Mini Brooch (as promised)

Here it is! Here's the mini mosaic brooch we promised! It's listed, now. We're working on our Friday Finds post. Isn't it precious? Yeah, we thought so.

Monday Musings: Workin for a livin, livin and workin

Sing it with me folks:

Workin for a livin (workin)

Workin for a livin (workin)

Workin for a livin, livin and workin

Im taking what they giving cause Im working for a livin.

Yeah...Huey knew what he was talking about! If you have checked out A Vague reCollection recently, you know we've been working. Okay, so we haven't been working on the blog as much, but, man, have we got some great stuff listed, now!

Check this out, a petoskey pendant and earring set from Bijou Terner:

When I was a child, we would go to my grandparents' on Lake Michigan and look for petoskey stones. I guess that's why this set is so special to us: reminds us of summers on the lake with our family. We hope you love it, too.

I know I've been promising a Friday Finds on Mini Mosaics, but I'm finally ready to follow through. We've got our mini mosaic bracelet listed, the first mini mosaic brooch we listed has sold, but I've got another that's even more precious (if you can believe that)! You can click through here to the mini mosaic bracelet. I've photographed the latest brooch, and will get that image up tonight!

Speaking of charming! Have we got the cocktail forks for you ;-) Honest, though...take a look. They are sterling silver, from Denmark, and have the most gorgeous royal blue enamel handles. And the crowns! I just love the crowns, don't you?

Well, I hope this tease of our new listings encourages you to visit our Etsy shop! We'll be back shortly with more pictures to share, and this week we will have a Friday Finds.

Oh, and the best part is we're going treasure hunting this weekend, which means more goodies to share with you in the coming weeks!! Let us know if you are looking for something in particular, and we'll keep our eyes open for you!

What's Working Wednesday: October is BOGO Month!

That's right, all month long we're offering BOGO 1/2 off all beaded necklaces.

Buy any beaded necklace and get the second (of equal or lesser value) 1/2 off! Stock up!! This sale ends October 31st.

[To take advantage, enter code "BOGOBN" in the "Note to Seller" section of checkout. We'll refund half the value of the lesser beaded necklace via PayPal.]

Now...to whet your whistle...here are some of our favorite beaded necklaces:

Up and Coming Pieces - Should Be Listed by Week's End

Here are some items we have been working to get listed. The first one hasn't been listed mostly because we aren't sure what it is ;-) Do you have any ideas? We'd love to hear them.
We are in heart of this sewing etui from Austria. We'll be sorry to see it go, but we're sure it's going to find a good and loving home! Maybe yours?!
Slowly getting into the world of supplies, we found this vintage, hammered metal buckle and button set still in its original packaging! Check it out!
Had no idea how difficult it would be to photograph black rhinestones, but it is even trickier than other pieces and forms of jewelry. But we're trying! Here we have a lovely tulip shaped pin in a black metal/black rhinestone fashion. Two of the rhinestones are missing, which we're trying to capture in the other/detail pictures. It's still precious, and happily due to the black metal background the lost rhinestones aren't terribly noticeable!

The tulip brooch is now listed!!

What's What Wednesday: Latest Listings & Upcoming Friday Finds

Hoorah! Beaded necklaces and Christmas goodies are getting listed. You must find something you like, now. Being a vintage shop, most of what we have is one of a kind. Which means once it's gone...it's gone. So we're recommend that if you see something you like, to buy it right away! There aren't more where these came from ;-)

Oh, and we're working on Christmas shipping schedules, gift wrap options, and so on. We'd love to hear what you do, what you'd like, etc.

Finally, we've been wanting to do this for awhile, but haven't seemed to be able to motivate ourselves and find the time: this Friday's Finds will be on Micro Mosaic pieces from Italy. We have a lovely one just waiting for you!

What's What Wednesday: Latest Listings or soon to be listed...

As I mentioned in yesterday's posts, we have new things to photograph, describe, and list! Here I'm going to highlight a few things we got up last night and those things we hope to get up today!

Here with the lovely Audrey Hepburn is our clear rhinestone, bow-tie brooch:

And lovely button covers perfect for adding a touch of elegance to any outfit!

And a couple of necklaces we will work to list tonight:

They're up! They're up! Plus an extra necklace!

