Drooling Over Denim.

Happy Tuesday everyone!

Jasmine and I (Angela) were on the hunt over the weekend searching for amazing vintage denim. My main project this summer as an intern for Butter Toast is to create and design a photo shoot, which I am extremely excited about (who wouldn't be?). My vision: denim on denim, with a side of denim.

We have lots of denim scraps at the store (from cutting pants into shorts and what not), and thought we should create some denim accessories for the shoot. Here are some of our ideas:

[All images sourced from Etsy.]

I also thought some fingerless gloves would look super cool in denim, but have no idea how we would make them (my sewing abilities are below elementary). We would love to get some suggestions on other possible denim accessories!

Happy Summer,

Angela

Long time, no blog.

Well hello. I've missed you. It has been quite the busy couple of weeks!! I have so much I've been wanting to share, but no time to blog!! I have, however, tried to jump back on the twitter train...so if you'd like to keep up with mini tidbits of my happenings, follow us on Twitter! 

I'm going to make my updates short and sweet for now, then over the next couple days, I will elaborate on the good stuff :)

 Lots of new flowers at the shop thanks to my awesome mom, more photos soon.

The plants in my itty bitty backyard are blooming and so lovely!!

Got my first "Gentlemen in Butter Toast" image!! Check out this lovely blog.

I made these floral hair wreaths for our photoshoot!!

And last, but certainly not least, our gypsy/bohemian photoshoot was a total success. It was a killer 13+ hour day, but we got some incredible shots! We are so excited to see the final images! I want to thank all of our models (Justine, Raechel, Stephenie, Maggie, Matt, Austin, and Brad) as well as miss Angela Simpson, our lovely photographer and Darci and Melissa, our beauty team. Plus an extra special thanks to Ashley of Merry May Handmade for always being there to help us out! I took some really great photos on my phone but I'm hesitant to post any yet because we are submitting them to a few publications. In which case we won't be able to share them until the publication hits stands. 

So, more on that later...

Time to get ready for the day! I'll be back later!

xo. Traci

Big News: Billie Goat Vintage is now Butter Toast Boutique

Hello Saturday!
I've been absent for a week and a half....I'm so not very good at this blogging thing. I had a difficult week, so I wasn't much into sharing all that much, but I'm back to my normal self, and yet again, will try to jump back on the blogging band wagon. Now that we are approaching September, I'm finally starting to get excited about life again. The Phoenix heat can really take a toll on one's motivation. As soon as it cools off a bit more, I know I'll be such a happy lady. I have a really good feeling about this autumn....

One BIG change I've been working on this week is the tranisition of our online store (Billie Goat Vintage) into the new name of Butter Toast Boutique....We've been using two different names since we decided to name our physical store something different from the online shop when we opened Butter Toast in Novemeber 2008 (at that time BGV was on ebay, now etsy, soon to be extinct). It didn't make much sense...and it made it quite hard to recognize that we were basically the same store, just two different forums, and two different names... How silly of us.
Anywho, I've been transferring listings from the Billie Goat Vintage etsy shop to the new Butter Toast Boutique etsy shop....It's been a long process that is still only about half way done...eyyyy. Hopefully by the end of next week, I'll have everything transferred. Lets cross our fingers.

Although it's a bit late in the summer, we decided to shoot most of the vintage swimsuits in the shop to list on etsy...sometimes you just can't tell how wonderful a swimsuit is unless you see it on a person.
These are a few of my faves that I already had a chance to list.... there are many more to come plus so many more great vintage pieces. Check out Butter Toast Boutique on etsy! (Still under construction, obviously)

good day, wednesday.

Today was a nice little change from my weekly routine. Typically, I'm always at Butter Toast open to close on Wednesdays, but not today...My lovely business partner, Jasmine, let me take it easy while she manned the shop all morning.
And I definitely did take it easy. Woke up around 8am with my babe. Made us a yummy breakfast. Watched a few episodes of Weeds. The went back to sleep for 3 hours. It was such a lovely little break.

I'm looking forward to Craft Night hosted by Merry May Handmade tomorrow night. I'm finally going to put the finishing touches on the little gnome I've been working on. Here's a little looksy of what I've finished so far <3

The porcelain fawn modeling my gnome-in-progress is one of my favorite buys ever, also from the lovely Ashley at Merry May Handmade.
All I have to do now is add a beard and some button eyes, stuff him, then sew him all up! Please come join us for Craft Night every 2nd Thursday of the month. Located at Butter Toast Boutique, 5pm-8pm.


Tonight, we are rounding up our photoshoot crew to for yet another vintage shoot for our online store.
Maybe I'll snap a few behind the scenes shots and share them you all soon!!

Ta ta,
xo, traci