schätzli vintage: blog

Our little guy turned one last Saturday and we had a small family birthday party for him - "monkey" style. It included paper dec...

The first of our meager crop. A little tart, and some are less than beautiful. But all picked by these little, sweet hands in daily exciteme...

I love that Montessori activities are geared toward a lot of practical activities. First, because they teach kids to do every day things, an...

I've not set out to make my child a genius. I've known this from the time I was pregnant, I wasn't going to push her to be a...

I wanted to make my 3-year old something fun and inexpensive but educational for Christmas. Inspired by this Etsy shop item I forged ahead...

It's been awhile, hasn't it? The summer has been slow going for the shop , so I've tried not to go thrifting too much. That alwa...

I'm horribly late to the draw on this one. But last year, we added some fun little additions to Ladybug's room and I wanted to show ...

Help! I might need an intervention ... I keep finding wonderful vintage stuff for the shop, but unless it's boy or a quarter garage sale...

So I decided to brave an attempt at fixing some sleeves on my little vintage dresses. Two had the exact same problem: worn out elastic in th...

I had some glorious hours last Friday all to myself. I got an orange pedicure... (complete with iced Passion tea from the 'bucks)... ...

A friend alerted me to some 60s and 70s patterns at a local thrift store and I was on it! Normally local thrift shops have only super ugly 8...

In the last two weeks I've had some luck thrifting. After I wrote that things had been flying off the shelves, inevitably, they stopped ...