Vintage Saturdays: Silver Trays

For anyone who loves going to estate sales, flea markets, and garage sales as much as me, you know how easy it can be to find beautiful old silver trays.  They come in so many sizes, styles and degrees of aging.  Beyond using them for their originally intended purpose, what else can you do with these beauties? 

Casa Sugar creates magnetic inspiration boards.  What a great way to kickstart your ideas for your home renovation or your next craft project.

Goodbye, House.  Hello, Home! used a reticulated tray and some berry garland to create a ridiculously awesome front door wreath.

DishfunctionalDesigns suggests gathering several of them, mounting hooks on the back and then hanging them as part of a large collection on the wall.

Unchanginggrace creates beautiful 

wall vases by mounting a small jar 

onto a metal tray.  Very cool.

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Feeling inspired?  Here are a few stunning trays 

available for sale right now:

APKVintage

gardenofsimples

gazaboo

HappyGoVintage

DovieMoon

SalvagedCuriosities

Vintage Saturdays are the best!  Find previous posts here.

Natalie

xo

A Tisket, A Tasket, A Picnic Basket

Summer is in full swing!  Today, a collection of finds to help make your Summer picnics deliciously fun!  

All these vintage and handmade finds can be found right now on etsy.

Natalie

xo

Welcome to the Christmas Party!

As someone who just adores Summer, I am always feeling pretty good at this time of year.  How can it get any better than this?  By finding out about an awesome vintage sale!  As an Etsy seller, I have become active by joining up with several different teams of like-minded people who are all working to bring super cool vintage finds to the world.  One of my vintage teams, Etsy Vintage Elite Team, is working collectively for a week straight to offer tons of vintage items at a discount.  Deb, one of the team leaders, has penned this post to not only share the details of this sale, but also to  invite you to the link party!  

Vintage Retrievers

Hi, my name is Deb and I am one of the Blog Leaders on the Etsy Vintage Elite Team, also known as the EVETeam. I’m grateful for this opportunity to tell you about a fun event we have up and running on our team Blog called “from the circle of eve”. We’re hosting a Christmas in July Link Party which began July 11, 2012 and will run through July 17, 2012 for shop owners on Etsy and all bloggers. Links are Christmas and Christmas in July Sales listings.

Here's a link to our Party: etsyvintageelite.blogspot.com/2012/07/etsy-vintage-elite-christmas-in-ju...

 CalloohCallay

Our blog “from the circle of eve” is our place to share the story behind our offerings, our knowledge about vintage, and some fun DIY projects as well as show off some of the wonderful vintage goodies we have for sale in our shops. We have some wonderful blogger’s who contribute including Moody, a Team Leader, from Mylittlethriftstore on Etsy, our vintage camera expert and Maggie from Hilltoptimes on Etsy, our vintage collections curator who also is a Blog Leader, as well as guest bloggers who cover a variety of subjects.

Scavengenius

For Blogger’s and Etsy Shop Owners this is a wonderful opportunity to introduce yourself to our team who will also be posting items from our shops which are either on sale and/or vintage Christmas items such as ornaments and Christmas related home décor. There are some easy to follow rules which are posted on the Link Party page.  For shoppers it’s a fun way to see a sampling of our Christmas in July Sales and Christmas items. To see more of our Christmas in July offerings and sale items use the search term “eveteam cij” or “eveteam Christmasinjuly” in the search box on Etsy.

HilltopTimes

We hope you’ll take an opportunity to come on over, take a look around, link up with us and have some fun! While you’re there we hope you’ll join our blog as a follower and take a look at our membership drive Give-A-Way which can be seen using this link:

etsyvintageelite.blogspot.com/2012/06/new-life-for-old-cameras.html

We look forward to getting to know you!
Deb TheInspiredTrader on Etsy

Shop Class

Our school years always evoke such interesting memories.  Some pleasant and perhaps some not so much.  One of my favorite classes in school?  It was definitely shop class.  We were only able to have it for a few marking periods in school, but I loved it.

An Ode to Shop Class: