Showing posts with label vintage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vintage. Show all posts

Monday, August 2, 2010

Happy Anniversary to me!

Miss Victoria's Vintage turned 2 yesterday!

And more importantly, 13 years ago today I said "I do" to my knight in slightly rumpled khaki.

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

A Year in the Making, day 230

Stretching the definition today a bit again, perhaps, but I just made a permanent home for my lightbox, which I bought but never used after I determined that the lamps that came with it were not bright enough. The husband and I made a pilgrimage to IKEA this afternoon, though, and I acquired a couple more of the clamp-on lamps that are a part of my display kit for indoor shows. And then I reorganized a section of the spare bedroom so I could set everything up.

Here's how the corner looked before I started:

Before the reorg

That's a small square end table that we acquired with the house underneath all the books. And yes, that is a partially completed model of the original starship Enterprise in the corner of the picture. Have I mentioned before that I'm a bit of a geek?

The books are now all on shelves, albeit double stacked, and this end table was switched out for a longer and more sturdy one that we had leaning up against the wall in the corner of the basement until we reorganized to set up our new home offices, and which has since been sitting on end in the middle of my sewing room since (about 7 weeks now!).

And here's how it looks now, my lightbox sitting on the new end table with four lamps making things nice and bright:

After the reorg

The old table can now go to Goodwill. Yaaaa! Less stuff in the house! And here's some of the pictures I took with my new setup:

Vintage Amethyst Lucite and Brass Oval Brooch:



Vintage Anchor and Life Preserver Brooch in Goldtone with Red and Ivory Enamel



So now I can take pictures of my goods rain or shine, day or night! And I just noticed thanks to one of my handy widgets that the page rank for this blog has gone up from a 2 to a 3 (out of 10!)

It is a happy crafting day.

Friday, February 12, 2010

A Year in the Making, day 162

Happy Friday!

Munchkin is cheerfully counting all the Valentines she got at school today for the 6th time. I start to wonder how she can do something like that over and over and over again, and then I remember some of the jewelry pieces I've made over the years, and I realize she gets it from me.

It's raining here, actual umbrella weather. Normally I don't consider what they call rain here anything more than a persistent heavenly drool, but today was actually heavy enough to warrant the use of an umbrella.

In honor of the grey skies, I finally listed a piece I made last weekend:

Grey Glass Pearl and Celtic Knot Y Necklace



And now for something completely different! Another odd bit from the stash that I'd started to string as a pendant a couple of months ago, and then couldn't figure out how to finish. Well, I just recently acquired another box of bits and bobs, and found these vintage beads and chain that went with it beautifully. It's much chunkier and more masculine than my usual pieces, but that's good. I get told often enough that I need to more stuff for the other half of the species.

Raw Copper Pendant and Vintage Beads and Brass Chain Unisex Necklace



The pictures of the earrings I made yesterday went "poof" earlier. I took them, swear I transferred them off the memory card to the computer, but when I went to go edit them, they were gone. Not in my picture files, not in the recycling bin. Disappeared into thin air! And now I've lost the light, so they'll have to wait till tomorrow again. Color me annoyed.

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Pink!

Product shot that turned out absolutely fabulously:


Vintage Pink Rhinestones
by *dbvictoria on deviantART