I am currently in a love affair with all things vintage. To me vintage can mean antique and it can mean 'mid-century' and it definitely can be anywhere in between. Using vintage, old, garage sale and well loved items is satifiying to me. The character of items that are twice or thrice loved is generally far greater than anything you can buy brand new not to mention I really enjoy telling the story about how I came to own these certain items.
Vintage and antique items have long since been a love for me. When I was about ten my mom, sister and I drove to a family friend's cabin in Montana. Along the way we stopped in many antique stores and in one store I found a vintage metal lunch box. One of those lunch boxes that I imagine a metal worker used and carried around his ham sandwich at 20 stories high (Similar to the above one I found on Etsy.com). Anyway I loved it and bought it. It started off as black but it was pretty beat up so I had my dad take me down to his shop in Ballard where he had a sandblaster. I put my new lunch box in the sandblaster and quickly removed all the paint. I chose silver as it's new color and in an afternoon I had a brand spanking old lunch box ready to haul my mom made lunches every day. I would venture to say I had the most interesting lunch box in my class and probably the school. So that was my start in the vintage world and still today, at the ripe old age of nearly 27, I love taking on projects where I get to mix old and new to make something that is completely me.
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