's Egg blue Retro Fan

This fan is absolutely Gorgeous, and I am a little surprised no one has bought it yet! Someone will find it and fall in love. I have no room for it myself. If it lasts until I move and can put it in my kitchen, I will gladly do so!

Look at this fan!


                                          

Big Sale!

Hi everyone!

I know it's been a while, and I have some things to show you! I bought a wood bird cage that I repainted and it is SO cute! And I have some amazing finds I need to take pictures of.

I went to a place called Painting with a Twist with my mom, and now have a Dusk at the Pier painting hanging on my wall that I did...

But what I really want to say is, almost my entire shop is on sale! Big discounts too! I am hoping to encourage some buying so that I have a little extra money when I go to England. Not just to have fun with, but because my husband and I will have two weeks of unpaid time, while spending money in England, and having to pay all our bills. When we come back, my husband's brother is coming with us, and we'll be taking care of him while he's here. We're going to be quite strapped for money!


If you could help me by spreading the word, I would greatly appreciate it! I hope everyone has a wonderful week!

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Ashley

Front Page Treasury

Hi everyone! I am finally able to show you the treasury I was in that was on Etsy's Front Page!

Here it is:

Treasury!

I hadn't done a treasury since the first month I opened up my etsy page. I was bored at work today and was suddenly inspired! I'm taking it as a good sign.

Here it is 


I decided on a different concept, vintage pieces from around the world, or inspired by different regions. I look forward to making more different treasuries.

Treasury by Modred12

Lovely treasury I was featured in. I like that the pastels aren't too soft, and really have a spring like feel to them.

Delphite McKee Bwol

 

I found this lovely delphite bowl, at such a great price. I mean look at it. It was made by McKee and has lovely scalloped edges that turn into handles. The outside has a lovely raised design that I believe they called Scroll & Arch. But don't take my word for it =]

Click one of the pictures to see it on my etsy shop.

-
Ashley

Treasuries

I woke up to find I was put in three lovely treasuries! Here they are







I think they're all so lovely, and I'm really happy to be included in them.

Treasury by jamieariela

I was featured in another lovely treasury. I like how the items seem eclectic, but it all goes together in an "lovely easy living" kind of way.

Easter Treasury

I was put in a lovely treasury, it's just my style. All lovely pastels!



I was also put in another treasury the other day

Treasury Update

I've been in some treasuries, and I want to make a point to promote each on here on my blog. So get ready for some gorgeous sets of etsy items!

Spring Sale!

I will have my spring sale this month! I will either have it start tomorrow or Monday. To celebrate having 50 people having favorited my shope, and for April and the sure sing of spring being HERE!

Select items will be reduced in price, They'll all be prefaced with SALE in their title. I'll let you all know when it happens.

Happy April and Happy Spring!

Friday Finds

I can't believe it's already another Friday! Which means of course, it's time for Friday Finds! I do love going out and finding great deals, but this week I didn't sell a single thing. I know having gotten off to a good start of 9 sales in my first two weeks would lead to disappoint in the end. Even though I KNEW it wouldn't continue to go that way, and things could and would slow down, I still feel a bit like it's all over. Ridiculous, right? Such is the way of me.

Anyway, I'm staying optimistic, as I have been having a really nice time with it all. So without further ado, here are my Friday Finds!

Gorgeous jadite green coffee carafe and coffee and sugar canisters. They are made of enamel, painted a lovely pastel shade of green and cream. They are in amazing condition and look great with ALL MY STUFF, that I own and am selling. I had to show it with the light aqua blue creamer and sugar milk glass. So pretty. This will be for sale on my etsy site, probably tomorrow. As you can see the pictures are all ready!

 
This is a Hazel Atlas Odine rust orange sugar cup. It is firepainted milk glass. The color is so vibrant, it looks brand new. There is the HA marking on the bottom for Hazel Atlas. The bottom is white showing the milk glass. I think this would look great with an autumn set up. I might have to update the pictures on etsy for this though, it's more rust in color, it looks too muted in the pictures. I don't know...

As I think you all must know by now, I am a BIG fan of Hazel Atlas' Moderntone Platonite. I was really excited to find this soup/cream bowl. It's the same heather blue as the, cups & saucers, and the blue sherbert cup that I have for sale on etsy.

I looked it up and it seems to be that that IS the way to spell sherbert... Am I missing something? Whenever I type it, no matter where, it's underlined in that special little squiggle red to say "NO, YOU ARE WRONG."

Anyway, lovely blue double handled bowl, with the ripple step design. It's fire painted onto milk glass, and in pretty good vintage condition. One handle does have what looks like a chip but is actually manufacturing. It's kind of annoying, but barely noticeable.

This will also be on etsy soon! But, in the meantime check out the other awesome things I have in my etsy shop. I try to update it every day.

I'll Be Outside

My latest treasury

Friday Finds Continued..

I didn't finish showing and telling about my lovely finds from this past Friday! I thought I might as well do it now, I had to take pictures of everything, you see.

First, here is the lovely Hazel Atlas pink ruffle dinner plates I got!

 

The pink ruffle plates are in wonderful condition, made of a thick milk glass and fire painted pink edges, they're sturdy and go with so much! As you can see in the picture above, I coupled it with my new American Sweetheart platter, saucer and petalware cup. I wanted to show that you can easily mix and match your things and have a wonderful look!

Which brings me to my last Friday Find, the American Sweetheart Saucers!

These saucers are just gorgeous! Creamy and clear with a wonderful floral design. They give off that tell tale orange sheen when held up to the sunlight. I love that they can go with so much too! I just put them up on etsy, along with all my other Friday Finds!

I'm off to the dentist tomorrow, and then my Mother and I are off to check out some resale shops that I've never been to before! I wonder if I'll find anything lovely. Though I don't really want to buy anything, I feel I need to sell things in order to buy things, and I haven't sold anything in a couple days.

As always, check out my etsy shop!

Sleeping in Pastels

My newest treasury. I won't be able to make one every day, but I'm going to make them as often as I can. I'm loving being so apart of etsy and the Vintage Etsy Society Street Team. I feel motivated and inspired to make treasuries, work on this blog, and do well at my own happy pace!