In my last post, I showed you a picture of some of the vintage trim I found in a huge old box at the Long Beach flea market. Most of the ribbon that was in its original packaging was hidden under huge tangled piles of vintage ricrac (rick rack), seam binding and ribbon. It is amazing what you can find if you are willing to dig and work a bit. Vintage ribbon and notion giveaway.
Vintage ribbon and notion giveaway
It took several days to sort out and wind up all the vintage trim, and separate the buttons, bells, wooden spools, and poker chips. Yep, I have BAGS of them. The Fashionista and Sweet boy helped, as did the dog.
Then the fun began. I had purchased some dishtowels in the clearance bin at Pottery Barn. They were a little plain.
I added a bit of vintage cotton seam binding and ricrac in the colors of the Fashionista’s new woodland kitchen. Cute?
When I attend college or hang out at home I am a jeans and t-shirt girl. But I thought it might be nice to jazz up some of the plain “t’s” with a bit o’ rick rack. (The necklace is my own creation.)
This shirt I made to match a cute sweater, but for some reason, it just leaves me wanting Baskin Robbins. 🙂
I also have been making a shower curtain for the Fashionista’s apartment using some vintage fabric she loves. It is now also covered in yummy vintage trim. (I will reveal the entire bathroom soon, but I imagine you can figure out the theme.)
Of course, there is nothing like jazzing up a ho-hum gift with a bit of vintage seam binding. I have been using it in my scrapbooking endeavors too.
Etsy and The Giveaway
Yet even after all these projects I still have enough vintage trim to last three lifetimes. So, I have decided to share. I am listing close to two hundred packages of trim in its original packaging in my Etsy shop. It is priced to sell at 2 for $1.00! The first 20 buyers will also get some bonus trim added to their orders.
For those of you who don’t need the original packaging, you can get an even better deal, 4 cards of trim for $1.00! The average amount of yardage on each card is 2 yards. Each has a minimum of 1 yard, some have 3-4 yards.
As a thank you for listening to my spiel I am hosting a giveaway of vintage trim, lace, ricrac, and seam binding. Please leave me ONE comment. A winner will be selected next week.
Wow… now that's a lot of trim! I love your dog's new look. LOL! Isn't if fun to pour through a box of goodies? ; )
~Michele
I have a crush on vintage trim. :o)
LOVE the trim, the t's look cute and that doggie is the best, lol
Wow, what a treasure you found there! Love what you did with the towels and t-shirts. Not so sure about the dog's new look though. Good thing they are so patient with us humans!
Lovely giveaway. Please add my name.
Thanks,
MGM
Wow, you did hit a jackpot didn't you? Oh how precious the doggie pic!! Enjoy untangling that mess!
The photo of the doggie reminds me of those where the kids have the sticky bows all stuck to their heads during present opening time!
What a sweet, patient little dog to play along with your little guy! I had to LOL about your new T leaving you wanting Baskin & Robbins! I have a room like that…
I'm excited to enter your generous giveaway!
Wow! That was an awesome find! How fun!
Wow – very creative ideas! Ok, now I'm craving Baskin Robbins too! lol
I love vintage seam binding and rick rack. I have my own collection but I'd love some more!
Jill
Love the doggie's new look
I think the dog looks great. I am sure he will miss his hat if you give it away. Just tell him I will take good care of the trim if I win. Thanks for all the cute ideas for how to use vintage treasures.
I love what you've done with the ric rac on your shirts! Too cute!
Nancy
I adore ric rac! It's so happy. 🙂
Oh how our poor pets suffer for cute Kodak moments
Hahaha it looks like everyone in your house is really enjoying that trim!
This was a fabulous find. Just check out the prices of NEW TRIM at the stores. It will floor you.
I love ric rac. A few years ago you couldn't give the stuff away. Now we can't live without it (again).
GREAT POST!
Rebecca
I dont know whether I love the ric rac or the dog more. Beautiful and imaginative use of ric rac.
This is great stuff. I'm just now starting to get into this whole re-purposing phase. Infact I'm having a contest on my blog.
I think you'd have a great chance of winning.
My shoe broke and the contest is to provide and idea of what I could turn this into. The winner gets the finished re-purposed prodcut.
I think this is a great way to get people to take the most unusual of items and re-use it instead of throwing it away.
Anyway, can't wait to read more ideas on your site.
http://smellthecoffeelisa.blogspot.com
What a great giveaway! I adore the dish towels. So cute and the trim in the ts adds so much!
WOW!!! I love the vintage trims and soooooooo many to choose from! Your dog looks adorable!
I can't believe you found so much of it!
I love it on the T-shirts and especially jazzing up the gift; very nice!
Thanks for visiting Porch Days. I enjoyed looking over your blog. That trim and rick rack is a bonanza! Reminds me of that saying of quilters, “The one who dies with the largest fabric collection wins.” That might be me. I love my collections of fabric, trim, ribbon, yarn, and junk. I am cursed with seeing possibilities in everything!
Wow, Laura, what a find!! So many tiny treasures. I'd love to be entered in a giveaway!
Laura,
The dish towels are so sweet with the added ric rac trim! I am looking forward to seeing the Alice in Wonderland themed bathroom!
