Vintage Shopping on Etsy

From antique malls to yard sales, one can hunt for that perfect item that will spruce up the living room or those perfect vintage shoes that will add pizazz to your wardrobe. Shopping, as we know, can be an adventure filled with surprise and disappointment. Hunting down that 1950's rotary phone that would look great on your shelf can be quite a task, but here, we hope to help you narrow down your options of vintage sellers that can be found on the wonderful site of Etsy.

AttentionVintage is a great shop filled with fantastic vintage finds and beautiful photos of products. Browsing through the shop, you feel as if you have stepping into a vintage shop on your street corner. From glasses to clothespins, this little shop has finds that you will fall in love with.

Vintage Toy Cowboys

Vintage Lighter

Vintage Handmade Bees

ReverseChronology takes on the task of combining a shop with handmade and vintage items. Located in Portland, the owners are a couple in love with vintage, art and old cars. Their shop has unique items that can fit your needs in fantastic clothes, vintage love, and handmade decor. Check out their shop as well as their art shop.

Bird in a Jar Diorama

1943 Short Spanish Review Grammar Book

Hand-Painted Kitchen Utensils

The last shop on this fantastic list is The Things That Were. Located in Bulgaria, this gorgeous shop holds wonderful items and fun photos. Recently discovering his love for vintage, the shop owner enjoys discovering and giving items a new purpose. Check out his vintage shop for fun finds, vintage clothes, and more! He also runs a fantastic photography shop if you want some beautiful wall decor.

Vintage Industrial Scissors

Karls-on-the-Roof Vintage Badge

Ukranian Plastic Doorbell

Enjoy shopping vintage lovers!

Shopping Vintage: Week 4

Picking out your next unique piece of jewelry or vase for your table has never been easier with the vintage category on Etsy. Making life even easier for vintage buyers is an Etsy team called Etsy Vintage Elite. Here, you can discover vintage and antique items from over 100 vintage stores. These are three beautifully put together stores from this team where you can find a large array of classic items.

The first store is called Reconstitutions. Their slogan is "filling the present with the past", and you can do exactly that with their store. With beautiful, bright photos, their store has a large amount of decor and vintage items for the kitchen. The store owner is from Kentucky and has been instilled with a love for vintage since she was a child. Check out her About page and store! Here are some of her fabulous items below.

Victorian Floral Brooch

Colorful Enamelware Saucepan

Vintage Car Planter

The second fantastic vintage shop is Larch Trading Co.  This little Etsy shop is filled to the brim with wonderful vintage items that can be used to decorate or use. From cameras to typewrites to odds and ends, this little shop is the vintage place to go for that unique decor item for your house!

Aqua Blue Typewriter

Blue Rotary Telephone

Mid Century Wood Canisters

Located in Astoria, Oregon, this little vintage Etsy shop is called PASTORIA Vintage. With over 250 items in her shop, there are many things to choose from. The owner is passionate about vintage and loves the stories behind the items she finds. Living in a 1896 farmhouse, she brings you a beautiful shop with fabulous items to pick through. Check out her shop!

Vintage Metal Wall Hanging

Vintage Liz Sport Color Plaid Shirt

Vintage Camping Stool

Hope you enjoy these shops and more! I apologize for the delay in blogging these wonderful vintage finds, but now I am back and will continue to post our wonderful Etsy comrades for your shopping pleasure.

Vintage Sale from over 100 Etsy Vintage Shops!

EVETEAM ANNIVERSARY SALE! Sunday, May 12th to Saturday, May 18th, midnight to midnight. Save 10% on fabulous vintage finds from over 100 participating shops HERE by using coupon code “eveteam.” 

Shopping Vintage: Week 3

Here I bring you all your vintage delights with exquisite finds and unique discoveries spanning across the Etsy vintage stores. Although I missed last week's blog, I hope this one makes up for it with these three beautiful, unique shops. Their products are perfect for sprucing up your home for spring or finding that new spring outfit!

