Feature Friday- Dorothy Days features Vintage Divine

Hello everyone :)

Today I am featuring another amazing shop for my 'Feature Friday'. The shop I am featuring this week is called

which is run by sisters Rachel and Alli :). They have lived in Phoenix, Arizona for 9 years but were originally from Portland, Oregon. They say that, while they miss the quirky town of Portland, they love the heat of Arizona! They sell mostly dresses but have also been dabbling in accessories and their store is so beautiful!

They say that they have both loved vintage from a young age (when it wasn't yet super cool!) and that by having the Etsy shop to sell vintage has kept them really close as sisters. As they put it .... " We are having WAY too much fun with our shop!". It is lovely to find a shop that not only has such beautiful items but also is run by people who really love what they are doing and are having a ball doing it! They say that as sisters they are very different and have very different styles which combined creats a great ensemble and keeps things interesting. Their dream is to someday take their online business and develop it so one day they can have a physical locations for their shop.


Here are some of my favourite items from their shop :) Please be sure to stop by and have a browse through some of their amazing vintage clothing collection :)

An amazing 60s green scalloped collar vintage dress

Everyone needs a LBD (Little Black Dress) in their wardrobe and isn't this one just fabulous !? Click here to view

Lovely button pattern dress

Hope you enjoyed todays feature and thank you for all my birthday wishes on Wednesday :) 

The Dorothy Days X

Dorothy Days features....a double whammy feature!

Hello everyone :),

Thanks to everyone who left me a comment on my vintage nails feature :) and to everyone who stopped by my blog, facebook page, shop and twitter this week. This week I am very excited as a close family friend of mine shall be getting married this weekend! The last few days has been a whirlwind of flower arranging, dashes to the dry cleaners and sorting out all the last minute things that seem to crop up!! I shall be taking lots of photographs and shall share some of them on my blog later in the week. My more observant readers will notice that I have updated my social media links on the right hand side so you can now visit my shop, twitter page and facebook page in just one click. Really pleased with how they look :) and proud of myself that I managed to code them!

Today is Friday so that means it is Feature Friday. This week I am featuring two very different shops. First up is ....

which is run by Laura from Ohio. Laura sells lots of vintage pretties but my favourite has to be her beautiful vintage shoes which she sells. I thought this week that we would go shoe crazy and feature some lovely vintage shoes as if you are anything like me you will have a bit of a shoe addiction!!!

To kick things off we have these beautiful rock star red shoes! They are great and could either be dressed up or down.

These shoes are totally different from the ones above. These are low healed and much smarter with a little burst of colour. Check them out here

I also love these little shoes which would be perfect for lazing around on the beach or in the garden this summer Take a look here

The second shop I am featuring is 

which is run by Jena Miller Divine. Jena is based in California (oh how that makes me jealous!!) and bakes the most delicious looking biscuits, brownies and other sweet things. As she says " You want yummy goodness? I'm your girl!"

 

 Mmmmmm!!! How delicious do these mint chocolate truffles look?!

These Organic Lavender shortbread biscuits also look amazing

Or how about this amazing Raspberry and chocolate chip loaf. Looks delicious and you could even pretend that it was one you had made earlier!

Thank you for reading about my features this week and I hope that you shall take a little look around their shops, they both have some lovely items and what more could a girl want !? Shoes AND delicious biscuits in one feature!!!

Rachel from The Dorothy Days

Feature Friday- Laura from Vintage Plus Crafts

Hello everyone.

Hasn't the last few days just been beautiful ?! Everyone seems so much more relaxed and friendly now the sun in shining! To my followers from outside the U.K, what has the weather been like where you are from? Can't believe it is the end of the week already, this week seems to have gone by so quickly. I am really looking forwards to the weekend a on Saturday I am having a BBQ with my friends. There is nothing like BBQ cooked food and this shall be our first BBQ of the summer so I am rather excited.

I am also excited because on Sunday I am going to a vintage fair. I have a stall there so shall be selling lots of lovely vintage items. I have been busy the last few weeks and have lots of new teacups (some have gone up on my Etsy site), some beautiful vintage jewellery and lots of other vintage treasures. Some will be going to the vintage fair and some I have put aside for my Etsy store so be expecting some more treasures to be uploaded soon. Vintage fairs are always so much fun and you meet such a range of people. Last time I went I had a 7 year old who was really interested in vintage items buy a vintage necklace from me which was from the 1950's and the same day had an elderly woman buy a tea set from me as it was one she had when she was younger. There is such a mix of people and its lovely chatting to customers. Lets hope the sunshine stays as it will be lovely if the sun is shining when I do the fair.


Today is Friday which means it is Feature Friday! Last week was a great success. It was lovely featuring Shannon and a massive thank you to everyone who visited her shop and left lovely comments. They really made me smile and I am sure they brought a smile to Shannon's face too.

This week I am featuring Laura from ......

Laura is from Minnesota in the United States and sells a mixture of handmade and handcrafted items as well as vintage hence the name of her shop! Laura says "I love all kinds of vintage items" and she certainly has some beautiful items in her shop. She says that her favourite kind of vintage items are items from the 1970's, hand embroidered linens and aprons.

Here are some of my favourite vintage items in her shop:

 I love this vintage cross stitch sampler from the 1980's. It would be beautiful for a child's nursery or to give as a gift to a friend who is having a baby or has a young child. I always think it is so nice to give a handmade gift as you know that nobody else would have given them the same.

This Vintage tea towel is really fun and reminds me of the summer.

Laura also is a crafter and loves to do hand embroidery. She makes dish/ tea towels, hoop art and samplers. This is a skill she has had since a child and ,now a grandmother, she hopes to pass this skill onto her granddaughter.

Here are some hand embroidered dish towels which Laura has made with different farm yard animals and the days of the week. The country girl in me loves these! They would definitely brighten up washing the dishes!!

Please take a look at Laura's shop she has some wonderful items and her hand embroidery is amazing.

The Dorothy Days