Vintage Thrift Finds

Brrrrr, it's cold here in So. California!  Yesterday it rained all day. It was so nice.  I got to use my bun and back warmers in my car.  Oh my....what have I been missing all of these years?  Do you have them?  Do you love them?  I did not want to get out of my car after picking Noah up from school in the pouring rain!
After dropping Noah in the morning, I ran into one of my favorite thrifts.  I am on the hunt for something.  I didn't find what I was looking for, but I did come home with a few things.  I spent less than 3 dollars!
They had boxes and boxes of Christmas stuff.  I found this large ziplock bag with tons of vintage Christmas tags and labels.  There were even a couple of hand painted vintage cards.

These darling vintage Santa buttons.  I need to take a better picture, so you can see how cute the face is.  Sorry for the bad picture.  The lighting is very bad today.

Also a cute red and white snowflake cup, eggs were courtesy of my girls.  And a very old Santa face mug.  Oh, and the white wicker sleigh the tags are sitting in too.  I am thinking it may get a coat of red paint.

 When I got home  I found some really special things in my mail box. 

 Those dishcloths were knitted for me by my friend Jeanne.  Jeanne is in my Brunch Bunch Group.  I have belonged to an online cooking group for 20 years.  We are a group of about 10 women, who live all over the United States.  What brought us together was one thing we all have in common.  The love of cooking.  However, over the years, deep friendships have formed between us, and in addition to our love of cooking, we have shared our lives.  We have seen one another through the happiest events of our lives, like weddings and births, and through terrible sadness too.  We have lost one of our members to cancer, and we have supported one another through everything from ordinary to extraordinary.  We have a caterer, an Inn Keeper,a food editor for a newspaper, a nurse, a business owner, an executive with a large name Toy Company, and a few of us are homemakers who simply love food, and everything about it.  We are in California, Louisiana, Michigan, Maine, New Jersey, Arizona, Connecticut, New Hampshire and Delaware.  Many, actually, most of  us have met in person.  These women are very near and dear to my heart. When I received this package from Jeanne yesterday, I was struck with just how meaningful this group of ladies has been in my life.  That doesn't even count the incredible fountain of knowledge we have shared with each other about cooking over the years.  We are called The Brunch Bunch Kitchen.  Or BBK for short.  Isn't the internet an amazing thing????
Some Holiday Bloomie colors.  Snow, Cream, Holiday Red, Holly, Brick, Mustard and Basic Black that goes with everything.  Picture taken without a flash.

With a flash.  Lighting is bad today.  Very dark outside.

My favorites?  Oh, the Holiday Red is so, so pretty.  The Snow White is really nice.  Mustard continues to be one of my best sellers.  Martini, which I don't have pictured here, but do have pictured in a previous recent post that sold with a Cowl, is also a big seller.  I have more cut, but not made yet.  In addition to these Holiday colors, I have Brown, Heather Gray, Textured Gray, Yellow, Tan which I call Beach, and Blue Jean.  I still have in stock Shabby Chic, and several summer colors too. 
In my Cowls, right now I have in stock, an ecru in the longer style that covers more of the shoulders and lays lower on front.  And my new style like the red one pictured in previous post, I have Red, and a beautiful shade of charcoal.  I am working on a rust, and another tweed.  I will only be taking Holiday orders for the rest of this week.
I am going to have my hair done today.  That always makes me feel better!  Have a great day, and drive safe.  It's getting crazy out there!!!
XO  Kris