The first shop is Salt&Ginger. Adorable with capturing photos, you can only smile as you browse through her lovely sections of home decor that spans different styles. Salt&Ginger offers mid century, post-Depression, Hollywood Regency and more in choice of products. If you are looking to add some spice in your home decor or just looking for that perfect, unique gift, this is the shop to go to. Here are some of her wonderful products: 

Vintage Silver Rimmed Lowball Glasses

Vintage Koala Figurine 

Vintage Brass Antelope Head Bookends

For those looking for vintage clothes and styles, DOTTO is the place to go. Filled with vintage clothes ranging from dresses to swimsuits, this shop not only has a fantastic selection, but also helps the shop owner be able to work in multiple volunteer organizations. Here are some of the organizations she works with: "SitStayRead: a literacy program for inner city school kids,  PAWS Chicago: an animal shelter foster mom of dreams, and KEEN: a recreational activities for disabled kiddos. DOTTO is a beautiful shop and supporting it will help this shop owner continue to do her amazing work with these organizations. Here are a few of her products: 

1970's Mustard Corduroy Vest

1950's Holiday Jacket 

1970's Square Dance Skirt

This last shop is a must for every vintage shopper. Andolina'sWishes is a beautiful shop that holds an array of vintage jewelry, handbags, decor and more. When browsing through the sections, you find multiple choices and feel as if you are in a physical vintage shop. The products are of great quality, and each picture captures the item's life and quality.

1940's Brown Leather Purse 

1920's White Lace Collar 

1960's Vintage Clip On Earrings 

These are all amazing vintage shops and each is unique in their style and products they sell. Check them out and have a fabulous week! 

Happy hunting!

Featured Shops: 

Salt&Ginger

DOTTO

Andolina'sWishes

A New Act, A New Hope

As a vintage shop, we want to provide the most unique and beautiful items to our customers. We also want to do more than just sell vintage which is why we donate 10% of every purchase to G.E.M.S, Girls Educational Mentoring Service. This organization was founded in New York City in 1998 by Rachel Lloyd who as a teenager was commercially sexually exploited. 

G.E.M.S strives to make known the issues of domestic trafficking and sexual exploitation in New York and the states. They are committed to ending sexual exploitation and domestic trafficking of women and children by changing individual lives, transforming public perception, and revolutionizing the systems and policies that impact sexually exploited youth. A great step toward this goal was taken yesterday with the renewing of an political act. 

President Obama signing act. 

It was a day of excitement and celebration as a new act was signed by President Obama, The Violence Against Women Act. This act was originally put forth in 1994 but in 2011 fell by the wayside and was not renewed until yesterday. This act empowers victims of sexual and domestic violence across the United States. It gives them rights in the law as well as access to programs and victim assistant services. 

This is the beginning of a long road towards empowering victims of domestic and sexual violence and to one day end sexual exploitation and domestic trafficking in the United States.

For more information on G.E.M.S. and to support their movement click HERE. 
For more facts about the Violence Against Women Act, click HERE.

Shopping Vintage: Week 2

The rain has come to our high desert area, and we now await the spring weather to follow. When you shop in thrift stores and antique shops, you want to find the item that hooks you. You want to fall in love with something that will look amazing on your shelf or fantastic on you for that night on the town. 

Although you may not get to take in the aroma of antique shelving or feel the 1950's dress, Etsy vintage sellers offer an array of choices for the vintage shopper to choose from. From clothing to home decor, a store can carry items that you would never find on your own! Below are three stores we discovered and love. They carry beautiful vintage items that are retro, unique and elegant.

The first store goes by the name Photos Past. Their love of vintage and antique items is displayed through their diversity and care in the products they post. They have every kind of item and browsing through their store is very much like browsing through a vintage shop. Here are a few of their wonderful products! They also offer 10% off purchase for return customers. 

First Little Golden Books.

                                  

Beautiful Vintage Brown Suitcase.