Christy
What an incredible find. I am jealous. I have a little bit of my Grandmother's vintage trim/buttons and I am using it sparingly. Oh, there is a man in my area who carves wooden sewing thread spools. He carves Santa faces into them and paints them. He also does other carvings on them. (Birds, flowers, etc.) I saw him recently at a craft show. I am going to get him to carve me some Santas with spools that were my Grandmother's. I saw where you were a recent giveaway winner. Congratulations!!! Include me in this recent giveaway of yours. Thanks and have an amazing weekend.
Love & blessings from NC!
The shirts are really cute. I knew that you would have fun with that treasure trove of goodies. A giveaway is so very sweet of you.
Wow, that's a lot of trim!!! Your dog looks adorable covered in it — but I'm sure he's not so impressed!! 😉
I love how you dressed up your T-shirts and the towels. Very creative 🙂
Have fun finding more uses for all that trim!!
Kelly @ DesignTies
Cute, cute pooh!! Looks like fun! =)
I love vintage ribbon – rick rack is the best. Very cute blog!
Thanks for dropping by mine.
xo,
cristin
You don't have to enter me in the giveaway (because I would never use it and would become even more vintage), I just wanted to let you know how cute I think your shirts are.
I really like what you did to jazz up the hand towels!
Alice in Wonderland is one of my favorite's, can't wait to see the whole bath!
Beautiful trim!!! and what an adorable doggy.
Have a wonderful day,
Aimee
You made some adorable items! Oh for an ounce of your creativity!!
What great ideas for using up all that trim! You definitely have a lot on your hands. I will definitely tell my mom-in-law of the specials in your etsy shop, she'll love it!
What a good sport your doggie is!
Enter me in your giveaway please! I love your t-shirts with ric-rac. They are so cute and original…
OOoh! Love it. 🙂 Please enter me!
Swing by my blog today if you have a chance…I have a fun announcement up (after the name of the Giveaway winner). 🙂
That is some beautiful trim. Reminds me of my grandmother.
Nice find, I love trims. Your dog looks so cute with his trim hair-do.
Hugs
Sonia
What a lovely giveaway! I would so love to win!
Hi Laura! I love the doggie's new look!! Fun!
xoxo
Thanks for visiting! What a great giveaway! Definitely wouldn't mind winning 😀
Have an excellent weekend! 🙂
What a find Laura!!! I could certainly use some vintage trims. Oh, I added you to my Blogroll too
I LOVE the Alice in Wonderland fabric! (The dog is also adorable)
Hi Laura
thanks for visiting my blog! i would love the trim!
I saw some great placemats that were just rows and rows of ric rac, id like to make some of those!
What wonderful goodies…and your doggie looks just adorable!
Love,
Sue
What a find. It looks like so much fun. Please include me in your drawing.
rsgrandinetti(at)yahoo(dot)com
Wow you are set for life with all those trims!! Love the t shirts getting spruced up- cute idea!Did your sweet puppy help you with the untangling!?
blessings
mary
This is unbelievable, I haven't seen anything like this outside of a store. How generous of you that you want to share and how generous of all commenters before me that they want to relief your doggie. Those bloggers are sooooo kind! Have a great weekend!
Laura,
Your dog is adorable, and how cute with all the rick rack on top. Thank you for visiting my blog.
Erin
What a great find.
Thanks for sharing.
Hi from N Ireland.
What an adorable place! I went vintage shopping this week in Portland, OR…and found some sweet things here – http://www.lamaisonetlejardin.com/2009/07/my-notebook-on-vintage-finds.html
Lylah
Laura! WHat a score! I'm so glad that you were able to find all that. Love the tshirts,too. I think your doggie looks cute with the new “do”!
Hugs, Tricia
Thanks for the heads up on the giveaway. I would love to do some dish towels like yours.
What a find! Thanks for sharing.
I love trims and ribbons! this is a wonderful giveaway!
thriftygroove@gmail.com
SO great! Love the Vintage Fleur De Lis Corsage! Great shop.
While I can't win this {since I have already won one of your fabulous give aways!} I do love the post! Have a happy weekend,Laura!
xo Lidy
Love vintage trim. Count me in for the giveaway, please.
Your creations are inspirations.
Wow! That is a ton of trim! Such a great find! I love the tshirts and towels.
Great use of a fun find
What a great find! That stuff is so versatile.
how fun! what great tips for using pretty trim!
xo
I just love all your vintage treasures, they remind me of well..ME!, i am feeling mighty vintage these days, and these goodies will go really well with my vintage self heehee…Carilyn.
What a fabulous find!! Thanks for sharing!!
i never realized you could do so much with trim! thanks for the chance 🙂
peters.ab0124(at)gmail.com
Please don't include me, a bit too girly for me. But I do enjoy how my girls enjoy girly things.
I am jealous of all your trim and your craftiness! And the doggie trim wig is so hilarious!! It looks like you have a fun blog; I'll be back to really explore it when I have more time! I am a wanna-be crafty person!
