One day, way up in the attic of a 19th Century farmhouse, a ray of light trickled in through a tiny window. The light grazed over heavy wool coats—banished one winter long ago—and landed brilliantly on an open box of neglected jewelry and forgotten photographs. It was that day that Vintage Faerie was conceived.
Offering vintage photo charms, handcrafted jewelry, and one-of-a-kind mixed media artwork, Vintage Faerie mines our collective pasts and makes objects and photographs previously lost to time treasured once more.
Whether incorporating vintage Mardi Gras glass beads into a necklace, using angelic WWII faerie images in a pendant, or working turn of the century newspaper clippings into a collage, everything that comes out of Vintage Faerie is simultaneously original and historical.
Not only are the ephemera carefully collected at estate sales and antique shops, but each piece is handcrafted—down to the forging, cutting, detailing and soldering. A labor of love and appreciation, Vintage Faerie resurrects the past, injects it with a bit of magical realism, then sends it off into the world to be celebrated once more.
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Why it’s Amanda (that’s her to the left!) and who is Amanda? She's the little girl who sold handcrafted bracelets at the end of her driveway while her peers hawked warm lemonade at the corner. And while they counted spare change, she produced daily income and expense reports.
She's the woman who refuses to fall squarely into either the left-brain or right-brain camp, which bugs pragmatists and creatives to no end. In the end, though, she nearly always wins their respect and friendship rather than their scorn and envy.
She's a mother to two, with whom she roams their sprawling farmland and visits estate sales in search of images of other people's long forgotten loved ones.
She's a night owl and a true beach girl at heart who believes that:
... a glass of red wine should not be reserved for special occasions,
... there is nothing better than real Mexican food,
... history is alive and breathing all around us,
... rolling hills are more important than shopping malls,
... if you make an ignorant statement about another person, she has no choice but to call you out on it.
She's the artist who launched her labor of love, Vintage Faerie, on February 14, 2004, so that she could bring lucky wishes and inspiration into other people's lives.
Vintage faerie has grown quickly in the past few years, however Amanda has always stayed true to her organic design wishes of handcrafting pieces on an individual basis. Vintage Faerie now employs a small staff of whom Amanda relies upon endlessly. Without them, Vintage Faerie could not be what it is today.
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Please visit the Vintage Faerie Studio Ordering Info webpage for Studio Hours, Ordering Information, and additional Studio Policies.
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