Fancy Shop Update for Fall

This update has been a long time coming. I have finally gotten a chance to squeeze in a photo shoot in order to update items for the end of summer and beginning of fall. There are really some exquisite pieces in this update. As you can see I have two new models, Christian (my roomie), and Emma. Both wonderfully beautiful ladies, it was so easy to get some great shots.

This photo shoot was quite an adventure. The pictures were taken at my moms house right next to her chicken coop haha. And let me tell you.... we were getting eaten up by mosquitoes!! Ill share a few pics with me taking pics and sporting those silly bug repellent fans. They actually work! The shoot was great fun, and I am so excited to have my friends helping me out.
All of the items will be up in The AppleSeed by the end of today! I hope you enjoy.

Pretty Dress Update and thoughts

It has been a little tricky recently for me to be motivated about posting vintage to my shop.I have SO many dresses and oodles of funky purses and shoes... just little time to take Z photos
....and lack of a model. Yet here they are regardless.
APPLESEED VINTAGE

I really appreciate seeing photos of the clothing on a model when I purchase online, so you can really understand the style and fit. I try my hardest to post pictures of clothing being modeled. This happens to be my newest model Lily.

Ok, so she is my little sister but you would not believe how many photos I had to take just to get 5 decent ones. I swear she was twirling around in the dresses like a little girl playing dress up...and then she attempted to take some to wear that night. ha you gotta love her though.. full of energy.

I cannot wait until I move and get everything organized so I can post on a regular schedule.
I hope everyone is having a splendid Tuesday.
It is very hot here in Tuscaloosa, so I am staying inside writing letters and getting packages together for my new pin pals.

Save the Gulf- Ill try

I keep watching the news coverage on the oil spill and scanning through magazines of dirty pelicans and sea turtles and sometimes I feel so helpless. I don't really have the funds or extra time to donate to the disaster, but I figured I could spare a little through ETSY.

My boyfriend Gavin is from New Orleans, so we both pay close attention to whats happening in the gulf. We are going down to visit this weekend, it will probably be the first time visiting that we wont bring home a huge bag of fresh boiled crayfish or shrimp. We hope to even head to the coast to see some of the damage.

For the next month (June 24-July 24) I have decided to donate 15% of my sales on ETSY to The Greater New Orleans Foundation’s Gulf Coast Oil Spill Fund. This does not sound like much, but its all I can really give right now. I'm hoping to raise at least 200$ in the next month to be donated. The 15% will be taken out of the final purchase and stored until I can donate the lump sum of raised fund in July.

How can you help? Simply purchase some lovely vintage
items from my shop, The Appleseed.

Or if you don't find something you like in my shop, check out all the ETSY sellers below who are also donating funds to the disaster.

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1. Loopy Goth OOAK Art Doll Clarissa

2. Handmade vintage linen owl plushie

3.SAVE THE GULF COAST BOW

4. Ornamental Sun on Organic Alternative Apparel Scoop Neck tshirt

5. Yellow Vintage Bicycle On Gray Bodysuit Or Tee

6. High Lonesome blue grass inspired antique crazy quilt cuff all recycled from down de bayou

Tuesday Tale of Doris's tall hat

For those of you who are new to my blog every Tuesday I share a little story about where my thrift stores finds traveled from to make it into my home. It's a simple and unique way to appreciate other peoples trash, which have become my treasures. Today I will share with you the extraordinary fancy top hat I snatched from the thrift, which was previously owned by Dorris Steele.

but first Ill share some pretty finds...


Here are a few favorites:

Vintage Navy Blue Cocktail Hat

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Vintage Cocktail Hat in Turquoise

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Selima Salaun designs these beautiful hats in NYC. If only I could dress like this every day. I simply walked into the grocery in Alabama with my new found beauty, and I got so many funny looks. I loved it!