I have seen you around commenting on all of my favorite blogs today and thought, “Who is this gal?” I am so glad I dropped in! Love the post on vintage trim…my great grandma left me some of the very same upon her death, and I have been smitten ever since! I loved the post, the adorable pooch, and the kitchen posted below (with the Cherries sign above the window)! Come by and visit me, I just joined your site! 🙂
What an awesome find!
Thanks for leaving a comment on my blog. I am a regular reader of your blog. I love it! Lisa~
I love the trim!! Inspiring me to clean out. . .
I have just stumbled on to this blog and I am in love! What cute ideas!
You certainly have a fantastic collection! And the dog looks too cute.
She is so dog-garn precious! What a great idea for dishtowels! I occasionally do some baby spit up clothes for friends, but never thought of doing dishtowels! Great idea – thanks for sharing and for stopping by to visit!
for you…
http://theredheadriter.blogspot.com/2009/08/secrets-friends-and-sharing.html
What a great treasure that you found. Thanks for sharing your great ideas.
Rengin, in Istanbul
Oh, you make me want to get busy creating something!!
I LOVE all of your creations – from the cute tops, to the dish towels, to the most adorable shower curtain I've ever seen (can't wait to see the photos of the bathroom!)
You know you're addicted to crafting when you start embellishing your pets…
What a crafty dog — so cute!
I love using things like that to spice up a giftwrapping… Poor dog 😉
Happy SITS Saturday Sharefest
Oh what a delightful find!!! just wonderful! and I think that sweet doggie is adorable!!!
You've done some great things with your ribbon- I love it! Thanks for stopping by yesterday.
Goodness you have a large collection of trim there! lol… I'm on my way to check out your ebay right now. I am able to find fabric and patterns at 2nd hand stores, but rarely vintage trim or buttons.
oooh i love it….totally cool!
Oh, the dog — no that is one patient pooch. How adorable — a rick rack wig.
Whenever something we sewed didn't turn out right, my mother's standard advice was “Just put a row of rick rack!”
Great haul of trims!
Cass
Ok, don't tell anyone @ PETA, but that is soooooooo something we would do…oh, those puppy eyes are hilarious!
m ^..^
I love what you did with the dish towels!
Hi Laura!
I would love to be added to your draw! I love trims and embellishments and you have quite a collection! Count me in!!
Cheers,
Linda
Holy cow, trim-trim, and MORE trim, lol!
What a find!
I cannot WAIT to see the Alice in Wonderland bathroom.
That must be one patient pup, too cute. I try to do stuff like that to my cats but don't get too far.
Ric rac is always fun and I love what you did with the seam binding on the gift.
What a wonderful find..you are fortunate to have sound so many goodies. I'm hopping off to your etsy shop.
Love the trim Laura, but the little four-legged model wearing it steals the show!! I have a little dachshund too. 😉
Wow! That is alot of fun trim! I love Abbot Kinney…they have some wonderful shops! Please enter me in the giveaway! karen…
recycledrita.blogspot.com
as a child i was blessed to play in my grandmother's sewing closet; i inherited her sewing box full of trim and buttons, too. this post took me right back! thank you for such inspiring pictures!
So much FUN! Love the dish towels with the added pretties! I am headed over to your etsy shop right now! 🙂 I would love toenter your giveaway. 🙂 Michelle
HAHA! Love your doggy 🙂 Cute ideas with the ribbon and rickrack!
All the best,
Allison
Hi Laura,
You hit the jackpot! I love what you did with your trim…everything looks so sweet, even the puppy!
Have a great week.
~Karen
Oh, WOW! WOW! WOW! I SO love vintage trims! Particularly ric rac and lace! I love them!!!!!
I ADORE vintage trims of all kinds! Hope I'll be the lucky winner!
Oh my stars Laura, Rudi looks so adorable! You could let this be his clown hair costume for Halloween! OK, in the second photo he does look a little dismayed.
I love the whimsical decor for your daughters first place. I can't wait to see the big reveal!
Have a great week!
Ha-ha! Your poor puppy! The towels look so cute and I'm with joy, I'm like so totally crushed out on vintage trims! ☺
Love the dishtowels! And poochie looks adorable 🙂
Love your whole site w/ it's great ideas – so creative!
Wandalee3
I adore vintage trims of all types! Please toss my hat in the ring too. So inspiring…
~Dawn
I have been keeping an eye open for vintage trim. Would love to win this, and off to check out your etsy. Jackie
Shat a treasure trove! I could take a few off you hands for scrapbooking!
Holy Smokes! What a loot! I love the pic of your hot dog covered in rick rac! TOO darling!
xoxo, Tiffany
You scored! I am so drooling over these trims!
What a cute dog! I love trim (and ribbon). I use it to jazz up homemade cards.
I love vintage trim and would love some. Thanks
Just hopped over via DIY thursday on ASPTL. Am having fun reading through your posts. Thanks for the ideas!
Love your tips and your adorable dog! 🙂
Wow, that's so much trim, poor doggy!
Wow, what an amazing assortment of laces, seam binding and trims! Your dishtowels and shower curtain are lovely. I would love to be considered, I have about a hundred ideas for them already!!
I will go and visit your shop too 🙂