A vintage Instagram Giveaway

I could write so much about what I've been doing & where I've been, but honestly I just don't have the time right now.  I will say that last February I started a new part-time job working for an amazing not-for-profit organization in their kitchen store.  Fast forward a couple of months & part-time had turned much more than part-time.  Fast forward a few more months & they moved me over to work in their vintage boutique where part-time became full-time & everything else in my life pretty much fell by the wayside (including my beloved Etsy shop & blog).

I will dedicate a post to my new job very soon because it is an amazing organization where I get to work with the most amazing people & everything we do benefits some pretty awesome causes!  For now, I am trying to take a little time over the summer months to see my nieces more & get my house in order & my Etsy business back on track.

To help with this I must give in to change & lately I have been noticing that Instagram is where the vintage sellers are.  My personal account is BlissAndVinegar, & I recently made a new account just for my vintage business at Bliss_And_Vinegar.

 

As you can see I am having a giveaway on my Instagram business account to help gain followers so that I can offload some of this superfluous vintage awesomeness I have clogging up Bliss & Vinegar Vintage's Headquarters (aka my office)!  So all you have to do is follow my IG account, share that photo, tag my shop name (@bliss_and_vinegar) & #bvvintage150.  When I reach 150 followers, I will do a drawing & the winner will get a little package in the mail that includes this adorable 1960s floral puppy notebook & a lovely Fire King tulip cup & saucer set (plus a bar of my favorite chocolate, a box of my favorite tea & one of my very favorite writing pens).

So come find me on Instagram & enter to win some free awesome stuff.  Okay!

Giveaway #1 :: We Have A Winner

& the winner is ...

Lisa!  Congrats m'dear!  I will send you a Facebook message & you can shoot me an address to ship the owls out to.  Serenity thought it was pretty cool that I let her draw the winning name, I promised that next time she'll get to do the same.

We're gearing up for summer vacation at the end of this week.  As of now I have Madison after school every day except for every other Friday, Sequoya every Monday, & Serenity every Friday except for the first one of each month.  Summer vacation means I will have them a bit more often & since I love being an aunt SO much, I am looking forward to it.

I've been saving up crafty projects & recipes on Pinterest for them to try out & making a list of movies to watch with each of them.  Stuart Little with Sequoya, The Borrowers with Serenity, Summer School with Madison.  Now that the pool is all clean & ready to go we'll be swimming a lot I'm sure.

I'm hoping the extra activity will help with my anxiety disorder, trying to get back to where I can work at least part-time outside of the home & supplement my Etsy income so that the fella & I can move down to Chico before the students return for fall semester & take up all of the affordable housing options.

Thanks so much to all of you who participated & followed & tweeted & liked & commented!

... & in kitten news, he has settled right on in.  The dogs are enamored of him (ferocious pitt-bulls indeed) & they each take time out to nibble at him & nuzzle him & Elvis loves to get rowdy & toss him around a bit while the kitten hangs from his ears & bites his lips.

We decided on a name & I keep forgetting to comment on it.  He is called Weasley after one of my favorite ginger haired fictional families (of Harry Potter fame, just in case you've been living under some very large rocks for the past 15 years).  He is very mischievous & a bit clumsy.  The name suits him well.

Here he is sleeping on the couch with Chucky after a long day of chasing crickets (Weasley, not the fella) while Chucky moved into his new room at Victory Tattoo.

Now I've got to get my caboose in gear & take some Thrift Haul photos for the last week.  Too many great finds not to share!