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There are some pristine replicas of vintage hats on ETSY. For a very reasonable price as well. I am so tempted to snatch one of these up. Gail of Creations by Gail designs hats from past eras, she even does custom orders if you need one for a special occasion or wedding. If I only had the occasion to wear them all to.



Dorris's Top Hat

It was not quite Sunday, yet Dorris had spent her entire Saturday evening displaying her hats on her bed in attempts to decide which hat would match her orange tequila lace pant suit. Dorris has quite the collection of hats, blue velvet hats for a winter day, silk red cocktail hats for outings with friend and delicate straw wide brimmed hats for trimming the garden. Dorris has become quite the spectacle at her church in Templar, TX. She has been a member of Sacred Heart Church for 16 years but only recently has she somehow seemed to double the congregation.

Dorris always attends the early service at church, she promptly arrives at 7:20 to get the best seat in the very front row before the service begins at 8:00.She also likes being the very first in line for communion...(for obvious reasons. One Sunday Dorris arrived wearing quite unusual attire. She was dressed head to toe in purple velvet,a large brimmed hat included, which seemed to resemble an overgrown eggplant. The next Sunday Dorris wore matching crimson red nickers and scarlet a scarlet red hat. And the next Sunday a striking lime green pencil skirt with spotted leggings and a lime bean like skinny top hat.

Word spreads quickly through Templar of such a scandal, and Dorris became the talk of the town. People would show up to the church just to sneak a peek of the elaborate and exotic prints and fabrics Dorris would be wearing.

Sadly, when Dorris passed away she sent one hat to each friend and relative she knew. The yellow and gold top hat which was sent to her niece in Birmingham, AL was no gift at all.Her cousin despised it upon first arrival, not evening giving it a chance in the mirror. The hat was quickly taken to the local donation spot...where it happened to fall right into my arms.

I plan to proudly wear this hat wherever I deem fit. The grocery store, movie nights with Gavin, potlucks, and strolls around the neighborhood. By the way Gavin fully supports the crazy hat.

Some pretty images because I felt that they were irresistible. Thank you weheartit, for I waste too many hours searching
through your stock.



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Do you have any favorite hats or unique accessories just dying for the occasion to wear them to? Well don't wait, just wear them to the grocery store and enjoy those funny looks.

Please do tell!

Happy Monday- eat your veggies and buy local!

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Happy Monday Everyone!
I have been so busy this weekend. I came home to visit some family and relax a little. Gavin is out of town:( so I have been keeping myself busy. He took the camera to Boston, so I wont be able to share pics from the garden...but if only you could have seen the feast my little sister and I shared for dinner last night. We went out late Sunday afternoon to pick tons of veggies from moms garden. Here is a small list of the goodies we gathered:

new potatoes (red and golden)
onions (red and yellow)
purple cabbage
carrots
beans
spinach
tomatoes
basil
dill

and what did we make you ask?
A delicious soup of course!

But you don’t need a farm to grow fresh vegetables, herbs and fruits. You don’t really even need a garden, check out some of these neat tricks to grow your own veggies, trust me they will taste WAY better than the ones in the store.

I tried to find some pics of super pretty gardens, maybe to convince someone to start to grow there own veggies.

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(look at the pretty glass covers for the lettuce)


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Look its a roof garden!


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Oh and here are some super funky accessories for the garden,
found on etsy




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anyone have any secret recipes or tips for the
veggies we picked? I adore new recipes.
I'd love to add it to my recipe box.

Tuesday Tale- Thelma's Label Maker

Here comes another fantastical story about the bright blue label maker I found at the thrift store Saturday. I have decided to do a little Tall Tale every Tuesday about my thrift store favorites. It is so much fun to think of where these items came from and who owned them in a previous life.

Today is Thelma's vibrant blue label maker.
This is not any ordinary label maker. This label maker belonged to The Thelma Louise Pearl. Thelma was an avid collector who lived in the town of Warrandyte. Her little cottage perched atop an unsightly hill, right next to the town dump. Too most this would seem quite dirty and depressing, but Thelma had sort of a different mind set.

