Merry Christmas
A huge Merry Christmas from all here at Your Vintage Life. Have a great one…see you on the other side!!
Festive Five: The best vintage inspired buys for the night before Christmas
What’s your favourite part of Christmas? Mine has always been Christmas Eve. From a small child, I have always loved the feelings of excitement and anticipation as the day draws to a close and the traditions that are put in place…
Do you Remember?
It has been another great week remembering all the now vintage things (scary!) we loved when we were young! All the photos were posted on our Your Vintage Life Facebook page and you guys shared your memories and added some great comments. Who…
Making Vintage Your Business: Reviewing Your Year
Christmas is nearly here and if you are like me, it’s time to start thinking and planning the year ahead. But before you do this, pause a minute to reflect on the year that has just gone. If you wrote…
Our Vintage Life
It’s been a week of two halves this week, firstly getting ready for Christmas and secondly being ill! I have a bad cold which has wiped me out, I don’t often get them but when I do I get them…
Get the Look: Your Vintage Christmas
Last week we featured our vintage home at Christmas, and this week it’s your turn! We asked via Twitter and the blog for you to send us photos of your vintage homes and boy did we get a lot! We’ve…
C: Chance Glass
I love Chance’s Handkerchief vases, in fact I have them in nearly every colour. They are bright, fun and don’t take themselves too seriously. Chance glass formed as early as 1824
Festive Five: The best buys for your vintage Christmas dinner table
Christmas dinner – its got to be the best part of Christmas day hasn’t it? Yes, it takes some planning but laying the table with all your special pieces of china and tableware, sitting down with people you love (and…
Do you Remember?
We’ve had a great week remembering all the things we loved, watched, ate and talked about when we were young! All the photos were posted on our Your Vintage Life Facebook page and you guys shared your memories and added your comments. Who watched…
Making Vintage Your Business: Sales
To mark down or not to mark down that is the question. To be honest us vintage sellers are not the best at letting go of dead stock, let alone marking it down in a sale. If we were a high…
Our Vintage Life
We’ve really enjoyed this week and have spent lots of time with the family rather than just working. Last weekend we went to see Santa as well as to meet his reindeer. We went to a local farm and enjoyed…
Get the Look: Our Vintage Christmas Home
We’re finally getting round to decorating our home for Christmas and it’s definitely a vintage affair. We sell lots of vintage decorations all year so sometimes it can be hard to decide which ones to keep. Most of our items…
We Love…A Vintage Christmas!
Have yourself a Merry Vintage Christmas… …by adorning your home with 1950s decorations, throwing a vintage Christmas Eve party and creating a traditional Christmas Day! Christmas in years gone by, was more about family than today’s commercialism. Mother saved all…
Festive Five: Great stocking fillers for a vintage fan
You’re never too old for a stocking, right? I get a bit stressed buying presents at Christmas, but one thing I love to do is making up a Christmas stocking for someone I care about. There something about finding little…
Do you Remember?
It has been another great week remembering all the now vintage things (scary!) we loved when we were young! All the photos were posted on our Your Vintage Life Facebook page and you guys shared your memories and added some great comments. Family Tree…
Making Vintage Your Business: Displaying your stock
So….you have your stock unloaded from the car, it’s in a pile of boxes and bags on the floor at your local vintage fair. How do you make it look so tempting that a customer can’t resist a purchase? Remember…
Our Vintage Life
We have started to wind down for Christmas, we have stopped buying and are drawing to the end of adding items to the website. Some of our last items are cool though including some job lots of vintage Ladybird books.…
