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SOME ORIGINAL VINTAGE INSPIRED GIFTS…

Vintage

From Roullier White, I love this book ‘ How to Run a Thrifty Kitchen (£4.50) –it has 60 pages on how you can reclaim the power to feed yourself and your family on the tightest of budgets. Its full to the brim with advice from eras including the Great Depression, WW2 and the three day week of the 1970’s. Everything you need to know to transform your kitchen into a money saving powerhouse.

Vintage

From Melody Maison, (£15.95) -I love this green metal rose pitcher jug – I had a cream one in my kitchen which has looked a bit worse for wear recently so I have popped it in the garden with a plant inside it. 🙂 I use mine for my weekly supermarket buy of fresh flowers.

Vintage

From Pimpernel and Partners, – I love these French Vintage Tea Towels. They have an eclectic range of vintage items for the kitchen, laundry room, garden, drawing room, bedroom, bathroom and cellar with coat hooks, linen sheets, vintage crates and lots more.

PAPER THEMES BESPOKE VINTAGE STATIONERY…

Wedding Stationery

Paper Themes (see advert on right of blog page) have created some beautifully crafted vintage wedding invitations offering old world charm.

InvitationPoster

You can choose from wedding lace, or say it in words and lots and lots more stunning vintage styles to choose from. I have only shown a tiny amount of their work.

Poster

They also make ‘personalised’ posters, greeting cards, wrapping paper, photo albums and paper gifts with something for everyone, Paper Themes.

Wrapping Paper

‘VINTIQUING’ THE LATEST NAME FOR VINTAGE TREASURES…

vintage pics

With vintage eras having a big come back, I guess it wasn’t long before a different name for it became the norm.

Apparently the latest name for it is ‘vintiquing’ but at the moment it is not listed in any dictionary or wikipedia. It is used mainly in the UK and France and refers to people who shop for vintage treasures at flea markets, vintage fairs and vintage shops.

Along with the flea markets, fairs and shops has come the quintessentially British afternoon tea which was part of life in the early 1900’s however vintage lovers consider anything pre 1960 as vintage, and anything pre 1913 an antique, so I guess that’s why the two have been put together.

Some call it ‘retro’ which is meant to be for merchandise to be at least 20 to 25 years old.

vintage magazine

One of my favourite magazines which I subscribe to is ‘Homes and Antiques’ http://www.homesandantiques.com/ which has lots on Antiques and Vintage but is something that I have really only noticed since I became a fan of it.

I found some old magazines which had ‘vintage’ articles on it well before it came into fashion again. But you’ve heard it hear first ‘Vintiquing’ is the latest name for Vintage and Antiques of a specific era.

Homes and Antiques