tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53199965504505205622011-12-18T08:34:01.073-05:00Viva Vintage! Welcome to the site dedicated to all things Vintage--including the owner! We'll talk about our favorite finds, our wonderful collections, and show off the things we're finally able to part with--by sharing with other Vintage Lovers!Deer Path Vintagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00320036827375112717noreply@blogger.comBlogger191100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5319996550450520562.post-19402317713819110442011-02-09T19:11:00.002-05:002011-02-10T14:12:12.335-05:00

I won't be posting every treasury I make on my blog here--promise. But this one, my second, turned out so great (not bragging, it's the content, not me) I just have to share it here. See what you think: 'Story Book Settings' by deerpathvintage Lovely, lyrical, whimsical vintage story book looks.. From The Vintage Village, Etsy Vintage Team, and more. Ye Old Worlde Tea Shop ... VintageWantsNo

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I keep watching everyone make the most gorgeous treasuries on Etsy and I've always wanted to try it but I thought it would be really hard.  I remember when I first started on Etsy a couple of years ago how hard it was to even get a treasury on once it was made, but I finally decided to try one today.  It was about the most fun I've had in a long time, and it was very easy once I figured out what

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Hi All,  there was a story about Etsy in the New York Times yesterday, and I'm envisioning lollipops and big sales coming for all us Etsians  (they even mentioned Vintage!), so I've opened my store early in hopes that someone from NYTville will come looking my way.  (It was originally going to be closed until 1/10/11.) Just wish I had more in my store right now, but I'm traveling south and just

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Big News!  Everything in my shop is marked at 15% off right now.  Please note that the prices already reflect the discount. The website "Etsy on Sale" has a new app where we can discount any or everything in our shops when we're having a sale and it shows up on our Etsy pages.  Nice! (They also create a page just for our shop listings--extra nice!) Please note that the sale ends on December 20,

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Big News!  Etsy has developed an easy way to provide coupons to our buyers, and I'm happy to be able to offer them just in time for the holidays. Every item in my Etsy shop is now 15% off with the coupon code HOLIDAY2010.  You can add the code on the invoice page and the amount will automatically be adjusted to reflect the discount.  The coupon is good until December 20, which is also the date

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I've been digging around in some long-forgotten drawers and I found an odd piece of something I picked up somewhere a long time ago.  I thought it was interesting, but didn't really know what it was, so down it went into the depths of an odds-and-ends drawer. I finally decided to clean out that drawer today, and this time I decided to try and figure out what it is.  It's made up of two-inch silk

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I admit I'm a little slow on the uptake, but this is ridiculous!  Apparenty Blogger has had an Add-a-Page feature since February, but I'm ashamed to admit I only just discovered it today. No big deal, except--I've been looking at other blog programs because I wanted to add pages and I thought I couldn't do it here.  What a lot of time I've wasted. So now I've added an Etsy page and an About Me

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Alas, my shop, Deer Path Vintage, is feeling a little empty now. That's because I've flown the Up North coop and migrated south for the winter with the rest of the opposed-to-the-cold birds. I couldn't bring my entire shop with me, but I didn't want to close it up entirely, so I've had to limit what is on the shelves right now. I'll be back up north right after Easter, and I'll be putting many

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I really do love silhouettes. I think it started in kindergarten when the teacher sat me sideways in a little chair, shined a light on me, and copied my shadow on a paper taped to the wall. I still have that silhouette somewhere, though I can't find it at the moment. That would make me really sad except that the silhouette is of me in the dreaded pigtails. How I HATED pigtails!But I love

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(Note: I wrote this piece in December for Vintage Village's "Articles and Experts". I thought I had cross-posted it here, but I see I didn't. So here it is:)I started collecting transferware around 30 years ago, when I had no money and it was cheap. I loved the look of those underglazed engravings, and I always felt I was getting away with something when I could pick them up for practically

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Anybody who knows me knows how much I love transferware--particularly Homer Laughlin's English Garden pattern. (which technically is decalware, not transferware) So I was thrilled last week when I won this little creamer on eBay. I was the only bidder and I wondered why, until it arrived today and I saw it up close and personal.The transfer is badly faded, and I think I know why, but I'll get

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Until I found this Couroc of Monterey set in a Salvation Army store last year I didn't really know anything about the company or the process. They looked vaguely familiar when I spotted them, but when these bar sets were first produced I was into Colonial, and modern didn't really show me much.I've since learned that Couroc is getting increasingly popular for very good reason. It's beautiful!

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I've been thinking a lot about Etsy's decision to use "20 years or more" as the mark of a Vintage piece. When I first saw it, I had to laugh. I thought, "That's just silly". But at the same time, I wholeheartedly went along with the idea, because it meant I could list more items there.After many debates about, say, 1988 being Vintage, I think I'm finally beginning to see the light. Here's

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Happy, happy New Year and a belated Merry Christmas. Blogging went by the wayside in December, as I got further and further behind and worked like the devil to catch up. (I never did catch up, and the New Year started anyway.)But I had to show you two super Christmas presents I was absolutely THRILLED to receive:Pearl China Tea SetThe color is a teal green, and the tea pot has the Pearl

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I've reached an age now where I can safely say I'll love dolls for the rest of my life. I passed life's half-way mark long ago, and I'm still just a kid. Amazing how that works! I don't claim to know a whole lot about dolls, but I know what I like and I like dolls with great faces. That's how I seem to choose the dolls I love now.This is an Ideal 16 inch Saucy Walker - 1951-55. I do love

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A few weeks after I found this gorgeous little nappy in a thrift store I discovered the wonderful world of Rambler Rose etched glass edging. The dish was pretty grubby when I found it, but I loved the look of it, so I paid my $2.49 and walked out happy. ( I think it cleaned up pretty nicely!)Finally, after a few fruitless weeks of searching for any hint of what I had found, I posted the

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I've been collecting old souvenir plates for many years, so I thought I'd share a few here.I especially love the look of the old transferware plates. They're really wonderful--I think.Does anyone else collect them? They're an item you find all over the place in thrift shops and garage sales, and of course some are way better than others. Here are a few I have in my collection. (I've also put some

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There's been a whole lot of discussion on the Etsy forums about what "vintage" really means. Some of the writers seem to think it shouldn't be used for anything except wine. They have a point. The word "vintage" comes from "vintner", which means "winemaker". You can see from the following reference on Dictionary.com that they stress the wine connection, too:

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Hello and welcome! This will be the place where I'll talk about my vintage finds and share any info I come across about all things vintage. I dearly love American Pottery from the 20s to the 50s, but I'm thrilled to find any kind of wonderful pottery, ceramics and glass. I love vintage clothing, too, as well as dolls and toys and souvenirs and ephemera, and. . . okay, yes, I love it all.I have

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