Vintage Pie Basket. Lovely!

The next shop that caught our eye is Vaux Vintage. This beautiful vintage shop main products are vintage clothes and accessories for both men and women. Her photos are simple but fun. Her care and love for vintage shines through her shop and each product is unique in some way. Check out some of her items below!

Awesome 60's Blue and Tan Sprink Knit Top. 

Vintage 70's Denim Cowgirl Top. 

Stunning Vintage 80's Black Suede Cut Out Booties. 

The last vintage shop we wish to present to you is Cab Art Vintage. Filled with French vintage items, this shop has some beautiful vintage finds! From Provence in southern France, Cab Art Vintage finds their items at flea markets and love doing it. In her about, the owner states how her four loves are her husband, her two golden retrievers, painting, and flea markets filled with treasures. Her photos are beautiful and her shop shows her love for vintage. Check out some of her products below!

French Antique Jewelry Box. Beautiful!

Lovely Antique French Kitchen Canisters. 

Unique French Vintage Blue Seltzer Bottle!

If you are looking for unique vintage, browse these amazing stores on Etsy! You can also type in "eve team" for even more exquisite vintage. Enjoy browsing, discovering, and reminiscing. Until next time!

Spring is Yellow and Green

Spring is coming soon! Flowers, green grass, and a warm sun is almost upon us and what better way to celebrate then creating spring themed treasuries. Through these, one can search and find new items and shops on Etsy! Check out the two treasuries below! Two lovely spring colors, green and yellow, are featured. Enjoy.

'A Sunny Day' by danielriser

Yellow themed items from vintage team Etsy Vintage Elite!Enjoy.

Industrial Tin, Black Tom Ca... VintageRetriev... $15	3 Boxes of Pins Vintage Fre... Vintagefrenchl... $10
Vintage Piggy Bank, Yellow P... WhimzyThyme $26.5	Cowboys and Indians, Vintage... RushCreekVinta... $10
Vintage Cook Book Cooking fo... CakeNumber9 $8.5	1940's Powder Blue and Y... BabyTweeds $50
Arabia Botanical Yellow Rose... bitofbutter $35	Vintage Hard Shell Samsonite... LuccaBalesVint... $35
Vintage Anchor Hocking Juice... RockySpringsVi... $22.95	yellow pinafore apron . alic... DOTTO $31
Vintage Cathrineholm Yellow ... saltandginger $38	Vintage Kingfisher Salt and ... foundhere $36
Child Guidance Wooden Blocks... Modred12 $30	Vintage Pitch-A-Dart Basebal... rusticwrenanti... $36
Hummingbird & Flowers Plate ... TwoStoryVintag... $18	Vintage Dual Kolor Double-Si... ThirdShift $32

Treasury tool supported by the dog house

'CHARTER HOUSE' by ChristineYells

Mid Century Lime Green Baby ... LuccaBalesVint... $40	Mod Green Chiffon Rhinestone... ObjectsbyEchoe... $135
Vintage french buttons // sp... FrenchAtticFin... $8	Vintage Flower Brooch in Gre... FourthCoastVin... $12
vintage linen envelope clutc... RecycleBuyVint... $18	3 Vintage Green Gingham Milk... MyOtherMind $14
Mod Retro Barware - 6 Glass ... LuccaBalesVint... $40	Vintage Art Deco Lamp. Adjus... ProjectSarafan $155
vintage 1970s designer scarf... Luncheonettevi... $54	Vintage Chartreuse Pig Mid c... OceansideCastl... $27
RESERVED Chartruese Reglor ... ObjectsbyEchoe... $695	Mid Century Mod Geometric Pl... WiseApple $14
vintage glass ashtray emeral... RecycleBuyVint... $32	SALE Large Multi Colored Gre... boxofhollyhock... $140
Vintage Oil Painting 1930s W... OceansideCastl... $112	Vintage Green Brown 7 book C... jaysworld $27.95

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