Each morning Thelma would wake up, fix some poached eggs, feed her eleven cats, and routinely walk over to the dumpster site before anyone arrived for work.

Did I mention Thelma was a collector? She had a soft spot for anything red. It was the craziest thing, old red shoes, thrown out red bins, red light posts, she even commandeered a bent red stop sign once.

And this is where the labeling began. Use your imagination. A woman who owns eleven cats, a label maker, and a house full of red junk. Oh how delightful. Thanks Thelma, and your wonderful habits.

I found a couple label makers online for super cheap!

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I'll share with you what I intend to label.
No boring bookshelves or plastic boxes, food cans or trinket shelves.
I will label oodles of pictures, people, fruit and bed stands.
Maybe even I will label a few paint brushes, or notebooks, picture frames or Baby Ben clocks.





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I bought tape today, and I can't wait to get started.
What would you label if you came across Thelma's label maker?
I am oh so curious.

Merlin and Griffin The garden gnomes

Look what I found thrifting this weekend. It is so funny, because I have been hoping and wishing I would come across a cute little garden gnome. And look! I found two. It has long been known to be good luck to place the Gnome in garden and home. These two gnomes are sitting inside for the moment, in our potted plants, only because I am too scared our neighbors will take them if we put them outside. I live in a college town, so I'm a little weary of placing prized objects on the front lawn. Kinda silly I guess, but I would be SO upset if they disappeared.

Gavin and I named them Merlin, and Griffin.

Merlin is a happy little fellow who came from an imaginary smurf like town named Squinnland. Merlin enjoys watching monarch butterflies, and sneezes when the sun is too bright.

Griffin is quite the opposite, he is the quit one. He seems pretty content to just shut his eyes and snooze off when no one is watching.. as you can see I caught him right in the act.

These little guys remind me of a GREAT French movie I saw recently, Amelie. Amelie (check out the trailer) is quite an unusual girl with a pretty funny past. This is such a unique film and I highly recommend you watch it.



Somehow a garden gnome in this film makes some kind of sense. In the movie Amelie's father refuses to leave the shrine-topped with a lawn gnome- he has built to his departed wife. In order to get her father to see the world, Amelie kidnaps the lawn gnome and gives it to her friend who is a flight attendant. Amelie's friend proceeds to send pictures and postcards back to Amelie's father detailing the gnome's adventures. Eventually Amelie's father works up the courage to leave his home.



Here are a few fellas I found on ETSY

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Does anyone else have a garden gnome? What are their names, and stories?

New Buttons and cute birdie pics.

Happy June!
Here are a few pics of some photos I took for my new blog advertisement. It was a little tricky trying to decide what to put in these pictures. Since I have oodles of very beautiful photos of my vintage clothing, but I am in NONE of them, and I thought it would be a little weird if I put someone else in the advertisement button. SO I put together a little photo shoot of trinkets that I thought would describe my shop and blog.

This clock was my grandfathers, and I keep it right next to my bed. I have several other little Baby Ben clocks that were similar that I have sold. But this one is super special. The little blue birdie was a thrift store find! He sits in my window seal right next to all of me succulents. And all of the WONDERFUL vintage fabric I snatched up from an estate sale. I am still thinking of what to do with it all. I also have hundreds of square quilting patterns, and I have NO idea what to do with them?? Any ideas (besides making a quilt haha)

I am super excited to buy an advertising spot on Bluebird Vintage, as well as Freckled Nest. I have been thinking about doing this for my ETSY shop for a while now. I hope it looks pretty on both pages. I only just started blogging, and my ETSY shop has recently been doing pretty well. So, I hope that these little scattered buttons will bring some fun! Ill let you know how it went by the end of the month. Here are a few examples of the photos I was thinking to use.











Which one do you like best?

Feel free to stick my button on your blog! I would greatly appreciate it! And let me know if you have a button I can put on my blog.