Old Stuff!

I've had a bag of fantastic old advertising labels knocking around for a while tempting me. I finally decided to list them in my rather abandoned shop Inter Alia as respite from the hundreds of wedding pictures which I'm dutifully ploughing through. It is possible to do too much of one thing however necessary!

The labels were given to Peter by a friend of his who is a great collector and has shelves and shelves of neatly boxes ephemera which I find endlessly fascinating. These ones came from various empty warehouses Manchester in the rag-trade area in the 80's just when the buildings were starting to be emptied and cleaned out to be turned in to flats, shops etc....

The labels are most interesting and feature some pretty exotic scenes many with the logo of the Spruce Company, I've no idea what this company did, the images don't really give any clues, but some do refer to fabric and many have arabic writing and exotic looking characters! I reckon they date from the '30s to the '50s.

I'm hoping to sell the originals and will also make digital sheets of them all as I think that they'll be great in scrapbooking projects and made into magnets, book covers etc too.

All Labels $4.75

Snoopy and romance

After selling two of my recycled spiral bound notebooks yesterday, I've made two more.One more Snoopy one and this time, a Mills and Boon one. There's been loads on the tv recently about M&B as it's, amazingly, their 100th anniversary and it sort of reminded me about them. They have the most phenomenal sales figures, it's somethig crazy like one book selling every six seconds! I read millions of them while at school but haven't touched one since. I came across some in a charity shop and came over all nostalgic, bought them and have had them sitting around for a while until yesterday when one of them became reborn!

For sale here at the bargain price of $24

For sale here also at the bargain price of $24

Both books have about 50 pages of recylced/found/rescued papers from various places. Some are plain, some are violently patterned but they all work rather nicely together. I hope these sell as I really like making them!

Inter Alia on the Front Page

Etsy Front Page 9/20/08 shevaun, originally uploaded by Etsy Front Pagers.

I really must check the goings on with my Inter Alia goodies, after finding the lovely Treasury (see previous post), I've just searched the Flickr Front Page Group and found that my battered Penguin book was there in the top left corner. I've sold it and I wonder if it was because of the front page exposure?

Caught just in time

As you may have noticed, there are plenty of Treasury appearances for my photos, but very few for my Inter Alia goodies, firstly I think it's because they just aren't as eyecatching as the photos and secondly, I hardly ever check. Today I checked and found this great collection of manly things!

Eyecandy
by Kaisanna

Kaisanna's from Finland and is a buyer rather than a seller, so I can't show you any of her creations!

The Waiting is Over

I've never had to wait for so long for a Treasury.....I think I've been unlucky and they've all been expiring in the middle of the night. Anyway, I've loitered with the window open all day and finally got my first one as Inter Alia and it's a great selection of sewing machines, ephemera bags and paper tags. I think it's a bit unusual.

Stitching, Sewing and Tagging
by Inter Alia

Treasuries

I've not been spending much time in my Eyeshoot shop lately as I'm desperatley trying to fill up the new one, Inter Alia which has made three sales so far, but all for minute amounts of money and there's one non paying buyer, which is a first for me! I've not sold a single digital thing which I'm sort of disappointed about as I think that they look good....it would seem that I'm not in with the in crowd!

Anyway, Eyeshoot was in three Treasuries last night and here they are in all their colourful glory!

Grasshopper
by Lizzy Watson

Missing Amsterdam
by LAS LOPEZ LAS
I Got the Blues
by planet treasures

As usual, a massive thank you to all three curators for taking the time to find my work and to include it in their lovely selections!

I think I'll have to put a Treasury together as Inter Alia, I've done a couple as Eyeshoot and it was fun. It's time to find some great ephemera and papery items to show off.

New Shop!

I've finally done something I've been meaning to do for ages - I've opened a second shop on Etsy! It's called Inter Alia - Amongst Other Things and will be selling old books, various printed ephemera, other old stuff and possibly digital collage pages if I can get organized with the scanner.

I've only uploaded a couple of things so far, but when I can get access to my photographing table, I'll whack a few more on and then start promoting it properly. I'm really looking forward to visiting all my local charity shops and the like for new material!

Fingers crossed for me please!