• Find the gray, black, white, and copper necklace here.
• Find the autumnal, segmented necklace here.
• And for good measure a pearl and gold toned necklace here!

Tuesday Travels: Family Holiday Weekend

I know...it's been forever. We haven't posted in awhile, but we're back. It was a nice weekend at home with mom in North Carolina. Now I'm back in New York with a load of new jewelry to post! Keep your eyes peeled for new listings...just in time for our Back to School Sale in conjunction with the Vintage Jewelry Sellers on Etsy team.

You will have to check the VJSE website for other participating stores and their specials.

We are offering 15% off orders of $15 or more from September 8th through September 15th. Just make sure to put BTSVJSE in the "Notes to Seller" section when you make your purchase; the difference will be refunded to you via PayPal.

Teaser: This week's Friday's Finds will be about Mini Mosaic items. Can't wait. Looking for special pieces to include. We have a lovely mini mosaic bracelet (likely from Italy) we'll have listed in time for Friday's post.

What's What Wednesday: absoVINTAGElutely

It finally happened! My first ETSY treasury is up!!! For those of you who don't know the labor of love a treasury is, trust me...it can be an all-consuming experience. For those who know, isn't it exciting???

Honestly, I've been waiting weeks to see the number get even close to the magic number of 333. Last night when I couldn't sleep, I thought, "Hmmm...It's the middle of the night; I bet that's when the majority of treasuries expire. Let's see what happens."

SCORE! 333 Treasuries with one expiring in an hour or two. So, I waited.

Yup, I waited almost two hours for the treasury to expire so I could put mine together.REPRESENT VJSE!

Since I can't seem to post a treasury mini, I will post some of the items I picked for the treasury:

Friday Finds - Coro Necklaces

Today's Friday Finds is all about Coro, specifically their necklaces. Looking through different VJSE shops, I began to think about how lovely Coro pieces are. We have a leaf necklace that I find really charming, and it's a fun little pastime of mine to shop through different but similar styles. Coro loved leaves.

BCTreasureTrove has a particularly interesting Coro necklace (this item is now sold). I just love how the leaves come in threes and wrap their own meander pattern style around the neck. Yet, when you look at the matching earrings, you don't even feel as though anything is missing. They stand on their own entirely!

You can see that while the theme remains the same, the pattern is quite different with our Coro necklace:

Each of the leaves in this pattern also has three elements. The leaves are the main element, but then there are also berries flanking the sides of the leaf.

Just when you think you are learning some central themes, you realize how wrong you are. After all, Coro was around from 1900 to 1979! Naturally they moved within different themes, styles, and on to new ones over the course of nearly 80 years. Here's a leaf necklace by Coro that isn't in keeping with other themes I've noted. Being a novice can be fun because almost everything is new and exciting!

The above is a necklace and earring set by Coro currently listed Whiggytreasures! Don't you just love the interlocking chain running through the center of the leaves?

While these necklaces are indicative of Coro nature themes, they also do exquisite pieces with little or no nature references such as this gold-toned necklace and bracelet set at Vintage Day's Etsy shop.

And that's today's Friday Finds. I hope you love the pieces as much as I do. And the photos are lovely to boot! Would love to hear about your favorite Coro pieces!

Friday Finds - Mother of Pearl (MOP)

I'm hoping to start a fun Friday series called Friday Finds. It'll be something along the lines of an Etsy Treasury, but smaller scale and always done by me.

This inaugural edition was completely serendipitous. I had just joined the Vintage Jewelry Sellers on Etsy Team, and was visiting the store of a fellow team, Vintage Treasures 4 U, when I saw this Vintage Swordfish, Mother of Pearl pin (below).

I wrote to her immediately. Those same discs, or at least very similar discs, appear in my four-leaf clover pins!

Thinking I was lucky to have discovered a similar piece to mine, I was ready to call it a day and be content. Bless Judi at Vintage Treasures 4 U, she wasn't! She soon sent me a link to our team leader's store Cranberry Manor to show me an exquisite Lisner necklace with the same MOP discs! Love it!

And that, boys and girls, is how today's Friday's Finds came to feature MOP. These precious items have a sophisticated glamour to them that is almost wholly attributed to the precious MOP discs incorporated in their designs. I'm off to see what other MOP stuff there is! What are your favorites?