Shop Update!

Added a few new items to Hollie Would Vintage last night! They are a random group but all awesome none the less!!                                                            

Trench Art Bomb Lamp

Miniature Music Stand

Amazing Vintage Little Girl's Dress Shoes - Never worn!

Check them out at Hollie Would Vintage!

Easy Bedroom Updating

Recently I was just feeling like my bedroom was needing some decor updating. Not having much money to make any big changes I had to get creative! A few weeks ago I was in a local Pittsburgh handmade shop and came across these beautiful handmade papers....at the time I wasn't sure what I was going to do with them but once I got them home I realized they would be great on my bedroom wall!
Once I attached them to the wall (with repositionable tape) I thought it might be neat to kind of turn them into a collage. I didn't want to poke more holes in the wall or the paper so I decided to just add a few of my favorite photos to the sides with pretty bulldog clips. That way the pretty paper still shines through and the photos are just fun extras.

I also added this vintage arrow because I love it and decided this was the perfect way to display it! :)



These pretty papers definitely add personality and color to my bedroom. They weren't a lot of money AND if for some reason I get sick of them in the future they are super easy to remove!

Thrilling Thrift Finds!

On one of my many 'treasure hunts' I came across this awesome gnome music box. I realize I haven't shared my gnome obsession on the blog yet but I.AM.IN LOVE. with all things gnome. Gnomes are still cool, right?! :) I will definitely share my gnome collection here soon!

Anywho.... this is one of my favorite gnome finds to date! It was made in 1979 by Gorham Unieboek.

Isn't he just the cutest?? He plays a lovely little melody as well. When taking these photos I realized he didn't have as much visibility in my house as he deserved.... I will be fixing that just as soon as I find the perfect place for him - away from curious kitty paws!! :)

Inspiring Illustrations

Today's Inspiring Illustrations just may be some of my favorites!! The book they come from is called Animal Stories and was pusblished in 1944. The beautiful illustrations were done by (according to the book cover..) Rojankovsky. After doing a little research I found out that his whole name is Feodor Stepanovich Rojankovsky. He was born in Russia in 1891. Rojankovsky was educated at the Moscow Fine Arts Academy and served in the Russian Army during WWI. In 1941, he moved to the US and began his illustrating career. He illustrated more than a hundred books, most having to do with animals and/or nature. Rojankovsky also wrote books -an example being The Great Big Animal Book, published in 1952. He was awarded the 1956 Caldecott Medal for his illustrations in the book Frog Went A-Courtin'.

As you can probably tell from the above photo, The book is falling apart. I plan on framing some of the pages and using others for some possible collages or other art projects.

This one is my fav!!! (above)

** I hope you've been enjoying the 'Inspiring Illustrations' feature!! What books inspire you???

Wheezy Wednesday

The photos I am sharing today were taken last week on a trip to the Veterinarian's Office. My poor Wheez had a bit of an infection :( BUT she is all better now and back to her crazy bully self :)
I enjoying taking her out because she always gets tons of attention and she just LOVES it. She always acts so well behaved.... I just wish she always acted that way at home!! ;)

Me and my sweet girl. She thought she heard the Doc coming... :)

Makin' Memories!

So the BF and I have been dating for well over a year now (swoon and school girl giggles <3) and I have been keeping all of the movie stubs, mini golf score cards, road trip receipts, etc... in a pile in my bedroom all this time. I kept telling myself that I would put together a scrapbook of all our mementos but alas, being the professional procrastinator that I am, this never happened. Finally I decided that for now a nice memory box would do! In my recent thrifting adventures I came across this cool, industrial cash box. I had planned on putting it in the shop but another look made me realize it would be perfect as our memory box!



It already had the lovely, old yellowed paper in the front so I just added our initials to it.

I then just started piling in all of our mementos and keepsakes!

I taped some of the smaller pieces to the lid. The far left is the paint chip color that we painted the bathroom. Our first 'home project' together. I also have some of our fortunes up there, as well as a business card from a mini golf place we went to on a family trip to Florida and the visitors badge to the Eastman House we visited while in Rochester.

Maybe one day I will organize it all into a scrapbook and include our photos but for now I am loving our industrial chic memory holder! :)

Inspiring Illustrations

For this week's Inspiring Illustrations I choose pictures from the Little Golden Book, The Happy Little Whale! My copy is from 1960 and according to the front cover was only $0.25 back then!



The book is about a little whale who was captured at sea and taken to an aquarium. She was very sad at first but then by the end she was very happy to be there (trying to make it sound like capturing wild animals out of their natural habitats is ok, are we? ).... While I find the book is a bit off the mark with today's animal rights standards (it WAS published in 1960), I really enjoy the illustrations!

Don't you just LOVE the bunting in the above picture?? The illustrations were done by Tibor Gergely. Gergely was born in Budapest in 1900. He was a mischeivious boy who would get in trouble at school for always sketching cartoons of his teachers, normally on the blackboard when they would leave the room. He would always carry around a sketchbook and his family thought he would grow up to be an engineer.
His desire to become an artist was reinforced when he was nineteen. He happened
to pass some paintings by Goya and Cezanne leaning against a fence in
Bulyovszky Street in Budapest and he knew he was to be an artist. Which he WAS - living in Budapest and Vienna for a time with his wife, artist Anna Lesznai. He illustrated books and magazines.

In 1939 Gergely and Lesznai immigrated to America when it became clear that the German annexation of Austria and Czechoslovakia would extend to Hungary. They remained in America for the rest of their lives.
Gergely’s career as an American illustrator began shortly after arriving in New York when he met Georges Duplaix, head of production at Artists and Writers Guild. In 1940 they collaborated on Topsy Turvy Circus and The Merry Shipwreck was published the following year.
In 1942, when Duplaix became head of the new Graphics Department at Simon and Schuster, he introduced Gergely to Lucille Ogle, the author who was instrumental in creating Golden Books. She became his editor for many years and he soon became one of the most beloved Golden Book illustrators. Over the course of his illustrious career, Tibor Gergely created iconic images for more than seventy Little Golden Books.





This book is Ms. Batista approved!!

** I found out a lot about Tibor Gergely at his official website