Wednesday, January 31, 2007

I'm always so excited when we get in new products...So much so that I'm telling you about them even before they're available!

Arriving very soon to our website, OnTheCornerVintage.com, under the category of "Tabletop", will be the neatest rooster-themed items. Not only will there be a great vintage-inspired rooster napkin & tablecloth set available but also great rooster iron napkin rings, just perfect for a spring-time brunch! You can already find great gingham rooster tote bags available on our website - so fun and yet so practical - and don't forget affordable!

We've noted that we do not nearly have enough stuff in our store for you Americana lovers, so we've decided to carry beautiful "Stars & Stripes" tabletop decor items such as tablerunners, napkins, and napkin rings! You'll absolutely love the look and it will remind you of warm July nights even when it's still cold outside!

Be sure to visit our store often. Not only will you find the items mentioned above very soon, but we're always adding great new things to our site all the time. We will also be having some great spring-time sales very soon as well!!

Sunday, January 14, 2007


We just found out that our vendor that supplies us with our beautiful vintage-inspired state souvenir textiles, has discontinued their production of the Florida design pictured here. This means, for all you Florida-loving folks, that these beautiful Florida towels and tablecloths that we carry on our site, will only be available for a limited time!! Be sure to get one (or two) while they're still around because when they're gone, they're gone! We've already sold out of our fun Florida pillows with this design.


We are pretty certain that eventually another Florida state desing will grace our online store, but until then, this fun design will soon be gone.

Perfect as a gift too!

Sunday, January 07, 2007

In The Press

Did you know that those great market tote bags, available in our online
store and made by a wonderful company called Red & White Kitchen, were featured (see pic) in Country Home's June 2006 issue? To order one, just go to our "Bags & Apparel" page on our website - they're only $10.50 and are quite roomy! We carry the New Mexico state souvenir one pictured here as well as other vintage-inspired state designs. They're perfect for the grocery store! I like to use mine at the Antique Faire.

Saturday, January 06, 2007

While we're not new to this blogging thing (we have one on family travel and one on my own travel experiences), we've decided that our customers would be more interested in a blog about VINTAGE stuff! Imagine that! We also figured this would be a good way, aside from our "About Us" page, to get to know us a little better...So here it goes...

It's been a little over a year since we started our
OnTheCornerVintage.com site, and I couldn't love having my online store more! In addition to scouring the town and going to antique faires to locate great vintage finds for the store, as well as finding amazing and artistic folks that create wonderful vintage-inspired products that suit our site so well, I've also gotten the opportunity to talk to and meet some great people with similar interests. Of course, most are our customers, but it's also great to talk to fellow vintage/retro business owners who also have such unique sites and stores.

Our local antique faire is coming up...We have one the second Sunday of each month, and I absolutely can't wait for it to roll around again. I've gone in all weather conditions and while it's a bit miserable in the freezing cold, there's less competition for some great vintage finds! Just wear layers of clothing, bring a hat, and some gloves that have the grippy rubber or leather on the fingers - you don't want to end up spending money on something you dropped!! Aiding in my quest to stay warm during the winter months at our local faire, is a couple of wonderful ladies who have a cart that serves the most tasty apple cider with whipped cream on top! It's like eating (or should I say, drinking) apple pie! MMmmm - can't wait till next week!

When going to the antique faire, I've noticed two primary groups of people: the group of folks who carry a tote to put their vintage finds in and the group of people who wheel a cart around. I've been in the first group for a while and finally realized, given my penchant for vintage Pyrex and other glassware, a cart would serve me and my shoulders much better! Seems obvious, I know! I found this great gal locally who makes the nicest cart bags (
http://www.thecartbag.com/catalog/), and of course I picked a fun retro design! Now I'm stylish and comfortable at the faire! However, I still bring my fun vintage-inspired California market tote with me too for the small stuff and to carry snacks.

Lastly, I wanted to mention, for all you folks out there who would like the ability to speak to a real person rather than e-mail communication only, we will soon be posting a phone number on our site where you can reach us to ask questions or to order. Also, for the convenience of our customers, we will now be accepting personal checks via mail. We currently do not process our own credit card payments so we cannot take phone orders in this fashion, however we do want to assure all our customers that our current online merchant (PayPal) is extremely secure and accepts ALL major credit cards without requiring that you create an account with them or us. Very quick and painless!

With the holidays behind us, we're now gearing up for Spring, which will be here sooner than you know it. Expect to find some great new items in our store so check back with us often! We will also post some of our newest products on our blog...Look to the right for pictures of these items!

Take care and talk to you soon!

~ Jeannie