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Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Early Morning at the Ranch

I love those early mornings at the ranch when I am the first one there and it's just me and the animals.
This is my favorite shadow:

See in the dog in the background? That is our ranch dog, "Loba". It means "she-wolf" in Spanish. She's really sweet. Check out her cool eyes:

There must have been 100 crows in the trees this morning! These were the only ones that I could see, but I could hear them loud and clearly.

Ran over to the feed store to get supplies for the storm that is coming in. It was very hard to leave without one of these!

Oh! After I spent time on the trail with Red, I did come home and list a few finds on Etsy. Check them out!

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Sunday, December 7, 2014

I had a wonderful ride today. My friend brought along a lovely lady and her Horse "Zen". Perfect weather, wonderful girls to ride with. I was riding along side and looked down to see the vintage kid's Roy Rogers gloves that this gal was wearing! A girl after my own heart! I knew she was a kindred spirit then. How cute is this?

Photo is a little blurry as I took it while riding Red. I wear gloves too, but nothing like hers!!!!

Perfect day for horsewomen in gloves!!!!

Saturday, December 6, 2014

A Fun Photo Shoot!

My new website and brand is being built at Click here to check it out.

I am getting very excited about it. It will be much more personal than a typical sales platform and my prices will be rock bottom.

It will have an attached blog where I can share my buying trips and my life as a horse riding girl who lives at the beach with an NHRA nitro funny car driving boyfriend who loves old monster movies and a beautiful 16 year old daughter who goes everywhere with me. She keeps me up-to-date with the trending styles which keeps my dork factor in check.

I also live with Bengal cats and lots of antiques. I collect vintage cowboy boots, love Indian turquoise, but ride in a vintage Hermes English saddle. I ride Western style so I am taking lessons to learn proper English equitation as most of my life I have ridden bareback.

My goal with this website is to help you see my fun lifestyle and then you will understand just how I come to choosing the vintage pieces that I do, and why I put crazy things together with my passionate mixed-up style.

Here are a few photos from a quick photo shoot for the website that I did yesterday. If you visit the site, please know that it is not finished yet, but if you see something that you like, I think that the site is operational at times. You can contact me at vintagejewelrychick@gmail.com and we will get that gorgeous thing to you.

So, check them out! (none of these items are for sale-just eye-candy), but there are many great things on the website that are for sale with hundreds more coming soon.

Amazing Squash Blossom Necklace!

Navajo Piece with possible Lander Blue Turquoise.

Navajo coral necklace with black powder fetish birds. "Powder" was made from the fusion layer from meteorites found at the Meteor Crater years ago. They are clay, but

magnetic.

Amazing Baroque coat brooch with faceted glass "rubies".

Vintage Antonio Pineda amethyst panel bracelet. Taxco, Mexico.

Santo Domingo hand-carved red coral bird fetish necklace with white heishi.

Vintage Navajo turquoise Naja on antique folk art horse saddle stand.

Old Favorites!!!

Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Hidden Inventory

I have over 600 wonderful antique finds that are hidden from public view on a back docket on a very popular sales platform. I am bringing them to light in my new etsy shop and my new website under the name "The Vintage Jewelry Chick"
The Website is still being built, but the etsy store already has 140 of these items available at discounted prices AND there is a coupon code for more discounts available now. Coupon code is ROCK20OFF.

Here are some of the pieces:

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Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Tired of White Backgrounds

I love photography and when we were told by sales platforms to go to all white backgrounds, my heart sank. I have been doing that ever since and it is great on One Kings Lane and my websites, but for etsy, I am going back to color and antique props as well as street shots and models. Today, it's raining and the colors are so rich with the natural lighting. See what I mean: