Needles-n-Pins Stitcheries: Vintage Valentine's

I always like to look at things from yesteryear...yes....I am aging myself. LOL! :) I thought with Valentine's Day just around the corner we could look at some vintage Valentine's Day from Etsy.........

Of course  you can't look back at vintage Valentine's Day without showing the cards that all of us from way back when use to give to our school mates. This is a nice collection from smileitsvintage.

How about this really cute bell figure with all it's hearts that AvasHopeChest has. It is so cute and colorful.

Remember the chocolate boxes they use to have? This one from pinkchicboutique shows just how elaborate they were. Very pretty. 

How about this fold out Valentine's card from the 1900's that talkingbirdie has! Talk about elaborate and detailed. They really made some neat things back then. :)

Well these are just a few of the vintage Valentine's that I found to go down memory lane. Hope everyone has a wonderful Valentine's Day!

Colleen :)

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Needles-n-Pins Stitcheries: Vintage Valentine's

With Valentine's Day next week I thought we would take a look at some vintage Valentine's and see what Valentine's Day was back in the past. Let's go on over to Etsy and see what we can find. :)

I am sure all of you, well the one's in my era and I am not going to tell you how long ago that was. LOL! We use to give Valentine's cards to our classmates. We would get a shoe box with a lid and cut a hole in the lid and decorate the box. Then on Valentine's Day at school we would have our shoe boxes on our desks and all the students would go around the room and put Valentine's cards just like the one here from bostonbaglady in the boxes. That was always fun. Do they still do this nowadays? 

I remember getting little candies, sometimes chocolate, sometimes those little hearts with the sayings on them in these little tins like the one from TheLittleThingsVin here. :)

If you had a Valentine's Day party at your house you might have had a decoration like this one from ChristineMsCreations has. 

Ok....now I am going to age myself. We always made Valentine's sugar cookies and my mom actually had a cutter just like this one from StripedKat except we had a red handle on it. And you aren't going to believe this, but I still have it and I still make cookies with it for my grandkids!! :)

So this is a few of the vintage items that is out there for you to see or even purchase to do some decorating or cookie baking. :)

Have a good week!

Colleen :)

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Needles-n-Pins Stitcheries: Vintage Valentine's

I love vintage...or in my days we call them "antiques", but I guess vintage is a little newer in dates than antiques. Anyway....I love them both so I thought I would start showing you some vintage and upcycled sellers from Etsy. 

Since Valentine's Day is this week I thought we could visit some shops that have vintage Valentine's items. 

So how many of you remember giving Valentine's cards to your classmates at school? I remember decorating a shoe box with paper and sitting it on the corner of my school desk and then all the students would walk around the room and put the cards in the boxes. Shabbychicskiboutiq has this cute vintage card just like the one's I use to give. 

Look at this cute little trinket box from Josefcollector. Every little girl would love to have one of these in my days....oh no....I am aging myself again. :)

Oh remember the Precious Moments craze! They were always so cute and yes "precious". These were great items to collect as there were so many of them. MaryJaneTreasure has several in her shop. I like this cute one. 

Look at this vintage Valentine candy box from TheLostRooms. How pretty is this. And it is cloth covered so you really could use it nowadays for storing those vintage Valentines cards. Sounds like a good idea. 

Well we could go on and on with vintage items for Valentine's Day, but I will end it here. There are really so many vintage Valentine's out there for you to see so have fun. 

Have a great Valentine's Day! 

Colleen :)

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