Dorothy Days features...Madelena from Brocante Art

Hello everyone :),

Today I am featuring Madalena from BrocanteArt for my Feature Friday feature. Madalena is based in England in the beautiful historic town of Berkhamsted. Her shop is a treasure trove of  vintage and antique haberdashery. Madalena has a background in Art and design and 'enjoys adding a little conceptual twist to [her] styling and photos' so all of her product listings are beautifully photographed and are like art photography in themselves.

She is a collector of haberdashery and sells her surplus on Etsy and also at local fairs. She says 'I find it hard to part with some of my pieces at times' and I can see why, her products are absolutely beautiful! She has her own collection of antique lace and says that she is "truly passionate, sometimes obsessed with vintage and antique haberdashery".

Here are some of my favourite items from her shop....

I love this collection of four antique spools. They are on wooden bobbins and were made by the French manufacturer Dollfus Mieg & Co. Please take a look here

Stunning French Valenciennes lace

This selection of vintage lace would be great for little craft projects.

I wish I had something I could make with this lovely early 20th C French ruffle tape

In other exciting news.....

My Poole Pottery jug has been featured on the Etsy Contest which I wrote about in this blog post. I would really appreciate if you would vote for me in it. You can do so by clicking here and clicking my jug

My Poole Pottery jug which has been featured

Thank you!!!

Have a wonderful weekend

The Dorothy Days (Vintage and Handmade) X

Daily Etsy Contest

Hi everyone,
I hope you are enjoying the glorious sunshine! It is so beautiful today and feels like summer has finally arrived!  I thought I would share with you today a website I found which is called Daily Etsy Contest. It is really good fun and also a great way to gain exposure if you are an Etsy sellers. The idea is that you submit your shop and the contest randomly chooses you for a day (you can also try and submit to a category instead). The day will have a theme such as blue items or items between $4-5 and then one item from your shop will be selected. People then vote for their favourite items from the items which come up at random. It gets rather addictive going through a voting but is really good fun!

Here is an example of what it will look like. You click your favourite and then it will show you how many votes that item has got, at the end of day there shall be winning item.

I entered my earrings and they did rather well :) and I also had my gift tags entered for me which was a lovely surprise. I have also entered myself into another one of their categories so hopefully shall get featured on that one. It is a lovely way to discover new shops on Etsy and gain some exposure for my things too.

The Dorothy Days