Fashion Fridays! Buy Handmade for the Holidays- Cute Vintage Inspired Pin Cushions, Clutch Purses & Brooches

"Trixy" the "Double Flowered Angel Head Pincushion".
These pincushions are crafted out of vintage papier mache angel heads, vintage buttons and retro fabrics.
You can purchase this pin cushion for $21- over at sillyboodilly on Etsy.

"Lyra" the "Double Flowered Angel Head Pincushion".
You can purchase this pin cushion for $21- over at sillyboodilly on Etsy.

"Beatrice" the "Double Flowered Angel Head Pincushion".
You can purchase this pin cushion for $21- over at sillyboodilly on Etsy.

Blue clutch purse with print of hearts.
These purses are made out of vintage fabrics
You can purchase this purse for $34.50 over at katrinakaye over on Etsy.

Brown clutch purse with print of apples.
You can purchase this purse for $34.50 over at katrinakaye on Etsy.

Brooch with print of hedgehog and leaves.
These brooches feature vintage inspired fabrics.
You can purchase this brooch for $14- over at Fluffington on Etsy.
 

Brooch with print of a little girl and flowers.
You can purchase this brooch for $14- over at Fluffington on Etsy.

Brooch with print of a bear and trees.
You can purchase this brooch for $14- over at Fluffington on Etsy.

Fashion Fridays! Buy Handmade for the Holidays- Giant Jewels 70's Inspired Pendant Necklaces

Giant Jewels brown acrylic tree with hand etched copper trunk.
You can purchase this necklace for $50- over at Copacetique

Giant Jewels green acrylic tree with hand etched copper trunk.
You can purchase this necklace for $50- over at Copacetique

Giant Jewels orange acrylic tree with hand etched copper trunk.
You can purchase this necklace for $50- over at Copacetique

Fashions Fridays! Buy Handmade for the Holidays- Mugwump Wallets & Bags Made from Recycled Vintage Materials

    Suzanne Keolker of Mugwump designs the most eye catching wallets and bags that you have ever seen!
    She utilizes vintage placemats, board games, paint by numbers and a multitude of other graphically interesting items in the design of her wallets and bags.
    To find out more about Suzanne, her designs and at what stores you can purchase her items head over to Mugwump or to purchase online head over to Etsy

Fashion Fridays! Buy Handmade for the Holidays- Sarah Winkler Vintage Inspired Pendants

Sarah Winkler "Retro Cycle Race" collaged and stamped pendant on a ball chain necklace.
You can purchase this necklace for $20- over at sarahwinklerart on Etsy.

Sarah Winkler "Sea Carnevale" collaged and stamped pendant on a ball chain necklace.
You can purchase this necklace for $25- over at sarahwinklerart on Etsy.

Sarah Winkler "Dream of France" collaged and stamped pendant on ball chain necklace.
You can purchase this necklace for $20- over at sarahwinklerart on Etsy.

Sarah also produces enchanting other-worldy paintings

Holiday Cards from Etsy

    Today is known as Black Friday (the busiest shopping day of the year) and as Buy Nothing Day (a day when you are supposed to restrain yourself from consuming).
    I like the idea behind "Buy Nothing Day".
    But, I feel that something that would be good to do today and year round would be for people to shop from small local businesses, small online businesses, second hand stores and from arts and crafts makers.
    So, think of buying from an online or local crafts person or artisan.
    Or see what you can whip up yourself!

    Check out the holiday cards that I found on Etsy...

Set of 3 square cards with prints of Matryoshkas.
You can purchase these cards for $6.40 from tsktsk over on Etsy.

Set of 3 cards with print of a hand ringing a Peace bell.
You can purchase these cards for $8- from wonting over on Etsy.

Set of 8 postcards with print of girl with snow dove in her hands.
You can purchase these cards for $16- from belleandboo over on Etsy.

Fashion Fridays! Vintage Inspired Jacket & Dresses from Erin Fetherston

Erin Fetherston black dress with fun bright bunny print.
This dress is similar in style to sun dresses from the 1950's and the bunny print on the fabric reminds me of Peter Max's art.
You can purchase this new dress for $44.99 over at Target

Erin Fetherston black jacquard jacket with bow detail.
This jacket is similar in style to early-mid 1960's suit jackets.
You can buy this new jacket for $44.99 over at Target

Erin Fetherston black tiered chiffon dress with black bow detail.
This dress is similar in style to disco dresses from the 1970's.
You can purchase this new dress for $44.99 over at Target

Fashion Fridays! Vintage Inspired John Fluevog Embossed Leather Bag

John Fluevog, the master of shoe art, has brought us this great "Romance Shoulder Bag", which is reminiscent of vintage tooled leather purses.
You can purchase this new purse for the sale price of $159- over at John Fluevog

Vintage brown tooled leather purse.
The Starting bid on this vintage purse is $9.95 and there are 6 days left on it's sale over on eBay

Vintage brown tooled leather purse.
You can purchase this vintage purse for $49.99 over at Monstervintage.com

Fashion Fridays! Vintage Inspired Hats from Pinkham Millinery

    Last night my husband and I were trying to decide what to eat for dinner when he suggested Chinese food. That sounded good, so off we went to get some take out. I was disappointed when I looked into the takeout bag and discovered that they had only given us one fortune cookie instead of two (I love reading my fortune). I thought to myself well maybe there are two fortunes in that one cookie (I have received 5 fortunes in one cookie from this place before).
    After we ate our food we split the cookie open and indeed there were two fortunes inside, I put the fortunes on my hand mixed them around and told my husband to pick one, he choose his and read it aloud. Then I picked mine up and it couldn't have been more appropriate for the day, "Try a new hat for a change in looks. Be creative." I was indeed wearing a hat yesterday though it was not new. Well, it's a newish brown wool felt cloche I bought about a year ago on our honeymoon in Belgium. I had also been thinking of hat ideas for the IPRC "Elements of Style: Text Ball". So, needless to say this fortune was indeed apt!
    Today, I was going to do my Fashion Fridays blog entry about purses- but, after last night's fortune I thought it would be a good idea to write about hats.

    In today's post I am featuring hats by the very talented local Portland milliner Dayna Pinkham
    Back when I had a bricks and mortar store location Dayna would occasionally stop in and look around.  As you can see by the pictures below hats don't get much more vintage inspired than these...

 

Pinkham Millinery is located at 515 S.W. Broadway in downtown Portland, Oregon.
For pricing information contact her via email

Fashion Fridays! Katharine Hepburn Inspired Wide Leg Pants from See by Chloe, Vivienne Westwood Anglomania & DAY Birger et Mikkelsen

See by Chloe gray wide leg pants with small check pattern and cute front pocket detail.
You can purchase these new pants for $480- over at Net-A-Porter.Com

Vivienne Westwood Anglomania wide leg black wool pants.
You can purchase these new pants for $595- over at Net-A-Porter.Com

Day Birger et Mikkelsen brown wide leg tweed checked pants.
You can purchase these new pants for $355- over at Net-A-Porter.Com

Fashion Fridays! Vintage Inspired Sweater Dresses from Alice & Olivia, BCBG by Max Azria & M Missoni

Mod 1960's inspired Alice & Olivia red and brown patterned wool dress.
You can purchase this new dress for $298- over at Saks Fifth Avenue

BCBG Max Azria grey wool dress with Art Deco inspired skirt design.
You can purchase this new dress for $300- over at Saks Fifth Avenue

1970's/80's inspired M Missoni zigzag pattern wool dress.
You can purchase this dress for $495- over at Saks Fifth Avenue