Thursday, March 15, 2012

Wax Seals for Your Artwork and Stationery



We now have in stock a terrific set of wax seals. While wax sealing of documents, envelopes and letters has been the traditional use of wax seals, proving provenance of the information and securing privacy, there are a myriad of ways a crafter or mixed-media artist can use these in projects, artwork and decoration. Think of using the seal as an element in altered art or a journal. The three-dimensional effect is at once creative and still formal. A wax stamped seal placed on a journal can personalize it. When adhered to a glass, it works just like a wine glass charm. Try placing them on candles, vases or blown glass hearts. All simple additions to a project that also can mark them as your own.

To add both dimension and color to a seal, use metallic pigment ink pads to create a two tone highlight in the sealing wax. Simply push the seal onto the ink pad. After you have melted some wax, push your seal into the wax and when it dries, you will have a two color impression.
Alphabet wax seals and sealing wax sticks (Alphabet Stamps $9.95 each; Wax Sticks $3.50 each)

Wax Seal Stamps with Symbols ($11.95 each)
Seals done using metallic pigment ink
Metallic Ink Pads - we have gold, copper, brass and silver in stock ($2.95 each)

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Washing Instructions

I came across this label on a blog this morning. mmmmmhhh!
Posted by Alkemie              

Monday, March 12, 2012

Tulips


My Honey gave me these gorgeous red tulips. Aren't they beautiful!




Sunday, March 11, 2012

Easter is Hopping up on us!

Little porcelain boxes ($13.95 each)
With the clocks springing ahead and daylight saving time kicking in, Easter has to be just around the corner ... and it is! Easter is just four weeks away. Vintages is ready. We have bunny rabbits, little chicks, baskets and more. Come on in and pick out your Easter decorations and gifts.


Genuine Hand Painted Limoges Boxes from France
Enamel Boxes &29.95 each) and Clay Figurines ($6.95 to $12.95 each)
Colorful Springtime Candles

We also have a small, but nice selection of vintage Easter and spring items.
Vintage Bunny Rabbit Pins
Antique Bunny Boy Candy Container & Tin Chicken Candy Dispenser

Thursday, March 8, 2012

Vintage Los Gatos Postcard: Santa Clara Valley of Hearts Delight


Before Don Hoefler coined the term Silicon Valley in the 1960s, the Santa Clara Valley was known as The Valley of Hearts Delight. It was a place of agricultural splendor. Orchards with prune, apricot and plum trees, and vineyards of grapes. In spring you could see a blanket of white and pink blossoms across the floor of the valley and their sweet aroma wafted across the whole region. The orchards are mostly gone now. A few remain, some, like the Heritage Orchard in Saratoga, are historical parks. Somehow, Silicon Valley does not have the same romantic sentiment as The Valley of Hearts Delight!

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Happy St. Patrick's Day • March 17th

Are you celebrating St. Patty's Day? Wearing green ... drinking green beer ... pinning on a shamrock ... dining on corned beef and cabbage? Vintages has several items to help you celebrate. Clover pendants and shamrock magnets are in stock.
Susan's hand made silver solder pendants with St. Patrick's Day and Irish themes ($12.95 to $19.95 each)

Special shamrock magnets and a variety of frames and easels to attach them to.
We also have a few pieces of vintage jewelry with clovers and good luck charms.
Victorian Gold-filled Crescent Pin/Brooch w/Opal Clover ($95.00)
How about this old postcard?

Monday, March 5, 2012

Shoes on the Line!


Susan & I were driving up the road that skirts Guadalupe Reservoir this morning. Such a quiet area. Signs of spring everywhere. Solitude with a few birds overhead and scampering lizards underfoot. Then we had to laugh. Above us was this electrical line with a half-a-dozen pairs of shoes hanging from it! Right in the middle of ... nowhere! Running shoes for sure, but there was also a pair of high Victorian-style leather boots, long laces and all. Plus there was a ladies high heeled shoe dangling alone, apart from the others. Go figure.

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