Musical Muse: sheet music from 1898 meets a dress 1940's

Last weekend I was at a local thrift store with Ruby and I saw a box of old sheet music for 95 cents each.  They had the most beautiful designs and lettering and turned out to be half off so I bought a few even though I'm not sure what I will do with them yet.  This one from 1898 especially caught my eye because it reminded me of a dress that been hanging on the "fix-it" rack for a couple days (actually days turn into weeks pretty quickly around here). I though it would be fun to share these "friends" and hopefully this 1940's dress will be in the shop soon!

This post is inspired by Oh Joy's "this & that" series.

Happy Customer = Happy Me!

There is nothing more nerve racking than selling vintage to another vintage seller.  I'm thinking...I hope it fits, I hope they like it, I hope they think I dated it correctly, etc.  Ok, now that I think about it selling to a celebrity made me slightly more nervous. :) Anyway, when Lauren from Dear Golden Vintage bought this dress I was thrilled, but like I said a little nervous as to how it would work out for her.  She just posted these photos on her blog and I have to say that I think it worked out VERY well.  The dress 1930's vintage, made of rayon crepe fabric, ascot neckline, bias body, it's just beautiful!  Oh, and did you see the back?!!!

New Arrivals...

Here are a few of my favorite items that I will be adding to the shop in the next few days.  I am just in love with the grecian printed one shoulder dress!

Sally Jane Vintage

Recently I have been making friends with some of the other wonderful online vintage sellers.  Someone was asking me the other day how I can be friends with the competition?  I explained to them that vintage is one of a kind, so we really aren't competing and we can appreciate the items that another seller has in their shop.  We connect on the plain fact that we think vintage is great and we all are trying to make a living selling what we love! This week Salvage Life has a little collaboration with Sally Jane Vintage, a great vintage blog that we sponsor.  We sent some of our favorite pieces from the shop to Jennifer of SJV and she sent us some lovely photos of her wearing them.  To see more beautiful photos, click over to Sally Jane Vintage.   If you are interested in purchasing any of the items shown you can find them here: yellow printed dress, blue printed dress, edwardian blouse, clay circle skirt.

 

photos by Tom B.

Another satisfied customer...

Another wonderful customer just sent these photos of herself wearing a dress from Salvage Life. Nicole Dinardo of Un Amore, custom designs and paints kitchen aid mixers, skateboards, guitars and probably anything else you could imagine. She needed a dress for a retro photo shoot and she found this beautiful yellow chiffon dress from our shop! Thanks for sharing your photos Nicole!